ChangeThe WNBA regular season ends Thursday and five teams can still land anywhere from the 4 seed to the 8 seed. We ran every scenario.

Minnesota, Golden State and Las Vegas have the top three locked up, but Atlanta, Indiana, New York, Washington and Dallas are stacked on top of each other with two games left, and four of those teams close the season playing each other. On this episode of Raising the Game we walk through the WNBA tiebreakers, the realistic brackets, and the one version where three of the four first-round matchups feature a lower seed that owns the season series. We also go team by team through all eight playoff teams with what's working and what someone can exploit, then get into a much heavier story out of the NWSL: eight misconduct complaints filed across at least four clubs in six months, and a compliance process that looks a lot more like a checkbox than actual transparency.

*Topics covered:*

WNBA playoff seeding: Minnesota vs. Indiana and Atlanta vs. New York decide seeds 4 through 8, plus how the WNBA tiebreakers actually work
Minnesota Lynx: 39% shooting over their last three losses against a 48% season average, and how New York and Golden State are scheming against Olivia Miles
Golden State Valkyries: best team on both sides of the ball, but heavily reliant on the three and short on a take-over scorer
Las Vegas Aces: most efficient offense in the league and a rested A'ja Wilson, but no playoff opponent in over five weeks
Atlanta Dream, Indiana Fever, Dallas Wings, New York Liberty and Washington Mystics breakdowns, including Washington's blueprint for slowing the Fever down
A'ja Wilson becomes the first WNBA player with multiple 1,000-point seasons
Olivia Miles passes Caitlin Clark's rookie single-season scoring record
Angel Reese's 31st double-double and the fastest 70 double-doubles in league history
WNBA attendance: 3.24 million fans, average up 21%, 180 sellouts
Adam Silver on a more independent WNBA commissioner, and the names being floated: Swin Cash, Nneka Ogwumike, Kia Clark, Jess Smith, Nina King, Renie Anderson, Andrea Brimmer
Lisa Leslie's statue in Los Angeles and the speech that came with it
The Defector Media report on NWSL misconduct complaints, the post-Yates settlement reporting requirements, and why the redactions matter
NWSL playoff race: Gotham clinched, Chicago eliminated, and 4th through 10th separated by seven points
NWSL golden boot race, Ashley Sanchez at 19 goals, and 11 players already in double digits
WPBL championship series goes to a winner-take-all game five
PWHL's "monumental" Thursday announcement and what it might be
Unrivaled adds Minneapolis and Houston tour stops
What to Watch: the final day of the WNBA regular season, playoff openers on ABC and Prime, five NWSL matches, LPGA in Northwest Arkansas, Oregon at Wisconsin volleyball, and the start of NCAA hockey
*Chapters:*

0:00 - Cold Open & Lynx Season Tickets
5:03 - Headlines: Commissioner Search & Records
18:33 - WNBA Playoff Team Breakdowns
46:31 - Playoff Seeding Scenarios
53:43 - The NWSL Misconduct Report
1:02:49 - NWSL Playoff Race
1:10:00 - What to Watch
1:13:38 - Momentum & Bummers

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