WNBA Connections

Numbers, franchises and the draft. A shared jersey number is the frequent hard group, and alongside it the board uses the clubs a player has appeared for, the team she entered the league with, the college she came from, and the year and slot she was drafted at.

Yes, in two forms that are easy to confuse: the franchises a player has appeared for, and the one she entered the league with. With a league this compact a well-known name can honestly belong to three of the clubs on screen, so the discrimination comes from noticing which of the two questions is being asked.

By year, by slot and by round. Four players taken in the same draft is the common group. Four taken first overall is the one that reaches furthest — with a single such pick a season it spans most of the league’s existence, which makes it solvable without remembering any particular draft night. Four who went in the second round is the hardest, because a round is a fact that sticks to a career quietly.

Yes, as their own group of four professionals out of the same program. The college basketball game feeds this league closely enough that a school group is often the most gettable set on the board for someone who follows both.

The voted season and Finals awards of women’s professional basketball, by name. As with every other rotation the membership is a matter of record — every player in the set won the same thing — never a judgement about who was best.

Ten more: soccer, college football, the NHL, golf, MLB, the AFL, cricket, college basketball, the NBA and the NFL. More WNBA games: WNBA Wordle, WNBA Grid, Build a WNBA Player and WNBA Career Simulator. WNBA Trivia Quiz asks three questions a day. Guess the WNBA Team asks for the city of one era’s players. The WNBA Ball Knowledge Dive asks for one right name, and the less obvious it is, the more it scores.