Random team generator
Type the people, choose how many teams, press the button. The teams come out as even in size as the numbers allow.
How it works
- Type or paste the names, one per line. To balance the teams, add a label after a colon: “Ana: girl”, “Ben: goalie”.
- Choose a number of teams, or how many people each team should have.
- Add rules if you need them: names that must stay together, names that must be split up, a captain for each team.
- Press “Make teams”. Copy the result, download it for a spreadsheet, or share it as a link.
What it does
- Fair when there are no rules
- Without rules the list is shuffled and dealt out, so every possible split is exactly as likely as any other.
- Balanced by anything you label
- Gender, skill level, position, year group: each label is spread so no team has more than one extra of it.
- Friends and rivals
- Keep twins together, split up the two loudest pupils — the rules hold on every shuffle, or the page tells you why they can’t.
- Ready to hand out
- Captains marked, a .csv for the spreadsheet, a link that shows the same teams on anyone’s phone.
Questions
How are the teams picked?
With no rules, the names are put in a random order by your browser’s cryptographic random source and dealt into the teams. With rules, people are placed one group at a time into a random team that still has room and breaks no rule, and the whole placement starts over if it gets stuck.
What happens when the numbers don’t divide evenly?
Some teams get one more person than others, never more than one. Which teams get the extra person is random too.
How do I balance boys and girls, or strong and new players?
Write the label after the name with a colon, like “Sam: strong”, and tick “Spread each label evenly”. Each person carries one label; to balance two things at once, combine them, like “girl-strong”, and each combination is spread.
Can people join from their own phones?
Not yet: the organiser types the list. Share the finished teams as a link and everyone sees them, with nothing to install and no account.
More tools
- Wheel Put names or options on a wheel and spin. Remove the winner, or let everyone have a turn before anyone goes twice.
- Yes or no A yes-or-no wheel for the questions you can’t settle. Add “maybe” if you dare.
- Name picker Pick one name or ten, or put the whole list in a random order.
- Secret Santa Draw a Secret Santa without anyone’s email. Everyone gets a private link that shows only their own match.
- Time poll Find the time that suits everyone: each person paints when they can, no sign-up.
- Giveaway Pick giveaway winners at a set time, with a result anyone can check for themselves.
- Coin Heads or tails, one coin or two hundred, with a running count.
- Dice Roll up to a hundred dice: six-sided, or d4 to d100 for board games and role-play.
- Number Random numbers in any range: no repeats, leave some out, sort them.