🏅How do I split a group into fair teams?

✓ Tested & verified Updated: Aug 7, 2026 How the randomness works

Picking captains and taking turns is the slowest and least fair way to split a group, and everybody remembers being picked last.

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How this works

Put the names in, choose how many teams, and press. The list is shuffled and dealt round-robin, so team sizes differ by at most one. With weights, stronger players are dealt earlier and therefore spread across teams rather than clustered.

How uneven groups are dealt

Round-robin dealing means teams differ by at most one player.

People	Teams	Team sizes
10	2	5 and 5
11	2	6 and 5
10	3	4, 3 and 3
22	4	6, 6, 5 and 5
7	4	2, 2, 2 and 1

Nobody is dropped and no team is short by more than one, regardless of how the numbers divide.

Frequently asked questions

Are the teams balanced by skill?

Only through the weights: dealing round-robin from a weighted shuffle spreads the higher weights across teams. It is not a rating system and does not pretend to be.

What if the numbers do not divide evenly?

Round-robin dealing means the first teams get one extra player each. Nothing is dropped and no team is short by more than one.

Can I redo it?

Press again for a fresh shuffle with a new seed.

How the randomness works

The full list is drawn without replacement into a random order, then dealt to teams by index modulo team count. The shuffle uses the same weighted, seed-derived selection as the other draws, so it is reproducible from the revealed seed.