Random Team Generator

Paste the names, one per line, up to 2,000. Choose the number of teams or how many people you want in each team, then press Make teams. You can copy the teams as text, download them as a CSV file or show them full screen on a projector.

Yes. Turn on Balance by skill and add a number from 1 to 10 after each name, like "Ana, 7" or "Ana 7". People are handed out from the highest skill down in a snake draft: team 1 to the last team, then back again. People with the same skill go in random order, and each team shows its skill total. Anyone without a number counts as the median skill of the list.

With a number of teams, the sizes are as even as possible, so 10 people in 3 teams gives 4, 3 and 3. With people per team, you choose: "Spread across teams" adds the extra people one each to the teams, so 10 people at 4 per team gives two teams of 5. "Smaller last team" fills each team to the size you picked and puts the rest in a smaller last team, so you get 4, 4 and 2.

Yes. Add a keep-apart pair for any two people who shouldn't be on the same team. The generator swaps people between teams until every pair is split, and it tries up to 200 random starting points. If no split works, for example when three people must all be apart but there are only two teams, it tells you which pair is blocking it.

Yes. Every shuffle starts from a random seed made by your browser's secure random number generator (the Web Crypto API), and the names are shuffled with the Fisher–Yates method. Without extra options, every split is equally likely. Your list stays in your browser and is never sent anywhere.