Team Generator

How the team generator works

Paste your list of names, one per line, then choose how to split them — by the number of teams you want, or by how many people go on each team. Hit generate and the roster is shuffled and dealt into groups. Blank lines are ignored and duplicate names are removed automatically, so a messy paste still works.

Split by team count and the members are dealt round-robin, so team sizes never differ by more than one — nobody ends up on a lopsided squad. Split by team size and each group is filled to your target, with any remainder forming a smaller final team.

Where a random team picker helps

Gym class and sports: split a group into fair sides in seconds without the slow captain’s pick. Classrooms: shuffle students into project groups so friend cliques don’t stack. Game nights, hackathons, standups, secret-santa draws — anywhere you need groups decided without anyone claiming the split was rigged.

Picking one winner instead of splitting groups? The wheel of names spins a single name, and the spin wheel draws from any list you type in.

Fair and unrigged

The roster is shuffled with an unbiased Fisher–Yates pass over your browser’s cryptographic random source. That algorithm matters: the naive shuffle most people reach for quietly favors certain arrangements. Here every possible arrangement is equally likely, so no name is nudged toward the first team, and re-running gives a fresh split every time.