Football Team Balancer
Two fair sides in one click, balanced by skill rating.
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Result
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How the team balancer works
Pickup football lives or dies on team balance. Sides that are too uneven kill the fun for both stronger and weaker players. This balancer uses a subset-sum dynamic-programming algorithm to find the partition that minimises the rating-sum difference between the two teams while keeping team sizes within one player of each other.
Rate each player on a 1–10 scale based on how they actually play in your weekly matches (not on FIFA stats). When several optimal partitions exist, the tool picks one at random so 'Redraw' gives you a different lineup with the same balance.
Just need a quick split with no ratings? Use the random football team generator. To see how ratings produce fair sides, read how rating-based team generation works.
FAQ
- How many players can I balance?
- Up to 30 players. Most pickup matches are 5v5 to 7v7, so the tool is optimised for that range — but it handles 11v11 too.
- Why ratings 1–10?
- Wider scales (1–100) feel precise but humans can't actually distinguish them. A 1–10 scale forces honest, comparative judgments.
- Can I save my players?
- Not in this free tool — it's stateless on purpose. To remember players between weeks, create a free FootDraw team.