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Football Team Balancer
Paste your players, give each one a rating, tap the button. You get fair sides for training, balanced on ability and on positions, so nobody ends up with three keepers and no defence. It's the same balancing engine that runs inside the Team Selector app, running here in your browser. Nothing you type leaves this page.
Your players
Rating is 1 to 99, like the app. A quick gut feel is fine: 40 for a beginner, 65 for a solid squad player, 85 for your best. Position is the family they usually play in. Positions are what stop the split putting all your defenders on one side.
Settings
Add at least two players to start.
Balanced
Not happy with one swap? Reshuffle gives you a different split that's just as fair. In the app you can drag players between teams too, and the strength and verdict update as you go.
Want this on the touchline, with your actual squad saved?
The Team Selector app keeps your squad, ratings and positions on your phone, so training teams take one tap and your matchday lineup takes thirty seconds. Formation pitch, subs cap, share graphics for the group chat. Pay once, no subscription, no accounts, nothing leaves your phone.
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How the balancing works
It's a two-pass optimiser, the same code the app runs. First it deals with goalkeepers: natural keepers go one per team, strongest first. Then it seeds the outfield players family by family (defence, midfield, wide, attack), always dropping the next player onto whichever team is weakest so far. Then it runs a few hundred random swaps between teams and keeps any that make the sides closer, on three things at once: average rating, how many of each position each team has, and how good those position groups are. Reshuffle runs the whole thing again with fresh randomness and only shows you a split that's actually different.
The verdict is the gap between the strongest and weakest team's average rating. Three points or under is Balanced, up to six is Slightly uneven, above that it's Uneven and you probably need one more player or a different keeper arrangement. If you've got two keepers of very different ability, the outfield split compensates for it. That was a real bug once, and a real coach found it.
Prefer the whole thing on your phone with your squad already in it? That's the app. Want to know why balanced training groups matter? There's a guide.