Team Randomizer: Shuffle Names Into Random Teams

A team randomizer shuffles a list of names and splits it into random, evenly matched teams. Paste your names, choose the number of teams or the size of each, and hit generate. The shuffle is unbiased, so every name has the same chance of landing on any team, and you can reroll for a fresh draw anytime.

Your teams are on screen. Here’s how the shuffle works and what else the tool can do.

Randomize teams in three steps

1. Drop in your names. One per line or comma-separated. Duplicates and stray spaces get cleaned up.
2. Choose the split. Number of teams, or people per team. Whichever you pick, sizes stay even to within one person.
3. Shuffle. Generate, then reroll as often as you want. Each reroll is a fresh random draw, not the same order reshuffled.

Here’s 11 names randomized into 2 teams, where one team ends up a person larger:

More than a plain shuffle

A basic randomizer just scrambles the order. This one adds the parts people actually need.

Reroll without losing your setup. Change nothing and draw again, or tweak the team count and re-run. Your name list and options stick around.

Keep people together or apart. Pin a pair to the same team, or force two names onto different teams. The randomizer honours those rules and shuffles everyone else around them.

Numbers mode. No names? Randomize 1 to 24 (or any range) into teams instead of names.

Fair captain spread. Mark captains and get one per team rather than a lopsided draw.

Save and share. Copy the teams, export a CSV, download a team-card image, or share a link that reopens the exact same shuffle.

Who reaches for a randomizer

Coaches who want pickup sides settled before anyone argues. Teachers splitting a class so the same friends don’t cluster every time. Managers shuffling breakout groups. Quiz hosts sorting a room into even trivia teams.

If you think in groups rather than teams, the group randomizer is the same tool with group wording. For twos, use the random pair generator.

What makes the shuffle fair

The randomizer uses Fisher-Yates, a standard shuffle where every possible ordering is equally likely. Walk through the list, and at each position a random remaining name gets swapped in. Nothing tilts the odds toward any name or team.

After the shuffle, names are dealt out one at a time so team sizes stay balanced. Keep-together and keep-apart rules apply first, and if one can’t be met you get a plain warning. It all runs in your browser, so the names you paste never leave your device. The about page goes deeper on the method.