About

Bracket Maker is a free tool for the person who ends up organising the tournament: the coach, the parent with the clipboard, the friend who booked the courts. Open a page, type the names, print the sheet.

What it does

It builds single elimination and double elimination brackets for 2 to 64 teams and round robin schedules for up to 20. Seeds and byes are placed for you, winners move on as you enter results, and the bracket prints on one page.

How the brackets are built

Seeds are placed so that the two strongest teams can only meet in the final. When the number of teams is not a power of two, the top seeds get the byes. A bye is not drawn as a game: the team simply appears in the next round. In double elimination, every team except the champion loses exactly twice, and the games are numbered in an order in which they can actually be played.

Where your bracket is kept

In your browser, on your device. Nothing you type is sent to us. Copy link puts the whole bracket into the link itself, which is how it reaches another phone without an account.