Free tool

Bracket maker.

Type your teams in, get a seeded knockout bracket out. Byes handled, seeding handled, ready to print or share. No signup, no watermark on your paper.

2 to 128 entries.

Draw order
Format

Three inputs, one bracket.

  1. List your entries.

    One team, player or name per line. Any number from 2 to 128. The tool works out the bracket size and how many byes it needs.

  2. Choose how they are drawn.

    Seeded puts your list in order and pairs top against bottom. As entered keeps your order exactly. Random draws the whole field, which is what you want for an office sweepstake.

  3. Print it or send it.

    Print gives you a clean sheet with nothing but the bracket on it. Copy link puts the whole thing in a URL so you can paste it into a group chat and everyone sees the same draw.

The parts people get wrong.

Byes belong to the top seeds.

A field that is not a power of two has to give someone a free pass. Handing byes to the highest seeds is the convention because it rewards the standings you already have, and it keeps the bracket balanced. Giving them out at random makes the draw feel arbitrary and people notice.

Seeding is not just ordering.

Proper seeding pairs numbers that add up to the field size plus one, so the top two seeds can only meet in the final and the top four can only meet in the semis. Pairing 1 against 2 in the first round wastes the whole point of seeding.

Double elimination doubles the admin.

A losers bracket means roughly twice the matches and a grand final where the unbeaten side may only need to win once while the other has to win twice. Worth it for a tournament where one bad day should not knock someone out. Painful to run on paper.

A drawn bracket is not a competition.

This gives you the structure. It does not collect anyone's predictions, score them, or tell you who is winning. That is a different job, and it is the one Fanzava does.

Run this bracket as a live competition.

Same bracket, except your audience fills it in themselves. Our team records the results as matches finish, the leaderboard updates itself, and every screen carries your logo and your colours.

See bracket competitions →

Questions about brackets.

What happens when my number of teams is not a power of two?
The bracket pads out to the next power of two and the difference becomes byes. Eleven teams sit in a sixteen-slot bracket with five byes, and the byes go to the top seeds, so the strongest entries skip the first round. That is the standard convention and it is what this tool does automatically.
How does the seeding work?
Standard bracket seeding pairs each seed against the one that makes the numbers in every tie add up to the field size plus one. In a sixteen-team bracket that means 1 against 16, 8 against 9, 5 against 12, and so on, which keeps the top two seeds apart until the final. You can also keep your list in the order you entered it, or have the tool draw it at random.
Can I print it?
Yes. Print the page and everything except the bracket drops away, including the navigation, the controls and the rest of the page. It comes out as a clean black-on-white sheet you can pin up in the office or hand round.
Can I send the bracket to someone else?
Copy link puts the whole bracket in the URL, so anyone who opens it sees exactly what you built. Nothing is stored on our side and there is no account to create.
Is this the same as running a bracket competition on Fanzava?
No. This tool draws the bracket and that is all. A Fanzava bracket competition is the live version: your audience fills in their own predictions, our team records the results as matches finish, the leaderboard updates itself, and the whole thing runs under your brand.

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