# Group Stage Bracket Generator

The World Cup and Champions League shape in one page. Your teams go into small groups, every group plays a mini league where everyone meets everyone, the top one or two of each group go through, and the qualifiers meet in a knockout bracket that ends with a champion.

## What this tool does

- Type your own groups under # headers, or let the draw make them
- Live tables with points and head to head tiebreaks
- Draws on or off, and your own points for a win, draw and loss
- Seeded crossover knockout, so a group winner never meets its own runner up
- Export the fixtures and tables as CSV, or save the bracket as an image
- Everything is saved on your device, so you can close the tab and come back

## Default contestants

- # Group A
- Team Alpha
- Team Beta
- Team Gamma
- Team Delta
- # Group B
- Team Epsilon
- Team Zeta
- Team Eta
- Team Theta
- # Group C
- Team Iota
- Team Kappa
- Team Lambda
- Team Mu
- # Group D
- Team Nu
- Team Xi
- Team Omicron
- Team Pi

## Frequently Asked Questions

### How do I choose which team goes in which group?

Put a header line such as # Group A above a block of names and those names become that group, in the order you typed them. Add # Group B, # Group C and so on for the rest. The header text is the group name, so # Group of death works too. The Groups panel beside the list shows every group and its size as you type, and warns you if a group is too small or too big.

### What if I just want the groups drawn for me?

Paste a flat list with no headers and the teams are dealt into balanced groups automatically, which you can see in the Groups panel and in the preview before you generate anything. Press Draw groups for me and that same draw is written back into the list with headers, so you can move one or two names and keep the rest.

### How many teams should I use?

Anything from 6 upwards works. The sizes that land cleanly are 8 (two groups of four), 12 (three of four), 16 (four of four, the classic shape), 24 (six of four) and 32 (eight of four, the Champions League shape). Numbers in between are fine as well: the last groups simply take the remainder, and a group never drops below three teams.

### How are teams separated when they finish level on points?

Points first, then the results between the level teams themselves, then wins. Anything still level is split by fewer losses and then by draw position, so the table is always in a settled order rather than flickering between refreshes.

### Can games end in a draw?

Yes, draws are on by default because this is a football shaped format. Every group game gets a Draw button and the spin wheel gets a draw slice. Turn draws off and each game has to have a winner. The points for a win, a draw and a loss are all editable, and they start at the usual 3, 1 and 0.

### How is the knockout drawn?

One or two teams go through from each group, your choice, and two is the default. With two going through the knockout is crossed the way the World Cup does it: the winner of one group opens against the runner up of another, so a group winner can never meet its own runner up before the final. Uneven fields are padded with byes for the teams that finished highest.

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