Seed order
Enter teams in seed order (1, 16, 8, 9, …) so the bracket places top seeds across halves. Or just enter alphabetically — the bracket structure is the same; the seeding is your call.
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March Madness style bracket maker
Office pools, friend group predictions, classroom NCAA week — paste 64 teams and print the iconic bracket.
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When to use this
Office pools and prediction contests around NCAA tournament time. The 64-slot bracket is huge but readable on A3 landscape, and exporting as PDF means everyone can fill it in on their tablet.
Step by step
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Paste 64 teams
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Generate
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Export PDF or PNG
Run a prediction pool
Generate once, share the PNG. Each participant fills in their predictions in their own image editor, then sends back. Compare manually or in a spreadsheet.
Bracket sizing and byes
Single-elimination brackets only exist in power-of-two sizes: 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64. When your team count falls between two of those, the bracket maker rounds up and inserts byes for the highest seeds. So 11 teams becomes a 16-slot bracket with five byes, all assigned to the top five seeds. That preserves the 'top seeds shouldn't meet until late' principle and gives lower seeds a real path through the play-in round. If you'd rather have everyone play round one, pad the field with practice slots or switch to a round-robin format on a separate page.
Printing for the wall
The bracket renders as plain SVG, which is why it stays sharp on any paper size — A4, A3, US Letter, US Tabloid. For a wall-sized print, export as PDF and send it to a copy shop with 'fit to page' on A2 or A1; the lines and labels remain crisp because there's no rasterisation in the pipeline. For digital sharing, PNG export rasterises at 2× the on-screen resolution which is plenty for Slack, Discord, or email. Match colours to your event by tweaking team names with emojis (🟦 🟥 🟩) — they print fine and scan well from across a room.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Why not 68 teams (with First Four)?
Standard single-elim is 64. For First Four, run 4 mini-brackets first and feed the winners in.
Can I edit team names after generating the bracket?
Yes. Click any team slot in the bracket and the name becomes editable. Edits stick across re-renders within the same session. If you reseed the bracket the edits are preserved as long as the team count doesn't change.
Does the bracket support double-elimination or losers' bracket?
Not yet. The current bracket maker is single-elimination only. For most amateur and one-day tournaments single-elim is the right format because it keeps the schedule predictable. Double-elim is on the roadmap; if it would help you, send a note via the contact page so we know to prioritise it.
How do I score matches?
Click a team in any matchup to mark them as the winner — they advance automatically to the next round. Click again to undo. The bracket doesn't track scores numerically; it just tracks who advanced, which is the only state the bracket itself needs.
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Free forever for basic use. No signup required. The free version really does do the job.
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