Dividing Players into Teams Leaving the Remainder in another Team

[gamerobotjimmy]

In my game, there are created teams at the start of the game. The available teams are put into a table, TeamsTable, and the available players are put into a table, PlayersTable.
How would I divide the players into x amount of teams, leaving the remainder (if any) into a seperate team?

My Script

for _, Team in pairs (TeamsTable) do
		for i = 1, math.floor(#PlayersTable/#TeamsTable) do--Equation doesn't work
			--Assign players to team here.
		end
	end

[ExcessEnergy]

Here is a good post that explains, and demonstrates, how to do this very well:

How to efficiently divide players into 4 team equally?

So, the goal is to divide an array of players roughly equally into 4 parts. Below I’ve drawn a diagram of what this might look like. [diagram] The natural thing to do is to divide the array into quarters as shown with the green arrows. Unfortunately 4 here doesn’t evenly divide the 9 players. The next best thing to do would be to move each green arrow left a bit. The teams formed by using these shifted arrows are the zig-zag underlines. These will not differ by more than one because without t…

Instead of using math.floor, you could alternately use the modulus( % )operator to get the remainder of the division.

Operators

[FerbZides]

also had this problem check this thread out!

A question for players

without using the math.random thingy

[gamerobotjimmy]

Although these solve the problem of initially sorting the players into teams, I’m trying to put the remainder of the players (if the players didn’t divide into the teams equally) into a team that’s meant for remainder players (if any)
@ExcessEnergy
@FerbZides
Didn’t see under the link on Excess’ reply, that solves it, thanks.

[ExcessEnergy]

That’s why I recommended using modulus. If you do #PlayersTable % #TeamsTable, you should get the amount of players that are left over after division.