Team Generation?

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#1

I’m trying to make a function that generates teams. It takes in # players per team and adds a player to a team that isn’t full. If there are no open spots on a team then create a new team and add the player.

Desired output:
A dictionary of players in teams.

local teams = {
	[1] = {
		"Player1",
		"Player2"
	},
	
	[2] = {
		"Player3",
		"Player4"
	}
}

What I’ve tried out:

local teams = {}
function generateTeams()
	local plrsPerTeam = roundType.playersRequired --> 2, 3, 4 etc
	
	for _, player in pairs(playersWaiting) do

		for _, team in pairs(teams) do -- problem: teams is empty
			local playersInTeam = #team
			
			if playersInTeam < plrsPerTeam then
				print("inserting player")
				table.insert(team, player)
			else
				print("inserting team")
				table.insert(teams, #teams)
				generateTeams()
			end
		end
		
	end
end

I’m not entirely sure what the best way to do this is. I couldn’t find a post about generating teams other than dividing players into 2 teams.

Thanks. :slight_smile:

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#2 
local function generateTeams(plrs --[[table]], plrsPerTeam --[[number]])
    local numOfPlrs = #plrs
    local numOfTeams = math.ceil(numOfPlrs/plrsPerTeam)
    local teams = table.create(numOfTeams)
    for i = 1, numOfTeams do
        local team = table.create(plrsPerTeam)
        for i2 = 1, plrsPerTeam do
            local plrIndex = (i-1)*plrsPerTeam+i2
            if plrIndex > numOfPlrs then
                break
            end
            team[i2] = plrs[plrIndex]
        end
        teams[i] = team
    end
    return teams
end
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#3

Thank you! I couldn’t figure this out for a couple hours.

didn’t even know table.create() existed, I was allocating space by inserting “team”… i
haha ty.

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