Team Sorting/Balancing help

[Pyromxnia (pyro)]

Hello! im currently making a team system using roblox default teams and im confused on how i can balance teams without having the same people on a team each round. I also want to know if theres a way to favor friends joining other friends teams.

TLDR: What i want is a system that will evenly sort players into teams, but also not have players be on the same team every time.

Heres my current code:

			print("Normal Round Starting!")
			local count = 1
			----------------------
			--
			local plrs = game.Players:GetPlayers()
			local plrAmount = #plrs
			local teams = {
				game.Teams.Red,
				game.Teams.Blue
			}
			print(plrAmount)
			for i, plr in pairs(plrs) do
				plr.Neutral = true
			end
			for i = 1, plrAmount, 1 do
				plrs[i].Team = teams[count]
				count += 1
				if count > #teams then
					count = 1
				end
			end

for the most part this script works, its just not randomized.

Heres the actual “player sorting” part of the code

for i, plr in pairs(plrs) do
	plr.Neutral = true
end

for i = 1, plrAmount, 1 do				
   plrs[i].Team = teams[count]
   count += 1
   if count > #teams then
	  count = 1
   end
end

Thank you for listenning!

[SubtotalAnt8185]

@Pyromxnia

for i = 1, plrAmount, 1 do				
   plrs[i].Team = teams[count]
   count += 1
   if count > #teams then
	  count = 1
   end
end

Just use pairs here because it’s random.

[tlr22 (FusionOak)]

The easiest way with your code to randomize the teams would be to shuffle the player list. This won’t prioritize friends so you’d have to either do a post effect where you switch team members after or find another solution for that. But for the shuffling so this

local function shuffleList(list)
    for i=1, #list do
        local r = math.random(i,#list)
        local temp = list[i]
        list[i] = list[r]
        list[r] = temp
    end
    return list
end

And assuming I didn’t make a mistake with the function (didn’t run it). You can then just replace your local plrs line with this

local plrs = shuffleList(game.Players:GetPlayers())

And the rest of your code should do the rest.

[tlr22 (FusionOak)]

And if you want to make friends have a higher chance of being in the same team, a simple way of doing so would be to take your teams list that’s been randomized. Loop through one of the teams. If the player has a friend on the other team but not their own team. Give them a 50%(or whatever%) chance to switch spots with a random player in the other team (exclude their friend if you want. Or don’t it will still mostly work)