16 team bracket maker
A sixteen-entry knockout is the size most people mean by "a bracket": four rounds, a field that is still nameable, a picture that still fits in a post. Load sixteen entries, pick a winner in every matchup, and export the tree. It does not keep scores or run an event.
Also known as: 16 team bracket, 16 player bracket maker, sweet sixteen style bracket, sixteen entry knockout.
Free. No account needed. Export a PNG.
How to make a 16 team bracket
- Open it at sixteen. The button above loads sixteen slots. Change the count with the Slots button if sixteen is wrong, or bulk-upload a folder of images and the bracket grows to fit if you picked more; a smaller count just draws a smaller tree.
- Seed the field, or do not. Seeded pairing puts one against sixteen so the two names everyone cares about cannot meet in round one. In-order keeps your typing order. Random is for when the seeding argument is the fight.
- Work round by round. Four rounds. Zoom and pan if the tree is larger than the screen. Changing a round-of-sixteen pick clears the path it created, so the final never shows a winner that no longer follows.
- Export the whole tree. PNG for posting. Sixteen slots is the largest tree that still reads in a Discord embed for most people; thirty two often needs a pinch-zoom.
What you can do
- Opens on sixteen slots, four rounds, one champion.
- Bulk image upload that fills the empty slots first, then grows the tree past sixteen and on up to 512.
- Seeded, in-order, or random first-round pairing.
- Pan, zoom, and fit-to-screen so a sixteen-slot tree stays usable on a phone.
- Editable round labels and colours.
- Optional seed numbers on the slots, and a title over the tree.
- A cascading undo: clearing a round-of-sixteen pick clears whatever it went on to win.
- PNG, JPEG and PDF export, no account, nothing drawn across the connectors.
Make your own 16 team bracket
A season of something
Sixteen episodes, sixteen games, sixteen albums from one year. The field is large enough to feel complete and small enough to finish in an evening.
A class or a roster
A form, a squad, a friend group that is bigger than eight. Pictures help more at this size than they do at eight.
A "best of" that needed a cut
You already threw out the rest. Sixteen is the shortlist that still needs a winner.
A printable-looking picture
Office-pool tools want scores. This wants a picture. Sixteen is the overlap: it looks like a pool sheet and behaves like a ranking.
Common questions
Is this a 16-team tournament manager?
No. There are no scores, no byes-as-fixtures, and no live event. It is a knockout picture. Use tournament software if you are running a competition.
Does the editor open at sixteen?
Yes. This page's button loads sixteen slots. You can still change the count in the editor afterwards.
What if I have fourteen entries?
You get fourteen entries: seven matchups in round one, then four, then two, then the final. Nothing is padded out to sixteen and no empty slots are drawn.
Can I mix pictures and names?
Yes. A slot can hold an image, a label, or both.
Do I need an account?
Not to make or export. Publishing a public page needs an account.
I have twenty entries, not sixteen. Now what?
Press Slots and type 20. The tree becomes ten matchups, then five, then three, then two, then the final: your twenty entries, not a thirty two slot tree with twelve empty pairings. The editor allows any count from three to 512, so the number of entries never has to be a power of two.
Does the seeding actually pair 1 against 16?
Yes. Seeded pairing uses the classic bracket order, so the top seed meets the bottom seed, two meets fifteen, and the two names at the top of your list cannot collide before the final. In-order and random are the other two draws.