Football Team Manager

Built for the five-a-side and Sunday groups I actually play in: an app that tracks player skill levels — in the spirit of Playtomic’s levelling system — and uses them to generate fairer, more balanced teams instead of the usual captain’s-pick chaos.

What it does

• Tracks a skill level per player, updated from recorded match results
• Generates balanced teams automatically for a given group of players
• Keeps a simple match history so levels reflect actual recent form, not a one-off guess

Where it is now

In testing with one real group. The first version overweighted recent form and kept clustering the same players onto the same team — a problem that only became obvious once real people were using it on a real Sunday, which is exactly why it’s out with testers rather than staying in a spec document. Next up is widening the skill-levelling model and cleaning up the onboarding flow before it goes to a second group.