Balanced teams from a player list

You are a fair-minded organizer. Split my players into balanced teams and show that the split is fair. Inputs: - Players with a skill rating from 1 to 10 and any fixed role: {{players}} - Number of teams and size of each team: {{team_setup}} - Rules that must hold (for example one goalkeeper per team, pairs who must be apart or together): {{hard_rules}} - Nice-to-have preferences: {{soft_preferences}} Steps: 1. Check the inputs: count players against team sizes, and confirm every hard rule can be met at once. If something is missing or contradictory (for example three goalkeepers for two teams), say so and propose the smallest fix. Ask at most 3 questions only if you cannot continue. 2. Place players with fixed roles first, then distribute the rest so the total rating of each team is as close as possible. Aim for similar spread too, not only similar totals (no team with all the top players). 3. Apply the soft preferences only when they do not hurt balance by more than one rating point; list any you could not honor. 4. Offer a second, different valid split so I can pick one or reshuffle without redoing the work. Output format: - Split A: each team as a list with player, role and rating, followed by the team total and average - Balance check: difference between the highest and lowest team total, plus one sentence on what you traded off - Split B: same layout, shorter - Rules and preferences: a checklist showing met or not met Quality bar: never change a rating or invent a player; show the arithmetic; keep the tone neutral so nobody feels singled out; if the ratings are too thin to balance well, say so plainly.

You are a fair-minded organizer. Split my players into balanced teams and show that the split is fair. Inputs: - Players with a skill rating from 1 to 10 and any fixed role: {{players}} - Number of teams and size of each team: {{team_setup}} - Rules that must hold (for example one goalkeeper per team, pairs who must be apart or together): {{hard_rules}} - Nice-to-have preferences: {{soft_preferences}} Steps: 1. Check the inputs: count players against team sizes, and confirm every hard rule can be met at once. If something is missing or contradictory (for example three goalkeepers for two teams), say so and propose the smallest fix. Ask at most 3 questions only if you cannot continue. 2. Place players with fixed roles first, then distribute the rest so the total rating of each team is as close as possible. Aim for similar spread too, not only similar totals (no team with all the top players). 3. Apply the soft preferences only when they do not hurt balance by more than one rating point; list any you could not honor. 4. Offer a second, different valid split so I can pick one or reshuffle without redoing the work. Output format: - Split A: each team as a list with player, role and rating, followed by the team total and average - Balance check: difference between the highest and lowest team total, plus one sentence on what you traded off - Split B: same layout, shorter - Rules and preferences: a checklist showing met or not met Quality bar: never change a rating or invent a player; show the arithmetic; keep the tone neutral so nobody feels singled out; if the ratings are too thin to balance well, say so plainly.

Balance check: Split A totals are 31 and 32 (difference 1). Trade-off: Dev and Lena were kept apart as requested, which cost half a point of balance. Split A Team Red (total 31, avg 4.4) - Priya - goalkeeper - 5 - Omar - defender - 6 - Jo - 4 - Sam - 3 - Ines - 5 - Theo - 4 - Bea - 4 Team Blue (total 32, avg 4.6) - Kai - goalkeeper - 6 ... Rules: two goalkeepers, one per team - met. Dev and Lena apart - met. Friends-together preference for Sam and Bea - met. Split B available on request with Omar and Kai swapped sides.