Random AFL Team Generator

What Is the Random AFL Team Generator?

The Random AFL Team Generator spins through the clubs of the Australian Football League and picks one.

Australian rules is a code with fierce local loyalties, so a random allegiance is a genuinely different experience from picking the club nearest you.

How to Use the Random AFL Team Generator?

1. 1

   Open the Random AFL Team Generator. All 18 teams load with equal odds, Adelaide Crows, Brisbane Lions and Carlton among them.

2. 2

   Trim the field if your game calls for it: take Adelaide Crows out for an underdog run, or keep only the teams still in contention.

3. 3

   Press SPIN. The wheel settles on one of the 18 and the result card names your AFL team.

4. 4

   Drawing for a group? Turn on Remove Winners so Gold Coast Suns cannot come up twice, then spin once per person.

5. 5

   Save the trimmed wheel under "My Wheels" and the next AFL draw opens on your teams rather than all 18.

Random AFL Team Generator Use Cases

Watch party draws during the home and away season. Fantasy tiebreakers. Tipping competitions where you need a neutral way to assign teams.

Newcomers to the code who want one club to follow, and anyone visiting Australia who wants a side to support while they're there.

What Is on the AFL Wheel

The wheel holds the whole AFL field: 18 teams, each with an identical slice. Adelaide Crows, Brisbane Lions, Carlton, Collingwood, Essendon and Fremantle are among them.

Equal slices mean the AFL draw does not quietly favour the teams you would expect it to. Adelaide Crows comes up exactly as often as Gold Coast Suns, which is the part that matters when the result has to look fair to everyone watching it land.

At 18 teams, the AFL wheel leaves room for a group to take one each and still have something to offer the last person. Turning on Remove Winners narrows the field as you go, which keeps the later picks meaningful instead of handing somebody a team that has already gone.

Six Points, One Point, No Offside

Australian rules has a scoring system that confuses every newcomer exactly once. Kick the ball between the two tall central posts and it's a goal worth six points. Miss and send it between a tall post and a shorter outer post and it's a behind, worth one.

That's why scorelines look enormous and are written as two numbers plus a total. There's also no offside rule, so players spread across a ground substantially larger than a football pitch, and the game rarely stops.

The Melbourne Cricket Ground, which hosts the Grand Final, holds around 100,000 people, making it one of the largest stadiums in the sporting world. If the wheel hands you a Melbourne club, there's a reasonable chance you've drawn a team that plays regularly in it.

Tips for Fair Draws

Many clubs share stadiums, so the team you draw may play most home games at a ground several others also call home.

That's worth knowing before you plan a trip around a fixture.