Seeding positions chart
The standard way to place seeds in a knockout draw, so the strongest players meet as late as possible.
Type in your entries and ratings. The sheet ranks the players, assigns snake-seeded groups, and fills a bracket of up to 64 slots with byes in the right places. Works in Excel, Google Sheets and LibreOffice.
The rule behind it
Seed 1 is placed at the top and seed 2 at the bottom. Seeds 3 and 4 are drawn by lot into the remaining two quarters. Seeds 5 to 8 are drawn into the remaining eighths, and so on. When the chart pairs seed 1 against a seed number larger than the number of players, seed 1 receives a bye.
Players who are not seeded are drawn by lot into the open slots. If you want to keep players from the same club apart in early rounds, swap unseeded players only; never move a seed. Read the full guide: How to seed a table tennis tournament.