Building Double-Elimination Brackets

Have you ever wanted to make a double elimination bracket like Little League uses in the international tournament? Maybe you didn’t want to, but maybe you needed to! The official brackets can be hard to follow and even harder to format in a way that makes them easy to post.

Now you can use an Add-in for Microsoft Excel to help create them. It won’t create the whole bracket for you, but it will guide you step by step through scheduling the games and it will create a bracket for you that you can save to PDF and post. The bracket it creates will also automatically update as you enter the scores in the bracket!

This add-in is available from the Office Add-ins store and its totally free. You can see a quick demo of it in action here: BracketBuilder Demo

To install it, click on Add-ins from the ribbon.

And then click on “More Add-ins” at the bottom of the gallery:

Once you are in the store, search for “Bracket” to find the Bracket Builder add-in: