Random Teams

I am making a mini game plugin with two teams,, basically bad guys and good guys. I have made code so there needs to be four players to start. I want at least two bad guys per game and then good guys/5 = number of badguys. I have a hashmap of players and their teams so I would want to change the null to teams randomly

Code:

Players Teams
-------------
Notch null
Jeb null
TehVoyager null
Random Null
 
//to
 
Notch bad
Jeb good
TehVoyager good
Random bad

I know i should probably use a Random() but how do I make sure there's two bad guys. Also I don't want it to be in alphabetical order or anything.

EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.

 

save the players in hashmaps
public HashMap<Player> good = new HashMap<Player>();
public HashMap<Player> bad = new HashMap<Player>();

if(good.size => bad){
good.add(player);
} else {
bad.add(player);

 

I could use the same concept but is there a way to check how many of each value is in a hashmap (all players in one hashmap and their team as their value) to see how many are on each team. Thanks
Tss1410

 

good.size checks how many players there is in the hashmap

 

Tss1410
Yes but I need to check how many values.

Notch:good
Randy:Bad
Jeb:Good

int goods = 2;
int bad = 1;

 

TODO:
1. to run the random generator twice to randomly pick to bad guys.
2. then set the rest to good.

If you want it dynamic for the number of players eg. 2/5 of them our bad guys then:
eg. 10 people
10/5*2 = 4 bad guys
Then run random generator 4 times to pick 4 bad guys (remember each time you run it remove previously selected bad guys).

Then the rest are good guys.

Like

 

just do

PHP:

int missingp = 5;//TEAM SIZE 5
 
if(ARRAYLISTNAME.size < missingp){
ARRAYLISTNAME.add(p.getName);
}
if(ARRAYLISTNAME2.size < missingp){
ARRAYLISTNAME2.add(p.getName);
}
 
if(ARRAYLISTNAME2.size == 5 && ARRAYLISTNAME.size == 5){
//start game
}

 

hugo1005
Thank You, I think that will work, I'll tell you if it does

 

it should do, just write what you want to do out logically first when trying to do something then code it