Abstract: Implementations described herein relate to methods, systems, and computer-readable media to automatically position players within a virtual experience. A method can include generating graph-based avatar embeddings for a plurality of avatars engaged with a virtual experience hosted on a virtual experience platform, identifying avatars of the plurality of avatars that a new avatar that is not currently in a virtual environment is likely to engage with, determining possible spawn positions for the new avatar in the virtual environment, the possible spawn positions based upon respective distances between the identified avatars, calculating a plurality of spawn positions, ranking the plurality of spawn positions based on a weighted prediction of engagement, and placing the new avatar in the virtual environment at the highest ranked spawn position.