Excel Formula Help - RANK formula

Alpine

My mom needs a specific excel formula to help her tabulate scores for a gymnastics meet she's organizing next weekend.

Here's the problem she needs to solve: She has a list of scores that need a Lookup code to assign an Ordinal ranking to them (1st, 2nd, 3rd etc), but it needs to recognize tied scores, so that if she has values

8.4
8.2
8.2
8.1
7.9

It will rank them as 1 2 2 4 5, rather than 1 2 2 3 4.

The way she has it set up, an IF statement won't work easily enough to be feasible. It needs to be some sort of RANK that can deal with the Total Scores as they are elsewhere in the spreadsheet.

ecco the dolphin

Alpine wrote: »

My mom needs a specific excel formula to help her tabulate scores for a gymnastics meet she's organizing next weekend.

Here's the problem she needs to solve: She has a list of scores that need a Lookup code to assign an Ordinal ranking to them (1st, 2nd, 3rd etc), but it needs to recognize tied scores, so that if she has values

8.4
8.2
8.2
8.1

It will rank them as 1 2 2 3, rather than 1 2 3 4.

Any ideas?

(I know that there really isn't any need for this, but it's an important meet and if the announcer reads the printout of the scores wrong, it could change whether or not a gymnast gets the medal they deserve.)

Thanks guys.

Can you sort the results first so that they're from highest to lowest?

If so, you can do something quick and dirty like shown here.

Alpine

That looks like it would likely work. I was thinking that I had to use some sort of ranking formula, never thought of doing it that way. Thanks a lot.

Edit: Part 2.

Just asked my mom, she said that she doesn't have any formula in place that would order the set of gymnasts and scores from highest to lowest. The problem here, is that we'd have an list of ordered pairs, (Gymnast Name/#, Score) in two columns, ordered by the Gymnast Name/#. What we need to pull from this is a list with (Gymnast Name/#, Score, Rank), ordered by rank. This can be in a separate worksheet or just moved over a few columns from the original list. Any ideas?

ecco the dolphin

Use the sort function?

I've added another sheet with sample formula if you're interested.

Alpine

Okay, forget that part. I just saw the spreadsheet she's working with, and she explained what she wants it to do more clearly.

She already has a RANK function in place that ranks scores, but the problem is that when there is a tie, it ranks the scores

1
2
2
4

and she needs it to be

1
2
2
3.

Hope that clarifies it. The way she has it set up, an IF statement like you showed won't work easily enough to be feasible. It needs to be some sort of RANK that can deal with the Total Scores as they are elsewhere in the spreadsheet.

ecco the dolphin

Alpine wrote: »

The way she has it set up, an IF statement like you showed won't work easily enough to be feasible.

A challenge!

Is that rank sorted as well? If it is, then what about something like:

=IF(A3=A2, B2, B2+1)

(edited in Sheet 3)

Edit: Oh heck, I just realised, that's the original formula. Still works though, and means very little modification to existing stuff (which hopefully works!) if you can get a sorted rank.

Orogogus

This is what I came up with, based on values in column A, ranks in column B and rank 1 automatically placed in cell C1. The following goes in cell C2 and is copied downwards:

=IF(B2=C1,B2, IF(B2=C1+1, B2, C1+1))

But the list has to be sorted first or else this won't work.

EDIT: Ecco's method works fine, since two of the conditions go to the same value anyway.

Drez

Quick and dirty macro I just wrote to do this:

Sub GenerateOrdinals()

    Dim cellRange As Range
    Set cellRange = Range(cells(1, 1), cells(Range("A65536").End(xlUp).Row, 1))
    cellRange.Select
    
    'Sort
    ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets("Sheet1").Sort.SortFields.Add Key:=cellRange, _
        SortOn:=xlSortOnValues, Order:=xlAscending, DataOption:=xlSortNormal
    With ActiveSheet.Sort
        .SetRange cellRange
        .Header = xlNo
        .MatchCase = False
        .Orientation = xlTopToBottom
        .SortMethod = xlPinYin
        .Apply
    End With
    
    'Apply Ordinals
    Dim sCurrent, sLast As String
    Dim iOrdinal As Integer
    sCurrent = ""
    iOrdinal = 1
    
    For Each cell In cellRange
        sCurrent = cell.Value
        If sCurrent = sLast Or sLast = "" Then
            cell.Offset(0, 1).Value = iOrdinal
        Else
            iOrdinal = iOrdinal + 1
            cell.Offset(0, 1).Value = iOrdinal
        End If
        sLast = cell.Value
    Next cell
        
End Sub

NOTE: For this code, the list of ratings must start in cell A1. It sorts the list and applies the numbers your mom needs.