Hi all,
Although I use Excel quite a bit, I am only able to do fairly basic stuff. I have been wracking my brains trying to come up with a points championship calculator for a stock car league I am involved in. Currently I do the calculations manually. Here's what I need help with :
Basically, I need to enter the results of each race. Each race records the top 10 finishers and assigns points to each individual driver. Each placing will be recorded / entered as the driver's number. Ideally, Excel will then calculate the amount of points scored by each driver during the race meeting and return a list containing the points scorers highest to lowest.
An example of a race result to be entered : 131 281 42 355 575 439 161 373 9 77 (each number is a driver)
A heat race is scored 12pts, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
A feature final is scored 25pts, 20, 16, 14, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2
To complicate things slightly, we sometimes have an extra race after the feature. The winner of the feature scores double points if he places in this extra race. All other positions are scored as per a heat race.
Is it also possible to calculate prize money for each driver ?
I have looked all over the net and on this forum but I cannot see anywhere an example where values can be assigned to number data (unless I am being dumb?)
Any help would really be appreciated. If someone could point me in the right direction, I will have a play although I will struggle to understand anything too complicated - but I will do my best !!
Although I use Excel quite a bit, I am only able to do fairly basic stuff. I have been wracking my brains trying to come up with a points championship calculator for a stock car league I am involved in. Currently I do the calculations manually. Here's what I need help with :
Basically, I need to enter the results of each race. Each race records the top 10 finishers and assigns points to each individual driver. Each placing will be recorded / entered as the driver's number. Ideally, Excel will then calculate the amount of points scored by each driver during the race meeting and return a list containing the points scorers highest to lowest.
An example of a race result to be entered : 131 281 42 355 575 439 161 373 9 77 (each number is a driver)
A heat race is scored 12pts, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
A feature final is scored 25pts, 20, 16, 14, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2
To complicate things slightly, we sometimes have an extra race after the feature. The winner of the feature scores double points if he places in this extra race. All other positions are scored as per a heat race.
Is it also possible to calculate prize money for each driver ?
I have looked all over the net and on this forum but I cannot see anywhere an example where values can be assigned to number data (unless I am being dumb?)
Any help would really be appreciated. If someone could point me in the right direction, I will have a play although I will struggle to understand anything too complicated - but I will do my best !!
