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    Calculating Handicaps

    I run a disc golf league and track scores in an excel spreadsheet. You have to play 3 times, then get your handicap. I need to know how to set up my spreadsheet so that each week as I enter scores in the rows for each player, excel will take the last 3 scores in each row and add them together, divide by 3 (in other words, average the last 3 scores) subtract 49 from the average and then multiply that number by .8, rounding up to the nearest whole number.

    Example: 55 + 51 + 52 = 158 divided by 3 = 52.66666667 minus 49 = 3.666666667 X .8 = 2.93333333 round up, 3 would be the handicap.

    I need the formula to automatically use just the last 3 scores in each row to do the calculation. Thank you!

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    Re: Calculating Handicaps

    This would depend how your spreadsheet is laid out.
    At the moment its a bit like saying I have 3 cells that I want to use in a formula to do a calculation.
    Whats the exact formula?
    Without knowing the location of the cells this is impssible.

    Attach a copy of your spreadsheet, remove any sensitive data.
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    Re: Calculating Handicaps

    This is just an example of what I'm talking about. Not everyone will play every week so there may be some weeks with no score entered and again, just need it to use the last 3 scores available to calculate the handicap.


    Name Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Handicap Week 4 Handicap Week 5 Handicap Week 6 Handicap Week 7 Handicap
    Barry 51 49 53
    Russ 48 45 52
    Sam 50 52
    Adam 52 54
    Tom 53 51 56
    AJ 52 51
    Mike 50 55 50
    Dan 59 56 52

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    Re: Calculating Handicaps

    This proposed solution employs three helper columns, which could be hidden for aesthetic purposes. Since you said that there may be some weeks with no score the following array entered formula* will get the average of the of the last 3 non-blank cells in a particular row:
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    After getting the average the formulas in the next two columns respectively subtract 49 and multiply that value by eight tenths. The final formula yields the handicap using the formula:
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    Re: Calculating Handicaps

    Hi,

    Try this

    =ROUND((AVERAGE(OFFSET($B$1,COUNT(B:B)-3,0,3)) -49)*0.8,0)

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