Formula to add vote counts

Hi I have votes for players for 17 rounds of football. I would like to know if there is a formula to add the players votes for the whole season based on their names. I have attached a sample of the spreadsheet.

Cheers
Sally

Welcome to the forum!

Will you please attach a sample Excel workbook? We are not able to work with or manipulate a picture of one.

1. Make sure that your sample data are REPRESENTATIVE of your real data. The use of unrepresentative data is very frustrating and can lead to long delays in reaching a solution.

2. Make sure that your desired solution is also shown (mock up the results manually).

3. Make sure that all confidential data is removed or replaced with dummy data first (e.g. names, addresses, E-mails, etc.).

4. Try to avoid using merged cells as they cause lots of problems.

Unfortunately the attachment icon doesn't work at the moment, so to attach an Excel file you have to do the following: just before posting, scroll down to Go Advanced and then scroll down to Manage Attachments. Now follow the instructions at the top of that screen.

Please pay particular attention to point 2 (above): without an idea of your intended outcomes, it is often very difficult to offer appropriate advice.

There may be a more elegant way, but in AB2 copied down:

=SUMIFS($E$3:$E$41,$A$3:$A$41,AA2)+SUMIFS($J$3:$J$41,$F$3:$F$41,AA2)+SUMIFS($O$3:$O$41,$K$3:$K$41,AA2)+SUMIFS($T$3:$T$41,$P$3:$P$41,AA2)+SUMIFS($Y$3:$Y$41,$U$3:$U$41,AA2)

Please note that in cell A4 there is a trailing space that you need to delete so that the formula in AB3 calculates correctly.

Your layout is not really the best for this type of analysis.

Aaarrgghhhh! The double unary!!! No wonder I couldn't get the SUMPRODUCT to work ... duh.gif