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    Help needed with weighted ranking formula

    I am looking to create a ranking system for my sheep, where I have three attributes and have weighted their contribution percentage to my ranking system.

    I can do a basic ranking formula, but the problem I have is that I am using three attributes and for one the lower value is better and the other two the higher value is better.

    MFD - the lower the value the better
    GFW & kgs - the higher the value the better

    How do I account of this in my formula? I have attached a copy of my spreadsheet.

    Any help is greatly appreciated please
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    Re: Help needed with weighted ranking formula

    Can you please elaborate more what result you need it seems to me sounds confusing about

    " for one the lower value is better and the other two the higher value is better."

    what results do you need then??

    thanks Rev12

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    Re: Help needed with weighted ranking formula

    I have three attributes/values

    MFD - the lower value the better
    GFW & kgs - the higher value the better

    I want to create a ranking/index system where each of three attributes have percentage value attached to create the index/ranking value.

    The problem is for one of the three attributes the lower value is the better so I'm unsure how to incorporate that into my formula.

    Spreadsheet was attached to my original post.

    Hope that clears up any confusion

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    Re: Help needed with weighted ranking formula

    500-MFD, and you have the more the better

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    Re: Help needed with weighted ranking formula

    Thanks, but why 500?

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    Re: Help needed with weighted ranking formula

    My guess
    No strike?

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    Re: Help needed with weighted ranking formula

    If I do 200 then the results seem to make more sense, I wasn't getting numbers in the index column above and below 100 otherwise (100 being the average). The animals scoring less than 100 would then be below average and the ones scoring above 100 being above average.

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    Re: Help needed with weighted ranking formula

    If you change the sign of the weight of MFD to negative and then renormalize the weights, you can use a simple rank formula on the weighted sum ("Index"):

    L
    M
    N
    O
    P
    Q
    R
    3
    Raw Weight
    -0.23
    0.61
    0.16
    0.54
    P3: =SUM(M3:O3)
    4
    Normalized Weight
    -0.426
    1.130
    0.296
    1
    M4: =M3/$P$3
    5
    MFD
    GFW
    Kgs
    Index
    6
    107
    112
    86
    106.2
    P6: =SUMPRODUCT(M$4:O$4, M6:O6)
    7
    106
    103
    83
    95.8
    8
    86
    96
    127
    109.9
    9
    101
    94
    98
    92.5
    10
    100
    94
    107
    95.5
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    Re: Help needed with weighted ranking formula

    Thanks shg - hopefully the attached is correct?
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    Re: Help needed with weighted ranking formula

    Looks good to me, but I'd have thought there was a well-established, commonly-accepted method for evaluating sheep on the (cloven) hoof.
    Last edited by shg; 05-18-2018 at 02:50 PM.

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