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    Ranking System/Formula Issues

    Good morning all and thank you for taking a look at my post.

    I recently followed a guide to rank a list of most popular dogs. It works but there are glaring issues with most of the values. After running through my document (attached) and highlighting problem areas (orange) and correct areas (green) I realised how bad the problem actually was.

    I think I know what the problem may be, it lies with the way the formula calculates unique numbers and then rounds them to print the result. I may also be wrong.

    Perhaps someone out there knows what the problem is so I can look into it.

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    I understand what each formula process does, it is my first time using a ranking system. I would have expected a far simpler way, which there is provided you don't have similar values.

    Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
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    Re: Ranking System/Formula Issues

    I changed the formula in G2 to:

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    Not touched the F column, as I'm not that into creating lists yet, but this should give you a more accurate ranking.

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    Re: Ranking System/Formula Issues

    Easy answer, put them in a pivot and sorty by the value, or just sort the base list

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    Re: Ranking System/Formula Issues

    You can use this formula to get the ranking (and accommodate ties) - I put it in J2 of your file:

    =RANK(C2,$C$2:$C$121)+COUNTIF(C$2:C2,C2)-1

    Then you can use this formula to retrieve the breed in K2:

    =INDEX(B:B,MATCH(ROWS($1:1),$J:$J,0))

    and you can copy this into L2 to get the number.

    Copy the formulae down to row 121.

    Hope this helps.

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    Re: Ranking System/Formula Issues

    Quote Originally Posted by FerdyHar View Post
    I changed the formula in G2 to:

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    Not touched the F column, as I'm not that into creating lists yet, but this should give you a more accurate ranking.

    Ferdy
    Thank you Ferdy, this worked beautifully. I've only had a cursory look but will delve deeper as time allows to understand what difference your changes made.

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    Re: Ranking System/Formula Issues

    The change I have made is instead of using a Do it yourself kinda ranking system I have made use of Excel's build in rank formula. The change in G2 was just to prevent circle reference.

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    Re: Ranking System/Formula Issues

    Quote Originally Posted by Pete_UK View Post
    You can use this formula to get the ranking (and accommodate ties) - I put it in J2 of your file:

    =RANK(C2,$C$2:$C$121)+COUNTIF(C$2:C2,C2)-1

    Then you can use this formula to retrieve the breed in K2:

    =INDEX(B:B,MATCH(ROWS($1:1),$J:$J,0))

    and you can copy this into L2 to get the number.

    Copy the formulae down to row 121.

    Hope this helps.

    Pete
    Thank you Pete, I will have a look at your solution too and rep if helpful. Appreciated.

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