Creating Unique Limited Sets Based on List

Hello all,

This might be a silly one. A group of college friends play the NBA 2K video game competitively in our spare time. We were considering different lineups, and I being the Data Analyst for my career, thought I could build something out in Excel but find myself stumped. We have six players on the team. Only five can play at one time. Of the six players, four have two player prototypes. This leads to ten total prototypes. What I am looking to do is create every possible five man lineup possible, with one rule; no one user can be in the same lineup twice. Making this slightly more difficult for me than saying "Every possible combination". I'm looking to make every possible unique set of 5, and no name can be placed twice in the same set.

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For those who follow basketball, in this case I would not be concerned with mismatched positions. Just looking for a way to sweep up and display every possible 5 build set, while restricting to the name listed just once in each set.

Thanks in advance for any assistance!

EDIT : I have attached the sample file now as well with a view of what I'm looking to spit out automatically. The "All Lineups" tab contains what you see in the screenshot and a sample of where I am looking to get. In this instance. I have removed "Evan" from the 5 person set. This leaves Fent, Beeks, Hollis, Derek, Mendez. I have then placed each of the 8 possible combinations that can come with THAT specific set of 5 based on the potential variable of certain names have two builds. I would be looking to replicate that process for each 5 person scenario.

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 and nobody wants to have to recreate your data from scratch.

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 results are 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.