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    Question Create Teams Snake Draft Style

    Hi all! I'll apologize in advance; it does feel like this question has been asked but the answers are a bit above my mental pay grade.

    I've got a group of people (100) who are going to be taking a typing speed tests. We'll track contestant's names and their WPM (as score), then sort them fastest to slowest. Once we rank everyone (or as we rank them), we want to create 4 teams and draft through the ranked players like:

    Team A Team B Team C Team D
    1 2 3 4
    8 7 6 5

    And so forth.
    The rows of contestants (1-4, 8-5,..) will then become our racing heats and we'll give them points based on the race results and so forth.

    It's the snake draft part that I can't figure out. Any suggestions on how to return rows of a column, across 4 columns, snake style?

    Thanks!

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    Re: Create Teams Snake Draft Style

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    Re: Create Teams Snake Draft Style

    In A2

    =((ROWS($1:1)-1)*4+COLUMN(A$1))

    copy across to D

    in A3

    =((ROWS($1:2)-1)*4+COLUMNS(A$1:$D$1))

    copy across to D

    select A2:D3 and drag down as far as required
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    Re: Create Teams Snake Draft Style

    Another option is you have the Lambda function
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    Re: Create Teams Snake Draft Style

    Thank you both for the responses! both do work in the way I wrote it out, but I should have been more specific in my table I meant I'd like to bring back the name of the person in that rank. So maybe a more accurate representation would be this:
    Rank Contestant Speed (empty col) Team A Team B Team C Team D
    1 Summer 96 Summer Lindsey John Josh
    2 Lindsey 93 8th Place Name 7th Place Name Chloe Amy
    3 John 84 9th Place Name 10th Place Name ... ...
    4 Josh 83
    5 Amy 80
    6 Chloe 77
    Last edited by AliGW; 04-30-2022 at 04:31 PM. Reason: PLEASE don't quote unnecessarily

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    Re: Create Teams Snake Draft Style

    In that case hose about
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    where B2:B101 hold the names

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    Re: Create Teams Snake Draft Style

    That works! Thank you so much!
    Last edited by AliGW; 04-30-2022 at 04:45 PM. Reason: PLEASE don't quote unnecessarily

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    Re: Create Teams Snake Draft Style

    You're welcome & thanks for the feedback.

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