I am not sure if this is possible in Excel but here goes.
I have a worksheet that shows results of a golf tournament with in:
column A the finishing position
column B the name of the player
column C their score
The data has been sorted so that the results have the winner in the top row and last position in row "n" (where n is the number of players).
I want to be able to randomly assign a team name to each player that finishes in positions 7 to "n" (no player can win more than one prize and we have prizes for the first six places) storing it in column D. The team name will be made up of a letter and a number, eg A1, A2, B1, B2 etc. This is so that we can have a blind pairs competition. I will then use the VLOOKUP function to find the teams and work out the blind pairs winners.
Obviously the team name assigned must be unique to one player.
I cannot assign the team names before the competition starts as those that finish in places 1 to 6 are not eligable for a blind pairs prize
Has anyone any ideas on how I can achieve this?
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