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Choosing a winner based on score

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    Choosing a winner based on score

    Hello everyone

    Hope you can help. I have a LONG list similar to the following:

    Column A....Column B...........Column C
    Name.........Total Score.......Average Score
    A...............460.................20.0
    B...............414.................18.0
    C...............460.................22.4
    etc etc

    What I need to do is determine the name of the winner based on Total Score, but if there is 2 or more people that have the same total score (such as Names A & C in the example above) I need Excel to identify the winner based on the higher average (e.g. Name C). I don't want to use the sort function as I need to identify 1st & 2nd place on a separate worksheet within the workbook.

    Is there a formula to do this? This one has me stumped.

    Many thanks

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    Re: Choosing a winner based on score

    I would add a dummy column first (you can hide it if you like)

    For example in D2 for your example
    =B2*1000+C2 dragged down
    Then in E2
    =RANK(D2,$D$2:$D$4) dragged down
    Would that work for you?
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    Re: Choosing a winner based on score

    Or

    =INDEX(A2:A400,IF(COUNTIF(B2:B400,MAX(B2:B400))>1,MATCH(MAX(C2:C400),C2:C400,0),MATCH(MAX(B2:B400),B2:B400,0)))

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