Blimey, not happy with a solution, you want an explanation as well.

You should try it, you'll get a direct answer that way. input one number,
two, ten, eleven and see what happens.

The thing is that it sets up a little array of 1,...,n where n is a count of
the numbers in H2:H21, ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&MIN(COUNT(H2:H21),10))), but it
restricts that count to 10 with the MIN(...,10). This array is then passed
to SMALL(H2:H21 to get the 10 smallest numbers, or 4 smallest if there is
only 4 numbers in the range. So, no matter how many items you have it will
pick up the (upto) ten smallest and average them.

--
HTH

Bob Phillips

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"fedude" wrote in message
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Bob,

Yikes! This formula is going to take me some time to understand, but at
first glance it looks very interesting....

I don't understand how this will give me the average of 10 numbers. Won't
this give me the average of the tenth smallest number in the range? Is
the
COUNT function like a loop?

Will this work if there are less than ten numbers in the list as well?

I probably don't understand how the INDIRECT function works. I'm going to
look it up. Can you help me decypher this?

"Bob Phillips" wrote:

or even like this


=FLOOR(AVERAGEA(SMALL(H2:H21,ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&MIN (COUNT(H2:H21),10)))))*0.9
6,0.1)

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HTH

Bob Phillips

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"fedude" wrote in message
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That's what I was already doing, but I find myself editing a lot of
cell
formulas. I'm trying to calculate golf handicaps and the rule is to
take
the
lowest 10 of the last 20 scores to figure it out, so I need a formula
which
evaluates 1-20 rows depending upon how many scores I have and then
once I
reach 20 I need a rolling range (i.e. not locked). I don't want to
use a
macro to do this.

Here is the formula I've been using (This is an example of the 4th
score
in
the list):


=FLOOR(AVERAGEA(SMALL(H13:H21,1),SMALL(H13:H21,2), SMALL(H13:H21,3))*0.96,0.1
)

"Bob Phillips" wrote:

Lock the start cell with absolutes

$A$1:A3

--
HTH

Bob Phillips

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"fedude" wrote in message
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Is there a way to define a range based upon the current cell
location?
For
instance When I'm calculating a formula in C3 I want to use the
range
A1:A3,
but when I move down to C4, I want the range to be A1:A4.

The top of the range will remain constant, but the bottom of the
range
will
move based upon the row I'm currently in.