Don't bother :-). Vasant scored it which I failed to do.

Bob


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Van...

This seems to work great! I tested it using a few
different scenarios. Thank you. I certainly understand
how countif works, but how were you able to come up with
the logic...

I'll try your scenario as soon as I get a chance Bob....


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Something like:

=RANK(B2,B$2:B$11,1)+(COUNTIF(B$2:B$11,B2)*(COUNT IF
(B$2:B$11,B2)-1)/2)/COUNT
IF(B$2:B$11,B2)

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Vasant

"Don" wrote in
message
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I believe a need a slighly modifed version of the RANK
function.

Here is the scenario....

I have three columns A,B,C with Name, Score and Points.
Points given are based upon ranking. So, if you have
the
highest score, you get the most amount of points. The
rank formula in the first relevant row is =RANK
(B2,$b$2:$b$11,1). This works nicely unless there is a
TIE in a score.

If there are 4 participants and a tie for second, the
resulting points(rankings) would be 4, 2, 2, 1. This is
not what I want. I want to distribute all the points
amongst all the tied players, so that each player in
this
scenario would receive 2.5 points. I hope I am making
sense here.

There are also two things to keep in mind
(1) The scores will not necessarily be sorted, because
there are many categories to score
(2) Although unlikely, there could be more than two
teams
tied, so points might need to be divided amongst three
or
more teams.

Thanks for any insight anyone mihgt be able to
provide....

Thanks,
Don



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