Thanks - I'll see what I can figure out.

"T. Valko" wrote:

I imagine virtually every other Med & Avg are not
working correctly where blanks exist?

Yes.

All those 1000's of formulas using INDIRECT are *killing you*! That's why
calculation takes so long.

All those formulas that are returning incorrect results is due to what I
explained in my other reply:

Empty cells where a criteria is met are being included in the calculation
and are being evaluated as 0.

So, you need to add a test in those formulas that makes sure the cells are
not empty. With the current formulas this will only make things worse (even
slower calculation).

If you want to improve the preformance of this file *you need to get rid of
all those INDIRECT functions.*

Not being critical, but this is a classic case of where using *defined names
for everything* just leads to unforeseen problems. Personally, I don't like
using defined names and use them only on rare occasions in really long
complex formulas or when "forced" to by Excel. None of the formulas I've
seen in this file would I consider really complex. But, that's just me, my
preference.

Here is an excellent source for efficient methods and performance
improvements:

http://www.decisionmodels.com/

Another tip: When you have that many formulas, especially volatile formulas,
it might be better to just let them return errors instead of trapping the
errors within the formula. You can use conditional formatting to hide the
errors. However, this will lead to having to account for these errors in any
downstream calculations. So, there's a lot to consider when designing a good
efficient spreadsheet that crunches a huge amount of data.


--
Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"Brian" wrote in message
...
I was able to fix everything else except the Averages & Medians along with
the incorrect best finish of 0.00 for FSB Pro Cup Season 13 (Stats Sheet -
selecting by Season). The Stats sheet is protected but can be unprotected
by
leaving the password blank. I uploaded the latest version to the same
place:

http://www.oatas.net/personal/Online...Statistics.xls


The Averages & Medians are reporting the wrong values in some case - FSB
Pro
Cup Season 13 is a good example.....

Avg Qual it's reporting: 2.90 Avg Qual (what it should be): 7.25
Median Qual it's reporting: 0.00 Median Qual (what it should be): 2.50

Avg Fin it's reporting: 3.45 Avg Fin (what it should be): 8.63
Median Fin it's reporting: 0.00 Median Fin (what it should be): 4.50

I imagine virtually every other Med & Avg are not working correctly where
blanks exist?

"T. Valko" wrote:

Did you see my last reply to your other post? I couldn't open the link.

Anyhow...

MEDIAN shouldn't have an issue delaing with blanks/deleted
cells and the formula above works fine in other cases where
there are blanks.

If:

IF(INDIRECT(VLOOKUP(Stats_Dropdown,Stats_Type_ARRA Y,3,FALSE))=$C3

=TRUE and the corresponding cell in Qualified is empty that corresponding
cell will be included in the calculation as a 0.

Like this:

x...1
x....
x...5

MEDIAN(IF(rng1="x",rng2))

The result is 1.. The empty cell is being evaluated as 0:

MEDIAN({1;0;5})

To account for that:

MEDIAN(IF((rng1="x")*(rng2<""),rng2))

--
Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"Brian" wrote in message
...
I had some help putting together this formula, but it has been giving me
some
grief for some reason after it seemed to work ok to start with.....

=IF(SUMIF(INDIRECT(VLOOKUP(Stats_Dropdown,Stats_Ty pe_ARRAY,3,FALSE)),$C3,Qualified),MEDIAN(IF(INDIRE CT(VLOOKUP(Stats_Dropdown,Stats_Type_ARRAY,3,FALSE ))=$C3,Qualified)),"-")

The data it is evaluating can have text, blanks, or numbers in the
range,
"Qualified." In this case, it only has numbers and blanks. MEDIAN
shouldn't
have an issue delaing with blanks/deleted cells and the formula above
works
fine in other cases where there are blanks. Any suggestions?