You can use "tie-breaking" with RANK to produced a unique rank for
elements with the same value. I have details and examples at
http://www.cpearson.com/Excel/rank.htm.

Another way is to use an arbitrary lookup, which allows you to get the
first, last, or an intermediate value from a lookup. See the
"Arbitrary Lookups" section at
http://www.cpearson.com/Excel/TablesAndLookups.aspx .

Cordially,
Chip Pearson
Microsoft MVP
Excel Product Group
Pearson Software Consulting, LLC
www.cpearson.com
(email on web site)




On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 11:43:01 -0800, Richth
wrote:

Column A (A1:A15) displays ranked values (from 1 to 15) from quiz results
using the formula: =RANK(P1,P1:P15,0) from scores in column P. Column B
(B1:B15) displays Team names.

To display results of the ranking for the top 5 teams, cells C20:C25 contain
numbers 1 - 5, and cells D20:D25 contain formula:
=VLOOKUP($C20,$A$1:$B$15,2,FALSE).

Problem: If two teams happen to tie for 1st place (for example), the VLOOKUP
in D21 will fail because there is no value equal to 2 in A1:A15 range. How
can/should I deal with that?