No. The gain of 10 yards from your 25 moves you to 35, the loss of 2 moves
you from 35 to 33, hence 27, not 23.
The =if(A1=30, A1, 60 - A1) was suggested only for showing the output, not
for the cumulative calculation.

You may decide that you want the output to distinguish more clearly between
your half and the opponents' half, so you may wish to change
=if(A1=30, A1, 60 - A1)
to
=if(A1=30, A1, A1-60) to show that half as negative,
or you may want to use conditional formatting to use a different colour if
A130 (or A1=30, depending on how you want to treat the half-way line, or
you could use two conditions and have the half-way line itself as a neutral
colour).
--
David Biddulph

"MCook" wrote in message
...
Thanks Jim - That solves one problem! Now how would I account for a loss
of
yardage? To use the same example, own 25 yard line, gain 10 yards moves it
to
the other teams 25, but on the next play we loss -2 yards, the formula
would
make it 23 instead of 27, correct?
Matt

"Jim Thomlinson" wrote:

To keep things simple I would maintain the field as being from 0 to 60
yards.
So for example starting at your 25 yard line a gain of 10 would take you
to
the 35 (I know the 35 does not exist but it will keep the math simple).
Now
just use a formula to convert the 35 to the opponents 25. The formula
could
be something like this...

=if(A1=30, A1, 60 - A1)
That will convert the 35 (in cell A1) into 25.
--
HTH...

Jim Thomlinson


"MCook" wrote:

I am using Excel 2007. I keep stats for my son's football team. We
would like
to chart the distance that each play in the series goes. The football
field
starts on the "Zero" yard line and then goes to the 30 yard
line(MID-FIELD),
and then start back down towards the "Zero" yard line on the other end.
We
record the data in a spread sheet with columns for the yard line and
then
another for the distance. Example below,

Yard Line Distance
25 yard line +5 yards
30 yard line -3 yards
27 yard line +4 yards
29 yard line +2 yards (This would be on opponents 29 yard
line)

What type of chart could I use to accomplish this. How would I show the
if
the play series started on our own or the oppents yard line?

Thanks