Hi all,

I'm new to the forum.

Could anybody help me to figure out how to count innings pitched in Excel?

Let's say I'm counting the innings pitched in the A1 column and individual games are listed in B1:B10.

I've found a couple of tips in the internet, but they don't seem to work.

To those who are not familiar with how innings pitched in baseball are calculated, they go by retired batters so two complete innings and one retired batter in the third inning amount to 2.1 innings pitched.

So basically I need Excel to roundup to the next rounded number after .2

e.g. 1.2 + 1.1 = 3.0

Hi,

Could you post an example workbook of wht you have so far?
Some manually entered expected results will help too.

Can't upload files at work, but let me try to explain it...

In baseball, innings pitched are calculated by the amount of batters the pitcher has retired in one inning. He needs to retire three (3) batters to end the inning. So one retired batter amounts 0.1 innings pitched and 3 retired batters to 1.0.

So when a pitcher pitches 6.1 innings in Game 1 and 5.2 innings in Game 2, he has pitched a total of 12.0 innings in 2 games.

Does that help? Normally 6.1+5.2 = 11.3, but in this case it should be 12.0 and so on…

The result should look like:

---A-------------------- B
1 12.0 (B1+B2)----- 6.1
2-----------------------5.2

Does =ROUNDUP(SUM(B1:B2),0) in A1 (with 6.1 in B1 and 5.2 in B2) do the trick?

No, because if the pitcher pitches another 4.2 innings in Game 3, he should have 16.2 innings pitched and not 17.

Game 1: 6.1
Game 2: 5.2
Game 3: 4.2
Game 4: 5.2

Should amount to 22.1 innings pitched

Sorry, I don't know much about the game. It's not a huge sport here in the UK.

So is there a rule that states which should be rounded up and which should not?

i.e. if the total ends in .1 it should stay as that but if it ends in .2 then it should be rounded up?

12.2 is still 12.2, but 12.3 should be 13.0

Basically .3 should already be the next .0. You know what I mean?


12.3 - 13.0
15.3 - 16.0
etc.


e.g.

15.2 + 0.1 = 16.0
15.2 + 0.2 = 16.1

Sorry, I will get my head around this eventually.

I think maybe a running score is needed. It could be hidden so you only get the latest score, but to save writing a very long nested formula to give the result you need I think that's the best approach.

So, taking your example earlier, what would be the desired results after each game?

Game 1: 6.1 = ?
Game 2: 5.2 = ?
Game 3: 4.2 = ?
Game 4: 5.2 = ?

Found the solution already:

=DOLLARFR(ROUND(SUMPRODUCT(B2:B40+MOD(B2:B40,1)*7/3),8),3)

On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 08:27:47 +0000, Spencer101 wrote:

tomcat82;1605414 Wrote:
Can't upload files at work, but let me try to explain it...

In baseball, innings pitched are calculated by the amount of batters
the pitcher has retired in one inning. He needs to retire three (3)
batters to end the inning. So one retired batter amounts 0.1 innings
pitched and 3 retired batters to 1.0.

So when a pitcher pitches 6.1 innings in Game 1 and 5.2 innings in Game
2, he has pitched a total of 12.0 innings in 2 games.

Does that help? Normally 6.1+5.2 = 11.3, but in this case it should be
12.0 and so onÂ…

The result should look like:

---A-------------------- B 1 12.0 (B1+B2)----- 6.1
2-----------------------5.2


Does *=ROUNDUP(SUM(B1:B2),0)* in A1 (with 6.1 in B1 and 5.2 in B2) do
the trick?

It might as long as you only add 2 games together... If you add 3 that
are 1.2, 1.2 and 1.2, you approach yields 4, but the answer should be 5.

I'd do something a little more complicated, along the lines of splitting
the screwy numbering scheme that baseball uses into 2 more columns.

B1 = int(a1)
C1 = (a1-b1)*10

B{n} = sum(b1:b{n-1})
C{n} = int(sum(C1:C{n-1})/3)
D{n} = mod(sum(c1:c{n-1}),3)/10

innings pitched = B{n}+C{n}+D{n}

Can probably be simplified a bit, but it's a start.