I keep for myself ice hockey stats, on several teams. I'm have a really hard
time figuring out how to get around the goalie minute numbers. Example say
Goalie A played 60:00:00, where the sixty is sixty minutes, and the next
number is seconds and then the last is ten of seconds. I have to put this
number in my spreadsheet as text becasue Excel will change it everytime I
input this as a number. So then I try to convert it to a number so that I
can add several numbers together to come up with a total number of minutes
played. But everytime that I use the Value forumla it come up with 2.5. Can
not for the life of me figure that one out, must just be having a bad day I
quess. And just so that you know, the goalie is not always going to have the
above number for each game, it could be something quite different every
single game. Here is several examples: 51:24:32 or 15:16:29.

So any help in pointing where I'm going wrong would be appreciated.

Steve Martin