Ranking Data

[Guest]

Hello,
What I am trying to do is get a ranking based off of data. Example: I
have a database with store #'s and their sales. I want to be able to rank who
did the best in sales on a 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and so on, and return it to a
different sheet than what the data is kept in. Anyone got any ideas???

 

[Guest]

Say your original data is in Sheet1 column A. In Sheet2, A1 enter:

=LARGE(Sheet1!A:A,ROW()) and copy down

The highest value will be first, the second highest nextm etc.

 

[Guest]

I also want the store # with it. Example. Sheet1 Column A is the store #,
Column 2 is the sales. I want to return both columns based of the highest
sales.

 

[Guest]

O.K., we modify the ranking formula because your original sales data is in
column B:

=LARGE(Sheet1!B:B,ROW()) (still in column A of Sheet2)

Now we have to do the equivalent of VLOOKUP to get the store number:

=INDIRECT("Sheet1!A" & MATCH(A1,Sheet1!B:B,0)) (in another column of Sheet2)

 

[daddylonglegs]

Hi Gary''s Student, surely INDEX is preferable to INDIRECT.....

=INDEX(Sheet1!A:A,MATCH(A1,Sheet1!B:B,0))

although there will be problems with this approach if there are
ties......

 

[Guest]

You are correct, INDEX() works just fine. I only wish we could use VLOOKUP
here.

 

[Pete_UK]

What about overcoming the problem with tied values - if you have two
second placed stores then only the first in the list will be reported.
The way I have overcome this in the past is to have a helper column
which records the position of the item, then use this to determine the
range to use for the next LARGE function (using INDIRECT - it gets
messy).

Pete

 

[Guest]

The index worked great. Thank you.