conditional formatting in Excel - database

I'm using conditional formatting such as:
=$B2>=LARGE($B$2:$B$40,3)
This will result in the 3 largest or highest amounts. But is there a formula that will result in automatically producing the top 10, or 9, or 8, or etc.? So I won't have to go back and change the format based on criteria for that given week?
In other words, I'm looking a formula to replace the "3" that will look at the range and produce the top 10, or 9, or 8, or etc.
Any help appreciated!

Try Top/Bottom Rules, Top Ten Items... and select a value in the left hand window to suit (and change formatting if desired).
To exclude values of 0 from the highlighting, use Top 10 for 10 items but also Format only cells that contain, Cell Value, equal to, =0 and set no format. Make sure this rule is at the top of any others, applies to a suitable range and that Stop If True is checked:

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SUMIF for first 5 cells meeting criteria, with moving window

I am looking to find a formula that calculates the cumulative points a team has for its last 5 games (so the first 5 games would have no values) in the last column. So it should return a number between 0 and 15. In the image below you can see an extract of the dataset. The range can also not continue to move down because then for the last 4 games, only the last 4, 3, 2, 1 game points would be added (hope I did not confuse you more).
I have tried to use SUMIF, SUMIFS with relative row numbers in the cell address within a function but sadly, that did not help. I also looked at SUMIF for first 5 cells meeting criteria but that did not make me any wiser.
Link to the full dataset: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/thu7f8ajsz9g8wtfo9q2w/Data.xlsx?dl=0&rlkey=aq8d7xi4zyg7hvkophsrhswpi
Does anyone know how to do this?
FTHG = Full-Time Home Goals
FTAG = Full-Time Away Goals
FTR = Full-Time Result
PH = Points Home
PA = Points Away
Not sure I really get what you want, but I have used two vlookup's to collect PH and PA and add them using a list of unique names from column A.
Here is the formula as text:
=IFERROR(VLOOKUP(J4,$A$4:$H$20,6,0),0)+IFERROR(VLOOKUP(J4,$B$4:$H$20,6,0),0)
Given your original table and assuming that for any particular row, you are interested in the five games above that row (played by the same home team), you can use:
=LET(x,FILTER(G2:$G$2, B2:$B$2=B2),IF(COUNT(x)>=5,SUM(INDEX(x,SEQUENCE(5))),0))
You can see the first NON-ZERO result is in Row 65

How do I search for most similar sequence in Excel?

I'm hoping to search an excel column for the sequence in it most similar to a sequence I enter.
For instance, in the following example, the sequence I provide is: 1, 2.5, 3.5, 2.5, 1. It's depicted on the following graph as black.
In the column I'm searching, there are a few sequences. The most similar one to mine is colored blue. It goes: 1, 2, 3, 2, 1.
Graph
Do any of you know an excel formula, or series of formulas and steps, that would allow Excel to determine this -- so that when I enter the black sequence, for instance, it will match it with the blue sequence as the most similar one?
Thanks tothis Stack overflow answer, I already know how to search a set of numbers for an exact sequence by using the following formula:
=MATCH([Criteria 1]&[Criteria 2],[Data 1st val]:[Data last val]&[Data 2nd val]:[Data last + 1 val],0)
For instance, if I have the following numbers: 1, 3, 5, 1, 4, and I am hoping to find the sequence, 1, 4, this formula will direct me towards it in that set of numbers.
I ALSO already know how to find the closest match to a number I enter, using this formula (which will make more sense if you look in the example image below): =INDEX($A$1:$A$10,MATCH(MIN(ABS(C1-B1:B10)),ABS(C1-$B$1:$B$10),0))
Example
When I press control+shift+enter, this formula will produce the number 4, indicating row 4, because the number I entered in C1, which was 39, is closest to the number 40, which is located in the 4th row.
So I have both the components -- finding exact sequences, and finding the closest number -- but now the question is, how do I combine these two formulas to show me the closest sequence of numbers, the one which would look most similar if drawn on a graph like in my first example with the blue and black line?
And bonus points if you can help find not only the closest sequence but the closest sequences in order of most similar to least similar.
And once again, I don't need this to be rolled into one formula; I am happy to go through a couple steps and different formulas manually to arrive at the answer.
And if you think this would be better solved in some other way, please let me know! But I do not have any coding experience so I figured Excel would be my best bet.
Thank you so much!!!
Not sure how you exactly have set this up, but if I visualize your graph in a table you could use the below (if one has Microsoft365):
Formula in H2:
=INDEX(SORTBY(B2:F4,MMULT(ABS(B2:F4-B1:F1),SEQUENCE(5,,,0))),1)
With all your data in a single column, below you can find an example for if you'd have sequences of 5.
Formula in C2:
=TRANSPOSE(INDEX(SORTBY(INDEX(A2:A16,SEQUENCE(11,5)-ROUNDDOWN(SEQUENCE(11,5,0,0.2),0)*4),MMULT(ABS(INDEX(A2:A16,SEQUENCE(11,5)-ROUNDDOWN(SEQUENCE(11,5,0,0.2),0)*4)-TRANSPOSE(B2:B6)),SEQUENCE(5,,,0))),1))
If you would want to make this applicable for your dataset from A1:A500 with sequence of 10 numbers:
=TRANSPOSE(INDEX(SORTBY(INDEX(A1:A500,SEQUENCE(COUNT(A1:A500)-9,10)-ROUNDDOWN(SEQUENCE(COUNT(A1:A500)-9,10,0,0.1),0)*9),MMULT(ABS(INDEX(A1:A500,SEQUENCE(COUNT(A1:A500)-9,10)-ROUNDDOWN(SEQUENCE(COUNT(A1:A500)-9,10,0,0.1),0)*9)-TRANSPOSE(B1:B10)),SEQUENCE(10,,,0))),1))
And if will be even better if you had acces to LET() and it will be a piece of cake to just change the range reference:
=LET(X,A2:A500,Y,INDEX(X,SEQUENCE(COUNT(X)-9,10)-ROUNDDOWN(SEQUENCE(COUNT(X)-9,10,0,0.1),0)*9),TRANSPOSE(INDEX(SORTBY(Y,MMULT(ABS(Y-TRANSPOSE(B2:B11)),SEQUENCE(10,,,0))),1)))
EDIT2:
To make it more dynamic you can use:
=LET(W,1,X,A2:A500,Y,11,Z,INDEX(X,SEQUENCE(COUNT(X)-(Y-1),Y)-ROUNDDOWN(SEQUENCE(COUNT(X)-(Y-1),Y,0,1/Y),0)*(Y-1)),TRANSPOSE(INDEX(SORTBY(Z,MMULT(ABS(Z-TRANSPOSE(B2:INDEX(B:B,Y+1))),SEQUENCE(Y,,,0))),W)))
Where "W" is the nth closest match and where "Y" is the length of the sequence, 11 in the example.
My approach would be to calculate a match-value between each color and the input values, like the sum of the differences for each point.
The formula for this is:
=SUM(IF([inputrange]<>"",ABS([inputrange]-[colorrange]),0))
Where [inputrange] is the range of your input (indicated red in the picture below, $C$6:$G$6) and [colorrange] is the range of that color (indicated blue, C2:G2).
The color with the lowest difference is the match:
=VLOOKUP(MIN([matchvalues],[rangeofmatchandcolors],2,0)
Where [matchvalues] is the range of match values (indicated blue in the picture below, Cells A2:A4) and [rangeofmatchandcolors] is both the match values as well as the colors (indicated red, A2:B4)

Table join with multiple conditions

I'm having trouble to give the condition for tables' joining. The highlight parts are the 3 conditions that I need to solve. Basically, there are some securities that for their effective term if the value is between 0 to 2 it has score 1, if the value is between 2 to 10, it has score 2, and if the value is bigger than 10 it has value 4.
For the first two conditions, in the query's where part I solve them like this
however for the third condition if the Descriptsec is empty I'm not quite sure what can I do, can anyone help?
Can you change the lookup table ([Risk].[dbo].[FILiquidityBuckets]) you are using?
If yes, do this:
Add bounds so that table looks like this:
Metric-DescriptLowerBound-DescriptUpperBound-LiquidityScore
Effective term-0-2-1
Effective term-2-10-2
Effective term-10-9999999(some absurd high number)-4
Then your join condition can be this:
ON FB3.Metric='Effective term'
AND CAST(sa.effectiveTerm AS INT) BETWEEN CAST(FB3.DescriptLowerBound AS INT)
AND CAST(FB3.DescriptLowerBound AS INT)
Please note that BETWEEN is inclusive so in the edge cases (where the value is exactly 2 or 10), the lower score will be captured.
I can see some problems: the effective term in table with sa alias is a float. So you should consider rounding up or down.
Overall a lot of things can be changed/improved but I tried to offer an immediate solution.
Hope this helps.

Conditional Horizontal Count of Data in Excel

I have been working on a large data set of lab testing results (previously you all have been helpful but I have a new wrinkle). Each sample has 3 columns in excel(concentration, Qualifier, MDL) and Column A has about 167 chemicals that could possible be screened for. Not all samples were screened for all chemicals, so some of the samples may have blank rows. In column B is a benchmark value that the concentration should not be greater than. I need to do the following 3 things, which i think are somewhat related. 1) Count of samples tested for a chemical, 2) Count of samples with concentrations greater than benchmark with a qualifier <>"U", and 3) Count of samples with concentrations greater than benchmark with a qualifier ="U". See above for how the results should look.
Previously, I had used an aggregate function (Suggested by you guys) to get a max and minimum for samples with a qualifier of u and without - but i can't see a way to do a count using the aggregate function.
Assuming that you meant great than, and not great than or equal to your bench mark, the following three formulas should work for your sample data. It is based on the assumption that a blank concentration means a sample was not tested.
The following counts non blank concentrations:
=SUM(--(F2<>""),--(I2<>""),--(L2<>""))
The following counts concentration greater than the bench mark and no U qualifier:
=SUM(--(AND(F2>B2,G2<>"U")),--(AND(I2>B2,J2<>"U")),--(AND(L2>B2,M2<>"U")))
The following counts concentrations greater than the bench mark and with a U qualifier:
=SUM(--(AND(F2>B2,G2="U")),--(AND(I2>B2,J2="U")),--(AND(L2>B2,M2="U")))
The above formulas are based on the chemical sitting in row 2. copy down as needed.
Note the -- in the formula above simply change the TRUE or FALSE results to an integer 1 or 0 respectively. This can also be achieved using any math operation that does not change the value such as *1 or +0.
OPTION 2
Counting With SUMPRODUCT
Again this will be on the assumption that if the concentration is empty/blank then no sample was tested for that row/chemical. Since the need is to count instead of looking for a max and min, I am opting to use SUMPRODUCT. Like AGGREGATE, it performs array like operations without actually being an array.
The following counts non blank concentrations:
=SUMPRODUCT(($F$1:$N$1="Conc")*($F2:$N2<>""))
The following counts concentration greater than the bench mark and no U qualifier:
=SUMPRODUCT(($F$1:$N$1="Conc")*($F2:$N2>$B2)*($G$1:$O$1="Q")*($G2:$O2<>"U"))
The following counts concentrations greater than the bench mark and with a U qualifier:
=SUMPRODUCT(($F$1:$N$1="Conc")*($F2:$N2>$B2)*($G$1:$O$1="Q")*($G2:$O2="U"))
The above formulas are based on the chemical sitting in row 2. copy down as needed.
Note the shift in range when checking for header Q and the value U

Test if a column is a superset of predefined set of data

I'm trying to compare teams' compositions to known configurations in order to see where I might have a problem :
The trials columns are to be compare against the differents scenarios to see if a column is a superset of a particular scenario (error being default).
Can it be done using index+match/lookup, or do I have to write some VB macro ?
EDIT : I've updated the question with a worksheet with input data.
Worksheet : https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxwDbXStIEAsUmpONHp1RVRzR2s/edit?usp=sharing
Github Gist : https://gist.github.com/lucasg/11177852 (python script for data gen)
(xlwt module needed to create excel workbooks).
I've simplified the problem using soccer teams : given 7 positions ( 1 goalie, 2 defenders, 2 midfield and 2 forward) and list of presence to certains week-end, I would like to know whether I'm gonna be able to provide a full team or am I to forfeit the match due to lack of key-players.
The positions :
styles = {
"Goalkeeper" : ["Goalkeeper"],
"Defender" : ["Centre back", "Wing"],
"Midfielder" : ["Centre midfield", "Wide"],
"Forward" : ["Centre forward","Winger"]
}
Most football players can play only one position, but some are more versatile and can play any positions in their own field (defense-midfield-attack).
Example of a team (18 pers.):
example_players = {
"Forward": [
[1, "Winger"],
[2, "Winger"],
[3, "Centre forward"],
[4, "Centre forward"]
],
"Defender": [
[5, "Centre back"],
[6, "Centre back", "Wing"],
[7, "Centre back", "Wing"],
[8, "Wing"],
[9, "Centre back"]
],
"Goalkeeper": [
[10, "Goalkeeper"],
[11, "Goalkeeper"]
],
"Midfielder": [
[12, "Centre midfield"],
[13, "Centre midfield"],
[14, "Wide", "Centre midfield"],
[15, "Centre midfield"],
[16, "Centre midfield"],
[17, "Wide", "Centre midfield"],
[18, "Wide", "Centre midfield"]
]
}
To make it more simple, I need at least one person in each zone (goal-def-mid-attack) to be able to play, the most comfortable situation being one person in each of the 7 positions.
ex scenario :
"no_defense_4" : ["Goalkeeper", "Wide", "Winger" ] ,
"no_attack_1" : ["Goalkeeper", "Centre midfield", "Centre back", ] ,
Now, given a list of a hundred weekends, and the list of the presence/abscence of players, I want to know the resulting situation.
I'm looking preferentially for a formula-based solution, since the worksheet will be uploaded and used in google drive
You can represent sets as bit vectors and then use bit operators "equal" or "AND" to test which sets get matched. Using bit vectors as set representation will solve problem of ordering and duplicate values automatically as position of each value in the bit vector is fixed and each bit will be "set" only once, regardless of how many times the value appears in the column that defines the set.
Simple to use bit vector representation in Excel including operators OR, AND, NOT is listed here: http://chandoo.org/wp/2011/07/29/bitwise-operations-in-excel/#comment-207723
For example following function
=POWER(10;0)*MIN(COUNTIF($B$3:$B$12;"T1");1)+POWER(10;1)*MIN(COUNTIF($B$3:$B$12;"T2");1)+POWER(10;2)*MIN(COUNTIF($B$3:$B$12;"S");1)+POWER(10;3)*MIN(COUNTIF($B$3:$B$12;"PL");1)+POWER(10;4)*MIN(COUNTIF($B$3:$B$12;"CC");1)+POWER(10;5)*MIN(COUNTIF($B$3:$B$12;"GC");1)
Converts values in the range $B$3->$B$12 into a bit vector representation having bits 0..5 defined so that the bit is set if the value in any column in the range is equal to:
bit 0 = T1
bit 1 = T2
bit 2 = S
bit 3 = PL
bit 4 = CC
bit 5 = GC
You can add more bits with other values easily by following the same copy/paste pattern.
So to check if certain column matches certain scenario, just compare the bit vectors. Use expression like IF(x=y;"warn2";IF(..)) and substitute bit vector of the column for x and bit vector of the warn2 scenario for y.
If partial matching is needed, you can use the bitwise AND operator as defined in the above article.
This solution as opposed to a VBA-based solution will require some copy/pasting discipline, e.g. when new trial column or new scenario will be added few expressions will have to be copy/pasted and few will have to be updated.
VBA-based solution might solve this maintenance problem automatically for you by using auto-detected CurrentRegions, all necessary logic hidden behind one macro-click.
EDIT: The bit vectors concept applied to the new soccer teams dataset
Worksheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AtZPnBk7a3pvdHcyWDV6ZFFoUTNyWWF0bjl3VFpaRkE&usp=drive_web#gid=0
As it is ambiguous what will be the exact team setup on a given day as one player may be assigned different positions, I have simplified the problem in such a way that instead of "present" or "absent" I expect the table to contain player's position. It should not be a problem to achieve as if you know what positions the player can play then instead of absent,present you can define the set of valid values to be (empty or anything else),Midfielder,Centre midfield,Wide for players 14,17,18. List of valid available values can be configured for each cell using the "Data validation" rules. The abstract role Midfielder stands for "this player can play a midfielder, exact position is not known yet".
To represent positions I use bit vector calculated with this formula
=POWER(10;6)*MIN(COUNTIF(D2:ZZ2;"Goalkeeper");1)+POWER(10;5)*MIN(COUNTIF(D2:ZZ2;"Centre back");1)+POWER(10;4)*MIN(COUNTIF(D2:ZZ2;"Wing");1)+POWER(10;3)*MIN(COUNTIF(D2:ZZ2;"Centre midfield");1)+POWER(10;2)*MIN(COUNTIF(D2:ZZ2;"Wide");1)+POWER(10;1)*MIN(COUNTIF(D2:ZZ2;"Centre forward");1)+POWER(10;0)*MIN(COUNTIF(D2:ZZ2;"Winger");1)
the formula calculates bit vector from a range D2:ZZ2 in such a way so that each position in the range is counted only once and in final vector each position has a fixed place. It is useful to set number format of the vector to custom numeric format 0000000. For example a row containing Wide,Winger,Goalkeeper in any order with any number of repeats will evaluate to vector 1000101 where the left-most bit 6 stands for Goalkeeper and 2nd from the right goes bit 2 standing for Wide. The most comfortable situation is the one with bit vector evaluating to 1111111. The only purpose of this bit vector is to detect the comfortable situation
For matching scenarios to team setups I use another vector composed of 4 digits with this meaning:
leftmost digit 3 - number of goalies (at most 1 counts)
digit 2 - number of defenders (at most 2 counts)
digit 1 - number of midfielders (at most 2 counts)
rightmost digit 0 - number of forwards (at most 2 counts)
The formula to calculate this vector for range D2:ZZ2 looks like this
=POWER(10;3)*MIN(COUNTIF(D2:ZZ2;"Goalkeeper");1)+POWER(10;2)*MIN(COUNTIF(D2:ZZ2;"Defender")+COUNTIF(D2:ZZ2;"Centre back")+COUNTIF(D2:ZZ2;"Wing");2)+POWER(10;1)*MIN(COUNTIF(D2:ZZ2;"Midfielder")+COUNTIF(D2:ZZ2;"Centre midfield")+COUNTIF(D2:ZZ2;"Wide");2)+POWER(10;0)*MIN(COUNTIF(D2:ZZ2;"Forward")+COUNTIF(D2:ZZ2;"Centre forward")+COUNTIF(D2:ZZ2;"Winger");2)
It is useful to set number format of the vector to custom numeric format 0000. This same formula can calculate the 4-digit vector for team setup and for scenario.
Besides position names it can count also abstract position names like Defender.
For example in a row containing Centre back,Centre back,Goalkeeper,Goalkeeper,Goalkeeper,Defender,Defender,Midfielder,Midfielder,Winger the vector looks like 1221.
There are (1+1)*(2+1)*(2+1)*(2+1) = 54 different possible scenarios. I assume each of them is listed in the constraints sheet. You should be able to generate them all in python quite easily.
There are 2 sheets constraints with scenarios and events with days and team setups. The lookup formula that takes the vector calculated for a team setup in row #2 and searches the constraints sheet for a row with exactly the same vector and returns the value from the value column looks like this
=IFERROR(VLOOKUP($A2;constraints!$A:$B;2;FALSE);"?")
$A2 - contains the 4-digit vector formula for the team setup
constraints!$A - column in the sheet with scenarios containing the 4-digit vector formula for the scenario
constraints!$B - column in the sheet with scenarios containing the scenario name - the thing you are looking for
2 - index of column constraints!$B
FALSE - means the lookup column does not have to be sorted
? - fallback value if no matching scenario was found (should not occur)
The Google docs link above contains the formulas, example 3 days and example 11 scenarios.
If there's something unclear let me know and I'll improve the answer as the Google docs link will vanish some day

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