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    Hi people !

    My friend and I have created a Wallyball league (volleyball played on a squash court). Every week we have more and more players and making the teams is more and more complicated and time consuming. I created this Excel file to try and generate random teams faster.

    team selection.xlsx

    the file consist of :
    1. Jersey no. and player (A and B)
    2. rating if playing (C)
    3. rating (D)
    4. playing on a given day 0 or 1 (E)
    5. wallyball courts to generate random teams with a team rating and differential rating.


    the only thing it needs is a non-repeating function (as of now, one player can be selected many times)
    also, the players should not be selected if they are not playing on a given day (column E = 0)


    I have to do this WITHOUT using macro (1. I'm not familiar with macros ; 2. I have a free starter version of Excel, I don't think macros are enabled)

    thanks for any help !
    Dimitri
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    Re: random team making from database of player and ratings

    Look at the attached and see if it works for you.

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    Re: random team making from database of player and ratings

    hello Alansidman !!

    thank you so much for taking the time to check this out.

    I tried your file. It works like I asked. But I still tweaked it a little. I took your idea of ranking the random numbers and I simply assigned the ranks (and corresponding players) to the spots on the courts. I didn't see the need for the OFFSET function and with my tweaking, I don't need sorting anymore ! For my personnal knowledge, can you briefly explain why you used the OFFSET function ?

    Also, now I spread the players evenly (or so...) if there are not enough to complete full team (4 per team)

    I will post my final version here so you can see how you inspired me ! thank you !!

    Dimitri

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    Re: random team making from database of player and ratings

    wydim, you have not been so inspired after 4 years
    Can you give any news about your project ?

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    Re: random team making from database of player and ratings

    hello,

    Yes, I have completed this project some weeks after this initial request. My friend who organizes our volleyball games uses it regularly !

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