Formula help, please

[Coach Dodson]

I am pretty good with some of the very basic formulas, but this one is above my head.

This may make no sense at all, but I will give it a shot anyway.

My player performance index is based on statistical criteria including number of minutes played. I can derive the minutes played, but I am struggling to locate a given player's number when she is either in or out of the lineup. If she is in, there is a number representing her playing time in a column corresponding to that row. If not, no number is found in that row. This is my attempt to sum playing time in the quickest possible fashion.

Part two is determining my most effective lineup based on two columns of varying data.

I have a link to a sample of what I am looking for at https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?...QM3pVUmc&hl=en

If anyone can offer some help on either one of these, I would really appreciate it.

Thanks,

Tony

[royUK]

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