Course Information
Registration period
Year-round Recruitment
Course Level
Study Mode
Duration
3 Hour(s) 15 Minute(s)
Language
English
Taught by
Alan Murray
Rating
Course Overview
Learn how to set up spreadsheets to calculate league table rankings and other sports competitions in Excel.
This course shows you how to create spreadsheets for sports tournaments and league tables. Use the power of Excel to automatically calculate cup draws and league table rankings.
Whether your league table rankings are determined by goal difference, goals scored, number of away wins or something else. You will learn how you can use this criteria to automatically determine a team or players league position.
Spreadsheets are available for download along the way for practice, or to use as a template to adapt to your needs.
The course is broken down into three sections.
Creating League Tables
Learn how to automatically calculate league table rankings when results are entered onto a spreadsheet. We look at adapting the league table to apply different ranking criterion. A football/soccer and a rugby union example are used for demonstration.
Create Cup Tournaments
Learn to create cup tournaments in Excel including random cup draws and calculating match results to automatically move a player or team to the next rounds draw. A snooker and a tennis example are used for demonstration.
Cricket World Twenty20 Tournament
A section is dedicated to learning how to calculate cricket statistics and match results due to the unique nature of the sport. The World Twenty20 tournament is used to demonstrate how to calculate match results and statistics like net run rate, bowling strike rate and total balls bowled.
Let's Do It
Although the course cannot possibly cover all sports examples, the techniques learned can be adapted for any sports competition. Let's get started.
Course Content
- 6 section(s)
- 31 lecture(s)
- Section 1 Introduction
- Section 2 Primer on Key Skills for the Course
- Section 3 Create a Sports League Table (Football/Soccer Example)
- Section 4 Create a Sports Knockout Tournament (Snooker Championships Example)
- Section 5 Create a Cricket Tournament Spreadsheet (World Twenty20 Example)
- Section 6 Further Learning
What You’ll Learn
- To automatically calculate sports league table ranking using different ranking criteria
- To calculate random draws for a knockout cup competition
- To calculate statistics for a cricket tournament such as Net Run Rate, total overs or balls bowled and bowling strike rate.
Skills covered in this course
Reviews
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RRafael Martins de Oliveira
This course was important in terms of how sport rankings and data can be calculated in Excel, and Alan made it engaging.
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MMakan
At first i was confused with using the ranges of names in Excel but after a while my table league was finished. My Ranking system was on Points and Goal Differences and Goals For and Goals Against. Alan explained League table very good. Thank you for very good league table course.
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RRaydon Johann Sparks
For me it is a very good course.I posting scores online before it is announced officially and this models are very helpfull.
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ZZeeshan Zakir
Although I am a Mechanical Engineer, I am just a beginner in Excel. I am currently pursuing my master's in Sports Management and hence, I would very much like to hone this skill and learn how to make spreadsheets concerning my work.
