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Re: A New Way to Scout

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Originally Posted by AdamHeard View Post
We run a VERY large gdocs based scouting system, that is doing a lot more than just averaging (such that when data is entered, a lot recalculates).

Even with this, it runs. I suggest you look into what runs fast/slow on gdoc, and thoroughly understand the process it uses when to update cells. Short answer is anytime cell A changes, every cell that references it upates, and that cycle repeats.

Don't use vlookups. At all. Even once. Just don't do it. Use index(match()) instead. Google it for good tutorials, this doesn't load the range per each cell called. Importrange/sortrange can also be used where vlookup would be used by some people with better results. More or less, don't use vlookup and don't use cell by cell calls to pass entire ranges if you can help it.

If you want me to take a look at your system and offer more specific advice I can. I'm not saying this to criticize you guys, but I'm 100% sure the issue here is implementation, not google docs.
Sounds kind of like our old system.

That is probably it. We have a TON of vlookups, and that probably messed everything up. After finding the vlookups, we never tried to look for a more efficient method.
(Although I still am worried about losing the online data, after it consistently happened to us)


A few months ago, I would have loved for you to take a look at the system, but I invested quite literally my entire summer creating our own proprietary system, that somehow works.

Thank you for the offer!
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