FIFA world cup 2018 is around the corner. I love soccer, I love Excel, Let’s marry them. Here is an awesome, free FIFA world cup Excel Tracker to help you follow this year’s games in Russia.
Click here to download the FIFA world cup 2018 tracker.
What you can do with this FIFA world cup Tracker Excel?
You can use this tracker to,
- View schedules in your local time for group and knockout stages
- View summary and detailed points table
- Refresh live points table. When you refresh, the tracker show updated points based on latest results (You need Excel 2016, Office 365 or older versions of Excel with Power Query)
- View knockout stage matches as a bracket
- See timeline of the matches
- NEW – Results of the matches
- Coming soon – All the goals (will be available before semi-finals)
How to use the world cup 2018 tracker?
Start page – set up the tracker
When you open the workbook, use “Home” page to set up your local timezone and favorite teams.
Group Stage – Schedule & summary points table
The group stage view shows all teams. It highlights your team(s) in different color to see when their games will be on.
On this page, you can also see group-wise points table. This is a live table. So as the matches happen, just press CTRL+ALT+F5 to update this table. The data comes from Wikipedia FIFA 2018 page thru Power Query. So you need Excel 2016 / Excel 365 or an older version of Excel with Power Query to get the refresh work.
Bracket View – Knockout Schedule
The knockout stage shows last 16, quarter-final, semi final and final matches in bracket view. This page is not dynamic. So as group stage finishes, go ahead and list the team names in the gray cells.
Timeline View
This shows all matches in a Gantt chart like view. From this you can track all your favorite team matches. It will also highlight current date so you know which matches are coming up next.
Results View
This view shows all match results to date. This is a live table. Just press CTRL+ALT+F5 to refresh it and get new data. All the data for this comes from the excellent open football github project.
Download FREE FIFA world cup tracker
Click here to download the FIFA world cup 2018 tracker.
Errors or Problems with this template?
- Error: Points table looks funny, incorrect
- What to do:
- If you know Power Query:
Go to Points Table. From Query ribbon, edit query.
Backtrack the query to see at what step things have gone south.
Try fixing it.
Usually, this is because the wikipedia points page has been changed by someone - If you don’t know or care for Power Query
Try downloading the latest version.
As the games progress, I will test this and upload new version whenever I see serious issues.
- If you know Power Query:
- Error: Can’t see times or values in cells, All I see is #####
- What to do:
- This happens when the column is too narrow for the content
Turn on Headings from View ribbon
Adjust column width
- This happens when the column is too narrow for the content
- Error: Can’t refresh the points table
- What to do:
- You need Power Query for Excel & internet connection to refresh.
If you said no for either, try fixing the problem or manually enter points in the table. - Sometimes if the wikipedia page is in the middle of editing process, you might get funny results. Wait a few minutes (until the match is over) and refresh.
- You need Power Query for Excel & internet connection to refresh.
- Error: Something else
- What to do:
- Try downloading the latest version.
As the games progress, I will test this and upload new version whenever I see serious issues.
- Try downloading the latest version.
Which teams are you rooting for?
As usual, I am cheering for Germany and Brazil. I will also watch out how Denmark & Sweden (my former homes) are going to play.
What about you?
15 Responses to “Christmas Gift List – Set your budget and track gifts using Excel”
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I'm confused: if you spend $10, and your budget is $40, shouldn't the amount in the "Within Budget?" column stay black, since you didn't go over budget?
In other words, since we overspent on the electronic photo frame, shouldn't the $8 cell turn red?
@JP.. maybe Steven is encouraging consumerism... ?
I havent realized it earlier, but now I see it. If you unprotect the sheet, you can change the formula in Column I to =IF(G13=0;" ";F13-G13) from =IF(G13=0;" ";G13-F13), that should correct the behavior.
Thanks Chandoo. I thought of making a shopping list spreadsheet for Christmas, but this is neat so I think I'll use this instead.
Chandoo & Steven thanks for this spreadsheet. But for the sake of a person who has been staring at this megaformula in vain for the last 40 mins and not afraid to ask, would it be possible for you to walk us through the logic used here?
=SUM(SUMPRODUCT(SUBTOTAL(3,OFFSET($K$13:$K$62,ROW($K$13:$K$62)-MIN(ROW($K$13:$K$62)),0,1)),--($K$13:$K$62="-"))+SUMPRODUCT(SUBTOTAL(3,OFFSET($K$13:$K$62,ROW($K$13:$K$62)-MIN(ROW($K$13:$K$62)),0,1)),--($K$13:$K$62="0")))&" / "&SUBTOTAL(2,$G$13:$G$62)
Thanks Chandoo.. This is one of the best budget spreadsheets I've ever seen.. The Arrays are out of this world!! And it's FREE!!
Chandoo, can you tell us more about Steven? Does he have his own site?
JP, I think Chandoo changed it when he changed the currency formatting from £ to $, a negative figure is a good thing in this case. But don't change the formulas, the overbudget and under budget won't work properly if you do. Also Chandoo I think you've accidentally broke the conditional formatting for the alternating row colouring the formula is different to the version I sent you. As for the megaformula chrisham, it gave me a headache trying to get it all working, so I will let Chandoo talk you through it.
Hi,
In cells I6 and I7, I understand that subtotal together with offset function returns an array of ones after which, the sumproduct function gives the desired result.
But I’m not able to figure out the reason for using an array in I8 to return the most expensive gift.
Can’t the formula be just
“=VLOOKUP(SUBTOTAL(4,$G$13:$G$62),$G$13:$J$62,4,0)”
Savithri, Cell I8 needs the array, if the formula was “=VLOOKUP(SUBTOTAL(4,$G$13:$G$62),$G$13:$J$62,4,0)” it would find the highest price from the filtered range (i.e. highest actual in filtered range is $50) BUT then return the first person with that actual, not looking in just the filtered range (so first person on the list with a $50 actual.)
To see what I mean, change the formula, then change all the actuals to $50 then filter for baby, it lists the first name on the list.
But a good question 🙂
Thank you. I now realise that the array is used to get the ‘filtered range’ instead of the entire range, as table array for look up value.
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this looks like an awesome excel sheet!! is there anyway i can get it emailed to me unprotected? for some reason, i am unable to download it 🙁 help!!
Hi I also can not download to a mac as the sheet is protected any help would be great
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