wrveres wrote:I have Access and have never figured it out ...
I even downloaded that huge "baseball database", three or four times actually, but cannot figure out how to use it.

Once you get the hang of it, it's much easier and much more powerful than a spreadsheet. It's definitely worth the effort. If I had to do all the things in Excel that I've done in a database, I'd probably die.
For instance, instead of killing yourself with three-year totals on one spreadsheet, you would have three different tables, each with separate data for each particular year. Then, in one fell swoop (actually, in Access I think it'd have to be two steps, since it's not as powerful as full DBMS'), you could multiply the respective years by the respective numbers, add them up, and voila, you have your three-year calculations. Something like that would probably take five minutes or less in a DB once you know what you're doing. Not to mention, you'd have the ability to sort the new table by rank or filter for certain numbers or even positions or perform any number of complex calculations. Now think how long that would take in Excel. Yeah.
