Skip to main content
cancel
Showing results for 
Search instead for 
Did you mean: 

The Power BI Data Visualization World Championships is back! Get ahead of the game and start preparing now! Learn more

Reply
elle-queue
Frequent Visitor

DAX expression to count value and return the label

Hi all - I'm trying to create a DAX forumla that will return a data label (or value or category, not sure what to call it) based on the raw data below:

 

Winner
Andy
Brenda
Craig
Denise
Andy
Brenda
Craig
Craig
Denise
Denise
Denise
Andy
Andy
Andy
Andy
Andy

 

The summary data is: 

 

Winner Won
Andy7
Brenda2
Craig3
Denise4
TOTAL16

 

We can see from the above table, that the "category" that won the most is Andy.  I'm trying to create two DAX expressions that will count the total won by each category, and then return the name of that category, and the value of the category.  So the results of each DAX expression would be: Andy and 7.

 

Is this possible?  I hope I've explained this well enough.  Thank you!

1 ACCEPTED SOLUTION
Anonymous
Not applicable

 

1. DAX Expression to Return the Name of the Winner with the Most Wins

 

 
MostWinsWinner = 
CALCULATE(
VALUES('Table'[Winner]),
TOPN(
1,
SUMMARIZE(
'Table',
'Table'[Winner],
"Wins", COUNT('Table'[Winner])
),
[Wins],
DESC
)
)

 

2. DAX Expression to Return the Count of the Most Wins

 

 
MostWinsCount = 
CALCULATE(
MAXX(
SUMMARIZE(
'Table',
'Table'[Winner],
"Wins", COUNT('Table'[Winner])
),
[Wins]
)
)

 

View solution in original post

5 REPLIES 5
Anonymous
Not applicable

 

1. DAX Expression to Return the Name of the Winner with the Most Wins

 

 
MostWinsWinner = 
CALCULATE(
VALUES('Table'[Winner]),
TOPN(
1,
SUMMARIZE(
'Table',
'Table'[Winner],
"Wins", COUNT('Table'[Winner])
),
[Wins],
DESC
)
)

 

2. DAX Expression to Return the Count of the Most Wins

 

 
MostWinsCount = 
CALCULATE(
MAXX(
SUMMARIZE(
'Table',
'Table'[Winner],
"Wins", COUNT('Table'[Winner])
),
[Wins]
)
)

 

Thank you so much - you've saved me so much time 😁

Anonymous
Not applicable

No worry's I had a problem for myself and i know how Power BI is

OH wow, thank you so much!  It was hard to look up the response myself because I didn't even know what search terms to use!  But this is perfect, thank you so much!

Anonymous
Not applicable

1. DAX Expression to Return the Name of the Winner with the Most WinsMostWinsWinner = CALCULATE( VALUES('Table'[Winner]), TOPN( 1, SUMMARIZE( 'Table', 'Table'[Winner], "Wins", COUNT('Table'[Winner]) ), [Wins], DESC ) ) 

2. DAX Expression to Return the Count of the Most Wins

 
MostWinsCount = 
CALCULATE(
MAXX(
SUMMARIZE(
'Table',
'Table'[Winner],
"Wins", COUNT('Table'[Winner])
),
[Wins]
)
)

 

 

 

Helpful resources

Announcements
Power BI DataViz World Championships

Power BI Dataviz World Championships

The Power BI Data Visualization World Championships is back! Get ahead of the game and start preparing now!

December 2025 Power BI Update Carousel

Power BI Monthly Update - December 2025

Check out the December 2025 Power BI Holiday Recap!

FabCon Atlanta 2026 carousel

FabCon Atlanta 2026

Join us at FabCon Atlanta, March 16-20, for the ultimate Fabric, Power BI, AI and SQL community-led event. Save $200 with code FABCOMM.