one important point: all textboxes are stored in the array, regardless or not they have values in them (they are stored as "" for value), so that keeps the order of the textbox. I was hoping to retrieve them with $predminutes2[0], $predminutes2[1], $predminutes2[2] etc, inserting blanks where there are and real values where there are.

That's why I did hoping to get values in order with [$i2]
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OK, I renamed predminutes1 and 2 into gdata1 and gdata2 and here is my new array with playerid. That coorectly shows the last 3 players as scorers with their correct playerid

Not knowing what to replace 'checked' with from the other code, I did a test and placed 'OK'. That did not display

however, while I see the playerid in the string above, this does not display them

foreach ($data1 as $value)
echo $value;