Php sql query

Question

hello
i need to write a query that displays the total sum of the 10 highest values from 15 values in a query.
i.e, i want to select the ten highest values from say 10,10,10,8,7,6,6,6,5,4,3,3,3,2,2
to give me 10,10,10,8,7,6,6,6,5,4 which would then give me a value 72
is there an sql command that would do this?
at the moment, i'm having to do it like thus:
function drawleaguetable()
$pointscore = array();
$sql = "select Name, Points  from Points_Table where Name='Budgie'  order by Points desc, Name asc ";
$result = mysql_query($sql);
print("<table id='leaguedatatab'  border='0' >");
print("<tr><th colspan='2'><h2>League Table</h2></th></tr>");
while ($db_field = mysql_fetch_assoc($result))
   array_push($pointscore, $db_field['Points']);
   print("<tr><td>".$db_field['Name']."</td><td>".$db_field['Points']." pts <br /> </td></tr>");
echo("Top Ten Scores:");
for($i=0; $i<10; $i++)
echo($pointscore[$i].",");
$eosscore = $eosscore+$pointscore[$i];
echo("<br/>Best Of Ten Score: ".$eosscore);
print ("</table><br />");
this sort of does the job for me, but what i want is to display the total sum of all 15 vaules and then also display the total of the top 10 values. i know i would need to use sum(Points) as TotalPoints to do this, but i just can't get that to work in conjunctive with  the sum for the top 10 values......if that makes sense.
sorry, forgot the link. http://www.southmoorac.com/bestten.php
i'm also just picking up one name at the moment. want to get that right first.
Please help, it's near the end of my fishing clubs season, and i need to get this sorted for the web page!!

Answer 1

Is there any way you could write the totals to the DB first, or is it too late for that?  If you had a column that stored a running total it would make it a lot easier to do what you need to do.