I have some code that runs a sports league table standings simulation, using a “for” loop in R. For each iteration of the loop, a table of standings (i.e. a dataframe) df is produced like this:

       Team       Points 
1   Arsenal         12     
2   Chelsea         11     
3   Liverpool       9    
4   Newcastle       9     
5   Man U           7     
6   Fulham          6  

Suppose I run n simulations (i.e. something like for(i in 1:n) {...} I would like to count the number of times a certain team finishes in top 3 position. For instance I want to count Chelsea. How can I add this feature? Obviously I need to add a counter that starts at 0 and increments by 1 every time Chelsea is in top 3 of the table for that respective loop iteration. But how?