Minecraft – How to make a score be recorded as team

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So I am trying to make a Lives counter for two separate teams. My original idea was to set up a dummy score titled Team Lives:

/scoreboard objectives add lives dummy Team Lives

The display is perfect except the dummy names TeamBlue and TeamRed don't show the color of the team they are added to even when I added the color option to team red and blue to red and blue respectively.
My main problem is that I do not know how to make the Lives counter decrease upon a single teammates death. I tried setting up a death counter and adding a repeating command block with the command

scoreboard players operation @a[team=blue] deaths > @a[team=blue] deaths

but that gives an Invalid Argument deaths <- [HERE] which doesn't make sense since that command works in the chat bar. Then I needed a command which will remove a point when someone on one team has a score of one to remove one life. I was thinking of setting up a repeating command block with the command

execute if score deaths @[team=TeamBlue] = (some entity with one death) deaths run scoreboard players TeamBlue remove Lives 1

but that requires 20 command blocks, so if anyone knows how to compress it, I will gladly accept it. My main issue is the fact that the scoreboard operation command is not working in the command block

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From my comment:
You need a regular "detect player death" system and the thing you run from it is the decrease of the "Lives" score. You don't even need to sum up all player deaths in a central score.

execute as @a[team=TeamBlue,scores={deaths=1}] run scoreboard players remove dummyEntity Lives 1
scoreboard players reset @a[team=TeamBlue] deaths

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In order to increment by 1 anytime a player dies, the objective must be type deathCount. Something like this would work:

/scoreboard objectives add deaths deathCount Deaths

If you're making dummy objectives, you're using a similar command except with "dummy" in place of "deathCount." A dummy objective can only be changed with the following commands:

/scoreboard players add (player) (objective) (value)

/scoreboard players remove (player) (objective) (value), and

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Currently, your command setup has a few problems. You've got two different scoreboard scores for the two teams, displaying those scores in different locations, and adding a point to all players (by using just @a without specifying which players you actually want).

The simple solution is to use a team selector in your point-increment system.

/scoreboard players add @a[team=TeamName] PointsName 1

Boom. Your system, as you have it designed right now, will work. This will select all of the players on TeamName and give them a point in their designated scoreboard.

However, from a design standpoint, there's a much better way to do this by using fake players. To start, set up just one scoreboard and put it in the sidebar:

/scoreboard objectives add points dummy Points
/scoreboard objectives setdisplay sidebar points

Now, the /scoreboard players command doesn't actually require you to specify a player that is online. In fact, that player doesn't even need to exist. But it will happily keep a score for them. So, whenever you want to increment the team score, you can just do this:

/scoreboard players add Team points 1

What this will give you is a scoreboard that keeps track of team points in one entry, in one scoreboard. That way, players can compare, at a glance, what the score is, without needing to rely on the tab menu.

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