count for something, count

Collins Cobuild//

If something or someone counts for something or counts, they are important or valuable.

• Surely it doesn't matter where charities get their money from: what counts is what they do with it.    
•  When I first came to college I realised that brainpower didn't count for much.     
• = matter   

Am. Heritage//

2(a). To have importance: 

• You really count with me.
  

2(b). To have a specified importance or value: 

• Their opinions count for little. 
• Each basket counts for two points.