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Danie Viljoen

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  1. South African cache owners with the highest average number of finds on their caches: (I only considered cache owners with at least 10 caches.) 1. McCuties 11 caches 1875 finds 170.5 finds/cache 2. mr panda 20 caches 3247 finds 162.4 finds/cache 3. j3caching 10 caches 1616 finds 161.6 finds/cache 4. AndyT1 23 caches 3657 finds 159.0 finds/cache 5. MeganZA 10 caches 1571 finds 157.1 finds/cache 6. jonoafrica 40 caches 6151 finds 153.8 finds/cache 7. Littleclan 12 caches 1790 finds 149.2 finds/cache 8. Schmore 24 caches 3417 finds 142.4 finds/cache 9. sy-chispa 38 caches 5271 finds 138.7 finds/cache 10. geko4 24 caches 3327 finds 138.6 finds/cache
  2. It means the year 10 June 2018 to 9 June 2019.
  3. South African cache owners with the most finds on their caches during the past year: 1. Panthera03 2728 2. ChrisDen 2027 3. BoazRuthFields 1945 4. AdieA 1934 5. Adventure_T 1792 6. SpiderFinder 1737 7. WeItZfAmIlY 1705 8. Sokkies73 1593 9. SKATTIE@1 1534 10. NeoNaartjies 1493 These 10 cache owners received 16.7% of all the find logs in South Africa during the past year.
  4. South African cache owners with the most finds on their caches: 1. BoazRuthFields 22764 finds 2. GEO936 20179 finds 3. Leon St 19243 finds 4. die sousies 18291 finds 5. NotBlonde 15625 finds 6. HeinG 14356 finds 7. Louwtjie&Vroutjie 13588 finds 8. SKATTIE@1 13565 finds 9. pannie&medusae 13352 finds 10. Panters 12895 finds Together these 10 cache owners have received 11.6% of all the find logs in South Africa.
  5. Finds per African country: The top caching countries in Africa for the past year: 1. Spain (mainly Canary Islands) 168594 finds 2. South Africa 110563 finds 3. Portugal (Madeira) 66054 finds 4. Réunion 8532 finds 5. Morocco 7129 finds 6. Namibia 6171 finds 7. Egypt 5835 finds 8. Mauritius 3576 finds 9. Seychelles 2901 finds 10. Cabo Verde 2286 finds 11. Tunisia 1649 finds 12. Tanzania 1644 finds 13. Kenya 1085 finds 14. Zimbabwe 1014 finds 15. Botswana 691 finds It is interesting to note that 6 of the top 10 countries are (small) islands. This is probably because of European tourism.
  6. Highest average no. of FPs per cache: Which South African cache owners consistently get the most favourite points? It would be unfair to compare owners who have only one (good) cache with somebody who has hundreds, so I only considered cache owners with at least 10 caches: 1. TeamDJ* 32 caches 541 FPs 16.91 FPs/cache 2. dolos 22 caches 349 FPs 15.86 FPs/cache 3. family Behrens 108 caches 1615 FPs 14.95 FPs/cache 4. XJuls 10 caches 140 FPs 14.00 FPs/cache 5. Urban Campers 11 caches 144 FPs 13.09 FPs/cache 6. Jake&Joshua 10 caches 127 FPs 12.70 FPs/cache 7. mr panda 20 caches 243 FPs 12.15 FPs/cache 8. The Huskies 87 caches 931 FPs 10.70 FPs/cache 9. the pooks 13 caches 135 FPs 10.38 FPs/cache 10. Littleclan 12 caches 124 FPs 10.33 FPs/cache All of these people are stars, but especially family Behrens and The Huskies, who managed to get a top average on such high numbers of caches owned!
  7. Only South African caches. I could do it for African caches, but it is not practical to try to keep up to date with all the logs of the rest of the world.
  8. South African cache owners with the most Favourite Points: 1. family Behrens 1615 2. BoazRuthFields 1238 3. The Huskies 931 4. Geelvink 894 5. iPajero 759 6. N00n3atall 705 7. Antron 679 8. Andredj 669 9. TEAM SCHUTTE 632 10. Evolutionaries 541 TeamDJ* 541
  9. South African caches with the most Favourite Points: 1. GC31WXR Table Mountain Travel Bug Hotel The Huskies 586 FPs 2. GC3WXRQ MEGA SA 2012 -Voortrekker "Uitspan" dolos 179 FPs 3. GC1ABZK Table Mountain - Cape Town spuzva 158 FPs 4. GC2D9WC SS: Lusitania paddawan, BoazRuthFields 138 FPs 5. GC2CG7X Hiddingh Security TB Hotel Mr Panda 124 FPs 6. GCVDHN Sailors' Star vespax 118 FPs 7. GCMYYZ Table Top Trove Richter Family 112 FPs 8. GC5BWV4 UP PERISCOPE family Behrens 109 FPs 9. GC5Y00Q Tardis family Behrens 107 FPs 10. GC1H9WR 2 Oceans Littleclan 106 FPs 11. GC185 Sentinel View Prof Charles Merry 96 FPs GC2X329 Stellenbosch TB Hotel Hesamati, BoazRuthFields 96 FPs 13. GC23KTY Good Hope MnCo 94 FPs 14. GC51P0R Muzzle loading Gun family Behrens 91 FPs 15. GC77E Cape Agulhas Peter Scholtz 90 FPs 16. GC6JCHV V&A Waterfront: Bay Vista SawaSawa & krazikatz 89 FPs 17. GC548HP Intersect 2.0 family Behrens 85 FPs 18. GC6ZB58 SAS Somerset krazikatz 80 FPs 19. GC37VF3 Tip of Africa Zephyr2 78 FPs 20. GC19QVQ Three Rondavels CrystalFairy 77 FPs
  10. This is exciting news. Glad to have you back!
  11. Most found South African caches: The following caches were found most often during the past year: 1. GCMYYZ Table Top Trove 205 finds 2. GC7B84E Cape Town / Table Mountain Virtual Reward 182 finds 3. GC7DAJM 2018 Jolly Jozi Jol 177 finds 4. GC7B71M Cape Light 168 finds 5. GC78HNP Suspension Bridge 166 finds 6. GC707WR Nobel Square 2.5 157 finds 7. GC6JCHV V&A Waterfront: Bay Vista 150 finds 8. GC31WXR Table Mountain Travel Bug Hotel 149 finds 9. GC37VF3 Tip of Africa 144 finds GC7B8X0 Into 7th Heaven 144 finds
  12. Most South African finds for the year ending 31 March 2019: 1. iPajero 1708 finds 2. pieterix 1413 finds 3. LL_cool_J 1149 finds 4. Strong_Boy 1107 finds 5. tjoklits 1095 finds 6. Andredj 960 finds 7. D_illigaf 909 finds 8. The Huskies 906 finds 9. Team GBS 819 finds 10. Geocaching Genie 796 finds
  13. This should at least trigger Owner maintenance logs. The green graph, however, does not confirm this theory. Or did you mean maintenance by non-owners?
  14. Archiving as a result of maintenance logs? I was curious to know what effect, if any, the number of maintenance logs has on the probability that a cache will be archived. Let's first look at the distribution of maintenance logs of all the archived caches: An almost perfect logarithmic graph, which shows that the number of maintenance logs is not an important contributor. (Most of the archived caches have no maintenance logs.) What about the rate of maintenance logs? This graph shows the distribution of the average rates for archived South African caches that lasted at least one month. I found this one very interesting and unexpected. What it tells us is that a cache is most likely to be archived if it receives Needs maintenance logs at a rate of one every 2.5 to 3.5 months (bars 4 - 6). It surprised me to see that cache owners are actually more willing to handle higher rates. (Because I am working with the average rate here, this graph does not directly take the age of the caches into account. The third bar, for example, would contain caches with 1 maintenance log and age 2 months, as well as caches with 2 logs and age 4 months.)
  15. There are two type of maintenance logs: Needs maintenance and Owner maintenance. I'll show both: Both of these are for all South African caches (archived as well as active caches). I found this interesting - it appears as if caches slowly accumulate maintenance logs up to about 8 years. Those that last longer tend to have fewer maintenance logs. I assume it has to do with excellent location and quality construction from the start. The South African caches with the most owner maintenance logs: 1. GC2EX44 Curse of the FTF # 3 - Gauteng 20 2. GC15KYQ Sterkfontein View 17 3. GC4H10K GOS: Whale Crier 16 GC2GG2C Nobel Square 16 5. GC3WXRQ MEGA SA 2012 -Voortrekker "Uitspan" 15 GC2YZ1B BPS#2 All Aboard 15 GC1NJ8W On the rocks 15 GC1N8C0 Willis Walk - Like A Penguin? 15 9. GC4Y92P Plot 238 14 GC1X40C Warthog Walk 14 GC10V29 Caledon's Steam Tractor 14
  16. 2018 Statistics, part 22: Number of Event attendees The first graph shows the total number of event attendees for each year. (All types of events): Next we have the average number of attendees per event for each year: The number is definitely coming down; we are currently at half of the peak in 2012. Maybe we have too many events? The last graph shows what percentage of all the finds for each year was logged on events: It confirms the trend we saw in part 20 - not only are there more events now, but it gets a bigger fraction of the logs as well. Unless there are specific requests relating to yearly statistics, this concludes this series.
  17. At this stage I have no theory why events have become so popular. I plan to look at the number of event attendees in a follow-up post; this should show if they really are more popular.
  18. 2018 Statistics, part 21: New vs. archived caches All of the following is for South Africa: The first graph shows the number of new caches (green) and the number of caches archived (brown) during each year: (I excluded all event types, because they are supposed to be archived after a short period.) The next graph shows what percentage of the new caches is cancelled out by caches getting archived. Once again I excluded events. When this upwards trending graph reaches 100%, it will mean that there will not be any net growth during that year. The last graph is a different way to look at the previous one - it shows the net growth in cache numbers each year (excluding events). Peak growth was in 2013; we are currently sitting at about half the rate of 2013. If the trend of the last 5 years persists, we may reach the point where the actual number of findable caches shrinks, as early as next year (2020).
  19. 2018 Statistics, part 20: Number of Events The one type of cache that keeps on growing in popularity is events. The first graph shows the number of events (of all types) in South Africa over the years: The next graph shows the percentage of all new caches that were events:
  20. 2018 Statistics, part 19: Most new caches placed 1990 new caches were placed by 292 owners in South Africa during 2018. The 10 most active cache owners were: 1. Panthera03 116 caches 2. NeoNaartjies 84 caches 3. WeItZfAmIlY 80 caches 4. QwikChek 77 caches 5. Adventure_T 67 caches 6. ChrisDen 60 caches 7. Spesbona 59 caches 8. Panters 49 caches 9. Wh00 44 caches 10. PieterM 36 caches These 10 were responsible for 33.8% of all the new caches last year. Half of all the new caches were placed by the top 22 (7.5% of the total number of owners). 80% of the new caches were placed by the top 77 (26.4%). 91.3% of the new caches were placed by the top half.
  21. 2018 Statistics, part 18: Cache owners distribution 50% of all the South African finds in 2018 were on the top 67 cache owners (4.4% of the total owners) 80% were on the top 244 (16.0% of the total) 90% were on the top 440 (28.8% of the total)
  22. Thanks for the input - it helps with the difficult task to keep coming up with new stuff! I still have a few 2018 statistics which I would like to get to first (before 2020 ?) and then I'll get to your requests.
  23. 2018 Statistics, part 17: Cache owners During 2018 there were a total of 1526 South African cache owners who received at least one find log. The top 10 were: 1. Adventure_T 2570 2. Panthera03 2119 3. AdieA 2062 4. ChrisDen 2020 5. BoazRuthFields 1905 6. SpiderFinder 1830 7. SKATTIE@1 1814 8. Sokkies73 1754 9. NeoNaartjies 1605 10. Andredj 1547
  24. 2018 Statistics, part 16a: New cachers per province I have been requested to break down the numbers of new cachers further:
  25. I have a theory that might explain part of this: If a number of cachers only cache at a specific time of the year (for example during a yearly holiday), then this sort of phenomenon will show up in the numbers. (Although I described it as career length yesterday, it is important to realize that the numbers include all currently active cachers as well. So not all of them have actually stopped.) A fixed yearly caching spree is the only mechanism I can think of that will force a cacher's first and last finds to be at discrete intervals. I still can't explain why it is not 365 days. Maybe it is just noise in the data (although the peaks appear to be quite clear).
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