Travel Bug / Finds Ratio

September 10, 2005

I have wondered whether other players or other areas have a higher ratio / regular cache finds than me (only regular+multicache count).

My ratio: 13 / 136 = 9.5%

State, Country: Madrid, Spain

What's yours? Where? If you do not have more than 50 finds the ratio might distort the statistics so please do not include yours.

I can not start a poll so if any of you are able and interested in this, please consider this topic as yours and please initiate a poll.

Edited September 10, 2005 by Ratone

September 11, 2005

My ratio: 13 / 136 = 9.5%
State, Country: Madrid, Spain

My ratio: 1270 / 2052 = 61.9%

State, Country: Massachusetts, USA

There are others in the area with HIGHER ratios than mine.

-WR

September 11, 2005

41/375 10.9%

Cincinnati, OH

September 11, 2005

75%. (3 TBs, 4 caches found).

September 11, 2005

Thanks for your replies. My guess is that the average will be around 25%. Does it make sense?

Come on and post your ratio!

September 11, 2005

158/775 = 20%

Waldorf, Maryland

September 11, 2005

I have wondered whether other players or other areas have a higher ratio / regular cache finds than me (only regular+multicache count).

My ratio: 13 / 136 = 9.5%

State, Country: Madrid, Spain........

My ratio: 6 / 93 = 6.45%

State, Country: Panama City, FL........

(Edited to correct speelin is you's?)

Edited September 11, 2005 by Jester2112

September 11, 2005

Yes, edited for that. Why?

3.3k · September 11, 2005

80 TBs 671 finds = 12%

9.8k · September 11, 2005

435 (had to add in the coins and jeeps since they're TBs too)/1789 or 24.31%

September 11, 2005

Thanks Atlanta. Would it be possible to know your ratio with only standard TBs? Geocoins and Jeeps are hard to find outside USA so in order to compare apples with apples...

2.4k · September 11, 2005

My guess is that the average will be around 25%. Does it make sense?

That's just what ours is, if you count only regular travel bugs: 92/358 = 25.7%.

(If you include coins and Jeeps, it's 108/358 = 30.2%.)

State, Country: Massachusetts, USA

2.1k · September 11, 2005

Travel bug traders haven't checked in here yet. There are many geocachers that have up to 4 times as many tb finds as cache finds. And that is yet another spontaneous variation of this game.

Edited September 11, 2005 by Team Sagefox

2.6k · September 11, 2005

Ummm...36/199 = 18%. I really like TB's, but I like to be fussy about them. Usually, at a minimum post a picture and move it quickly, if not help it along more substantially. That cuts down on the number I'm able to pick up.

Oops! Edited to add: Providence, Rhode Island, USA

Edited September 11, 2005 by AuntieWeasel

9.8k · September 11, 2005

Thanks Atlanta. Would it be possible to know your ratio with only standard TBs? Geocoins and Jeeps are hard to find outside USA so in order to compare apples with apples...

336/1789 or 18.78

But coins and jeeps ARE TBs

1.4k · September 12, 2005

11 regular TBs, 151 regular/multi-caches = 7.3%

In my first year of caching (2004), I didn't see many travel bugs at first. They seemed to become more common in my area later in 2004.

Location: Barrie, Ontario, CANADA.

1k · September 12, 2005

25 / 65 = 38.5%

Newport, Rhode Island, USA

18.9k · September 12, 2005

72 bugs - 233 finds

30.9%

September 13, 2005

546 TBs / 1190 caches = 45.9%

Massachusetts, USA

Edited September 13, 2005 by Trail Buzzards

1.1k · September 13, 2005

101/769 = 13%

2.1k · September 13, 2005

Oh... forgot to answer the question. 8.136% ratio. For a year though I have been passing up tb's. Now they are kind of fun again.

Oh... still not paying attention. 105 tb's/1093 container caches = 9.6%

Oh... no jeeps, coins or that cool moun10bike coin in our collection = 9.05%

Edited September 13, 2005 by Team Sagefox

1.6k · September 13, 2005

34 tags/360 caches=9.4% Very near seattle, WA.

Edited September 13, 2005 by Anonymous'

September 13, 2005

My stats:

Travel Bugs Only / Traditional and Multi Caches Only

31 / 352 = 8.8%

However, I don’t really know why other actual “box-type” caches with logbooks don’t count (in my case mainly Unknown Caches, which often have Travel Bugs, and to exclude them makes this whole study pointless depending on what is popular in your area). So, I’m including those as well now:

Travel Bugs Only / Traditional, Multis, Unknown, Project APE and Letterbox Hybrids

31 / 424 = 7.3% (it's 31 / 420 = 7.4% without the APE or Letterboxes).

Most of my T.B. trading occurs in Unknown Puzzle caches, so it seems odd to exclude them from the count. Of course, I didn’t include Events, Locationless or Virtuals.

Seattle, WA

On a side note, I do know one local cacher whose ratio is 292.5% of Bugs found to Traditionals and Multis. At least you know that he’ll move them around!

Edited to add: "Oh, I thought this was the Travel Bug thread!"

Edited September 13, 2005 by fauxSteve

2.1k · September 13, 2005

However, I don’t really know why other actual “box-type” caches with logbooks don’t count (in my case mainly Unknown Caches, which often have Travel Bugs, and to exclude them makes this whole study pointless depending on what is popular in your area). So, I’m including those as well now:

I don't think anyone is excluding those caches in these counts. I believe OP meant to include all container caches.

September 13, 2005

31 TB - 77 Cache

40.3%

Scarborough (Toronto), Ontario, Canada

September 13, 2005

0/239 = 0% I have no use for travel bugs. But if others are into them, thats fine with me. State/Country - Wisconsin/USA

September 13, 2005

It was not my intention to exclude anything, I was starting a pseudo-poll and had to set up a common measurement formula, any variation of the formula is as valid as this one as long everybody uses the same one.

By the way I have noticed that average is below-around 15%.

September 13, 2005

65/616 = 10.5% (no jeeps or coins included)

74/616 = 12% (jeeps and coins counted)

but I know I got some of those bugs at events (can't remember how many) and I haven't included the events in the cache total so that throws off that number ---- :lol:

OH well

Edited September 13, 2005 by NevaP

September 14, 2005

Yup, that WaldenRun likes bugs. I used to, but have tapered off with the advent of event grinding.

About 950 bugs and at least 6000 is 16%.

September 14, 2005

it amazes how people like to "pad" their stats.

I pulled up a few of the cachers that had alot of TB finds. Many were logged in and and out of events - basically they are just handling the tb and some events just hand out a list of tb with the numbers to log. how childish.

1.8k · September 14, 2005

8 / 2534 = a whopping 0.003157%. Yee-haw.

And Puckhoundz, you only make yourself sound childish by calling others that.

September 14, 2005

TB (39) to Finds (171) = 23%

TB's/Coins/Jeeps (51) to Finds (171) = 29%

1.2k · September 14, 2005

All bugs 377/1151 = 32.7%

Just TBs 265/1151 = 23%

Rochester/Endwell, NY

10.1k · September 15, 2005

TBs/All caches Logged:

124/569 = 21.2%

Dover, New Jersey

Includes locationless, virtual and micros (I do seem to be finding an awful lot of micros! Makes it hard to drop off bugs...)

September 23, 2005

2094 bugs-jeeps-coins

to 2212 Caches for 94.7 %

There are others that have ratios over 100% collecting the bugs more than the caches as :

MaxB on the River

Feathers

Wagonwheel

NBJPoppa

Team Min Dawg

To name a few.

September 24, 2005

I'm at almost exactly 10%.

6.5k · September 24, 2005

so ratio is for (standard dogtag TBs)/(single stage trad caches) ??

92/281=32.7%

forgot to add: Iowa, USA

Edited September 24, 2005 by welch

2k · September 24, 2005

65/482=13%

I used to revisit nearby caches to get TBs, but I now just pick them up when I find them in a new cache.

September 24, 2005

30/188 finds=about 16%

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