Archives - what's gawn is gawn

[+kewfriend]

With just over 300 caches done and 50 of these ( excluding my own ) archived, I've worked out that since 2004, 17% of the geocaches I've attempted have been consigned to the great cache in the sky. That seems to be roughly an attrition rate of 5% pa - which seems surprisngly good.

 

Is this normal, or am I sub-normal?

 

What are your stats on this?

[+walkergeoff and wife]

31 archived (excluding events that are archived as a matter of course) out of 432 found = 7%, or about 3.5% per annum.

Edited October 11, 2006 by walkergeoff

[+Kitty Hawk]

crumbs - 327 found, 64 archived.

 

There were 2 events and 11 locationless, but that is still 51 gone since 7/3/04.

[+milvus-milvus]

With just over 300 caches done and 50 of these ( excluding my own ) archived, I've worked out that since 2004, 17% of the geocaches I've attempted have been consigned to the great cache in the sky. That seems to be roughly an attrition rate of 5% pa - which seems surprisngly good.

 

Is this normal, or am I sub-normal?

 

What are your stats on this?

Very similar numbers all round - joined a week or so before you, found just under 300, about 47 of which are now archived, even about the same number of forum posts! We're both normal, I think...

[+rutson]

From the stats on my profile:

 

Caches found which are now archived: 216 (18.2 %)

 

That seems a lot! Will check later :$

[+Silver-Fox]

347 caches done and 37 of these now archived,

[+The Golem]

306 found of which 5 (excluding events) have been archived.

[+CrazyL200]

34 archived (only 1 event) out of 639 in less than a year = 5%

[Nediam]

1068 Found - 106 Archived = 9.93%

 

Not too bad, especially as some of those that were archived have been moved to alternative locations

[+Pharisee]

Think I'd better change my caching name to 'Jonah'

 

1308 found of which a staggering 303 (not counting events) have since been archived. That's just over 23%

 

In mitigation, yer 'onour, I've been caching since 2002 and a lot of those archived are caches that I found a long (in caching terms) time ago.

 

[EDIT]... If I also ignore 'Locationless' caches, that drops to 267 or just over 20% which is a little more reasonable, I suppose.

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Edited October 11, 2006 by Pharisee

[+t.a.folk]

Since Oct 04

 

Found 462 , archived 80

We think that =17.3 %

 

Haven't included our locationless finds .

Some other catergories have faired better than others

 

traditionals 293 archived 60

multis 124 archived 14

virts 23 archived 3

hybrids 3 archived 2

puzzles 19 archived 1

Edited October 11, 2006 by t.a.folk

[+Pieman]

56 archived (excluding events) out of 548 finds or 10.2% in about 2 and a half years- not too bad.

[+Chris n Maria]

Found 594 archived 174 that's 29%

 

In our defence: we have met Pharisee a couple of times so maybe his luck has rubbed of

[+Pengy&Tigger]

392 of our finds are now archived out of 2165 (18%)

[+Jaz666]

27/415 6.5%

[+The Bolas Heathens]

48/1163 4.1%

[+The Wombles]

Unfortunately our numbers are even worse than Chris and Maria, and Pharisee. Of our 498 finds, 168 have been archived = 34%. Even if locationless and event caches are removed, we're still left with 27% loss.

 

In our defence, we were one of the most active early caching teams. We hit the first UK 100 found in our first 7 months from September 2001, and then slowed down (it's not about the numbers) so the average age of our "found" caches is older than anyone else.

[+Pieman]

56 archived (excluding events) out of 548 finds or 10.2% in about 2 and a half years- not too bad.

But 15% of the foreign caches (98) I have done have been archived. I'm sure this must mean something but I'm not sure what.

[Deego]

Well I am shocked removing all the events/ locationless caches only 63 have been archived out of 469 finds thats only 13.4% !!! and I have been caching since 2002.

[+Just Roger]

Better than some.

 

Removing events - 25 out of 397 archived or about 6.3%. I've been caching for nearly 2 years, so that gives an average of about 4%/year.

[+The Mars Bars]

Caching for 502 days, 702 finds and 62 are now archived (not including events)

 

That's 8.8% so that's not too bad is it?

 

6.4% p.a.

 

Cheers

Dave

Edited October 12, 2006 by The Mars Bars

[+rutson]

Caching for 502 days, 702 finds and 62 are now archived (not including events)

 

That's 8.8% so that's not too bad is it?

 

6.4% p.a.

 

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