+Criminal Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 How popular are your cache hides? Total the sum of all the watchers of all your active caches, then divide by the number of your active caches. Count all the active caches you have hidden as well as all the active caches where you actually helped hide the container. Count all your caches as well as all of your sock puppet caches. So, any cache that you hid or helped hide. I’m getting 12.0625 for my active caches. For the heck of it I averaged my archived ones as well and came up with 1.5416 Quote Link to comment
+briansnat Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 Interesting, but I'm not going through my 150 active caches to count watchers . Quote Link to comment
+Criminal Posted January 26, 2007 Author Share Posted January 26, 2007 Interesting, but I'm not going through my 150 active caches to count watchers . Oh right, like you have anything better to do... Quote Link to comment
+StarBrand Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 I only looked at a few of mine and I know the number is going to be way under 12 - probably no more than 3 or 4. However this is a very rural area with no more than 8 - 12 active cachers within 75 miles of me. Quote Link to comment
+Blue Power Ranger Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 2.706 Well, that was depressing. Thanks. Quote Link to comment
+CYBret Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 Going through my active and archived caches, but excluding events I've hosted I've got 17 caches with a total of 100 watchers, bringing us to an average of 5.9 per cache. The highest is 35 watchers and the lowest are a few with none. Interesting idea....for pointless numbers. Bret Quote Link to comment
Mushtang Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 7.00, with the highest being 16, and the lowest being 2 Quote Link to comment
+4leafclover Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 I hate math. thanks for reminding me. Quote Link to comment
+Renegade Knight Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 2 is my estimate. My best cache has 3. My highest is 4 on a TB hotel. Quote Link to comment
+parker313 Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 I've got 6 caches total and 4 watchers, so less than 1 I had to count my archived cache as it had a watcher and 4/6 (.667) is better than 3/5 (.6). Quote Link to comment
+KKTH3 Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 Average of 1.2 watchers per cache of our 20 active caches. The most watched is a TB trading cache with 4 watchers and many of our caches have no watchers. Only one of our caches is on someone's public bookmark list. As bad as that is, the archived caches fared even worse (though obviously expected that way as they were generally archived in favor of placing better caches) with only 5 watchers across 11 archived caches. Not really going to win any popularity contests. Quote Link to comment
+Belfrypotters Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 I thought we might 'win' this contest with our 6 caches, zero watchers, but when I checked we actually do have two watchers. Now I'm going to lay awake wondering who's watching, and why. Thanks. Quote Link to comment
+Isonzo Karst Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 does anybody watch caches anymore? I know I just bookmark 'em.... Quote Link to comment
+Jhwk Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 3.25 - who knew folks would want to watch a rest stop micro... or a cave cache for that matter. Quote Link to comment
+Mr. 0 Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 Interesting. I had to check my own. What I'm looking at is.... Active caches 13 Watchers 39 ______________ Average 3 watchers/active cache Inactive caches 12 Watchers 10 ________________ Average .833 watchers/inactive cache Total caches 25 Watchers 49 ________________ Average 1.96 watchers/total caches Quote Link to comment
+spazz191 Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 How wrong..... 1 cache 1 watcher This math is too difficult to figure out..... Quote Link to comment
surferacf1 Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 (edited) Oops! Redundant post! Edited January 26, 2007 by surferacf1 Quote Link to comment
surferacf1 Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 21 Watchers / 11 CAches = 1.9 Quote Link to comment
+Kit Fox Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 82 Active Cache, with a total of 103 watchers = 1.26 I have two caches with 10 watchers each: The Legend of Big Ben. (Night Cache) Secret of the Fox One with Seven Users: The Lair of the Great Horned Owl (Night Cache) I haven't figure out how to hide a cache with more than 10 watchers. Quote Link to comment
+StarBrand Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 Whew - too much work....my estimate was off. 102 active caches - 246 watchers for a dismal 2.41 average High is 8 low is 0. Most of my 3+ year old caches had 3 - 5 watchers. The young ones - 0 or 1. Quote Link to comment
+Bill & Tammy Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 19 total watchers on 17 active caches which comes to 1.1176470588235294117647058823529. I was suprised to discover that my most difficult active cache has no watchers. What was the point of this again? I forgot. Quote Link to comment
+gof1 Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 63 watchers on 27 active caches=2.33333... 7 watchers on 5 inactive caches=1.4 The odd part is that what I consider best cache only has 1 watcher. Heck, one of my archived caches has 4 watchers. Out of all my caches only 2 have no watchers. 2 caches have 6 watchers each. Well, that killed a few minutes, now what? Quote Link to comment
+olbluesguy Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 17 caches 67 watchers 3.941 watchers per cache. high..1 with 9 watchers low 1 with 0 watchers Quote Link to comment
+welch Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 Haven't decided if I just have boring caches, or if a lot are using insta notices?? Active caches: min. 0 max. 8 mode 2 median 2 mean 2.1481 Didn't figure archived caches. Quote Link to comment
+ReadyOrNot Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 12 watchers on 4 caches = 3 per cache. I've noticed that as you become more known in your geocaching community, you will tend to have more watchers on your caches. I do have to say that my 4 caches are high quality, well thought out caches though. (Any way of artificially bumping those numbers up?) J/K Quote Link to comment
+Woodlit Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 7.6 for total active caches plus one that is temp disabled 8.2 respectable Quote Link to comment
+Formerly Dominoes Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 Out of 6 active caches, there are 30 watchers, for an average of 5 per cache. The most watched is Domino Theory: Smoke & Mirrors, with 7 watchers. Quote Link to comment
+Silny Jako Bek Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 Mine's 3.3478 (23 caches; Low = 0; High = 11). Quote Link to comment
+pghlooking Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 Pretty cool idea. 7 caches active with 51 total watchers = 7.28 average per cache 1 cache with 20 watchers. I found a way to pad my numbers though. I have an event with 28 watchers. Add that in and it boosts my numbers to 9.875 watchers per cache! I should have done this when there was 46 watching it! Quote Link to comment
+Harry Dolphin Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 I really don't understand why anyone would actually want to watch my caches, but they are there! 103 watchers on 19 active caches = 5.42. High of 13 on my webcam, low of 2 on three caches. And! 6 watchers on the archived cache that was muggled twice, and archived when West New York closed the park for an extended period of time for reconstruction. Quote Link to comment
+Vinny & Sue Team Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 (edited) 508 watchers on 27 active caches, for an average count of 18.8 watchers per cache. Highest is PUC #13, with 110 watchers, followed by PUC #9, with 87 watchers, and PUC #10, with 31 watchers. And then we have a couple of caches, such as Lake Shore One and Point 28 Zero, both in a not-very-traveled rural state park, each with one watcher only! It should be noted that the majority of our caches, with the exception of two PUCs and one Sues Puzzle Cache, located in a remote part of south Baltimore, are located rather far from major population centers, and indeed, some are very much in the wilderness. We have only a few archived caches, and from a quick glance -- as I do not want to bother to do the calculations -- if I included them , the score would drop a bit. Please excuse me while I go create 600 sock puppet accounts and use them to watchlist each of our caches, thus raising our watchlist count per cache to about 618 watchlisters average! Edited January 26, 2007 by Vinny & Sue Team Quote Link to comment
+Criminal Posted January 26, 2007 Author Share Posted January 26, 2007 508 watchers on 27 active caches, for an average count of 18.8 watchers per cache. You rock! (and in Maryland no less...) Quote Link to comment
Moun10Bike Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 674 watchers on 64 active caches for an average of 10.53125 watchers per cache. High = 168 (on the APE cache) Low = 0 on a couple The bulk of mine are in remote areas away from major population centers (primarily North Idaho and Northeastern Washington). Quote Link to comment
+Snoogans Posted January 27, 2007 Share Posted January 27, 2007 Active caches 30 Watchers 373 ______________ Average 10.2 watchers/active caches Average 9.83333333 watchers/total caches Quote Link to comment
+wimseyguy Posted January 27, 2007 Share Posted January 27, 2007 (edited) I'm getting ready to leave work, so I don't have time to do the full calculation. But as the co-chair of Geowoodstock 5 I'm quite comfortable considering it my cache for the sake of analysis, even though it's 'owned' by the ncgeocacher.org account. I suspect that the 195 user(s) watching this cache would skew my results just a bit. This is a Large cache. Edited January 27, 2007 by wimseyguy Quote Link to comment
+Criminal Posted January 27, 2007 Author Share Posted January 27, 2007 Active caches 30 Watchers 373 ______________ Average 10.2 watchers/active caches Average 9.83333333 watchers/total caches Woot! Snoogs is in the double digit club! Quote Link to comment
+Criminal Posted January 27, 2007 Author Share Posted January 27, 2007 674 watchers on 64 active caches for an average of 10.53125 watchers per cache. High = 168 (on the APE cache) Low = 0 on a couple The bulk of mine are in remote areas away from major population centers (primarily North Idaho and Northeastern Washington). Did you count Boulder River? I counted Boulder Falls in mine. Quote Link to comment
+Vinny & Sue Team Posted January 27, 2007 Share Posted January 27, 2007 508 watchers on 27 active caches, for an average count of 18.8 watchers per cache. You rock! (and in Maryland no less...) Thanks for the kind words! Interestingly, PUC #13, our cache with 110 watchlisters, has only been in existence for a bit over four months, and both that cache and our next-highest watchlisted cache (PUC #9), with 87 watchlisters, are located in very rural areas, far from any large population centers. Even PUC #10, which is located in a little-used county park in what is technically far southern Baltimore, is located many miles from the actual city of Baltimore in a rather desolate spot. Same for PUC #8, with 23 watchlisters, located in an even more desolate county park in the extreme southeastern corner of Baltimore. Quote Link to comment
+Bad Duck Posted January 27, 2007 Share Posted January 27, 2007 32 caches 4 watchers. 1/8 of a cacher per cache .125 Quote Link to comment
+Kealia Posted January 27, 2007 Share Posted January 27, 2007 OK I'll play - 3.42 on 26 active caches. Best = 18 Worst = 0 (on a couple) Quote Link to comment
saopaulo1@hotmail.com Posted January 27, 2007 Share Posted January 27, 2007 14 caches and 13 watchers. That a little over 1 per cache. Quote Link to comment
Clan Riffster Posted January 27, 2007 Share Posted January 27, 2007 37 total caches, (1 of which is archived with 0 watchers), 82 total watchers. Survey says: 2.21 I think Vinny is gonna win this round! Quote Link to comment
Moun10Bike Posted January 27, 2007 Share Posted January 27, 2007 674 watchers on 64 active caches for an average of 10.53125 watchers per cache. High = 168 (on the APE cache) Low = 0 on a couple The bulk of mine are in remote areas away from major population centers (primarily North Idaho and Northeastern Washington). Did you count Boulder River? I counted Boulder Falls in mine. Yep! I counted all active caches that I own outright or was involved in placing. Quote Link to comment
+cache_test_dummies Posted January 27, 2007 Share Posted January 27, 2007 OK I'll play - 3.42 on 26 active caches. Best = 18 Worst = 0 (on a couple) Are ya sure? Check again. Quote Link to comment
+Team Tigger International Posted January 27, 2007 Share Posted January 27, 2007 4.6 on 12 active caches ... for the Team Star Quote Link to comment
+DocDiTTo Posted January 27, 2007 Share Posted January 27, 2007 16 active caches, 111 active watchers, average of 6.9375 per cache. My highest number of watchers on one cache is 41, the lowest is 1. Interesting idea for a numbers game. Quote Link to comment
+Quest Master Posted January 27, 2007 Share Posted January 27, 2007 584 watchers on 35 active caches = 16.7 Is this good or bad? Quote Link to comment
+traineediplomat Posted January 28, 2007 Share Posted January 28, 2007 See this is why you need ol' Caught at Work's stats!!! http://caughtatwork.net/geocaching/graphs/ All those kinda numbers done for ya! Quote Link to comment
+edscott Posted January 28, 2007 Share Posted January 28, 2007 So I have all this work to do and you have me looking up this stuff .. 13 active caches, 121 watchers for 9.3/cache. Range is 4-15. My 4 archived have a total of 4 watchers (3,1,0,0). Quote Link to comment
nonaeroterraqueous Posted January 28, 2007 Share Posted January 28, 2007 That's funny, I usually watch the caches that I hate or can't find. I re-visit the pages for caches I like so often anyway that I don't bother watching them. The only cache I have that made a "favorites" bookmark has never been watched. I'm not sure what relevance watch lists have, since the reasoning could be anything. One guy might have a lot of people watching to see if anyone else complains about it, while another cache might have a lot of watchers because it's really ingenious. Quote Link to comment
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