+TeamDJ* Posted March 5, 2013 Posted March 5, 2013 Only 5 Active Caches in SA has an Elevation of 3000 m and higher (0.06%) Only 44 Active Caches in SA has an Elevation of 2000 m and higher (0.56%) Highest Elevation Caches in SA: #1 Just Climb It – 3158 m #2 Mponjwane Cave – 3066 m #3 Guts Gorge – 3053 m #4 Dragons Cave – 3022 m #5 Rhino Peak – 3015 m
+TeamDJ* Posted March 5, 2013 Posted March 5, 2013 Cache Data of South African Caches: (05/03/2013) Enabled Caches: 7870 Disabled Caches: 305 Archived Caches: 3262 Enabled Traditional Caches: 6558 (83.32%) Enabled Multi Caches: 439 (5.58%) Enabled Mystery Caches: 620 (7.88%) Enabled Other types (Events, Earthcaches) : 253 (3.22%)
+TeamDJ* Posted March 5, 2013 Posted March 5, 2013 Caches hidden in South Africa Since 01/01/2013 to 05/03/2013 409 Since 01/01/2012 to 05/03/2012 287 Difference 122 (+43%)
+Carbon Hunter Posted March 5, 2013 Author Posted March 5, 2013 Cache Data of South African Caches: (05/03/2013) Enabled Caches: 7870 Disabled Caches: 305 Archived Caches: 3262 Enabled Traditional Caches: 6558 (83.32%) Enabled Multi Caches: 439 (5.58%) Enabled Mystery Caches: 620 (7.88%) Enabled Other types (Events, Earthcaches) : 253 (3.22%) Very interesting - any chance of just doing number of caches for all the other African countries?
+TeamDJ* Posted March 6, 2013 Posted March 6, 2013 CH, see the list of what I could gather. Some countries might be out by 1 or 2 caches, but I think it would give a pretty good idea. These are only active African caches. Active African Caches by country.
+SawaSawa Posted March 6, 2013 Posted March 6, 2013 Thanks for the info! Nice to see Kenya up to #4 on the list ( . . . been hiding a few here ) but big jump to #3!
+Carbon Hunter Posted March 6, 2013 Author Posted March 6, 2013 Thanks for the info! Nice to see Kenya up to #4 on the list ( . . . been hiding a few here ) but big jump to #3! You better watch out Chris - Greenmielie in Zim has you in his sights for #4
+TeamDJ* Posted March 11, 2013 Posted March 11, 2013 Guys, please find the updated list of number of caches per country: Top 10 African countries, Enabled caches only Dated: 11/03/2013) #1 South Africa (7900) #2 Namibia (209) #3 Egypt (203) #4 Kenya (83) #5 Zimbabwe (81) #6 Tunisia (74) #7 Morocco (73) #8 Tanzania (66) #9 Swaziland (61) #10 Botswana (40) Seems like Zim & Kenya is having a go at each other
+TeamDJ* Posted March 11, 2013 Posted March 11, 2013 Here we have calculated a Lower bound of Wilson score confidence interval for a Bernoulli parameter to find the best caches. This really isn't as complicated as it sounds and it's easy to read up on it using Google. In short, the best caches are those with many favorite points and many logs. Normally with this formula, everyone who doesn't give a point is down-rating the item. But since favorite points only exists for those with premium memberships, we are only counting the data from premium members I don’t want to confuse anyone, but the basically you can consider the likeliness of how you would enjoy these caches. #1 - (80%) - Da Vinci Code (GC3KM3K) #2 - (78%) - Robin Hood - (GC2W63K) #3 - (77%) - Table Top (Cederberg) - (GCZK12) #4 - (74%) - Extremely Well Hung - (GC3BA3Y) #5 - (72%) - The Darkness Beckons - (GC2G0ZA) #6 - (71%) - Pieces of Eight - (GC2XGX3) #7 - (70%) - Stairway to Scouts - (GC3YQ2D) #8 - (67%) - TeamDJ's Puzzle Quest #4 - (GC442JW) #9 - (64%) - Fire ~ (Re)Testing your Physiology - (GC2Y90C) #10 - (64%) - Huey Dewey and Louie - (GC2MMM9)
+TeamDJ* Posted March 12, 2013 Posted March 12, 2013 Top logged South African caches YTD (12/03/2013) #1 - Ballito Expands - 119 #2 - Table Mountain Travel Bug Hotel - 71 #3 - Nobel Square - 62 #4 - Hiddingh Security TB Hotel - 47 #5 - Size does matter - 46 #6 - Signal Hill Pines - 43 #7 - Doc Craven & Bliksem - 40 #8 - Penny for your thoughts - 37 #9 - Stellenbosch TB Lodge - 36 #10 - Hesamati is 1! - 36
+TeamDJ* Posted March 12, 2013 Posted March 12, 2013 South African cachers with most finds YTD (12/03/2013) #1 - Thedivespot - 525 #2 - ferdie.estelle - 362 #3 - Team Tip Top - 263 #4 - Antron - 239 #5 - TechnoNut - 231 #6 - DonJolley - 221 #7 - marcus d90 - 217 #8 - Madcat007 - 202 #9 - terunkie - 202 #10 - marko4 - 187
+TeamDJ* Posted March 12, 2013 Posted March 12, 2013 Most found logs on owned caches YTD (12/03/2013) #1 - paddawan - 545 #2 - GEO936 - 544 #3 - NotBlonde - 483 #4 - louwtjievdw - 452 #5 - TechnoNut - 426 #6 - jonoafrica - 348 #7 - SawaSawa - 339 #8 - family Behrens - 328 #9 - timmo1977 - 323 #10 - pannie&medusae - 322
+TeamDJ* Posted March 13, 2013 Posted March 13, 2013 Most caches Hidden YTD 2013 (13/03/2013) #1 - Tumble Weeds - 24 #2 - Team TalkingBull - 14 #3 - nst1g8r_mybrat - 14 #4 - Pajero - 13 #5 - TechnoNut - 11 #6 - louwtjievdw - 11 #7 - FiddleTwigs - 11 #8 - The Killroys - 10 #9 - ferdie.estelle - 10 #10 - merrygofind - 10
+TeamDJ* Posted March 13, 2013 Posted March 13, 2013 SA Provinces with most found logs YTD (13/03/2013) #1 - Western Cape - 8587 #2 - Gauteng - 7313 #3 - Kwazulu Natal - 4391 #4 - Eastern Cape - 2255 #5 - Free State - 987 #6 - North West - 629 #7 - Mpumalanga - 624 #8 - Northern Cape - 251 #9 - Limpopo - 127
+TeamDJ* Posted March 13, 2013 Posted March 13, 2013 SA Provinces with most caches hidden YTD (13/03/2013) #1 - Kwazulu Natal - 136 #2 - Western Cape - 107 #3 - Eastern Cape - 92 #4 - Gauteng - 84 #5 - Mpumalanga - 17 #6 - North West - 16 #7 - Free State - 14 #8 - Northern Cape - 6 #9 - Limpopo - 4
+TeamDJ* Posted March 13, 2013 Posted March 13, 2013 Cache stats: Favorite points vs premium member logs. Only 3 South African caches has a Favorite point ratio of 100% Only 1 South African cache has a Favorite point ratio of between 95% and 100% Only 3 South African caches has a Favorite point ratio of between 90% and 95% Only 11 South African caches has a Favorite point ratio of between 80% and 90% Only 24 South African caches has a Favorite point ratio of between 70% and 80% Thus, only 42 South African caches has a Favorite point ratio greater than 70% (0.53% of all SA Caches)
+TeamDJ* Posted March 13, 2013 Posted March 13, 2013 SA Caches Matrix completion: If you want too look at completing a full matrix on a specifiec type of cache, you will get this far: Traditional - 75/81 available options Multi - 58/81 available options Mystery - 71/81 available options The other types is neglectable. Traditional/Multi combibnation - 78/81 available options Traditional/Mystery combination - 81/81 available options
+TeamDJ* Posted March 18, 2013 Posted March 18, 2013 Update on most favorable caches in South Africa: #1 - Table Mountain Travel Bug Hotel - 125 #2 - Stellenbosch TB Lodge - 69 #3 - Little Netherlands TB Hotel - 44 #4 - MEGA SA 2012 -Voortrekker "Uitspan" Travellers Inn - 42 #5 - Table Top Trove - 40 #6 - Sailors' Star - 38 #7 - Sentinel View - 37 #8 - Table Mountain - Cape Town - 36 #9 - Ipanema - 35 #10 - Cape Agulhas - 34 #11 - Of Diamonds and Pearls - 32 #12 - Maps et al - 32 #13 - Spring Tide - 31 #14 - The Piston Cup - 30 #15 - Longfinger - 29 #16 - Puzzled Birds - 29 #17 - MEGA SA 2012 - The Needle in the Haystack - 29 #18 - MEGA SA 2012 – GETEMDE VRYHEID - 28 #19 - THE BIGGEST TREE IN SOUTH AFRICA - AND 5 CHAMPIONS - 27 #20 - Almost Metallophobia - 27 #21 - 9Icon Walk - Trek for the Voortrekker Treasure - 27 #22 - Kirstenbosch Gardens - Big 5 - 26 #23 - Good Hope - 26 #24 - A Tribute to Friends and Family - 26 #25 - Da Vinci Code - 26 #26 - The Mines of Moria - 25 #27 - Swartberg Pass - 24 #28 - Three Rondavels - 24 #29 - SS: Lusitania - 24 #30 - The Darkness Beckons - 24 Looking at this, it would be safe to say that 80% of favorite points goes to 20% of placed caches.
+TeamDJ* Posted March 18, 2013 Posted March 18, 2013 While on FP's: SA Provices with FP awarded - All time #1 - Western Cape - 4846 #2 - Gauteng - 4045 #3 - Kwazulu Natal - 1929 #4 - Mpumalanga - 1002 #5 - Eastern Cape - 964 #6 - Free State - 916 #7 - North West - 438 #8 - Limpopo - 187 #9 - Northern Cape - 183
+Carbon Hunter Posted March 18, 2013 Author Posted March 18, 2013 57 South African based cachers, have cached in more than 10 countries. 202 South African based cachers, have cached in more than 5 countries. 1202 South African based cachers, have cached in more than 1 country. Top ten South African Cachers with most countries under their belt: #1 Carbon Hunter - 32 #2 Discombob - 22 #3 Tricky Vicky & Mickey - 20 #4 Tiny Bubbles - 19 #5 TeamCapePingu - 18 #6 Stefanoodle - 17 #7 GlobalRat - 17 #8 PORKY2 - 17 #9 cownchicken - 16 #10 The Huskies - 16 If we consider CINCOL a SA cacher - he also has 19 countries.
+TeamDJ* Posted March 20, 2013 Posted March 20, 2013 Unique caches in South Africa Enabled: 7941 Disabled: 314 Archived: 3297 Total: 11552 Caches hidden in South Africa: Since 1st of January 2013: 527 Since 1st of January 2012: 343 (upto 20/03/2013) Difference: 184 (+54%) 59 more caches to go to reach 8000 enabled caches in SA!!!!
+TeamDJ* Posted March 20, 2013 Posted March 20, 2013 South African Caches with the most days since they were last found. (20/03/2013) #1 - Facing the Knife Edge, Montagu - 2592 #2 - Bald Ibis Heights, Montagu - 2592 #3 - Beyond the Great Mystery, Montagu - 2592 #4 - Uitkyk Kop - 2002 (Disabled) #5 - De Bruin Dam - 1998 #6 - Black Holes - 1846 #7 - Nsami View - 1762 #8 - Upper Kei - 1713 #9 - Takazi Waterfall - 1644 #10 - Mbanyane Falls - 1626
+Carbon Hunter Posted March 20, 2013 Author Posted March 20, 2013 Unique caches in South Africa Enabled: 7941 Disabled: 314 Archived: 3297 Total: 11552 Caches hidden in South Africa: Since 1st of January 2013: 527 Since 1st of January 2012: 343 (upto 20/03/2013) Difference: 184 (+54%) 59 more caches to go to reach 8000 enabled caches in SA!!!! Great stuff - hopefully an Earthcache in that upcoming mix too?
+SawaSawa Posted March 20, 2013 Posted March 20, 2013 Unique caches in South Africa Enabled: 7941 Disabled: 314 Archived: 3297 Total: 11552 Caches hidden in South Africa: Since 1st of January 2013: 527 Since 1st of January 2012: 343 (upto 20/03/2013) Difference: 184 (+54%) 59 more caches to go to reach 8000 enabled caches in SA!!!! Are the 2012 and 2013 totals transposed??
+TeamDJ* Posted March 20, 2013 Posted March 20, 2013 Guys Just a breakdown of the Active caches in SA by province/year.
+TeamDJ* Posted March 20, 2013 Posted March 20, 2013 Just another interesting view: SA caches placed YTD 2013 = 530 Below a breakdown of those caches per province. If I take the number of caches placed per province YTD and multiply it with the days remaining to forecast the amount of caches that 2013 would yield.
+TeamDJ* Posted March 20, 2013 Posted March 20, 2013 We would therefore end up with ± 2450 caches placed in 2013.
+TeamDJ* Posted March 20, 2013 Posted March 20, 2013 Just a breakdown of the #Logs on caches in SA by year. If you need a specific province I can supply that as well.
+TeamDJ* Posted March 26, 2013 Posted March 26, 2013 Well guys!! Since we are in earth conservation week just a few stats on earthcaches in SA: Top 10 earthcaches with most favorite points: #1 - Table Mountain - Cape Town - 36 #2 - 2 Oceans - 22 #3 - Kruger National Park - 20 #4 - God's Window - 19 #5 - Tswaing Meteorite Crater - 17 #6 - Cango Caves - 14 #7 - Blyde River Canyon - 12 #8 - Robberg - 11 #9 - Kimberley Big Hole - 10 #10 - Natures Rock Art - 9 Top 10 Logged earthcaches: All Time #1 - Table Mountain - Cape Town - 270 #2 - 2 Oceans - 166 #3 - 9Icon Walk - WHERE SHALE WE GO? - 149 #4 - Darwinian Contact - 114 #5 - Cango Caves - 113 #6 - 9Icon Walk - Petrified Tree Earthcache - 107 #7 - Kruger National Park - 97 #8 - Pilanesberg National Park Alkaline Ring Complex - 95 #9 - Chapman's Layers - 95 #10 - Maropeng Earthcache - 92 Cachers with the most eartcache finds: SA #1 - iPajero - 137 #2 - Tricky Vicky & Mickey - 115 #3 - CrystalFairy - 84 #4 - Hesamati - 79 #5 - cownchicken - 74 #6 - RedGlobe - 62 #7 - Leon St - 57 #8 - Louise_Gerhard - 56 #9 - Danie Viljoen - 55 #10 - TechnoNut - 54 Cachers with the most eartcache Hides: SA #1 - Carbon Hunter - 51 #2 - iPajero - 26 #3 - Bouts777 - 12 #4 - RedGlobe - 11 #5 - Sterreman - 9 #6 - hennieventer - 8 #7 - HeinG - 7 #8 - Gps Storm - 6 #9 - W@lly - 4 #10 - DRDM & Raider - 4
+TeamDJ* Posted March 26, 2013 Posted March 26, 2013 SA Cachers with most CITO's Attended: #1 - RedGlobe - 15 #2 - Jors - 11 #3 - Leon St - 11 #4 - GEO936 - 10 #5 - Happy Hunters SA - 9 #6 - Wilduvo - 8 #7 - Wormgeocash - 8 #8 - iPajero - 8 #9 - JPMZA - 7 #10 - Wazat - 7 SA Cachers with most CITO's hosted: (More than one) #1 - GoSA - 5 #2 - RedGlobe - 4 #3 - GEO936 - 3 #4 - iPajero - 2 #5 - Goofster - 2
+TeamDJ* Posted March 26, 2013 Posted March 26, 2013 Just a look at the cache type distrubution for SA:
+TeamDJ* Posted March 27, 2013 Posted March 27, 2013 SA Cachers with most finds (Worldwide - 27/03/2012 to 27/03/2013) #1 - iPajero - 1313 #2 - PORKY2 - 1244 #3 - TeamDJ* - 1155 #4 - TechnoNut - 1053 #5 - DonJolley - 976 #6 - Thedivespot - 873 #7 - Thrips - 827 #8 - terunkie - 820 #9 - SKATTIE@1 - 775 #10 - ouvrou - 768
+TeamDJ* Posted March 27, 2013 Posted March 27, 2013 SA Cachers with most cache hides (Worldwide - 27/03/2012 to 27/03/2013) #1 - nst1g8r_mybrat - 63 #2 - pannie&medusae - 60 #3 - SawaSawa - 49 #4 - TechnoNut - 49 #5 - Louwtjie&Vroutjie - 38 #6 - surreptitious007 - 36 #7 - Wazat - 33 #8 - chimpguy - 32 #9 - family Behrens - 31 #10 - PieterM - 31
+TeamDJ* Posted March 27, 2013 Posted March 27, 2013 SA Cachers with most favorite points on caches hidden between - 27/03/2012 to 27/03/2013) #1 - TeamDJ* - 203 #2 - pannie&medusae - 114 #3 - family Behrens - 54 #4 - AndyT1 - 51 #5 - paddawan - 50 #6 - Antron - 49 #7 - Geelvink - 49 #8 - dolos - 48 #9 - GEO936 - 41 #10 - TechnoNut - 40
+cincol Posted March 31, 2013 Posted March 31, 2013 57 South African based cachers, have cached in more than 10 countries. 202 South African based cachers, have cached in more than 5 countries. 1202 South African based cachers, have cached in more than 1 country. Top ten South African Cachers with most countries under their belt: #1 Carbon Hunter - 32 #2 Discombob - 22 #3 Tricky Vicky & Mickey - 20 #4 Tiny Bubbles - 19 #5 TeamCapePingu - 18 ...............................................>>>>>>> Question - is Discombob not based in Ireland?
+TeamDJ* Posted April 3, 2013 Posted April 3, 2013 Cincol, the stats above is calculated on cachers which has their home location set within SA. Unfortunately I cannot see who is from where and currently active in which country.
+TeamDJ* Posted April 3, 2013 Posted April 3, 2013 SA Has reached 8000 active caches!! Enabled = 8035 Disabled = 312 Archived Total = 3313
+greenmealie Posted April 10, 2013 Posted April 10, 2013 Thanks for the info! Nice to see Kenya up to #4 on the list ( . . . been hiding a few here ) but big jump to #3! You better watch out Chris - Greenmielie in Zim has you in his sights for #4 #93 in Zimbabwe as at the 10.4.2013 !
+SawaSawa Posted April 10, 2013 Posted April 10, 2013 Well done Greenmielie - keep up the good work in Zim!
+TeamDJ* Posted April 11, 2013 Posted April 11, 2013 Seems like a serious challenge for the top position on most favorite points earned on placed caches: Only 3 South African based cachers have earned 400+ FPs on Owned caches Only 5 South African based cachers have earned 300+ FPs on Owned caches Only 12 South African based cachers have earned 200+ FPs on Owned cachesTop 15 cachers with most FPs on placed caches: #1 - Louwtjie&Vroutjie - 437 (Hidden: 287) #2 - paddawan - 433 (Hidden: 134) #3 - CapeDoc - 411 (Hidden: 66) #4 - Hesamati - 320 (Hidden: 46) #5 - Carbon Hunter - 312 (Hidden: 110) #6 - GEO936 - 296 (Hidden: 186) #7 - Antron - 293 (Hidden: 69) #8 - Fish Eagle - 291 (Hidden: 249) #9 - Cism - 266 (Hidden: 86) #10 - CrystalFairy - 259 (Hidden: 201) #11 - Discombob - 237 (Hidden: 69) #12 - TeamDJ* - 208 (Hidden: 23) #13 - TechnoNut - 186 (Hidden: 161) #14 - Noddy - 172 (Hidden: 102) #15 - GlobalRat - 160 (Hidden: 37)
+TeamDJ* Posted April 11, 2013 Posted April 11, 2013 If I only use the top 15 cachers from above and take the number of Favourite points earned in total and decide by caches owned: #1 - TeamDJ* - ave. 9.04 FP/cache #2 - Hesamati - ave. 6.96 FP/cache #3 - CapeDoc - ave. 6.23 FP/cache #4 - GlobalRat - ave. 4.32 FP/cache #5 - Antron - ave. 4.25 FP/cache #6 - Discombob - ave. 3.43 FP/cache #7 - paddawan - ave. 3.23 FP/cache #8 - Cism - ave. 3.09 FP/cache #9 - Carbon Hunter - ave. 2.84 FP/cache #10 - Noddy - ave. 4.68 FP/cache #11 - GEO936 - ave. 1.59 FP/cache #12 - Louwtjie&Vroutjie - ave. 1.52 FP/cache #13 - CrystalFairy - ave. 1.29 FP/cache #14 - Fish Eagle - ave. 1.17 FP/cache #15 - TechnoNut - ave. 1.16 FP/cache
+TechnoNut Posted April 11, 2013 Posted April 11, 2013 If I only use the top 15 cachers from above and take the number of Favourite points earned in total and decide by caches owned: Hi Riaan If you want to do a ratio - then you need to remove event type caches from the hides as these do not qualify for FPs. Pete
+TeamDJ* Posted April 11, 2013 Posted April 11, 2013 Pete Fully understand. I'm busy with that statistics, but it takes a bit longer than expected. I have to access every individuals profile separately. Seems I'll just have to do that. Well, please find the same stats (excluding any event caches) #1 - TeamDJ* - ave. 9.46 FP/cache #2 - Hesamati - ave. 6.96 FP/cache #3 - CapeDoc - ave. 6.85 FP/cache #4 - GlobalRat - ave. 4.44 FP/cache #5 - Antron - ave. 4.31 FP/cache #6 - Discombob - ave. 3.95 FP/cache #7 - paddawan - ave. 3.23 FP/cache #8 - Cism - ave. 3.09 FP/cache #9 - Carbon Hunter - ave. 3.06 FP/cache #10 - Noddy - ave. 1.83 FP/cache #11 - GEO936 - ave. 1.83 FP/cache #12 - Louwtjie&Vroutjie - ave. 1.53 FP/cache #13 - CrystalFairy - ave. 1.33 FP/cache #14 - TechnoNut - ave. 1.31 FP/cache #15 - Fish Eagle - ave. 1.20 FP/cache
+CapeDoc Posted April 11, 2013 Posted April 11, 2013 Pete Fully understand. I'm busy with that statistics, but it takes a bit longer than expected. I have to access every individuals profile separately. Seems I'll just have to do that. Well, please find the same stats (excluding any event caches) #1 - TeamDJ* - ave. 9.46 FP/cache #2 - Hesamati - ave. 6.96 FP/cache #3 - CapeDoc - ave. 6.85 FP/cache #4 - GlobalRat - ave. 4.44 FP/cache #5 - Antron - ave. 4.31 FP/cache #6 - Discombob - ave. 3.95 FP/cache #7 - paddawan - ave. 3.23 FP/cache #8 - Cism - ave. 3.09 FP/cache #9 - Carbon Hunter - ave. 3.06 FP/cache #10 - Noddy - ave. 1.83 FP/cache #11 - GEO936 - ave. 1.83 FP/cache #12 - Louwtjie&Vroutjie - ave. 1.53 FP/cache #13 - CrystalFairy - ave. 1.33 FP/cache #14 - TechnoNut - ave. 1.31 FP/cache #15 - Fish Eagle - ave. 1.20 FP/cache Comparing FP is interesting, but doesn't mean all that much. Discombob placed all his caches before the FP system was activated. He would be far higher if it was implemented before he started caching. The higher the find rate on a cache, the harder to maintain a high ratio of FP. Many cachers simply don't use the system. Good caches that are found often will have a lower FP ratio than more difficult or remote good caches. Old, pre Favorite system caches that have been archived, skew the statistics. Newer archived caches skew the stats too. I remove my FP from (brilliant) archived caches. FP are best used to guide cachers to the best ACTIVE (and visible) caches. I feel it is a waist to leave FP with archived caches. That too skews stats. To maintain a high standard while placing many caches is harder than maintains a high standard with a few. A cacher with many brilliant, now archived caches, will be placed falsely low. Thanks for all the work though! Will certainly chase team DJ caches if I am in the area!
+Carbon Hunter Posted April 12, 2013 Author Posted April 12, 2013 Pete Fully understand. I'm busy with that statistics, but it takes a bit longer than expected. I have to access every individuals profile separately. Seems I'll just have to do that. Well, please find the same stats (excluding any event caches) #1 - TeamDJ* - ave. 9.46 FP/cache #2 - Hesamati - ave. 6.96 FP/cache #3 - CapeDoc - ave. 6.85 FP/cache #4 - GlobalRat - ave. 4.44 FP/cache #5 - Antron - ave. 4.31 FP/cache #6 - Discombob - ave. 3.95 FP/cache #7 - paddawan - ave. 3.23 FP/cache #8 - Cism - ave. 3.09 FP/cache #9 - Carbon Hunter - ave. 3.06 FP/cache #10 - Noddy - ave. 1.83 FP/cache #11 - GEO936 - ave. 1.83 FP/cache #12 - Louwtjie&Vroutjie - ave. 1.53 FP/cache #13 - CrystalFairy - ave. 1.33 FP/cache #14 - TechnoNut - ave. 1.31 FP/cache #15 - Fish Eagle - ave. 1.20 FP/cache Comparing FP is interesting, but doesn't mean all that much. Discombob placed all his caches before the FP system was activated. He would be far higher if it was implemented before he started caching. The higher the find rate on a cache, the harder to maintain a high ratio of FP. Many cachers simply don't use the system. Good caches that are found often will have a lower FP ratio than more difficult or remote good caches. Old, pre Favorite system caches that have been archived, skew the statistics. Newer archived caches skew the stats too. I remove my FP from (brilliant) archived caches. FP are best used to guide cachers to the best ACTIVE (and visible) caches. I feel it is a waist to leave FP with archived caches. That too skews stats. To maintain a high standard while placing many caches is harder than maintains a high standard with a few. A cacher with many brilliant, now archived caches, will be placed falsely low. Thanks for all the work though! Will certainly chase team DJ caches if I am in the area! Agreed CapeDoc I have also gone back an awarded FP to those older caches I found years ago - but like you - I too have not awarded archived caches and have mostly removed FP from caches that get archived later. I still have a few FP in my bag awaiting awarding too So although not a great indicator - like any stats - just shows one aspect of the truth. One could only look at active caches - but that too would throw up an issue. As they say "Lies, damned lies and statistics"
+Danie Viljoen Posted April 12, 2013 Posted April 12, 2013 Most finds in Africa for the year 11 Apr 2012 - 10 Apr 2013: 1. iPajero: 1174 finds 2. PORKY2: 1093 finds 3. TeamDJ*: 1078 finds 4. TechnoNut: 1060 finds 5. DonJolley: 884 finds 6. Thedivespot: 879 finds 7. Thrips: 828 finds 8. terunkie: 827 finds 9. hovelj: 810 finds 10. SKATTIE@1: 783 finds Most found South African caches for the year 11 Apr 2012 - 10 Apr 2013: 1. GC31WXR Table Mountain Travel Bug Hotel, CapeDoc: 265 finds 2. GC3B0EJ MEGA South Africa 2012, GoSA: 202 attended 3. GC2GG2C Nobel Square, Cape Trio: 185 finds 4. GC37VF3 Tip of Africa, Zephyr2: 160 finds 5. GC3WPYX 9Icon Walk – Sterculia murex, Leon St: 158 finds 5. GC3X91A MEGA SA 2012 – Keep me Posted, Wormgeocash: 158 finds 7. GC2X329 Stellenbosch TB Lodge, Hesamati: 156 finds 8. GC3XCM1 9Icon Walk – Starting with a Puzzle, Wormgeocash: 155 finds 9. GC3WXG3 9Icon Walk - Voortrekker Monument Postal Tree, Leon St: 153 finds 10. GC3WE2H 9Icon Walk - WHERE SHALE WE GO?, Jors: 149 finds 10. GC3XVBK MEGA SA 2012 – Racheltjie De Beer, B and C Inc: 149 finds During this year there have been 130707 finds on 8945 South African caches, for an average of 14.6 finds/cache
+Carbon Hunter Posted April 12, 2013 Author Posted April 12, 2013 7 of the Top 10 were MEGA related for last year. Makes sense.
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