+Danie Viljoen Posted February 18, 2016 Posted February 18, 2016 find/list the top 20 (or 50) total cache finds (SA only and all) for SA cache owners. Thanks! Cache owners whose caches have been found the most: South Africa, all time: 1. louwtjievdw: 21221 finds 2. GEO936: 15870 finds 3. paddawan: 13262 finds 4. NotBlonde: 11839 finds 5. TechnoNut: 11207 finds 6. Leon St: 10994 finds 7. HeinG: 10841 finds 8. pannie&medusae: 10174 finds 9. Fish Eagle: 9534 finds 10. CrystalFairy: 8947 finds 11. Wazat: 8573 finds 12. SawaSawa: 7195 finds 13. Noddy: 6989 finds 14. cache-fan: 6839 finds 15. iPajero: 6829 finds 16. timmo1977: 6300 finds 17. Tricky Vicky & Mickey: 6247 finds 18. Antron: 5794 finds 19. Happy Hunters SA: 5605 finds 20. PieterM: 5545 finds South Africa, year ending 13 Feb. 2016: 1. louwtjievdw: 3514 finds 2. Panters: 2758 finds 3. TechnoNut: 2670 finds 4. SKATTIE@1: 2610 finds 5. Andredj: 2332 finds 6. Evolutionaries: 2056 finds 7. Louwtjie&Vroutjie: 1883 finds 8. AdieA: 1792 finds 9. ephyfer: 1738 finds 10. paddawan: 1701 finds 11. pannie&medusae: 1694 finds 12. Sokkies73: 1669 finds 13. scubie999: 1654 finds 14. HeinG: 1550 finds 15. GEO936: 1541 finds 16. Leon St: 1514 finds 17. iPajero: 1507 finds 18. Suikerbossies: 1366 finds 19. V-ixen: 1339 finds 20. eneveraa: 1319 finds Africa, all time: 1. luisftas: 30421 finds 2. louwtjievdw: 21221 finds 3. ricardomariagoncas: 20174 finds 4. Teamnegativ: 18960 finds 5. lacruz18: 18732 finds 6. Ballangen: 17092 finds 7. GC Putte: 16697 finds 8. GEO936: 16241 finds 9. João Marçal, CarlaS: 15804 finds 10. togtog: 14772 finds Africa, last year: 1. GC Putte: 10877 finds 2. Oss to: 6887 finds 3. togtog: 6686 finds 4. Wander Tante: 5291 finds 5. João Marçal, CarlaS: 5186 finds 6. luisftas: 5099 finds 7. cach-u-crew: 4031 finds 8. Mendes&Freitas: 3971 finds 9. louwtjievdw: 3514 finds 10. Ballangen: 3385 finds
+SawaSawa Posted February 18, 2016 Posted February 18, 2016 Thanks for the total finds lists Danie! Lots of good karma there!
+Danie Viljoen Posted February 19, 2016 Posted February 19, 2016 (edited) Log statistics: Part 10: Total log length per cacher The South African cachers with the largest total find log length: 1. iPajero 4843769 characters 11669 finds 416 characters/log 2. Louise_Gerhard 4704170 characters 5266 finds 894 characters/log 3. Henzz 3227097 characters 4032 finds 811 characters/log 4. Leon St 2975554 characters 4411 finds 681 characters/log 5. Wilduvo 2823343 characters 2823 finds 1008 characters/log 6. TechnoNut 2770193 characters 4359 finds 643 characters/log 7. TeamDJ* 2606114 characters 1877 finds 1392 characters/log 8. pannie&medusae 2518448 characters 2769 finds 913 characters/log 9. Wormgeocash 2454591 characters 3197 finds 776 characters/log 10. The Huskies 2235923 characters 5205 finds 439 characters/log And graphically: In spite of having more than double the finds, iPajero wrote only 3% more letters than Louise_Gerhard in total! The average of each cacher's average log length is 91 characters, and the median is 51 characters/log. (It should be interesting to see the correlation between average log length and number of finds - there definitely appears to be a strong correlation.) Next, I'll look at the number of words (and unique words) of the top log writers. Edited February 19, 2016 by Danie Viljoen
+scubie999 Posted February 20, 2016 Posted February 20, 2016 Hi Danie, I am sure this has been done before, but do you know, per cache type, the cache that has taken the longest to find perhaps per area too? Maybe the longest is still not found ?
+Danie Viljoen Posted February 20, 2016 Posted February 20, 2016 Hi Danie, I am sure this has been done before, but do you know, per cache type, the cache that has taken the longest to find perhaps per area too? Maybe the longest is still not found ? See my postings of 16 & 17 November 2015.
+scubie999 Posted February 20, 2016 Posted February 20, 2016 Thanks Danie, that was brilliant. Would love to know about caches that have eventually been found, the longest it took to find them...
+cincol Posted February 20, 2016 Posted February 20, 2016 A thought on why the log length has diminished over the years - nowadays many cachers use smartphones and hence write very short logs, especially while in the field. I don't use a phone to log and wait until I am at my computer to write a decent log. If the CO took the trouble to place the cache I take the trouble to write a decent log. My 2c worth.
+Danie Viljoen Posted March 2, 2016 Posted March 2, 2016 Log statistics: Part 11: Longest total log length: In part 10 we saw that iPajero beats Louise_Gerhard when their total number of characters used in logs are counted. If one counts words, the picture changes: 1. Louise_Gerhard: 936906 words 2. iPajero: 908485 words 3. Henzz: 636515 words 4. Leon St: 568101 words 5. TechnoNut: 520585 words 6. Wilduvo: 515891 words 7. TeamDJ*: 494769 words 8. pannie&medusae: 474439 words 9. Wormgeocash: 452665 words 10. Spesbona: 407632 words (Louise_Gerhard's total is equivalent to about 14.5 average Amazon novels!)
+Danie Viljoen Posted March 3, 2016 Posted March 3, 2016 Log statistics: Part 12: Largest vocabulary: The following cachers used the largest number of different words in their South African find logs: Unique words Reuse factor 1. iPajero: 25460 35.7 2. Henzz: 18512 34.4 3. TechnoNut: 15614 33.3 4. Antron: 14974 12.6 5. Louise_Gerhard: 13894 67.4 6. rodnjoan: 12367 30.4 7. cownchicken: 10867 16.7 8. pannie&medusae: 9303 51.0 9. The Huskies: 9256 42.9 10. Wilduvo: 8757 58.9 The last column, Reuse factor, is each cacher's total number of words divided by his number of unique words. It gives an indication of how frequently words are repeated (cut-and-paste). Smaller is better.
+Danie Viljoen Posted March 4, 2016 Posted March 4, 2016 Log statistics: Part 13: Log length vs. no. of finds In Part 10 I got the impression that there must be a correlation between the average log length and the total number of finds of a cacher; cachers with more finds write longer logs. As this graph shows, this is indeed the case, although the correlation is lower than I expected (only 0.19).
+Danie Viljoen Posted March 8, 2016 Posted March 8, 2016 Log statistics: Part 14: How much of the total logs are written by the top log writers My final posting on log statistics - the contribution of the top log writers: This means, for example, that the top 100 log writers wrote just over half, and the top 200 wrote two thirds of the total number of log words.
+Danie Viljoen Posted March 9, 2016 Posted March 9, 2016 FP statistics: Part 1: Most Favourite Points Since I last reported on this, Africa got a new favourite cache: All of Africa: 1. GC31WXR Table Mountain Travel Bug Hotel South Africa 392 FPs 2. GCDEF2 Hole in One? Canary Islands 379 FPs 3. GCXG2N Darkness - Oscuridad – Dunkelheit -Bonus Cache Canary Islands 362 FPs 4. GCHXPA El Gordo (Lost Place) Canary Islands 355 FPs 5. GC1EPYZ Fumaroles at the summit of Pico del Teide Canary Islands 320 FPs 6. GC3D4F9 Arte de Portas Abertas Madeira 300 FPs 7. GC17NCC G.C. First EarthCache: Dunas de Maspalomas Canary Islands 294 FPs 8. GC2XMPK Way to the underground Canary Islands 286 FPs 9. GC25JJJ Roque Nublo Canary Islands 227 FPs 10. GC1A4KZ CABO GIRÃO EARTHCACHE - M9 Madeira 224 FPs Africa, excluding the Canary Islands and Madeira: 1. GC31WXR Table Mountain Travel Bug Hotel South Africa 392 FPs 2. GC1956A Valley of the Kings Egypt 129 FPs 3. GC2D9WC SS: Lusitania South Africa 118 FPs 4. GC2EGK8 Giftun Egypt 118 FPs 5. GCGETW Karibu! You made it! Tanzania 115 FPs 6. GC15WWE Coloured Earths of Chamarel Mauritius 113 FPs 7. GC3WXRQ MEGA SA 2012 -Voortrekker "Uitspan" Travellers South Africa 108 FPs 8. GC2X329 Stellenbosch TB Lodge South Africa 100 FPs 9. GC1ABZK Table Mountain - Cape Town South Africa 98 FPs 10. GC19A92 Karnak Temple Egypt 87 FPs South Africa: 1. GC31WXR Table Mountain Travel Bug Hotel CapeDoc Western Cape 392 FPs 2. GC2D9WC SS: Lusitania paddawan and BoazRuthFields Western Cape 118 FPs 3. GC3WXRQ MEGA SA 2012 -Voortrekker "Uitspan" Travellers dolos Gauteng 108 FPs 4. GC2X329 Stellenbosch TB Lodge Hesamati Western Cape 100 FPs 5. GC1ABZK Table Mountain - Cape Town spuzva Western Cape 98 FPs 6. GC5CW9M MEGA Suprise heatherlisa777 Kwazulu Natal 75 FPs 7. GC2CG7X Hiddingh Security TB Hotel Mr Panda Western Cape 70 FPs 8. GCMYYZ Table Top Trove Richter Family Western Cape 65 FPs 9. GC1H9WR 2 Oceans Littleclan Western Cape 63 FPs 10. GC185 Sentinel View Prof Charles Merry Western Cape 61 FPs
+Danie Viljoen Posted March 10, 2016 Posted March 10, 2016 FP statistics: Part 2: Most FPs per province Western Cape: 1. GC31WXR Table Mountain Travel Bug Hotel CapeDoc 392 FPs 2. GC2D9WC SS: Lusitania paddawan and BoazRuthFields 118 FPs 3. GC2X329 Stellenbosch TB Lodge Hesamati 100 FPs 4. GC1ABZK Table Mountain - Cape Town spuzva 98 FPs 5. GC2CG7X Hiddingh Security TB Hotel Mr Panda 70 FPs Gauteng: 1. GC3WXRQ MEGA SA 2012 -Voortrekker "Uitspan" Travellers Inn dolos 108 FPs 2. GC1GZ0K Little Netherlands TB Hotel GEO936 59 FPs 3. GC2EX44 Curse of the FTF # 3 - Gauteng (Guardhouse) Leon St 57 FPs 4. GC3R5ER Antron's Puzzle Box I Antron 51 FPs GC3W9N8 9Icon Walk - Trek for the Voortrekker Treasure GoSA 51 FPs KZN: 1. GC5CW9M MEGA Suprise heatherlisa777 75 FPs 2. GC4QNAT Nailed! TechnoNut 50 FPs 3. GC31T77 Surprise Surprise Kwenda Tafuta 43 FPs GC4P942 Stoned heatherlisa777 43 FPs 5. GC3WBZC Caching for Dummies K-W Family 36 FPs Mpumalanga: 1. GC19QVQ Three Rondavels CrystalFairy 48 FPs 2. GC21VPM God's Window Bouts777 39 FPs 3. GC1785M Kruger National Park Carbon Hunter 37 FPs 4. GCYEJN Bourkes Maze CrystalFairy 34 FPs 5. GC1NBD2 Blyde River Canyon RedGlobe 26 FPs Eastern Cape: 1. GC20AM9 "Kerneels se klip" OLLIE.Q 42 FPs 2. GC4NNRA Port Elizabeth Airport TB Hotel erenei 33 FPs 3. GC1K62K Batman Returns TOLBOS 32 FPs 4. GC2MDP9 POOH CORNER SAFE kingrobert and custodian 31 FPs 5. GC558ZR PE Beachfront TB Hotel FireflyAfrica 28 FPs Free State: 1. GC40M7T Antron's Puzzle Box II Antron 40 FPs 2. GC20XJH Ipanema louwtjievdw 39 FPs 3. GC1WBRJ Longfinger Louwtjievdw 33 FPs 4. GC1VB68 Waterhole Antron 26 FPs GC23RQN All the fives louwtjievdw 26 FPs GC2EV9F Swart Springbok Antron 26 FPs North West: 1. GC1BTBM Tonteldoos VIII – Vredesboom RedGlobe 35 FPs 2. GCE74 Magaliesberg 1(Maanhaarrand- NW Province) Jakrsa & Elva 21 FPs 3. GC3469H TX77 varkstert 20 FPs 4. GCVDGZ Klipspringer SA Rascals 19 FPs 5. GCGYQA North West's Best View Seeker Two 17 FPs Northern Cape: 1. GC11J35 Augrabies Falls - Arrarat CrystalFairy 27 FPs 2. GC1YZMP Kimberley Big Hole HeinG 23 FPs 3. GC3DDZ5 Van der Stel Mine Oosthuysen Family 15 FPs 4. GC11TGW The Eye Starsky&Hutch 13 FPs 5. GC17HV3 Tierberg hennieventer 12 FPs GC20ETY Rock stars Sterreman 12 FPs Limpopo: 1. GC1N1VD Olifants River Overlook Me & Bucky 20 FPs 2. GC1BN77 Phalaborwa Mine Viewpoint Daan & Zena Smit 11 FPs GC25JFB Natures Rock Art RedGlobe 11 FPs 4. GC137D0 Belas Best View CrystalFairy 8 FPs GC15MJQ Mapungubwe - Black Eagle Pipit Patrol 8 FPs
+Danie Viljoen Posted March 11, 2016 Posted March 11, 2016 FP statistics: Part 3: Top archived caches In case you were looking for a good place or idea for a popular cache, the following list contains the archived South African caches with the most Favourite Points: 1. GC2X329 Stellenbosch TB Lodge Hesamati Western Cape 100 FPs 2. GC5CW9M MEGA Suprise heatherlisa777 Kwazulu Natal 75 FPs 3. GC1GZ0K Little Netherlands TB Hotel GEO936 Gauteng 59 FPs 4. GC44XCJ Size does matter paddawan Western Cape 52 FPs 5. GC1VJ3T The Piston Cup GEO936 Gauteng 33 FPs 6. GC2NYNP Puzzled Birds GEO936 Gauteng 31 FPs 7. GCW8AV Training Oceans247 Western Cape 30 FPs GC4P9A0 Documentary heatherlisa777 Kwazulu Natal 30 FPs 9. GC2KB62 Rustic, scenic, corner. DamhuisClan & Dingbat Gauteng 27 FPs GC5CG9Z True or False Sclanders Clan Kwazulu Natal 27 FPs
+Danie Viljoen Posted March 14, 2016 Posted March 14, 2016 FP statistics: Part 4: RSA cache owners with the most FPs: All caches: 1. family Behrens: 830 FPs 2. TechnoNut: 583 FPs 3. Antron: 564 FPs 4. Hesamati: 517 FPs 5. die sousies: 513 FPs 6. CapeDoc: 478 FPs 7. TeamDJ*: 447 FPs 8. Klipdrifters Trail: 438 FPs 9. GEO936: 430 FPs 10. pannie&medusae: 409 FPs Findable caches: 1. family Behrens: 737 FPs 2. TechnoNut: 553 FPs 3. die sousies: 513 FPs 4. Antron: 505 FPs 5. CapeDoc: 458 FPs 6. TeamDJ*: 443 FPs 7. pannie&medusae: 403 FPs 8. BoazRuthFields: 400 FPs 9. iPajero: 363 FPs 10. Hesamati: 341 FPs
+Danie Viljoen Posted March 15, 2016 Posted March 15, 2016 FP statistics: Part 5: Cache owners with the highest average FPs per cache: To determine which cache owners have the highest average number of FPs per cache, I only considered cache owners with at least 10 findable South African caches. (I ignored all archived and event caches.) 1. CapeDoc 458 FPs 14 caches 32.7 FPs/cache 2. TeamDJ* 443 FPs 27 caches 16.4 FPs/cache 3. Henzz 257 FPs 16 caches 16.1 FPs/cache 4. dolos 216 FPs 14 caches 15.4 FPs/cache 5. mr panda 136 FPs 10 caches 13.6 FPs/cache 6. family Behrens 737 FPs 61 caches 12.1 FPs/cache 7. paddawan 225 FPs 22 caches 10.2 FPs/cache 8. Gr8Scot 99 FPs 10 caches 9.9 FPs/cache 9. Antron 505 FPs 52 caches 9.7 FPs/cache 10. Klipdrifters Trail 312 FPs 34 caches 9.2 FPs/cache
+Danie Viljoen Posted March 18, 2016 Posted March 18, 2016 FP statistics: Part 6: Cache owners with the highest FP to Finds ratio For owners of findable South African caches (excluding events): 1. indamus 27 FPs 43 finds 1 cache 0.628 FPs/find 2. plainoldgraham 44 FPs 77 finds 7 caches 0.571 FPs/find 3. csaba.borzon 21 FPs 37 finds 1 cache 0.568 FPs/find 4. jtomcat16 77 FPs 151 finds 14 caches 0.510 FPs/find 5. Jafta 15 FPs 33 finds 3 caches 0.455 FPs/find 6. Pixel and Possum 39 FPs 105 finds 1 cache 0.371 FPs/find 7. the pooks 102 FPs 277 finds 8 caches 0.368 FPs/find 8. Geocachers of GP 19 FPs 53 finds 1 cache 0.358 FPs/find 9. Mountain Wanderer 22 FPs 62 finds 23 caches 0.355 FPs/find 10. croquetmike 23 FPs 65 finds 1 cache 0.354 FPs/find
+cincol Posted April 18, 2016 Posted April 18, 2016 Once again thanks for the stats Danie. I have recently added 2 new countries to my tally - namely Vatican State and Andorra. Unfortunately our trip to Malta was curtailed due ti extreme weather conditions! Please could you run a list of the cachers who have cached in, say, more than 10 countries? - Thanks.
+Danie Viljoen Posted April 19, 2016 Posted April 19, 2016 Please could you run a list of the cachers who have cached in, say, more than 10 countries? - Thanks. To generate such a list I would need to have access to all logs for all cachers, which I don't. I am limited to what I can collect with Pocket Queries, which at this stage only includes Africa. (Europe and/or the U.S.A. would literally require hundreds of PQs). So, only looking at African countries: 1. Carbon Hunter: 17 African countries TDupin: 17 African countries 3. msi999: 15 African countries 4. lady.manuela: 14 African countries Amarakana: 14 African countries 6. Hesamati: 13 African countries DOBRODRUH.cz: 13 African countries kilronan: 13 African countries Hid Pro Quo: 13 African countries allargreb: 13 African countries doc.schneider: 13 African countries
+ThomasFamilyZA Posted April 20, 2016 Posted April 20, 2016 Project GC has stats like countries cached in, see here: http://project-gc.com/Statistics/TopNumCountries?profile_country=South+Africa&submit=Filter
+Carbon Hunter Posted April 21, 2016 Author Posted April 21, 2016 Some global trackable stats - may interest you guys (received from HQ) Total Activated Trackables: 3051393 (869839 Travel Bugs,2181554 geocoins/other) Trackables That Have Ever Moved: 2023342 Trackables Currently in a User's Inventory: 1426739 Trackables Currently in a Cache's Inventory: 699687 Trackables Currently in a User's Collection: 460211 Trackables Marked Missing: 464756 Trackables Out of Circulation (No Logs in >1 Year):1850854 Trackables Out of Circulation but in User's Inventory: 845854 Trackables Out of Circulation but in Cache's Inventory:483567 Trackables Out of Circulation but in *Active* Cache's Inventory:299977 <-- 43% of all trackables showing in caches are thus probably not really there :( Trackables Out of Circulation but in User's Collection: 87463 Trackables Out of Circulation and Marked Missing: 402354 Trackables Logged in 2015: 1087206 Trackables Logged with Discoveries in 2015: 731142 Trackables Logged with *Only* Discoveries in 2015: 232708 Trackables Logged with All Other Movement Log Types in 2015:854498
+Danie Viljoen Posted April 21, 2016 Posted April 21, 2016 Some global trackable stats - may interest you guys (received from HQ) Fascinating! How did you get this - did you just ask Groundspeak?
+Carbon Hunter Posted April 22, 2016 Author Posted April 22, 2016 Some global trackable stats - may interest you guys (received from HQ) Fascinating! How did you get this - did you just ask Groundspeak? One of the lackeys did some analysis - he is a very active "coin-head" - so it is something close to his heart too. And I guess like you Danie - also loves stats
+Danie Viljoen Posted April 22, 2016 Posted April 22, 2016 Some global trackable stats - may interest you guys (received from HQ) A few observations on Carbon Hunter's trackables statistics: Of the roughly 3 million activated trackables, only 29% are travel bugs; the rest are coins. This surprised me, because I see many more TBs than GCs. I suspect most of the coins never travel via caches. About a third of the trackables have never moved. I assume they just sit in personal collections. (And I assume these are almost exclusively geocoins.) Only 33% of the trackables that have ever moved are currently in a cache - this is even lower than I guessed. The 43% of trackables that are shown to be in caches but which are probably not there is shocking. To me this indicates that the whole trackable system is broken.
+Danie Viljoen Posted May 9, 2016 Posted May 9, 2016 (edited) Cache type popularity over time: I thought it would be interesting to see how the present find trends compare with say 5 years ago. The following data is for South Africa, for the years 7 May 2015 to 6 May 2016, and 7 May 2010 to 6 May 2011. It shows the percentage of find logs per type. This year 5 years ago Traditional: 89.7% 86.3% Mystery: 4.4% 4.4% Multi: 1.9% 5.1% EarthCache: 1.8% 1.8% Event: 1.3% 1.7% Letterbox: 0.5% 0.3% CITO: 0.2% 0.1% Wherigo: 0.1% 0.0% Virtual: 0.1% 0.2% The only big change is for multi-caches, which shows a massive drop from 5.1% of the total 5 years ago to only 1.9% now. I am a bit surprised to see that the Event type shows a slight drop as well - there are many more events now than 5 years ago, but as a percentage of the finds total it lost popularity. Edited May 9, 2016 by Danie Viljoen
+Danie Viljoen Posted May 11, 2016 Posted May 11, 2016 Cache type popularity over time, part 2: Another way to measure cache type popularity is to look at the number of active caches of each type. Once again, the following is for South African caches which have been found during the last year and 5 years ago, respectively: It is more revealing to look at the percentage increase of each type: (The average increase was 138%, in other words there are now 2.38 times as many active caches as 5 years ago.)
+Danie Viljoen Posted May 12, 2016 Posted May 12, 2016 Cache type popularity over time, part 3: The following graph shows the average number of finds per cache type, for the same periods as before: The average for this year is 14.4 finds/cache, vs. 14.8 finds/cache 5 years ago. A total of 9525 cachers logged at least one find this year, vs. 2833 five years ago. So even though the number of cachers increased 3.36 times vs. 2.38 times for the number of caches, the average number of finds/cache dropped. The average number of finds/cacher was 18.9 this year, vs. 27.5 five years ago. (31% fewer). I don't have a good theory for this - maybe more single find cachers than ever?
+Danie Viljoen Posted May 13, 2016 Posted May 13, 2016 Find distribution: This year vs. 5 years ago: Yesterday we saw that although the number of cachers increased much more than the number of caches, the average number of yearly finds per cache has dropped. The next graph explains why: What this means is that 5 years ago, 21% of the cachers logged only a single find, vs. 25% this year. 10% logged 2 finds five years ago, vs. 14% this year. Five years ago, 61% of all South African cachers logged more than 3 finds; this year only 52% did. The opposite is true for large numbers of finds; generally a larger percentage of cachers logged these 5 years ago than during the last year. (See also the next graph.) The same graph, but on a logarithmic scale: Here one can see that the crossover point is at about 8 finds.
+Danie Viljoen Posted May 16, 2016 Posted May 16, 2016 Container size popularity over time: The following graph shows the number of finds per size, for South African caches 5 years ago as well as for the last year: Relatively speaking, the percentage of Micro finds increased by more than 9% over the last 5 years. This came at the cost of mainly Small and Regular finds. One should not draw the wrong conclusion here - Micros are not really now 43 times more popular than Large caches as this graph may seem to indicate. Although popularity does play a role, I am quite sure availability is the dominating factor here. I'll look into this next.
+Danie Viljoen Posted May 17, 2016 Posted May 17, 2016 Container size availability over time: South African caches, found 5 years ago and during the last year, respectively: Size 5 years ago This year Increase Micro 1828 5723 213% Small 2247 4761 112% Other 249 1439 478% Regular 1027 1305 27% Not chosen 292 317 9% Large 49 142 190% Virtual 8 8 0% All 5700 13695 140% As can be seen, this graph almost exactly mirrors yesterday's graph of finds during the same periods.
+Danie Viljoen Posted May 18, 2016 Posted May 18, 2016 (edited) Container size popularity over time, Part 3: I am still looking for an indicator that some container sizes may be preferred by finders. Yesterday we saw that the number of finds per container size were highly correlated with availability - because many more micros are placed than say Large caches, consequently many more micros are found. Let us see what happens if we compare apples with apples (or Micro with Micro!). The following graph shows the average number of (South African) finds for each size category, 5 years ago and last year: I find this graph very interesting. The only category that maintained its find rate over the last 5 years is Regular, but strangely enough, it still comes in dead last! I suspect the reason for the relatively low find rate of Regular caches is that they are not rare enough to be specially searched out, but too big for the cities, where most of the finders are. I suspect the reason for the high find rate of Virtual caches is their rarity, and maybe because they are mostly at tourist attractions. Edited May 18, 2016 by Danie Viljoen
+Danie Viljoen Posted May 19, 2016 Posted May 19, 2016 Cache type popularity, Part 4: To conclude this series, the fairest measure of popularity is probably to compare the average number of Favourite Points of each cache type. In the following graph I only considered South African caches which have been found during the past year. (Keep in mind that FPs can't be awarded to Events.) Except for Virtual, which I suspect benefits from its rarity, we see the typical effect that the harder one has to work for a cache, the more it is appreciated. The other anomaly is Letterbox, which surprised me with its high average number of FPs.
+Danie Viljoen Posted May 20, 2016 Posted May 20, 2016 Cache size popularity, Part 4: Comparing the average number of Favourite Points of different cache sizes, for South African caches found durint the past year: From this graph it looks quite clear that the larger cache sizes are appreciated more. (On average, a Large cache gets 9 times more FPs than a Micro!) So if you are after FPs, a large Wherigo cache looks like the way to go!
+Carbon Hunter Posted June 27, 2016 Author Posted June 27, 2016 My useless stat for the day: It has been more than a month since danie posted any stats - that is probably the longest gap since 2007
+Carbon Hunter Posted June 27, 2016 Author Posted June 27, 2016 Seriously - we now have 341 active Earthcaches in south Africa! W Cape = 83 KZN = 61 E Cape = 56 Gauteng = 46 Moumalanga = 43 N Cape = 20 Limpopo = 18 North West = 8 Free State = 6
+Carbon Hunter Posted June 27, 2016 Author Posted June 27, 2016 Congratulations to Eastern Cape - you have just broken the 2000 active caches mark.
+Danie Viljoen Posted June 28, 2016 Posted June 28, 2016 It has been more than a month since danie posted any stats - that is probably the longest gap since 2007 Not quite, but your baiting worked! Finds rank: The following graph shows the number of South African finds for each cacher rank, for the past year. (The no. 1 cacher, Panters, logged 1975 South African finds!) A total of 9562 cachers logged at least one find during the year 2064 cachers logged at least 12 finds (my arbitrary measure of "active" cachers). The top 100 cachers, on a linear scale: The top 5 are apparently chasing targets; the rest are more uniformly distributed
+Danie Viljoen Posted June 29, 2016 Posted June 29, 2016 Finds vs. rank, multi-year: The following is the same as for yesterday, but showing previous years as well:
+Danie Viljoen Posted June 30, 2016 Posted June 30, 2016 Most African (and South African) finds for the past year: 1. Panters: 1975 2. GorNat: 1576 3. bergbokkie: 1404 4. SKATTIE@1: 1351 5. iPajero: 1337 6. SpiderFinder: 1016 7. terunkie: 985 8. fiebs team: 977 9. ChrisDen: 973 10. waydom: 949 Most African (and South African) finds for the past 3 months: 1. iPajero: 882 2. cownchicken: 521 3. Jansenators: 431 4. L S N: 430 5. GorNat: 421 6. terunkie: 414 7. Urban Campers: 401 8. TinkerbellMagic: 378 9. TechnoNut: 371 10. SpiderFinder: 369 Most South African finds during the past month: 1. iPajero: 296 2. L S N: 175 3. ChrisDen: 172 4. cownchicken: 133 5. lingming: 133 6. Geelvink: 129 7. Katoolsie: 114 8. Katarn1977: 108 9. Oryx ZA: 107 10. Worsed: 103
+Delbadore Posted June 30, 2016 Posted June 30, 2016 (edited) Very interesting. Thanks for the cool stats Danie! I was wondering if you can generate these stats: Of the 2064 cachers who found at least 12 caches in the last year, how many of them had a find in each month of the year? I am often quite busy but always make sure that I find at least 1 cache every month and I wonder how many cachers do the same. Also, is it possible to generate these same stats to apply since the beginning of their caching career? Would be interesting to see who has maintained at least one find a month since their very first find . Edited June 30, 2016 by Delbadore
+Danie Viljoen Posted July 1, 2016 Posted July 1, 2016 I was wondering if you can generate these stats: Of the 2064 cachers who found at least 12 caches in the last year, how many of them had a find in each month of the year? I am often quite busy but always make sure that I find at least 1 cache every month and I wonder how many cachers do the same. Also, is it possible to generate these same stats to apply since the beginning of their caching career? Would be interesting to see who has maintained at least one find a month since their very first find . I am sure this can be done, but my knowledge of SQLite is not sufficient to generate this type of query. Sorry!
+Danie Viljoen Posted July 1, 2016 Posted July 1, 2016 Most South African caches placed during the past year: 1. Panters: 202 2. PieterM: 96 3. SKATTIE@1: 76 4. Sokkies73: 69 5. Andredj: 56 6. iPajero: 53 Boats007: 53 8. ephyfer: 51 9. Evolutionaries: 49 10. WÅLDO: 46 I find it remarkable that no less than 3 of the past year's top 10 cache finders appear on this list (Panters, SKATTIE@1 and iPajero), and Panters tops both lists by a wide margin!
+Danie Viljoen Posted July 11, 2016 Posted July 11, 2016 iPajero: Our no. 1 team currently stands on 15127 finds, of which 12960 have been in South Africa. If one considers that South Africa currently has 12969 findable caches, this is a truly remarkable number. (Of course many of their finds are on caches that are now archived.) They found their first cache on 18 Nov. 2006, and their career average is 4.3 finds/day or 1568 finds/year over 9.6 years! Worldwide, I suspect Alamogul is the no. 1 team, with 144913 finds since 3 Nov. 2002, at an average rate of 29 finds/day or 10588 finds/year over more than 13 years. The mind boggles - I have no idea how that is even possible.
+Danie Viljoen Posted July 13, 2016 Posted July 13, 2016 Number of cachers over time: The following graph shows the total number of cachers who have logged at least one find in a year in South Africa, as well as the number of active cachers (those who have found at least 12 caches in that particular year): The number peaked at the end of 2015; it has been going downhill since then - a worrying trend! For the active cachers it looks even worse - their number peaked in the middle of 2015, a year ago. The following graph shows the number of active cachers as a percentage of the total number of cachers:
+Thrips Posted July 13, 2016 Posted July 13, 2016 Thanks for all the stats Danie, it has been a while since visiting the stats page and I enjoyed going through everything I have missed. Could you perhaps give and update on the top 10 or 20 cachers who have cached in the most counties in SA, please?
+Danie Viljoen Posted July 14, 2016 Posted July 14, 2016 Could you perhaps give and update on the top 10 or 20 cachers who have cached in the most counties in SA, please? I see at least 3 of the district municipalities must have had name changes since I last ran this query; I'll have to fix it first. To save me time, can somebody please let me know what the changes were?
+Danie Viljoen Posted July 18, 2016 Posted July 18, 2016 Could you perhaps give and update on the top 10 or 20 cachers who have cached in the most counties in SA, please? Most District Municipalities found: 1. iPajero: 52 rodnjoan: 52 TechnoNut: 52 terunkie: 52 Porky2: 52 Cherokee.za: 52 miking: 52 8. Geelvink: 49 9. cownchicken: 48 Danie Viljoen: 48 11. Louise_Gerhard: 47 GorNat: 47 Tricky Vicky & Mickey: 47 DiePienaars: 47 Hesamati: 47 16. dolos: 45 Fish Eagle: 45 B and C Inc: 45 19. Leon St: 44 mart514: 44
+Carbon Hunter Posted August 23, 2016 Author Posted August 23, 2016 Danie - any chance of an update on the number of trackables and coins in circulation in SA currently. I would imagine that is also seeing a downward trend?
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