+Carbon Hunter Posted January 18, 2020 Share Posted January 18, 2020 Danie - you are a legend! Thank you once again 1 1 Quote Link to comment
+ChrisDen Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 Yep. Agree. Waiting to see the number of cachers that logged their first cache in 2019. 1 Quote Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted January 20, 2020 Author Share Posted January 20, 2020 2019 Statistics, part 7: Finds per country The first graph shows the top 3 countries in Africa: It appears as if the Canary Islands (currently no. 1 in Africa) has also passed its peak. The following graph shows the next 9 African countries: 1 Quote Link to comment
+Delbadore Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 On 1/17/2020 at 9:42 AM, Danie Viljoen said: There are a number of problems which complicate the statistics of Favourite Points. One of them is that there is no record of when and where a FP has been logged. I can not go back and figure out which caches had how many FP's at a specific time in the past. Another problem is that it is quite a lengthy process to update the FPs of the full database - it takes 3 days. For that reason I take a snapshot at year-end and save it for future use. (Because it takes so long I can also never be 100% sure that it is up to date, because by the time I reach the end the first caches may have new FPs that I will miss.) Thanks for clarifying. It's a pity that it's quite difficult to generate comprehensive stats about Favourite points. Quote Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted January 23, 2020 Author Share Posted January 23, 2020 2019 Statistics, part 8: Most finds during 2019 South African finds: 1. iPajero 1946 finds 2. Snotx2 1011 finds 3. pieterix 1000 finds 4. Fish Eagle 935 finds 5. terunkie 889 finds 6. TeamTatoo 850 finds 7. StrickFam 795 finds 8. Panters 729 finds 9. ChrisDen 686 finds 10. rodnjoan 667 finds African finds: 1. iPajero 1946 finds 2. Snotx2 1011 finds 3. pieterix 1000 finds 4. Fish Eagle 935 finds 5. terunkie 900 finds 6. TeamTatoo 850 finds 7. StrickFam 795 finds 8. Panters 730 finds 9. ChrisDen 695 finds 10. rodnjoan 667 finds 1 Quote Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted April 14, 2020 Author Share Posted April 14, 2020 (edited) The effect of COVID-19 on the find rates in Africa (and South Africa): It is interesting that only 2 days have 0 finds in South Africa: 29 March and 5 April. Not sure how it is possible! (The rest of Africa has not had a 0 finds day yet.) The previous day with 0 finds was on 22 September 2005, 14.5 years ago! Africa started declining a good 10 days before South Africa - probably because of earlier lockdowns in Morocco and the Spanish areas (mainly the Canary Islands). Edited April 14, 2020 by Danie Viljoen 1 1 Quote Link to comment
+pieterix Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 (edited) I picked up quite a few finds during the lock down period, but suspect a lot of them were simply logs created on the wrong date, given that the official app doesn't allow one to change the date. Or maybe it's people playing dumb and simply logging on the wrong date to fill daily calendars, ie. being aspris. Here's all finds in South Africa since the lock down started: Project-GC. Edited April 14, 2020 by pieterix addition of link Quote Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted April 14, 2020 Author Share Posted April 14, 2020 (edited) 33 cachers found a total of 67 caches during the first 19 days of the lockdown in South Africa. Most of these were found by a German tourist. Edited April 14, 2020 by Danie Viljoen 1 Quote Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted April 15, 2020 Author Share Posted April 15, 2020 The effect of COVID-19 on the number of new caches in Africa and South Africa: The following graph shows the daily number of new caches, averaged over a week: The first decline started on 9 March, followed by another big decline on 24 March (when the lockdown started in South Africa). Surprisingly there are still new caches being published (mostly events). 1 Quote Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted July 7, 2020 Author Share Posted July 7, 2020 The effect of COVID-19 on the find rates in Africa (and South Africa): The following is an updated view of the number of finds during the COVID-19 period: The yellow line shows the number of finds for the corresponding dates last year. We are currently at about 40% of last year's find rate. There were 4 days with 0 finds in South Africa: 29 March, 5 April, 13 April and 14 April The lowest number of finds in Africa was 5, on 30 March 1 1 Quote Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted July 8, 2020 Author Share Posted July 8, 2020 Most South African finds during the lockdown period: The following cachers found the most South African caches since the start of the lockdown period (27 March) up to 7 July: 1. ManKub: 447 finds 2. LeAdBall: 159 finds 3. StrickFam: 141 finds 4. ChrisDen: 119 finds 5. k j: 106 finds 6. Snotx2: 84 finds 7. Strandlopers w&e: 71 finds 8. rashman5: 70 finds 9. Namibseun: 65 finds 10. kashmander13490: 60 finds Total number of South African finds during the lockdown period: 1 1 Quote Link to comment
+Delbadore Posted July 11, 2020 Share Posted July 11, 2020 Interesting, thanks for the updated stats! I was very surprised to see a cacher find over 400 caches over the lockdown! It seems to be a new handle splitting off from waydom, who is catching up with logging all the past finds. I'm curious to know how many cachers have found a cache during the lockdown and how many cachers found their first cache during this time? Quote Link to comment
+ChrisDen Posted July 12, 2020 Share Posted July 12, 2020 (edited) From looking at the graph it appears of very few caches were find during the stage 4 lockdown and most were found after the amended stage 3 regulations. We have seen lots of new cachers in our area since the relaxation of the regulations. #2 to #7 are all in our area after the relaxation of level3. New 100 cache power trail Edited July 12, 2020 by ChrisDen Quote Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted July 12, 2020 Author Share Posted July 12, 2020 On 7/11/2020 at 8:53 PM, Delbadore said: I'm curious to know how many cachers have found a cache during the lockdown and how many cachers found their first cache during this time? A total of 1002 cachers found at least one cache during the period 27 March to 10 July. Surprisingly, 443 of these cachers found their first South African cache during this same period. 1 Quote Link to comment
+Delbadore Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 That's very cool! We know that most newbies do not continue but perhaps a few will stay in the game and become regulars . Quote Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted July 15, 2020 Author Share Posted July 15, 2020 Most caches placed during the lockdown period: During the period 27 March to 12 July 2020, 66 cachers have placed at least one cache in South Africa, and the total number of new caches is 261. During the same period last year, 568 new caches were placed by 155 cachers. Top cache planters: 1. Snotx2: 65 2. k j: 32 3. Skurwejantjies: 15 4. Desertal: 12 5. Adventure_T: 9 1 Quote Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted July 17, 2020 Author Share Posted July 17, 2020 Centroid: The centroid of all active South African caches is currently at S30 09.905 E26 02.409, which is 29km east of Trompsburg in the southern Free State. The closest cache is GC19JT3 Louw Weppener. The earliest centroid I calculated was on 8 October 2013, when it was at S29 13.290 E26 41.972. It moved 122km to the south west in the past 7 years, corresponding to the relative bigger growth of the number of caches in the Western Cape. Quote Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted July 18, 2020 Author Share Posted July 18, 2020 (edited) African Centroid: The centroid of all active African caches is at S17 37.931 E19 39.420, which is in southern Angola, just north of the border with Namibia. It is about 33km north of Rundu. The closest active cache is 138.3km away, GC7C4X6 Trees of Africa - Camel Thorn. Edited July 18, 2020 by Danie Viljoen Quote Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted July 20, 2020 Author Share Posted July 20, 2020 (edited) Number of Virtual caches in South Africa over time: Edited July 20, 2020 by Danie Viljoen 1 Quote Link to comment
+Spesbona Posted July 26, 2020 Share Posted July 26, 2020 Back in the day we had to drive a long way to find our first virtual. Now there is one around every corner. Great stuff. Quote Link to comment
+ChrisDen Posted July 27, 2020 Share Posted July 27, 2020 Virtually around every corner :-) 2 Quote Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted August 17, 2020 Author Share Posted August 17, 2020 Top cache finders: The following cachers have found the most South African caches: 1. iPajero: 18497 2. The Huskies: 8626 3. rodnjoan: 8060 4. terunkie: 6989 5. Geelvink: 6963 6. SKATTIE@1: 6781 7. GorNat: 6663 8. ChrisDen: 6654 9. Louise_Gerhard: 6597 10. cownchicken: 6503 11. Henzz: 5994 12. PieterM: 5970 13. Leon St: 5597 14. Antron: 5546 15. pieterix: 5533 16. dolos: 5495 17. Wikkelgat: 5260 18. Thrips: 5236 19. Spesbona: 5188 20. TechnoNut: 5062 Quote Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted August 18, 2020 Author Share Posted August 18, 2020 Top cache hiders: The following are the top hiders of South African caches of all time: 1. PieterM: 503 2. iPajero: 370 3. Fish Eagle: 339 4. SKATTIE@1: 333 5. Panthera03: 328 6. Adventure_T: 318 7. Panters: 299 8. ChrisDen: 294 9. Enigma_DKL: 262 10. TechnoNut: 256 11. SawaSawa: 251 12. Snotx2: 250 13. GEO936: 231 14. Wazat: 229 15. Leon St: 227 Quote Link to comment
+Spesbona Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 Interesting to see some names appear in both hide and find lists. For some reason I thought there would be a bigger correlation between the two. Quote Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted August 19, 2020 Author Share Posted August 19, 2020 Top finders during the lockdown: The following cachers have found the most South African caches during the period 27 March 2020 to 18 August 2020: 1. ManKub: 455 2. Uncharted_za: 213 3. LeAdBall: 185 4. MissShcroft: 176 5. StrickFam: 166 6. golden-girls: 163 7. iPajero: 137 8. Snotx2: 133 9. Theon06: 127 10. ChrisDen: 123 Quote Link to comment
+Carbon Hunter Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 So good to see the name TECHNONUT still very much on both finders and hiders list - RIP Pete Quote Link to comment
+Carbon Hunter Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 I guess the Lockdown months are now going to be some of the hardest (after 2001/2002) to find caches that were hidden - especially in SA? Is there any way to do a correlation of when our experienced cachers (say >100 finds) found their first find and were converted to experienced cachers - and also how many cachers have been regular finders over at least a 2 -3 year period. I really believe that to keep our game sustainable we need more cachers - then the hides / finds / events / etc. follow organically. Quote Link to comment
+ChrisDen Posted September 8, 2020 Share Posted September 8, 2020 There are a significant number of new cachers every year that disappear very quickly. We need to find a way to turn some of those into long term cachers. Quote Link to comment
+Spesbona Posted September 9, 2020 Share Posted September 9, 2020 On 9/8/2020 at 7:07 AM, ChrisDen said: There are a significant number of new cachers every year that disappear very quickly. We need to find a way to turn some of those into long term cachers. Social media platforms is a gateway for newbies to the hobby. It is alarming to see dirty laundry being washed out there. The obsession of some people to try and tell others how to cache is not helping. Quote Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted November 5, 2020 Author Share Posted November 5, 2020 Number of cachers and active cachers in South Africa: During the year 4 Nov 2019 to 3 Nov 2020 there were a total of 6283 cachers who found at least one cache in South Africa. Of these, 1100 (17.5%) found at least 12 caches (my arbitrary measure of an "active" cacher). 1780 (28.3%) found only a single cache during the year. (It must be noted that the lockdown period probably distorted these numbers.) There were a total of 74161 finds during the year. (An average of 11.8 finds/cacher, which is surprisingly high) If one only looks at the active cachers (those with 12 or more finds), then the average is 52 finds/cacher. Over all time, there had been 48558 cachers who found at least one cache in South Africa. 5896 cachers (12.1%) found only a single cache in South Africa. Their total number of finds is 1530626, for an average of 31.5 finds/cacher. 1 Quote Link to comment
+ChrisDen Posted November 5, 2020 Share Posted November 5, 2020 Do you have the number of new cachers over the previous 12 months? Quote Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted February 1, 2021 Author Share Posted February 1, 2021 2020 Statistics, part 1: New caches 1436 new caches were placed in South Africa during 2020, 27% fewer than in 2019 (and 52% fewer than the peak in 2016). This is an average of 3.92 new caches per day (vs. 8.15 per day in 2016). Quote Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted February 2, 2021 Author Share Posted February 2, 2021 2020 Statistics, part 2: Finds During 2020 only 70027 caches were found in South Africa, 30% fewer than in 2019, and 65% fewer than the peak in 2016. The effect of the lockdown is clearly visible! This gives an average of 191 finds per day (vs. 542 per day in 2016). Quote Link to comment
+Delbadore Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 Wow, thanks for the interesting stats! Indeed, caching popularity has dropped these past few years and Covid-19 has also added to this. What is a big concern too is a drop in owner maintenance - fewer caches are being placed and caches are also falling to the wayside without maintenance. I remember when the resuscitator challenge was popular (finding a cache that hasn't been found in more than a year). Now there are plenty of caches that fit this criteria! Can you perhaps generate some stats on find frequencies lately? 1 Quote Link to comment
+Delbadore Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 Danie, hope you will spoil us with more stats soon Quote Link to comment
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