+Danie Viljoen Posted June 18, 2019 Author Share Posted June 18, 2019 South African cache owners with the most finds on their caches: 1. BoazRuthFields 22764 finds 2. GEO936 20179 finds 3. Leon St 19243 finds 4. die sousies 18291 finds 5. NotBlonde 15625 finds 6. HeinG 14356 finds 7. Louwtjie&Vroutjie 13588 finds 8. SKATTIE@1 13565 finds 9. pannie&medusae 13352 finds 10. Panters 12895 finds Together these 10 cache owners have received 11.6% of all the find logs in South Africa. 1 Quote Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted June 19, 2019 Author Share Posted June 19, 2019 South African cache owners with the most finds on their caches during the past year: 1. Panthera03 2728 2. ChrisDen 2027 3. BoazRuthFields 1945 4. AdieA 1934 5. Adventure_T 1792 6. SpiderFinder 1737 7. WeItZfAmIlY 1705 8. Sokkies73 1593 9. SKATTIE@1 1534 10. NeoNaartjies 1493 These 10 cache owners received 16.7% of all the find logs in South Africa during the past year. 1 Quote Link to comment
+M²C²D Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 3 hours ago, Danie Viljoen said: South African cache owners with the most finds on their caches during the past year: 1. Panthera03 2728 2. ChrisDen 2027 3. BoazRuthFields 1945 4. AdieA 1934 5. Adventure_T 1792 6. SpiderFinder 1737 7. WeItZfAmIlY 1705 8. Sokkies73 1593 9. SKATTIE@1 1534 10. NeoNaartjies 1493 These 10 cache owners received 16.7% of all the find logs in South Africa during the past year. Hi Danie, Question from our KZN FB page: "Does past year mean 2018 or so far this year?" 1 1 Quote Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted June 19, 2019 Author Share Posted June 19, 2019 1 hour ago, M²C²D said: Does past year mean 2018 or so far this year? It means the year 10 June 2018 to 9 June 2019. Quote Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted June 20, 2019 Author Share Posted June 20, 2019 South African cache owners with the highest average number of finds on their caches: (I only considered cache owners with at least 10 caches.) 1. McCuties 11 caches 1875 finds 170.5 finds/cache 2. mr panda 20 caches 3247 finds 162.4 finds/cache 3. j3caching 10 caches 1616 finds 161.6 finds/cache 4. AndyT1 23 caches 3657 finds 159.0 finds/cache 5. MeganZA 10 caches 1571 finds 157.1 finds/cache 6. jonoafrica 40 caches 6151 finds 153.8 finds/cache 7. Littleclan 12 caches 1790 finds 149.2 finds/cache 8. Schmore 24 caches 3417 finds 142.4 finds/cache 9. sy-chispa 38 caches 5271 finds 138.7 finds/cache 10. geko4 24 caches 3327 finds 138.6 finds/cache 1 Quote Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted June 21, 2019 Author Share Posted June 21, 2019 African cache owners with the most finds on their caches: For all time, on African caches: 1. GC Putte 71580 2. luisftas 61325 3. Oss to 51463 4. Mendes&Freitas 50619 5. togtog 39334 6. ricardomariagoncas 32079 7. cach-u-crew 29749 8. _KIKERO 28638 9. lacruz18 27704 10. Ballangen 26502 11. Cidinho & Lia 24553 12. BoazRuthFields 22755 13. GEO936 20630 14. Leon St 19229 15. die sousies 18285 The first 11 are all based in the Canary Islands and Madeira. The first 10 received 12% of all find logs in Africa. For the year 10 June 2018 to 9 June 2019: 1. GC Putte 14767 2. Oss to 11878 3. cach-u-crew 6985 4. togtog 6866 5. Mendes&Freitas 6545 6. luisftas 5072 7. Cidinho & Lia 4827 8. _KIKERO 4723 9. GeoMadeira 4293 10. hachri1965 3695 11. LaFleche974 3479 12. Carolina_Silva 3108 13. peter_55 3015 14. BongoUlli 2822 15. Panthera03 2728 The first South African comes in at no. 15. The first 10 received 17.7% of all the find logs in Africa for the year. 1 Quote Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted June 24, 2019 Author Share Posted June 24, 2019 Most caches found in Africa: 1. iPajero 17990 2. The Huskies 8083 3. rodnjoan 7729 4. Geelvink 6705 5. cownchicken 6642 6. GorNat 6639 7. SKATTIE@1 6504 8. Louise_Gerhard 6458 9. terunkie 6358 10. ChrisDen 6336 Most caches found in South Africa: 1. iPajero 17732 2. The Huskies 7897 3. rodnjoan 7659 4. Geelvink 6705 5. GorNat 6634 6. SKATTIE@1 6504 7. cownchicken 6495 8. Louise_Gerhard 6424 9. terunkie 6295 10. ChrisDen 6232 1 1 Quote Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted June 26, 2019 Author Share Posted June 26, 2019 Most African caches found (excluding South Africa): 1. Mendes&Freitas 1971 2. Radler! 1858 3. keper 1775 4. Humlos 1758 5. TatiyPedro 1754 6. Butyo 1748 7. Cidinho & Lia 1741 8. dandrade 1740 9. Dríade 1737 10. tojoliveira 1733 11. Familiaornelas 1677 12. dameblanche 1673 13. cach-u-crew 1659 14. paulocasca 1645 15. RRV1982 1619 The South African cacher with the most finds in the rest of Africa is iPajero with 259, coming in at position 881. 1 Quote Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted June 28, 2019 Author Share Posted June 28, 2019 Most finds in each province: Gauteng: 5373 rodnjoan Western Cape: 5155 terunkie KZN: 3784 iPajero Eastern Cape: 3190 iPajero Mpumalanga: 1281 iPajero Free State: 832 iPajero North West: 467 iPajero Limpopo: 344 iPajero Northern Cape: 241 iPajero Not only is iPajero tops in 7 of the 9 provinces, they are no. 2 in Gauteng and no. 9 in the Western Cape! 1 Quote Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted July 1, 2019 Author Share Posted July 1, 2019 Most finds in Gauteng: All time: 1. rodnjoan 5373 2. iPajero 4650 3. Leon St 4058 4. GorNat 3738 5. Geelvink 3707 6. Louise_Gerhard 3648 7. JanMich 3647 8. dolos 3373 9. Antron 3300 10. SpiderFinder 3265 The last 12 months: 1. Eksteen 625 2. Panters 568 3. DivanOli4 487 4. pieterix 486 5. Andredj 484 6. TEAM SCHUTTE 481 7. za pienaar family 463 8. ephyfer 449 9. D_illigaf 415 10. rodnjoan 409 1 Quote Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted July 2, 2019 Author Share Posted July 2, 2019 Most finds in the Western Cape: All time: 1. terunkie 5155 2. The Huskies 5025 3. cownchicken 4619 4. PieterM 4029 5. SKATTIE@1 3925 6. Henzz 3375 7. Andredj 3324 8. pieterix 3204 9. iPajero 2942 10. battlerat and pussycat 2862 The last 12 months: 1. pieterix 499 2. terunkie 430 3. Andredj 382 4. The Huskies 342 5. Evolutionaries 284 6. SKATTIE@1 260 7. tjoklits 235 8. ephyfer 216 9. Fuzzyducktravels 213 10. Adventure_T 210 Quote Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted July 3, 2019 Author Share Posted July 3, 2019 Most finds in KZN: All time: 1. iPajero 3784 2. TechnoNut 3091 3. M²C²D 2547 4. Ninja Nano 2378 5. Eagle Eyed 2366 6. Geocaching Genie 2358 7. Strong_Boy 2357 8. Beetles and Bentleys 2285 9. D_illigaf 2190 10. waydom 2070 The last 12 months: 1. iPajero 924 2. LL_cool_J 735 3. Strong_Boy 673 4. WeItZfAmIlY 392 5. Geocaching Genie 373 Ninja Nano 373 7. Eagle Eyed 371 8. M²C²D 364 9. N00n3atall 336 10. WÅLDO 335 Quote Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted July 12, 2019 Author Share Posted July 12, 2019 Karma, part 1: Of the 43356 unique cachers who have logged at least one cache in South Africa, only 2379 own at least one cache in South Africa. That is 5.5% (1 in 18). Quote Link to comment
+ChrisDen Posted July 12, 2019 Share Posted July 12, 2019 9 hours ago, Danie Viljoen said: Karma, part 1: Of the 43356 unique cachers who have logged at least one cache in South Africa, only 2379 own at least one cache in South Africa. That is 5.5% (1 in 18). That is an unexpected stat Quote Link to comment
+Spesbona Posted July 13, 2019 Share Posted July 13, 2019 On 7/12/2019 at 1:11 PM, Danie Viljoen said: Karma, part 1: Of the 43356 unique cachers who have logged at least one cache in South Africa, only 2379 own at least one cache in South Africa. That is 5.5% (1 in 18). I would assume that a good portion of them might be tourists? Quote Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted July 15, 2019 Author Share Posted July 15, 2019 On 7/13/2019 at 6:40 PM, Spesbona said: I would assume that a good portion of them might be tourists? Yes, but how many is almost impossible to determine Quote Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted July 15, 2019 Author Share Posted July 15, 2019 Karma, part 2: Of the 43356 unique cachers who have logged at least one cache in South Africa, only 1397 have a karma > 1, i.e. have more finds on their owned caches than they have finds. In other words, 3.2% (1 in 31) of the cachers carry the rest. Quote Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted July 16, 2019 Author Share Posted July 16, 2019 Karma, part 3: Karma: The ratio between the total number of finds on one's owned caches to the total number of own finds. Per definition the 94.5% of South African cachers who do not own caches have a karma of 0. The cachers with the highest karma are: 1. WeItZfAmIlY 153.5 2. daanzena 104.1 3. Schmore 100.9 4. PikkeVis 80.3 5. cenea10 69.9 6. MovingHamster 65.2 7. GoSA 55.5 8. Peter Scholtz 51.6 9. OLLIE.Q 51.4 10. die sousies 51.2 (I only considered cache owners with at least 10 finds) Quote Link to comment
+Sokkies73 Posted July 16, 2019 Share Posted July 16, 2019 Statistics I would like to see, but it might be to much of a challenge...With every event one tends to see the same Regulars and it is very seldom that one will see newbies attending events. In Cape Town it is the case. But then I see an increase of newbies finding my urban caches.I have learned alot from senior cachers and cachers joining these ranks tend to stay long term committed cachers, join the various Facebook pages and become Regulars. Would love to see the growth in members on the various GeoCaching Facebook pages compared the growth in cachers in the same timeframe or a year to year comparison.... Quote Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted July 17, 2019 Author Share Posted July 17, 2019 9 hours ago, Sokkies73 said: Would love to see the growth in members on the various GeoCaching Facebook pages compared the growth in cachers in the same timeframe or a year to year comparison.... Two problems with this: I am not a member of all the Geocaching Facebook pages I do not know of a way to retrospectively determine the number of members at any past date. Quote Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted July 17, 2019 Author Share Posted July 17, 2019 14 hours ago, Sokkies73 said: Would love to see the growth in members on the various GeoCaching Facebook pages compared the growth in cachers in the same timeframe or a year to year comparison.... I am somewhat skeptical about a strong correlation between membership of Facebook caching groups and cacher longevity. I am not saying I am a typical Facebook user, but I am currently subscribed to 25 groups (mostly not caching related), of which I actively read the postings of about 5 of them. Quote Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted July 18, 2019 Author Share Posted July 18, 2019 Karma, part 4: One problem with karma as it is defined is that it only works for cache owners (which, as we have seen, are only 5.5% of all the South African cachers.) What if we simply subtract the number of own finds from finds on owned caches? That should give one an indication from how far in the green (positive) or red (negative) you are: 1. BoazRuthFields 20756 2. GEO936 18604 3. die sousies 17961 4. NotBlonde 14071 5. Leon St 13874 6. Louwtjie&Vroutjie 11432 7. SawaSawa 10831 8. pannie&medusae 10375 9. HeinG 10012 10. CrystalFairy 9819 . . 43347. JanMich -3059 43348. dolos -3080 43349. divmango -3103 43350. bergbokkie -3424 43351. mart514 -3690 43352. pieterix -3849 43353. GorNat -4996 43354. terunkie -5310 43355. iPajero -5693 43356. rodnjoan -6328 This should not be seen as a shame list (especially the second half). The cachers at the bottom of this list are there because of their massively high find numbers. 1 Quote Link to comment
+Sokkies73 Posted July 18, 2019 Share Posted July 18, 2019 Thanks Danie, just curious, and would love to know the recipe for getting that newbies to our event... Live your stats, keep up the good work! ? Quote Link to comment
+Spesbona Posted July 18, 2019 Share Posted July 18, 2019 Karma is one of those stats that you can do only so much to improve. Placing caches, even quality ones, only get you so far. Living in an active caching community, or an area visited by lots of tourists is of course ideal. The other, more drastic step is of course to cache less, but who would want to do that. Quote Link to comment
+Sokkies73 Posted July 18, 2019 Share Posted July 18, 2019 (edited) True Spesbona, for the past three years I am among the top 10 in the country for finds on my caches, but my karma still looks crap. How do one improve your karma? Edited July 18, 2019 by Sokkies73 Quote Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted July 18, 2019 Author Share Posted July 18, 2019 4 hours ago, Sokkies73 said: for the past three years I am among the top 3 in the country for finds on my caches, but my karma still looks crap. How do one improve your karma? Karma is the number of finds on your caches divided by your own finds. For a higher karma you will need more finds on your caches and/or fewer personal finds. Personally I don’t worry too much about my karma, as long as it is more than 1. Quote Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted July 24, 2019 Author Share Posted July 24, 2019 Centroid: The centroid of all the active South African caches is currently at S30 04.064 E026 32.820, which is about 24km east of Trompsburg in the Free State. The closest active cache is GCZWR3 REALLY SideTracked - Landmeter Station, and the farthest active South African cache is GC4N80H CROOKS CORNER. I first calculated the centroid on 4 May 2015, when it was at S29 34.258 E026 32.820, 68km to the northeast of the current centroid. What this means is that relatively more new caches have been published in the Western Cape during the last 4 years than in the rest of the country. Quote Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted July 25, 2019 Author Share Posted July 25, 2019 Cardinal caches: As mentioned yesterday, GCZWR3 REALLY SideTracked - Landmeter Station is the cache closest to the centroid of all the active South African caches. Northernmost cache: GC15MHT Mapungubwe - Cinnamon Rock Bunting East: GC4VXV0 Kosi Bay South: GC1H9WR 2 Oceans West: GC4J6P0 Gems of the West Coast The following are the farthest from the centroid in each direction: Northeast: GC4N80H CROOKS CORNER Southeast: GC1GW3K Fraser Falls Southwest: GC2HQR1 Kommetjieberg Ridge Northwest: GC4JA4A Kalahari Sands The following cachers have found the most of these 9 cardinal caches: 1. The Huskies: 8 iPajero: 8 3. ChrisDen: 7 4. mlornelh: 6 5. Henzz: 5 SKATTIE@1: 5 TechnoNut: 5 cownchicken: 5 9. Louise_Gerhard: 4 PieterM: 4 Team GBS: 4 Tricky Vicky & Mickey: 4 Danie Viljoen: 4 Quote Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted July 26, 2019 Author Share Posted July 26, 2019 Provincial centroids: Gauteng: S25 59.129 E28 07.107 Closest cache: GC86KXG Stretch a Leg #13 Revived - Big Bird (North) Farthest cache: GC2FVNZ Off the beaten track: 102.7 km Western Cape: S33 50.988 E19 18.765 Closest cache: GC1XEAZ Klipbok Farthest cache: GC61MYH Bloukranspas: 399.4 km KZN: S29 33.338 E30 37.991 Closest cache: GC2ZEXF Lookout Farthest cache: GC4VXV0 Kosi Bay: 368.6 km Eastern Cape: S33 29.089 E26 0.561 Closest cache: GC38Y1W Sidbury Sports Club Farthest cache: GC7EGJP Whale Trail Vaalkrans: 513.1 km Quote Link to comment
+Spesbona Posted July 28, 2019 Share Posted July 28, 2019 On 7/26/2019 at 2:12 PM, Danie Viljoen said: Eastern Cape: S33 29.089 E26 0.561 Closest cache: GC38Y1W Sidbury Sports Club Farthest cache: GC7EGJP Whale Trail Vaalkrans: 513.1 km Hi Danie. It seems that GC7EGJP Whale Trail Vaalkrans is wrongly identified as in the Eastern Cape. Maybe a reviewer can fix that. Those cardinal caches is surely something to put on the bucket list. Hopefully one day we will get there. Thanks for keeping the stats going. Quote Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted July 28, 2019 Author Share Posted July 28, 2019 5 hours ago, Spesbona said: It seems that GC7EGJP Whale Trail Vaalkrans is wrongly identified as in the Eastern Cape. You are right. The updated centroid for the Eastern Cape: S33 29.154 E26 0.611 Closest cache: GC38Y1W Sidbury Sports Club Farthest cache: GC12GZ9 Transkei View Cave: 479.6 km Quote Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted July 28, 2019 Author Share Posted July 28, 2019 (edited) Provincial centroids, part 2: Free State: S28 35.992 E27 00.711 Closest cache: GC58YH0 Dup Senior's First Hide! Farthest cache: GCY1NM Memel Escarpment: 279.2 km North West: S26 13.880 E26 49.718 Closest cache: GC3DYCH No. 1 for Ventersdorp Farthest cache: GC2GY8W Boetsap Falls: 303.9 km Northern Cape: S29 35.413 E21 19.605 Closest cache: GC6EMTD Kenhardt History #1 Farthest cache: GC4JA4A Kalahari Sands: 552.0 km Edited July 28, 2019 by Danie Viljoen Quote Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted July 29, 2019 Author Share Posted July 29, 2019 Provincial centroids, part 3: Limpopo: S24 01.875 E29 43.550 Closest cache: GC17BJV Lariska's Stroompie Farthest cache: GC5ENZR Lovers nest: 241.4 km Mpumalanga: S25 33.741 E30 37.659 Closest cache: GC4TX6Y The little piggy's key Farthest cache: GC437KD Lions Rest: 259.8 km Quote Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted August 7, 2019 Author Share Posted August 7, 2019 Distance between caches: Gauteng: 3488 active caches in 18176 square km: 2.45 km between caches KZN: 2986 active caches in 94361 square km: 6.04 km between caches Western Cape: 3917 active caches in 129462 square km: 6.18 km between caches Eastern Cape: 2681 active caches in 168966 square km: 8.53 km between caches Mpumalanga: 952 active caches in 76495 square km: 9.63 km between caches North West: 474 active caches in 104882 square km: 15.98 km between caches Free State: 566 active caches in 29825 square km: 16.27 km between caches Limpopo: 356 active caches in 125754 square km: 20.20 km between caches Northern Cape: 302 active caches in 372889 square km: 37.76 km between caches South Africa: 15722 active caches in 1221037 square km: 9.47 km between caches (The distance is calculated for even equidistant distribution of the caches over the given area.) 1 Quote Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted August 12, 2019 Author Share Posted August 12, 2019 Caches per population: Province People/cache People/km2 W.C. 1690 51 E.C. 2433 39 KZN 3813 121 N.C. 4058 3.3 Gauteng 4219 810 Mpumalanga 4752 59 N.W. 8395 38 Free State 5220 23 Limpopo 16285 46 R.S.A. 3672 47 1 Quote Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted September 16, 2019 Author Share Posted September 16, 2019 Most South African finds during the past year: For the year ending 13 Sep 2019: 1. iPajero 1614 finds 2. pieterix 1539 finds 3. Andredj 936 finds 4. LL_cool_J 922 finds 5. Strong_Boy 903 finds 6. TeamTatoo 806 finds 7. The Huskies 796 finds 8. StrickFam 778 finds 9. Geocaching Genie 774 finds Ninja Nano 774 finds 1 Quote Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted January 8, 2020 Author Share Posted January 8, 2020 2019 Statistics, part 1: New caches 1915 new caches were placed in South Africa during 2019, 4.4% fewer than in 2018 (and 36% fewer than the peak in 2016). This is an average of 5.2 new caches per day (vs. 8.2 per day in 2016). 1 Quote Link to comment
+Delbadore Posted January 12, 2020 Share Posted January 12, 2020 Thanks for the new stats Danie! Do stats like number of finds, number of cachers who found at least a cache, number of active cachers (12+ cache finds a year) and total active caches also reflect a downward trend over the past few years? I've definitely seen fewer new geocachers and many of our stalwarts have become interested in other hobbies and have drifted away from geocaching sadly. Another question, how many cachers placed geocaches in SA last year and how does that compare to previous years? Also, what is the trend in newbies placing caches (ie how many cachers hid there first geocache last year?) Will be interesting to see a review of SA Geocaching similar to the Global one. Thanks in advance! Quote Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted January 12, 2020 Author Share Posted January 12, 2020 34 minutes ago, Delbadore said: Do stats like number of finds, number of cachers who found at least a cache, number of active cachers (12+ cache finds a year) and total active caches also reflect a downward trend over the past few years? Another question, how many cachers placed geocaches in SA last year and how does that compare to previous years? Also, what is the trend in newbies placing caches (ie how many cachers hid there first geocache last year?) Will be interesting to see a review of SA Geocaching similar to the Global one. Thanks for the feedback - I often wonder if anyone still reads this forum. I plan to address all these questions over the next two weeks. Quote Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted January 13, 2020 Author Share Posted January 13, 2020 2019 Statistics, part 2: Finds This one looks so bad that I had to check my numbers to convince myself it is true - during 2019 only 98434 caches were found in South Africa, 24% fewer than in 2018, and 50% fewer than the peak in 2016. Unless something drastic happens, we'll be in serious trouble within two to three years. This gives an average of 269 finds per day (vs. 541 per day in 2016). 1 Quote Link to comment
+ChrisDen Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 (edited) That is a scary statistic if one is looking for constant growth. I do sometimes wonder if the gave us not better with fewer caches of good quality being find by people who are prepared to spend some time looking for those caches. To me there are too many easy 1.5/1.5 caches placed all over the place being found by people who just want to end the day with a big number of funds under the belt. PS - I really enjoy these stats Edited January 17, 2020 by ChrisDen Quote Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted January 14, 2020 Author Share Posted January 14, 2020 2019 Statistics, part 3: Finds per day The red dots are the number of finds for each day. (I extended the range slightly on both sides of the year to capture the year-end peak). The green line is the running average over a week, to filter out the week-end peaks. The best day of 2019 was 15 December, with 1203 finds. On 9 August there were 1202 finds. The worst day of 2019 was 17 May, with only 55 finds. Looking at weekly averages, the best week was around 30 December, with 5181 finds, followed by peaks around 23 September, 9 August and 16 April. The worst week was around 17 May, with 1036 finds. Quote Link to comment
+PieterM Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 Thanks for the stats Danie. Quote Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted January 15, 2020 Author Share Posted January 15, 2020 2019 Statistics, part 4: Most found RSA caches during 2019 1. GC7B71M Cape Light Western Cape 241 finds 2. GC707WR Nobel Square 2.7 Western Cape 238 finds 3. GC7B84E Cape Town / Table Mountain Virtual Reward Western Cape 228 finds 4. GC2D9WC SS: Lusitania Western Cape 183 finds 5. GC37VF3 Tip of Africa Western Cape 177 finds 6. GC78HNP Suspension Bridge Eastern Cape 169 finds 7. GC74XWF Turn Table Western Cape 158 finds 8. GCMYYZ Table Top Trove Western Cape 155 finds 9. GC7B8X0 Into 7th Heaven Western Cape 150 finds 10. GC7ZF72 Seven Sights Western Cape 149 finds 11. GC6JCHV V&A Waterfront: Bay Vista Western Cape 145 finds 12. GC31WXR Table Mountain Travel Bug Hotel Western Cape 139 finds 13. GC842TG The LoveBug's Nest - CPT Int Airport TB Hotel Western Cape 131 finds 14. GC892A2 Virtual Reward 2.0 - O. R. Tambo International Gauteng 130 finds 15. GC7CH1J Welcome to Johannesburg, South Africa Gauteng 125 finds 16. GC77E Cape Agulhas Western Cape 116 finds 17. GC8177C Willis Walk = Penguins + Panorama Western Cape 114 finds 18. GC19QVQ Three Rondavels Mpumalanga 109 finds 19. GC7BA5A kruger park excursion Mpumalanga 107 finds 20. GC2CG7X Hiddingh Security TB Hotel Western Cape 106 finds Once again Cape Town dominates the list, but we have a new winner - this is the first time that Cape Light tops the list. The winner last year, Table Mountain Travel Bug Hotel, got 235 finds during 2018. Quote Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted January 16, 2020 Author Share Posted January 16, 2020 (edited) 2019 Statistics, part 5: Favourite Points The following 10 South African caches had the most FPs at the end of 2019: 1. GC31WXR Table Mountain Travel Bug Hotel The Huskies Western Cape City of Cape Town 620 FPs 2. GC3WXRQ MEGA SA 2012 -Voortrekker "Uitspan" dolos Gauteng City of Tshwane 191 FPs 3. GC1ABZK Table Mountain - Cape Town spuzva Western Cape City of Cape Town 171 FPs 4. GC2D9WC SS: Lusitania BoazRuthFields Western Cape City of Cape Town 158 FPs 5. GC2CG7X Hiddingh Security TB Hotel mr panda Western Cape City of Cape Town 130 FPs 6. GCVDHN Sailors' Star vespax Western Cape City of Cape Town 125 FPs 7. GC1H9WR 2 Oceans Littleclan Western Cape Overberg 115 FPs GCMYYZ Table Top Trove AndyT1 Western Cape City of Cape Town 115 FPs 9. GC6JCHV V&A Waterfront: Bay Vista SawaSawa Western Cape City of Cape Town 114 FPs 10. GC5BWV4 UP PERISCOPE family Behrens Western Cape City of Cape Town 111 FPs Edited January 17, 2020 by Danie Viljoen Quote Link to comment
+Delbadore Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 3 hours ago, Danie Viljoen said: The following 10 South African caches gained the most FPs during 2019: I think there's a problem somewhere as Team DJ's Puzzle Quest #4 was only found once in 2019. It could have only gained one FP in the year (or a few I guess retroactively by finders later)? I checked a few in the list and it seems to be the total favourite points earned, not those earned in 2019? Quote Link to comment
+JPMZA Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 Thank you Danie - these statistics are very interesting. Quote Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted January 17, 2020 Author Share Posted January 17, 2020 (edited) 18 hours ago, Delbadore said: I think there's a problem somewhere as Team DJ's Puzzle Quest #4 was only found once in 2019 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.) I checked the FP numbers of the TeamDJ* caches. I am fairly certain about the numbers for the end of 2019, and the calculations are correct, but the FP numbers for the end of 2018 definitely do not look complete. Unless somebody else has a snapshot at the end of 2018, there is unfortunately nothing I can do to correct it. (I deleted the incorrect part of the posting.) Edited January 17, 2020 by Danie Viljoen Quote Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted January 17, 2020 Author Share Posted January 17, 2020 2019 Statistics, part 6: Favourite Point Distribution The following graphs show the total FP distribution over all South African caches that were active during 2019: And on a logarithmic scale: 51% of all the active caches had at least one FP. Quote Link to comment
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