Geocacher of the year statistics

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Hi everybody

As promised I have collated some statistics on the most successful Cache hides by cache owner.

To qualify each cacher listed has more than 5 hides. I have excluded power trial hides as we are judging quality (as well as quantity).

In my opinion there are 6 metrics that determine a good cache hider:

·         Number of caches hidden in a year

·         Number of favourite points accumulated

·         Number of finds of each cache

·         Percentage of favourite points

·         Number of hides that can be considered a ‘top’ cache. I chose 30% as the qualification mark. In other words at least every 3 in 10 finders marked the cache as a favourite

·         Success rate. What percentage of hides turns out to be a top cache

If we are going to put up nominations for the ‘best geocache hider of 2012’ I believe we need to use these metrics. For ease of perusal I have marked the top three in each category in yellow. My questions to you guys are:

Should we go down the path of ‘crowning’ an individual as winner?

How many people are we going to include on the voting slip?

Which cachers do you think should be nominated?

 

Name	Number of hides	Number favorite points	Number of finds	Overall percent favourite	No of top caches (>=30%)	% top caches
Freddo	45	80	1200	6.7	1	2.2
Team Wibble	19	113	781	14.5	4	21.1
MtnLioness	26	149	1136	13.1	2	7.7
Darknstormy	13	44	469	9.4	3	23.1
Dazzatron	46	154	1440	10.7	7	15.2
McKee Clan	26	86	1545	5.6	0	0.0
parislaura	12	35	544	6.4	1	8.3
chillibutts	10	132	330	40.0	4	40.0
Jacqui&Steve	27	72	389	18.5	4	14.8
*Cache_or_Check*	14	58	153	37.9	10	71.4
SneakySqueaky	13	153	497	30.8	6	46.2
akela0	6	47	180	26.1	2	33.3
monkeysandus	9	89	482	18.5	3	33.3
locus cache	17	102	887	11.5	3	17.6
~*KittyKat*~	12	45	350	12.9	2	16.7
Team IMP666	20	90	998	9.0	2	10.0
M-SEZ	22	93	1195	7.8	4	18.2