That's the way I see it. I look for some stat or target to beat. That sort
of thing motivates me by making it a little more interesting.
My current goals related to the stats:
I'm trying to pass n4/c on total caches found. (He knows this and I believe
it's added a little motiviation to him also.)
I'm trying to get to 100 AZ caches found by 2/3.
I want to keep the average difficulty and terrain ratings of caches found
above 2.00.
I want my Cache Karma to always be positive.
I want to have done the 100 caches closest to my home zip code.
-srdrake
>Anyway, thats the way I see the stats. I mainly see them as informational
>only. With lots of ways to manipulate the data. They are mainly there to
>give you some motivation to cache more, but the real motivation has to
>come from yourself. You just find a particular stat that someone has
>above you and go out and try to beat it... thats all. No winners, no
>loosers, just one team beating 1 stat out of a hundred of some team that
>just happened to be over them in that particular area. With always
>keeping in mind that because of cachers that hardly ever or even never log
>their finds, we will never know who is really the "winner". There are
>quite a few teams that seem to have only hidden multiple caches, and quite
>a few of them at that. That might be very very active caches and just
>not active loggers. Who knows, the stats are probably only 60% or 70%
>accurate at the very best.
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