[Az-Geocaching] Re: Geocaching "Teams"

[az-geocaching@listserv.snaptek.com]

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.