[Az-Geocaching] Geocaching: Team vs. Individual Statistics...

[Jim Scotti]

The only trouble here is that on most teams, the entire team does not always
participate in the hunt.  In my case, I'd say something like 80-90% of our
finds are by me hunting solo.  I usually mention in my log if any of the rest
of my family was helping or even just tagging along (or even just sitting
back in the car while I ran off the last 0.15 miles to find the cache).  I
suspect the majority of "teams" are one primary, more motivated cacher with
the occasional assistant(s).  I suspect that even some teams that often take
their kids along still hunt solo as often as not.  What is your percentage of
solo hunts, Dirk (aka ShadowAce)?  You probably take your kids (especially
that "cache fiend" son of yours! :-) ) along on the hunt more than any other
cacher I know.  Heck, you probably take your buddy Dave of Cow Spots along on
almost as many, I bet!  :-)

Jim.

On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 SSpackeen at aol.com wrote:

>  
> Speaking of "teams," any thoughts as to the merits of handling "team"  
> statistics separately from "individual" statistics...
>  
> As a solo cacher, I have personally turned every stone, printed every map,  
> driven every cul-de-sac, fetched every new battery, handled every trinket,  
> singed every log, etc.  Never had a second set of eyes.  Never had  someone find 
> caches for me while I was absent, never had someone else log  my finds on the 
> site.  Never had any assistance in finding my claims,  period.
>  
> Teamwork is easier!  I believe it is MUCH easier for teams to find a  given 
> set of 25 caches than for an individual to do so.  
>  
> SO - I'd like to ask how other soloers out there feel about the  "pureness" 
> of team statistics as opposted to individual stats.  
>  
> It's my contention that geocaching.com should separate users into two  groups 
> - teams and individuals.  Just make that part of the profile that is  visible 
> to registered users and might be an interesting comparison item for some  
> users...  Any thoughts?
>  
> [...SkooterMan...]
>  
> In a message dated 2/19/2005 5:33:43 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
> barbers5 at cox.net writes:
> 
> I wanted to get more  information about Geocaching teams.  What are they, 
> what do they  do?  How would I find more information about them in the Tucson  
> area?
>  
> Thanks for the  help,
>  
> GB
>  
> 
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Jim Scotti
Lunar & Planetary Laboratory
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721 USA                 http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~jscotti/