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

[Robert & Linda Smith]

Guess I better jump into this fray..

Most of the time my wife and I cache together and have do so for about 
85 percent of our small count of 200 finds.  There has been a time or 
three that I went out on my own or with my brother, wanted to introduce 
him, and made some finds.  Evey met a fellow cacher a time or two at 
about the same time as we each walked up on the cache.  This style of 
caching and posting meets our description of fun and exercise.   We will 
never hit the high number of some people and we don't mind if some 
others tag alone with us or we with them.  Our game is fun for us and I 
would be the last one to say you better not cache with more than you 
allotted number of cachers or you need to invent a new name.  If our 
style works for us I hope the rest of the community will allow us to 
continue enjoying the way we do it for our team.

Bob Smith, Team Petite Elite, Prescott, AZ

Jim Scotti wrote:

>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:
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>>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
>> 
>>Jim Scotti
>>Lunar & Planetary Laboratory
>>University of Arizona
>>Tucson, AZ 85721 USA                 http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~jscotti/    
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