My Where's George Week in Review: 04/15/12 - 04/21/12

Hover over this explanation for more detailsThe nerd that I am, I chose to post once a week a summary of my previous week's Where's George activity in comparision to my goals for the year.

In order to make the charts fit, I had to abreviate the column headers. Each header is now hoverable for an explanation.

In the past week, I received 32 hits in 10 States [CA²¹, GA, HI, MD, MN, MT, NV, NY, TX, WA³]. I now have hits in 32 States in 2012 with 1 added this week: MT. Additionally I now have hits in 406 counties with 5 new this week: Clayton GA, Worcester MD, Powder River MT, Collin TX, and Chelan WA.

Of those 32 hits, 2 were the 3^rd hit on the bill, 3 were the 2^nd hit on the bill, and the rest (27) were the initial hit on the bill. The longest bill active from the bunch was re-entered 2 Years 313 Days 18 Hours 5 Minutes after I originally entered it.

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
15	16	17	18	19	20	21
6	5	3	7	2	8	1

A week without any hitless days adds 7 more days to the current streak bringing it up to 18 days. The sole hit on Saturday came early in the day, so there wasn't much of a sweat about whether or not the streak was going to continue.

Taking a look at how my predictions regarding bill entries and hits are going so far, it was yet another high bill entry week. I don't expect the upcoming week will continue that trend, but we'll see. Once again, total hits and bills with hits were higher than expected:

	SoYStart of Year	SoWStart of Week	EoWEnd of Week	WΔWeek Change: Number Added this Week	YΔYear Change: Number Added this Year	PPrediction (for Year)	P/WPrediction for Week: A Week's Share of the Total	PtDPrediction to Date: The Portion of the Prediction that should be Completed so Far	WvPWeek versus Prediction: How the Week's Numbers Stack Up Against the P/W	DvPDate versus Prediction: How the Year's Numbers So Far Stack Up Against the PtD
Bills Entered	16720	18282	18429	147	1709	21720	95.6	18250	+51	+179
Bills with Hits	2430	2802	2829	27	399	3445	19.4	2741	+8	+88
Total Hits	2799	3244	3276	32	477	4030	23.5	3176	+8	+100

Based on the goal of 5000 bill entries, here's how I'm doing towards my bill entry goals. Starting off with my goal of increasing the percentage that $1s make up of my entries by 1% (started the year at 86.29% so the goal is 87.29%), my percentage is now 86.83% [+0.54%]. I was two bills ahead this week, and as I now have a surplus of entered fives and tens waiting to be spent, I expect a good week this upcoming week for this stat:

	SoYStart of Year	SoWStart of Week	EoWEnd of Week	WΔWeek Change: Number Added this Week	YΔYear Change: Number Added this Year	GGoal: Number of Total Ones Needed by the End of the Year Based on the Prediction of 5000 Bill Entries This Year	GfWGoal for Week: This Week's Portion of the Goal Based on the Number of Bills Entered in the Week	GtDGoal to Date: The Numbers of One Needed to be Entered so Far this Year to be on Track to Met the Overall Goal	WvGWeek versus Goal: How the Week's Numbers Stack Up Against the GfW	DvGDate versus Goal: How the Year's Numbers So Far Stack Up Against the GtD
$1s Entered	14427	15867	16002	135	1575	18959	133.2	15976	+2	+26

As for the goal of having series 2009 pass series 2003A in number of entries, I've now entered over a thousand series 2009 bills for the year, and I continue to be well ahead of the needed pace:

	SoYStart of Year	SoWStart of Week	EoWEnd of Week	WΔWeek Change: Number Added this Week	YΔYear Change: Number Added this Year			WΔWeek Change: Number Added this Week	YΔYear Change: Number Added this Year	WvGWeek versus Goal: How the Actual WΔ Stacks Up Against the Goal WΔ	DvGDate versus Goal: How the Actual YΔ Stacks Up Against the Goal YΔ
2003A	3603	3693	3699	6	96		GoalNumber of Entries Needed Per Timeframe to Stay on Pace for the Year Based on the Predicted Amount of 5000 Bills Entered	67	774	+23	+145
2009	1339	2258	2354	96	1015		Actual	90	919

And for my goal of decreasing San Francisco "L" FRB entries below 50.0% while increasing Boston "A", Cleveland "D", St Louis "H", Philadelphia "C", Minneapolis "I", and Kansas City "J", San Francisco has joined the group that is currently meeting my goal for the year. Only Minneapolis remains outside that group, and I finally saw a group of series 2009 "I" bills listed on eBay, so hopefully I'll win those and be on my way:

	SoYStart of Year	SoY%Percentage of Overall at Start of Year	SoWStart of Week	SoW%Percentage of Overall at Start of Week	EoWEnd of Week	EoW%Percentage of Overall at End of Week	GoalGoal Percentage		GtDGoal to Date: The Numbers Needed to be Entered so Far this Year to be on Track to Met the Overall Goal	DvGDate versus Goal: How the Year's Numbers So Far Stack Up Against the GtD
San Francisco "L"	8532	51.03%	9148	50.04%	9199	49.92%	< 50.0%	49.94%	9323	+124
Boston "A"	461	2.76%	552	3.02%	565	3.07%	> 2.8%	2.85%	515	+50
Cleveland "D"	395	2.36%	569	3.11%	578	3.14%	> 2.4%	2.45%	442	+136
St. Louis "H"	382	2.28%	456	2.49%	464	2.52%	> 2.3%	2.35%	426	+38
Philadelphia "C"	376	2.25%	444	2.43%	457	2.48%	> 2.2%	2.25%	415	+42
Minneapolis "I"	352	2.11%	367	2.01%	368	2.00%	> 2.1%	2.15%	391	-23
Kansas City "J"	290	1.73%	353	1.93%	360	1.95%	> 1.7%	1.75%	321	+39

I recently acquired my second set of "J" bills, so I just have the two sets of "I" plus one more "H" to go to have all of the bills on hand needed to accomplish my goal.

I have 109 hits so far in April with 9 days to go. My record for most hits in a month is 129, so I'm just 21 hits away from a new record. I'm averaging over 5 hits a day, and I'd still break the record if I averaged half that the remaining nine days.