My Where's George Week in Review: 08/19/12 - 08/25/12

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 26 hits in 7 States [CA¹⁸, IA, IL, ME, MO², NV², NY]. I now have hits in 42 States in 2012 with 1 added this week: ME. Additionally I now have hits in 449 counties with 2 new this week: Woodbury IA, Greene IL.

Of those 26 hits, 5 were the 2^nd hit on the bill and the rest (21) were the initial hit on the bill. The longest bill active from the bunch was re-entered 3 Years 86 Days 3 Hours 53 Minutes after I originally entered it.

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
19	20	21	22	23	24	25
6	4	3	4	3	2	4

After a "scare" on Saturday in which I didn't get my first hit of the today until after 7 PM, all days of the past week had hits extending the hit streak to 8 days.

Taking a look at how my predictions regarding bill entries and hits are going so far, I'm all ahead on all counts:

	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	20759	20853	94	4133	21720	95.6	19971	-2	+882
Bills with Hits	2430	3246	3267	21	837	3445	19.4	3090	+2	+177
Total Hits	2799	3779	3805	26	1006	4030	23.5	3599	+2	+206

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 87.22% [+0.93%]. It was a break-even week for this goal. The next couple weeks are likely to be rough for this one, but after that, it'll be back to smooth sailing.

	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	18103	18188	85	3761	18959	85.2	18173	0	+15
Dynamic GoalProgress towards the goal based on my actual rate of entering bills per day which would result in 6356 entries this year rather than 5000						20142	84.5	18143	+0	+45

As for the goal of having series 2009 pass series 2003A in number of entries, 2009 took the lead this week and is unlikely to lose it anytime this year. This goal is completed:

	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	3799	3801	2	198		GoalNumber of Entries Needed Per Timeframe to Stay on Pace for the Year Based on the Predicted Amount of 5000 Bills Entered	43	1872	+21	+437
2009	1339	3780	3846	66	2507		Actual	64	2309

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", all are still way ahead of pace, although for the first time in a while, two of the FRBs I'm trying to increase (Boston and Cleveland) had their percentage of my total bills entered decrease:

	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%	10028	48.31%	10062	48.25%	< 50.0%	49.94%	10445	+383
Boston "A"	461	2.76%	709	3.42%	712	3.41%	> 2.8%	2.85%	592	+120
Cleveland "D"	395	2.36%	711	3.43%	713	3.42%	> 2.4%	2.45%	509	+204
St. Louis "H"	382	2.28%	637	3.07%	645	3.09%	> 2.3%	2.35%	489	+156
Philadelphia "C"	376	2.25%	578	2.78%	582	2.79%	> 2.2%	2.25%	469	+113
Minneapolis "I"	352	2.11%	521	2.51%	534	2.56%	> 2.1%	2.15%	447	+87
Kansas City "J"	290	1.73%	495	2.38%	501	2.40%	> 1.7%	1.75%	365	+136

A better week than last in regards to hits, however, the week was still not as good as the "average" week this year. In both of the last two years, August had more hits than July, but as this August currently trails last month by 50 hits with 6 days to go, I don't foresee that trend continuing. In fact, the month needs 26 more hits just to tie February to avoid being the worst hit month so far this year.