My Where's George Week in Review: 04/29/12 - 05/05/12

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 30 hits in 10 States [AL, AZ, CA¹⁸, GA, ID², IL, MS, NV², OR, WA²]. I now have hits in 33 States in 2012 with 1 added this week: MS. The Mississippi hit was my first hit ever in MS, and I now have hits in 49 States all-time. Additionally I now have hits in 410 counties with 3 new this week: Adams IL, Harrison MS, Spokane WA.

Of those 30 hits, 9 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 2 Years 305 Days 18 Hours 53 Minutes after I originally entered it.

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
29	30	01	02	03	04	05
2	3	3	9	7	2	4

Another week of no hit-less days extends my current hit streak to 32 days. This streak is now tied for fifth longest. It's currently 22 days short of fourth place, so it's going to be a while before it has a chance to move up.

Taking a look at how my predictions regarding bill entries and hits are going so far, it was a monster week for entries as I spent a couple days at a casino in Reno and entered a number of bills for gambling:

	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	16719	18526	18748	222	2029	21720	95.6	18441	+126	+307
Bills with Hits	2430	2850	2871	21	441	3445	19.4	2779	+2	+92
Total Hits	2799	3301	3331	30	532	4030	23.5	3223	+6	+108

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 86.84% [+0.55%]. This goal was negatively impacted by the gambling trip as I entered more non-ones than normal:

	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	14426	16093	16280	187	1854	18959	201.2	16265	-14	+15

As for the goal of having series 2009 pass series 2003A in number of entries, it was also a rough week. I think this was due to the slot machine payouts tending to be "older" bills:

	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	3703	3717	14	114		GoalNumber of Entries Needed Per Timeframe to Stay on Pace for the Year Based on the Predicted Amount of 5000 Bills Entered	101	919	-12	+142
2009	1339	2411	2514	103	1175		Actual	89	1061

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", nothing really new to report. I've acquired the final set of "I" bills, and should be inserting those into my entries in a couple weeks:

	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%	9228	49.81%	9303	49.62%	< 50.0%	49.94%	9471	+168
Boston "A"	461	2.76%	574	3.10%	592	3.16%	> 2.8%	2.85%	526	+66
Cleveland "D"	395	2.36%	588	3.17%	606	3.23%	> 2.4%	2.45%	451	+155
St. Louis "H"	382	2.28%	471	2.54%	485	2.59%	> 2.3%	2.35%	434	+51
Philadelphia "C"	376	2.25%	466	2.52%	478	2.55%	> 2.2%	2.25%	422	+56
Minneapolis "I"	352	2.11%	368	1.99%	370	1.97%	> 2.1%	2.15%	399	-29
Kansas City "J"	290	1.73%	367	1.98%	383	2.04%	> 1.7%	1.75%	327	+56

The big excitement for the week was the Mississippi hit. Other than that, it was an average week for hits. Hopefully I will see a big benefit in hits from all the bills entered this week.