At the start of last year, I began publishing a weekly review of my past seven days of activity in regards to Where's George. These reviews were largely focused around key goals/predictions for the year (including bills entered, bills hit, and total hits). Some of the things I tracked, in retrospect, weren't really all that interesting, and a lot of the tracking around bill entries wasn't all that useful. When one really thinks about it, Where's George is all about the hits. As such, I've revamped my weekly reviews to be focused on what was interesting about my hits in the past week, and using that data, scoring the week on a scale of 0 to 10. I'm sure as time goes on that I'll tinker with the scoring system, but I think what I have for now is good for the 1.0 version.
With that said, on a scale of 0 to 10 this past week was a:
10.0
In the past week, I got 25 hits in 8 States [AZ, CA13, FL, NM2, NV3, PA, UT, WA2] as well as an international hit in Liberia, Costa Rica. Of those hits, 2 were the 2nd hit on the bill and the rest (23) were the initial hit on the bill. Below is a calendar view of the hits throughout the week:
| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
| 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 |
| 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 6 |
I came into the week with a 13 day hit streak. I got a hit on every day of this week which extended the streak to 20 days.
Additionally in the past week I received my first hit in 1 county bringing my total of counties hit to 567. The newly hit county was Cowlitz WA.
Of the States hit in the past week, 2 were in "Sleepy" States (a "Sleepy" State is a State in which I haven't received a hit in over twelve weeks) (last hit date in parenthesis): New Mexico (07/31/2013), Utah (08/07/2013). 21 States meet the "Sleepy" status for next week: Alaska (03/02/2010), Delaware (07/14/2011), Kentucky (10/14/2011), Rhode Island (03/04/2012), District of Columbia (09/26/2012), Tennessee (01/17/2013), Wyoming (01/17/2013), South Carolina (03/21/2013), Connecticut (03/30/2013), Nebraska (04/30/2013), Oklahoma (05/05/2013), North Dakota (05/05/2013), Maine (05/25/2013), West Virginia (05/26/2013), New Hampshire (06/22/2013), Alabama (07/08/2013), Iowa (07/15/2013), Arkansas (07/16/2013), Minnesota (08/04/2013), Colorado (08/08/2013), New Jeresy (08/16/2013).
Of the bills hit in the past week, 9 were active for more than a year. Of those, the longest active bill from the bunch was re-entered 3 Years 41 Days 0 Hours 32 Minutes after I originally entered it. That bill is now 95th on my all-time longest active list.
And now, the speed round of data on everything else. None of the hits I received in the past week were from Georgers with Profiles. Additionally 22 of the hits contained notes. 3 of the hits were on non-Georges: $50, $20, $20. The hits were on bills that spread across 9 of the 12 FRBs. The FRBs for which I didn't receive hits were Boston (A), Philadelphia (C), and Minneapolis (I). I received hits on three new combos in the past week: 2001-$1-FD, 2004A-$20-DB, and 2006-$50-BB.
So how did this week end up as a 10.0? To start off the calculation, I compare this week's number with the lowest and highest from the past 12 weeks and score it based on how it fits in that range - so if this week's number is midway between the low and the high, it scores a 0.5 for that category (i.e. if this week's States Hit was 10, the past 12 weeks' low was 5, and the past 12 weeks' high was 15, that'd be a 0.5). A category can be scored at a minimum of 0 and a maximum of 1.25 meaning that if this week is better than any of the past 12, bonus points are awarded. Some categories are worth more than others (in the 1.0 version, categories are worth either 1 or 2). The sum of the products of the category scores and value results in the overall score for the week. That number is then compared to the overall scores for the previous 12 weeks, and where it ends up in the range results in the week's score on a scale from 0 to 10 (so if the overall score is midway between the two, the week is a 5.0). A week cannot score below 0 or above 10.
Here's a tabular view of this week's scores:
| Past 12 Weeks | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stat | Week | Min | Max | Score | Weight | S*W |
| Hits that Changed States | 14 | 5 | 11 | 1.25 | 2.0 | 2.50 |
| Days with Hits | 7 | 6 | 7 | 1.00 | 2.0 | 2.00 |
| Distinct States Hit | 9 | 4 | 10 | 0.83 | 2.0 | 1.67 |
| Hits Beyond the 1st on a Bill 1 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 0.00 | 2.0 | 0.00 |
| Bills Active Over a Year 2 | 17.0 | 14.2 | 53.4 | 0.07 | 2.0 | 0.14 |
| New Counties | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0.25 | 2.0 | 0.50 |
| Hits from Georgers with Profiles | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0.00 | 2.0 | 0.00 |
| Hits with Notes | 22 | 19 | 34 | 0.20 | 2.0 | 0.40 |
| International Hits | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1.00 | 1.0 | 1.00 |
| Hits on Non-Georges | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0.75 | 1.0 | 0.75 |
| Hits in "Sleepy" States | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1.00 | 1.0 | 1.00 |
| Distinct FRBs Hit | 9 | 7 | 11 | 0.50 | 1.0 | 0.50 |
| New Series/Denom/FRB/Block Combo Hit | 3 | 0 | 6 | 0.50 | 1.0 | 0.50 |
| *** TOTAL *** | 10.96 | |||||
The minimum overall score over the past 12 weeks was 4.93 and the maximum was 9.92 so this week's score of 10.96 resulted in a scale score of 10.0.
This week being considered a 10.0 just goes to show how bad my recent weeks have been and potentially how useless this scale I've created is. Other than Friday and Saturday, hit-wise this was a pretty bad week, and those two days were not spectatular. This week was largely aided by having a bunch of bills that were hit in different States from which they were entered (which is cool), having a hit every day, getting an international hit, and getting two hits in "sleepy" States. This "amazing" 10.0 of a week set a new 12 week low for hits beyond the 1st on a bill. On the positive side, this week increased the max total score over the past 12 weeks which will make it harder for future weeks to get higher scores (without earning them).
