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:
1.6
In the past week, I got 30 hits in 10 States [AZ, CA19, ID, MD, MT, NC, NV2, NY, OH, OR2]. Of those hits, 6 were the 2nd hit on the bill and the rest (24) 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 |
| 29 | 30 | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 |
| 5 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 5 |
I came into the week with a 27 day hit streak. I got a hit on every day of this week which extended the streak to 34 days: good for a tie for my 10th longest streak all-time. Here's a look at my all-time ten longest hit streaks:
| Rank | Start Date | End Date | Days | Rank | Start Date | End Date | Days | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 05/12/2013 | 08/16/2013 | 97 | 6. | 07/28/2011 | 09/23/2011 | 58 | |
| 2. | 10/07/2012 | 01/02/2013 | 88 | 7. | 09/26/2011 | 11/18/2011 | 54 | |
| 3. | 02/08/2013 | 05/05/2013 | 87 | 8. | 06/24/2012 | 08/16/2012 | 54 | |
| 4. | 12/28/2011 | 03/17/2012 | 81 | 9. | 04/04/2012 | 05/21/2012 | 48 | |
| 5. | 04/13/2011 | 06/30/2011 | 79 | 10. | 01/04/2013 | 02/06/2013 | 34 |
Additionally in the past week I received my first hit in 2 counties bringing my total of counties hit to 560. The newly hit counties were Gallatin MT and Nash NC.
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): Maryland (05/21/2013), North Carolina (12/28/2012). 18 States meet the "Sleepy" status for next week: Alaska (03/02/2010), Delaware (07/14/2011), Kentucky (10/14/2011), Vermont (11/27/2011), 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), Louisiana (06/18/2013), New Hampshire (06/22/2013), Alabama (07/08/2013).
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 287 Days 12 Hours 27 Minutes after I originally entered it. That bill is now 37th on my all-time longest active list.
And now, the speed round of data on everything else. 2 of the hits I received in the past week were from Georgers with Profiles: L6310---1I, E4258---6A. Additionally 28 of the hits contained notes. 2 of the hits were on non-Georges: $20, $10. The hits were on bills that spread across 7 of the 12 FRBs. The FRBs for which I didn't receive hits were Boston (A), Philadelphia (C), St. Louis (H), Minneapolis (I), and Dallas (K). I got one hit on a new combo in the past week: 2004-$20-EB
So how did this week end up as a 1.6? 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 | 10 | 5 | 25 | 0.25 | 2.0 | 0.50 |
| Days with Hits | 7 | 6 | 7 | 1.00 | 2.0 | 2.00 |
| Distinct States Hit | 10 | 4 | 15 | 0.55 | 2.0 | 1.09 |
| Hits Beyond the 1st on a Bill 1 | 6 | 3 | 15 | 0.25 | 2.0 | 0.50 |
| Bills Active Over a Year 2 | 24.5 | 12.7 | 53.4 | 0.29 | 2.0 | 0.58 |
| New Counties | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0.50 | 2.0 | 1.00 |
| Hits from Georgers with Profiles | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0.40 | 2.0 | 0.80 |
| Hits with Notes | 28 | 19 | 42 | 0.39 | 2.0 | 0.78 |
| International Hits | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.00 | 1.0 | 0.00 |
| Hits on Non-Georges | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0.50 | 1.0 | 0.50 |
| Hits in "Sleepy" States | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0.50 | 1.0 | 0.50 |
| Distinct FRBs Hit | 7 | 8 | 11 | 0.00 | 1.0 | 0.00 |
| New Series/Denom/FRB/Block Combo Hit | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0.20 | 1.0 | 0.20 |
| *** TOTAL *** | 8.45 | |||||
The minimum overall score over the past 12 weeks was 6.52 and the maximum was 18.67 so this week's score of 8.45 resulted in a scale score of 1.6.
Another week with a low score. On the positive side, if it continues, the relative nature of the scale will eventually work things out, and the score will be higher. I'd prefer to have better weeks, but at this point, this seems like the new normal.
