Can we have a statistic table that shows how many BBTC - Bring Back the Cache's that a cacher has been found?

Question

BBTC's are caches that have not been found in 12 months. My friends and I have a table but its growing to a scale I cant manage now as others join in. It would also encourage people to go out and find cache that are very lonely :) There are challenges in a few countries for the number of BBTC's you have found.

Answer 1

In the UK these are known as 'resuscitation' caches. I'm no expert, but although this might be technically possible, it could use quite a lot of resources to work out. It might not, but it might.

What you could do in the meantime is create a Custom Cache list using a bookmark list. Create the bookmark list on geocaching.com, with all your caches on it, then go to the settings section on your PGC profile stats, and add the bookmark list. Whilst it wouldn't show it as a simple number, it would then show them as a list.

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I have my own bookmark list, that works fine for me. It is a statistics table for the community that I am looking for as it is something that is quite competitive for us.
It is quite easily done as the data is all in geocaching.com and it just requires a lookup query, or to simplify it, it could be done the same as the FTF table where it compares peoples bookmark lists or a certain tagline in a cache log.

Answer 2

In theory its quite easy in practice it is computationally intensive. Other stats rely on your stats or the stats of the cacher you are looking up thus its a quick filter found or not.

With what you are suggesting its comparing all the recent caches to see if they have been found and what the gap was between finds. Note that the dates on caches can be changed in the logs so thats not even a fixed thing after the cache is logged.

Also you have issues around what if a team of two or three go for a cache that's not been found and they find it. The first log might be two years since the last but the next two logs will be the same day. How can the stats know if that was a team or someone else later that day.

In the same way a FTF is recorded on Project-GC by having a special code or a book mark list then a similar special code would need to be added to the log or a bookmark list for this. Perhaps a poll to estimate demand is the way to go. How many people would find it useful? Would tag logs and/or create a bookmark list. bearing in mind I would think its not possible to do given the issue of multiple logs on the same day in the same way correctly guessing the FTF isn't easy.

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There's also the fact that different people use different cutoff times. The challenge caches in Australia are for total periods of time caches were unloved before being found with a minimum of 6 months rather than the 12 months mentioned in the OP.

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In Sweden I've seen a number of challenges where you need to collect something like 1000 unlogged days with perhaps 10 caches (at most), but no limitations on how those days are distributed among them. If you find one single cache that has gone unlogged for 1000 days, that will be fine as well.

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That's quite a few parameters that could be almost impossible to delineate between, let alone manage.