Hi all 

This week is complete and as usual I have **10 SBD in prizes** to give away.  Woop!

There are 2 chances to win and you can enter for next week by commenting below.  Easy!

On your marks, get set, curate!


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# Introduction
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#### My general views on **maximizing curation rewards** are:
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- Voting in the first minute will earn you a curation reward of almost 0.000

- Voting between 1 and 29 minutes will earn an increasing % of the curation rewards split, this value peaking at 30 minutes and remaining the same from this point onwards

- The goal is to get in prior to the big hitters, but not too early!

- It is commonly suggested that 20-25 minutes is the 'best' time to vote (especially on known power-authors posts because they are likely to have more auto-votes coming in at these times - and you want to be ahead of these votes)

- **A vote of equal weight and equal Steem Power at 30 minutes will give more reward than a vote at, for example 1 hour - first come first served, but don't arrive to early :)**

- Voting on good dtube content and utopian-io approved contributions (prior to vote by @dtube / @utopian-io can earn some very good curation reards

As you can see, a combination of many variables such as Steem Power, voting strength, voting weight, and time of vote, (and more) all play a part in the amount of rewards received.

#### My general opinion on **maximizing engagement** is:
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- Spread your vote and write lots of long comments!

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# The data for league 1
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The raw data has been collected from SteemSQL - @arcange's MS SQL Server copy of the Steem Blockchain.

The key formula used for 'quality of financial curation skill' is: 

### Curation Rewards DIVIDED BY Steem Power MULTIPLIED BY 1000
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**This will return the amount of Curation rewards gained per 1000 Steem Power held**
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The rules (which will cause auto-filtering of your account if not met so just enter anyway and see what happens!) to appear in this league:

- Must have **voted at least once** on a piece of content in the past 7 days

- Must **not have leased or delegated Steem Power in the last 15 days**

- Must **not have Started a Power Down** (Withdrawl of Steem Power) in the **last 15 days**

The 2nd and 3rd points above are required to reduce distortion of the figures.  And, as curation rewards for the past week are actually taken from votes made up to 14 days ago, we need a 15 day window as mentioned in these points.


#  Curating for maximizing returns - League 1
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User| C Rewards | Steem Power | Votes Cast | Reward per 1000 SP
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curx|	3.817677|	250.738156|	95|	15.225751
zapncrap|	4.074452|	538.354163|	190|	7.568349
miniature-tiger|	8.490679|	1503.537821|	317|	5.647134
biophil|	8.608413|	2437.859676|	104|	3.531136
kaysar07|	0.098911|	34.693879|	51|	2.850962
curie|	282.334199|	120500.19|	2359|	2.343019
edje|	1.97435|	872.861968|	116|	2.261927
sneakyninja|	1.722502|	780.834187|	115|	2.205977
buggedout|	2.836704|	1293.461933|	397|	2.19311
samiwhyte|	0.745367|	366.863328|	230|	2.03173
cervantes|	314.676118|	177275.0735|	620|	1.775073
qsounds|	1.076032|	632.296183|	79|	1.701784
choogirl|	38.250472|	22728.47897|	1384|	1.682931
deaconlee|	2.788622|	1698.559358|	447|	1.641757
erikaflynn|	1.380845|	930.704826|	179|	1.483655
dandesign86|	2.767569|	1932.404481|	410|	1.432189
tumutanzi|	18.628564|	14087.5914|	183|	1.322338
osm0sis|	1.74052|	1332.32244|	168|	1.30638
clumsysilverdad|	1.408787|	1093.985786|	632|	1.287756
coolguy123|	6.308624|	5280.772172|	1607|	1.19464
xervantes|	5.869942|	5010.361046|	294|	1.171561
cryptoctopus|	401.670173|	343514.2911|	290|	1.169297
aburmeseabroad|	1.589656|	1369.558419|	226|	1.160707
rok-sivante|	108.165596|	95963.39576|	243|	1.127155
beanz|	59.592228|	53279.1742|	139|	1.11849
costanza|	5.578158|	5112.644963|	221|	1.091051
cranium|	7.060991|	6490.911576|	643|	1.087827
steemtrail|	12.48114|	11564.43003|	281|	1.07927
goldendawne|	6.587298|	6160.957651|	335|	1.0692
steemitri|	2.746594|	2579.149226|	299|	1.064922
teamsteem|	428.829872|	419078.5916|	1577|	1.023268
jaeydallah|	0.023981|	24.013541|	236|	0.99865
themarkymark|	4.287476|	4686.854158|	139|	0.914788
instructor2121|	5.132527|	5821.2697|	258|	0.881685
fiveboringgames|	11.985532|	13881.81898|	141|	0.863398
kid4life|	1.169999|	1365.296301|	150|	0.856956
smasssh|	4.161463|	4988.065803|	269|	0.834284
karensuestudios|	6.566537|	8431.934926|	94|	0.77877
mammasitta|	11.255843|	14837.75958|	850|	0.758595
swelker101|	0.828283|	1107.214955|	105|	0.748078
maintain4real-eu|	0.111898|	150.103666|	85|	0.745471
ewuoso|	0.568511|	783.064425|	2205|	0.726008
thinknzombie|	4.057547|	5752.630445|	2492|	0.705338
dontstopmenow|	2.199997|	3453.397204|	111|	0.637053
clio|	3.354105|	5536.506445|	145|	0.605816
dagger212|	1.164966|	2118.142253|	103|	0.549994
josediccus|	0.155855|	402.734641|	193|	0.386991
retiredinsamar|	0.201817|	609.367485|	102|	0.331191
blazing|	0.119898|	407.10109|	1251|	0.294517
lpessin|	0.022981|	85.178164|	97|	0.269799
djmalith|	0.074938|	331.385579|	33|	0.226135
joe.nobel|	0.053953|	303.948689|	36|	0.177507
pariza|	0.002997|	28.280487|	260|	0.105985
steemit.lover2|	0.002998|	37.731678|	42|	0.079445
rosemarynoble|	0.000999|	15.09427|	46|	0.066186
								

#### The end column is what I think is a genuine indicator of how well you are financially working the curation game with the tools,including vested Steem Power, that you have at your disposal.

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# Chart and Analysis

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#### Amount of SP earned per 1000 Steem Power owned
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**This weeks' results:**

- @curx has produced an unbelievable SP/rewards ratio to take the prize this week!

- @zapncrap in 2nd, but as that's an alt. account of mine, no prize for me :)

- @miniature-tiger has kindly offered to pass any prizes this week down the table, a fine score again though!

- @biophil - 2nd place (again!) well done you!

- @kaysar07 - 3rd place and as a newer member I'm happy to see you here!

And the other members scoring over 2.0 - This is an excellent number, well done!


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- The average curation reward/Steem Power this week is 1.57 SP, up sharply from last weeks average of 1.438.

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# Community Curation Excellence - League 2
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This new league is not based around rewards and relates to engagement.

Everyone currently on my master list has a chance here - delegation dealings or not.

I've used some metrics (which is the fancy way of saying that made up some numbers) relating to: 

- Comments (number and amount of text)
- Up-votes to others
- Up-votes to unique others
- Self-votes (a minus score for this one!)
- Witness engagement

### The top 20
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Name | Ashers engagement/excellence rating
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@tarazkp	|	48404.2
@abh12345	|	45092
@carlgnash	|	43128.2
@goldendawne	|	41916
@coolguy123	|	41906.4
@cervantes	|	38955.2
@lpessin	|	36301.4
@clumsysilverdad	|	35797
@teamsteem	|	35608.6
@acidyo	|	35401.8
@mariannewest	|	34362.6
@xervantes	|	34113.2
@kid4life	|	34052.4
@choogirl	|	33834.4
@cranium	|	33516.06667
@swelker101	|	33246.6
@anomadsoul	|	32768
@holbein81	|	31809.4
@fitinfun	|	31255.4
@beanz	|	30563.6


Well done to @tarazkp who tops the league of engagement and excellence this week!

Also very well done to ~~abh12345~~ @carlgnash and @goldendawne who have finished 2nd and 3rd - happy to see you guys here!

Want to be a part of the league next week? Let me know below!

<sub><b>Calculations may vary from week to week but still with a goal to find top community engagers!</b></sub>

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### Prizes sent!
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![prizes.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmQJgq3yAYi7ckxbVUMjWvoj9f7UUNHSGSRoWC2c8vHiEG/prizes.png)

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# Finally
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A few points:

- If you have spotted any glaring errors in my post, please let me know so I can fix them

- If you would like to be added or removed from my personal curation league (next weeks post) let me know

- If you have any other comments, please enter them into the box below

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<sub><b>I am part of a Steemit Business Intelligence community. We all post under the tag #blockchainbi. If you have analysis you would like to be carried out on Steemit data, please do contact me or any of the #blockchainbi and we will do our best to help you.</b></sub>

<sub><b>I am contactable on many discord channels under the same username.<b/></sub>

<sub><b>Data was collected on the 6th January 2018 at 12:00 pm CET</b></sub>

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#### Thanks for your support!

#### Asher  @abh12345