Hi all!

This weeks' curation league post is again brought to you from the sunny Island of Mauritius!

**A minimum of 15 STEEM in prizes** are available next week by stating your interest below.  You will be entered into both leagues (which are probably best called tables, as they are reset each week!)

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 author' 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 the vote by @dtube / @utopian-io )can earn some very good curation rewards

As you can see, a combination of many variables such as Steem Power, voting strength, voting weight, 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 engaging 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.

**SteemSQL is now a monthly subscription service and so your support in this post is greatly appreciated!**

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 14 days**

- Must **not have Started a Power Down** (withdrawal 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 above.

Don't let this put you off entering though - you will be automatically be excluded/appear depending on the criteria above.

#  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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miniature-tiger	|	6.640876	|	1681.292836	|	163	|	3.949863
edje	|	3.05245	|	948.181712	|	146	|	3.219267
steemitri	|	7.684649	|	2684.947612	|	393	|	2.862122
instructor2121	|	14.280455	|	5889.183278	|	131	|	2.424862
curie	|	247.119319	|	109538.3795	|	3084	|	2.256007
greenrun	|	13.569605	|	6941.11279	|	214	|	1.954961
fiveboringgames	|	27.807194	|	14544.88832	|	313	|	1.911819
pataty69	|	0.203963	|	120.081524	|	249	|	1.698538
sco	|	1.276792	|	768.474006	|	157	|	1.661465
osm0sis	|	2.609623	|	1623.888367	|	217	|	1.607021
choogirl	|	39.338268	|	25246.74006	|	1366	|	1.558152
steemtrail	|	18.041908	|	11668.59218	|	132	|	1.546194
joe.nobel	|	0.386921	|	278.130136	|	79	|	1.391152
dandesign86	|	3.036418	|	2332.306356	|	427	|	1.301895
lordjames	|	0.030992	|	24.013708	|	81	|	1.290588
clumsysilverdad	|	1.456757	|	1135.885286	|	197	|	1.282486
jlordc	|	0.148971	|	116.854137	|	123	|	1.274844
htliao	|	22.957181	|	20360.28824	|	375	|	1.127547
xervantes	|	5.734059	|	5231.971365	|	236	|	1.095965
connecteconomy	|	1.418768	|	1304.479251	|	166	|	1.087612
aburmeseabroad	|	1.723656	|	1639.180433	|	94	|	1.051535
halcyondaze	|	0.57691	|	555.530977	|	151	|	1.038483
betbuddha	|	2.582628	|	2512.253867	|	220	|	1.028012
goldendawne	|	10.703333	|	10618.02241	|	451	|	1.008035
sneakyninja	|	0.849857	|	856.0295	|	125	|	0.99279
erikaflynn	|	0.977821	|	985.776202	|	221	|	0.99193
tumutanzi	|	14.430723	|	15206.1182	|	147	|	0.949008
cranium	|	6.489995	|	6978.221758	|	670	|	0.930036
teamsteem	|	387.520399	|	419595.4549	|	1497	|	0.923557
gniksivart	|	1.624722	|	1765.762364	|	134	|	0.920125
cryptoctopus	|	311.905313	|	340449.692	|	365	|	0.916157
costanza	|	4.553329	|	5147.948029	|	223	|	0.884494
limabeing	|	0.911907	|	1039.142841	|	56	|	0.877556
haphazard-hstead	|	5.379116	|	6330.387745	|	186	|	0.849729
steemibu351	|	0.031992	|	37.955182	|	84	|	0.842882
beanz	|	43.778379	|	52608.65421	|	108	|	0.832152
ammonite	|	0.475916	|	572.047185	|	67	|	0.831953
revisesociology	|	1.027802	|	1261.126397	|	293	|	0.814988
smasssh	|	4.380236	|	5577.360339	|	221	|	0.78536
dontstopmenow	|	3.996393	|	5148.914241	|	184	|	0.776162
amariespeaks	|	0.172975	|	224.945992	|	66	|	0.768964
soyrosa	|	0.593887	|	808.640633	|	127	|	0.734426
yura81	|	0.010998	|	14.99669	|	73	|	0.733331
karensuestudios	|	6.274959	|	8752.28723	|	123	|	0.716951
rok-sivante	|	62.622912	|	92683.64268	|	466	|	0.675663
bashadow	|	0.273954	|	407.306199	|	215	|	0.672599
rosemarynoble	|	0.022995	|	35.025273	|	238	|	0.656512
maintain4real-eu	|	0.092987	|	149.417349	|	315	|	0.622329
clio	|	3.629369	|	5883.668867	|	131	|	0.616855
jaeydallah	|	0.018997	|	32.767143	|	309	|	0.579743
dragonking	|	0.05599	|	111.238797	|	156	|	0.503334
jawad09	|	0.06499	|	132.909645	|	42	|	0.488977
rayne122	|	0.074987	|	154.760926	|	104	|	0.484532
funbobby51	|	0.031996	|	68.487586	|	655	|	0.467185
kawsar	|	0.007999	|	17.203438	|	15	|	0.464964
mammasitta	|	7.071765	|	15214.97475	|	432	|	0.46479
paulag	|	0.099981	|	240.025792	|	76	|	0.416542
majes.tytyty	|	6.524911	|	15807.56679	|	339	|	0.412771
killerkuasha	|	0.043994	|	126.728408	|	51	|	0.347151
retiredinsamar	|	0.293947	|	904.20981	|	166	|	0.325087
thinknzombie	|	1.870658	|	7373.69402	|	46	|	0.253694
djmalith	|	0.064987	|	306.3673	|	128	|	0.212121
hazelgrace25	|	0.024997	|	143.974042	|	47	|	0.173624
steemit.lover2	|	0.006998	|	43.009945	|	40	|	0.162718
pariza	|	0.004999	|	31.044914	|	44	|	0.161015
littlejoeward	|	0.024996	|	288.04787	|	47	|	0.086777
darkerhorse	|	0.008999	|	104.552712	|	6	|	0.086069
cemke	|	0.012998	|	173.78155	|	171	|	0.074792
sunnyofoz	|	0.001	|	14.99569	|	80	|	0.066669
kaysar07	|	0.004	|	72.001989	|	75	|	0.055551
ikrahch	|	0.035991	|	879.985394	|	175	|	0.040899
fernando26	|	0.001	|	28.9393	|	15	|	0.034552
User| C Rewards | Steem Power | Votes Cast | Reward per 1000 SP
								
#### 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:**

( @zapncrap 17.92, @curx 14.61, @qsounds 5.96 , @biophil 5.07, and @credo 4.57 removed for bots/trails sorry! )

- @miniature-tiger takes first spot this week, well done master curator!

- @edje takes 2nd, the sound of music is in the air!

- @steemitri in 3rd, well done the curating mannequin!

Well done to @instructor2121 and @greenrun who also performed very well this week.

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- The average curation reward/Steem Power this week is 1.49, up from 1.36 last week.

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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)
- Comments outside of your own blogs
- Up-votes to others
- Up-votes to unique others
- Self-votes (a minus score for this one sorry!)
- Witness engagement

### The top 20
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Name | Ashers engagement/excellence rating
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@davemccoy	|	2524532.6
@goldendawne	|	2458442.8
@blazing	|	2017041.4
@yura81	|	2014358.6
@coolguy123	|	1807987.2
@carlgnash	|	1739254.2
@lpessin	|	1708636.6
@teamsteem	|	1597475.4
@cheneats	|	1570010.8
@biophil	|	1522852.8
@pataty69	|	1463256
@choogirl	|	1350129.4
@gniksivart	|	1216860
@beeyou	|	1154585.6
@bashadow	|	1147541.4
@maverickinvictus	|	1108576
@limabeing	|	1074829.8
@swelker101	|	1006115
@wwf	|	969383.6
@josephsavage	|	962224.4

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**Firstly, if you are placed in this league you are doing great - 1st place or 20th!**

Well done to @davemccoy who tops the league of engagement and excellence this week!  Dave is a recent delegate of mine and has started his Steemit career excellently!  

Also, very well done to @goldendawne (one of the #stewardsofgondor) and @blazing (huge commentator!) who have finished 2nd and 3rd - well done both!

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/DQmWo7tDWaRquG3dpKP7a7ajbToQXSPMYzUAmmrCtmzGL11/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, let me know

- If you have **any other comments or suggestions**, 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 11th February 2018 at 6pm (UTC)</b></sub>

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#### Thank you for your support, have a great day!

#### Asher  @abh12345