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

My general views on maximizing curation rewards are:

• 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:

• Spread your vote and write lots of long comments!

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The data for league 1

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

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

User	C Rewards	Steem Power	Votes Cast	Reward per 1000 SP
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

Amount of SP earned per 1000 Steem Power owned

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

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

Name	Ashers engagement/excellence rating
@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!

_{Calculations may vary from week to week but still with a goal to find top community engagers!}

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Prizes sent!

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Finally

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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_{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.}

_{I am contactable on many discord channels under the same username.}

_{Data was collected on the 6th January 2018 at 12:00 pm CET}

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Thanks for your support!

Asher @abh12345