Hi all

This week is complete and I have some prizes to give away. Enter this weeks' league today for a chance to win some Steem!

There will be some more Steem prizes on offer for people who enter this week - show your interest in the comments section below.

On your marks, get set, curate!

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How well are you curating financially?

Are you making the best use of your Steem Power and votes?

This post looks at how well the users on this list are curating, purely from a financial perspective.

Introduction

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My general opinion on curation is:

• 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 :)

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 reward received.

Is there a skill to it though? And how well are you doing?

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The data

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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Before I present the table (which has entrants from the previous Blogs and those who wished to be added by making themselves known in last week's comments), this is the criteria needed to be fulfilled to have a chance of appearing on the list:

• 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.

This weeks' results

User	C Rewards	Steem Power	Votes Cast	Reward per 1000 SP
biophil	17.874842	3101.377199	26	5.763518
buggedout	14.003526	3234.662569	393	4.329208
curie	447.458435	122986.4941	1791	3.638273
dontstopmenow	3.842796	1179.744305	174	3.257313
jznsamuel	9.198704	4093.110604	241	2.247363
choogirl	46.514043	22139.81432	1106	2.100923
cervantes	354.411806	174874.9761	592	2.026658
edje	2.742415	1442.509513	221	1.901142
ewuoso	1.410331	745.198748	134	1.892557
steemtrail	20.976808	11486.65971	189	1.826189
qurator	65.023414	40453.68547	1370	1.607355
tarazkp	58.084603	36340.25444	410	1.598354
osm0sis	1.93836	1218.51048	152	1.590762
rok-sivante	156.119943	98146.32514	75	1.590686
coolguy123	8.163434	5197.65454	1041	1.5706
xervantes	6.766173	4325.936996	235	1.564094
deaconlee	2.427462	1608.474129	223	1.509171
paulag	62.967199	42904.42298	192	1.467616
htliao	26.929912	18488.55766	799	1.456572
steemitri	3.108563	2187.784613	171	1.420873
dandesign86	2.254391	1600.019277	612	1.408977
acidyo	498.797924	354916.2846	584	1.405396
costanza	7.056311	5055.046292	360	1.395894
abh12345	25.426223	18329.8939	928	1.387145
kid4life	1.727249	1299.907898	212	1.328747
tumutanzi	20.612516	15835.32437	91	1.301679
minnowsupport	104.859897	83141.20691	5187	1.261227
instructor2121	7.318378	5821.2697	180	1.257179
beanz	67.683931	53923.27597	158	1.25519
holbein81	19.90683	15980.59718	194	1.245688
thinknzombie	6.948594	5664.753061	2390	1.226637
r-bot	6.730093	5696.01649	118	1.181544
utopian-io	4413.71953	3768160.454	1389	1.171319
limabeing	6.059002	5270.251557	58	1.149661
mammasitta	15.491734	14712.44509	499	1.052968
swelker101	0.87212	847.513617	45	1.029033
gniksivart	1.219241	1199.258316	69	1.016662
cryptoctopus	305.81521	341841.9071	335	0.89461
karensuestudios	6.024019	7333.737771	126	0.821412
anomadsoul	206.206629	259518.0749	928	0.794575
techslut	33.559164	42718.13075	668	0.785595
josediccus	0.279045	381.327509	130	0.731774
themarkymark	2.711417	3886.456512	139	0.697658
smasssh	3.033612	4400.69947	189	0.689348
miniature-tiger	0.893133	1327.154121	128	0.672969
mariannewest	1.636283	2571.55826	279	0.6363
fitinfun	1.470248	2478.608227	188	0.593175
carlgnash	3.428407	6049.461456	160	0.566729
jerrybanfield	123.377851	233772.2914	885	0.527769
retiredinsamar	0.29106	605.122815	95	0.480993
cranium	0.331059	769.153637	908	0.43042
blazing	0.169033	423.404135	1096	0.399223
joe.nobel	0.113021	303.37239	39	0.37255
maintain4real-eu	0.049004	142.628046	107	0.343581
djmalith	0.019002	325.216699	44	0.058427
fiveboringgames	0.360066	15394.5359	262	0.023389
roomservice	0.004001	366.953943	9	0.010902

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

_{Might need to zoom in this week - sorry!}

This weeks' findings:

• @biophil takes the top spot this week with an impressive 5.76 SP earned for every 1000 owned, nice! @biophil will be an account familiar to regular visitors to the Curation League post as he has previously topped the table (before I started giving out prizes!). 5 Steem on its way to you, well done!

• @buggedout will be receiving 2.5 Steem for finishing 2nd, as he did last week, well done!

• My 3rd prize (which will change in criteria each week) of 2.5 Steem is going to @jznsamuel for 'highest placed new entrant' to the league. Well done!

• A mention to @dontstopmenow, last weeks' winner, who finishes in an honorable 4th this week. ( @dontstopmenow has a trail you can follow at https://steemauto.com/ if you wish to get closer to his score)

• Also deserved of a mention is @coolguy123 who despite voting over 1000 times last week, still managed a score higher than the average - a great effort!

Prizes sent

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• The average curation reward/Steem Power this week is 1.335 SP, a small improvement on last week.

• A good target to aim for would be to beat this average, with an excellent target being 2.0 SP earned, per every 1000 vested SP owned.

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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

• A prize for top of the table and other secret criteria(!) will be given in next weeks post

And ...

• I feel that curation should be about finding awesome content and giving it an up-vote - irrelevant of the curation rewards you might receive

• Help the Steem Blockchain grow, support quality content from newer authors

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_{I am part of a Steemit Business Intelligence community. We all post under the tag #bisteemit. If you have analysis you would like to be carried out on Steemit data, please do contact me or any of the #bisteemit team 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 16th December 2017 at 3:00 pm CET}

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Thanks for reading today!

Asher @abh12345