Hi all!

Living out of a couple of suitcases and painting new classrooms is a little different to usual life but the curation leagues must go on!

10 STEEM in prizes is available by commenting below - you will be entered into both leagues.

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 rewards

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 comments on the blogs of others!

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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 (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 in these points.

Curating for maximizing returns - League 1

User	C Rewards	Steem Power	Votes Cast	Reward per 1000 SP
qsounds	1.975977	627.324484	129	3.149848
credo	0.08595	27.786628	69	3.093208
r-bot	2.890269	1100.67068	98	2.625916
samiwhyte	0.923483	368.757825	96	2.504307
miniature-tiger	3.847911	1568.914437	235	2.452594
curie	287.63722	119343.6064	2655	2.41016
jznsamuel	10.044548	4296.358684	323	2.337921
josephsavage	1.148354	514.867362	199	2.230388
greenrun	13.981364	6837.058658	425	2.044938
maintain4real-eu	0.283851	139.927265	87	2.028564
cemke	0.026987	14.99538	476	1.799681
cervantes	308.933044	178790.4531	601	1.727906
steemitri	4.286748	2615.519041	241	1.638966
edje	1.321306	885.372152	187	1.492374
deaconlee	2.555643	1720.673326	341	1.485258
aburmeseabroad	2.087813	1431.431503	180	1.458549
htliao	28.555779	20080.02069	593	1.422099
cranium	9.509722	6740.17311	646	1.410902
osm0sis	1.867976	1399.802621	186	1.334456
steemtrail	14.350152	11597.9663	273	1.237299
limabeing	1.197391	998.794581	77	1.198836
clumsysilverdad	1.349275	1180.416216	409	1.14305
costanza	5.82585	5109.99834	229	1.140089
dandesign86	2.348751	2133.797653	481	1.100737
rok-sivante	103.665446	94715.20186	357	1.094496
choogirl	26.946261	24755.33291	1482	1.088503
connecteconomy	1.366274	1263.066228	144	1.081712
acidyo	379.326755	357080.8195	430	1.062299
instructor2121	6.179618	5827.35807	203	1.060449
beanz	56.104903	52909.41936	119	1.060395
revisesociology	1.16032	1142.622572	352	1.015488
mammasitta	15.061626	15013.02886	826	1.003237
smasssh	4.906246	5340.61932	217	0.918666
josediccus	0.331812	402.124243	82	0.825147
erikaflynn	0.790543	973.32988	171	0.812204
yura81	0.011994	15.007839	37	0.799214
dragonking	0.075959	97.492063	195	0.779128
karensuestudios	6.483529	8472.525034	103	0.765242
dontstopmenow	3.233222	4313.570267	89	0.749547
buggedout	0.489758	654.061928	509	0.748795
kid4life	0.823534	1145.718902	153	0.718792
majes.tytyty	11.099177	15638.89472	417	0.709716
themarkymark	3.964872	5839.389845	227	0.678987
fishyculture	0.482733	755.40536	159	0.639038
jaeydallah	0.017989	28.365085	50	0.63421
joe.nobel	0.149916	276.649943	41	0.541897
clio	2.834451	5569.104178	164	0.50896
killerkuasha	0.057971	122.741541	89	0.472301
retiredinsamar	0.370808	866.138376	74	0.428117
littlejoeward	0.141923	333.483948	44	0.425577
xervantes	1.951916	5036.592368	250	0.387547
swelker101	0.396769	1109.755245	110	0.357528
kawsar	0.004997	15.083988	56	0.331299
darkerhorse	0.030985	98.78699	52	0.31365
soyrosa	0.077955	263.817829	96	0.295489
steemibu351	0.008995	32.119925	43	0.280054
dagger212	0.461727	2116.438208	33	0.218162
steemfirst	0.002998	15.045411	82	0.199283
hazelgrace25	0.027985	143.589615	15	0.194896
kangarooninja	0.001999	14.98945	52	0.133353
djmalith	0.033983	305.461992	122	0.111252
steemit.lover2	0.001999	24.863515	44	0.080407
josephjim	0.000999	14.990909	19	0.066661
pariza	0.000999	26.72005	40	0.037399
botdot	0.002999	81.516416	0	0.036787
kaysar07	0.001	42.373344	30	0.023589

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:

( @zapncrap 13.98, @curx 9.68, and @biophil 5.89 removed for bots/trails sorry! )

• @qsounds takes first spot this week, well done!

• @credo in 2nd place, another excellent week!

• @r-bot (who isn't a bot!) takes 3rd, nice one!

Well done to @samiwhyte in a very close fourth, 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 1.41, down slightly from 1.46 last week.

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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)
• 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

Name	Ashers engagement/excellence rating
@blazing	7711397.4
@goldendawne	4456946
@salmanbukhari54	3262719.8
@cranium	2320967.2
@gniksivart	2274714
@mariannewest	2239911.4
@josediccus	1390337.4
@cemke	1098972.6
@greenrun	1084624.8
@carlgnash	973322.2
@dragonking	951428.4
@choogirl	945021.6
@yura81	835387.4
@tpkidkai	751906.2
@kangarooninja	718259.8
@mawit07	680019.8
@theaustrianguy	637098.8
@fishyculture	627465.8
@wwf	623429.4
@mammasitta	568984

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

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

Also very well done to @goldendawne and @salmanbukhari54 who have finished 2nd and 3rd - well done both!

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! (This weeks' focus - commenting on the blogs of others)}

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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, 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 21st January 2018 at 9:00 am somewhere!}

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Thank you for your support, have a great day

Asher @abh12345