8 years on WG

[mortonfox]

I finally got Vermont Where's George County Bingo with this hit in Concord, VT! (Essex County) I actually had the county bingo since August 9 but I didn't realize it until I checked my Hits by State report today. That took nearly 8 years since I started, so getting hits in Vermont is tough compared to the other New England states, at least from here in New Jersey. I still need Franklin County in Maine to complete New England County Bingo. Let's see how many years that one takes.

Speaking of 8 years, it's my 8-year anniversary on Where's George! I signed up on August 29, 1999. I found the website quite by accident. Back in those days, I didn't use Google and web searches were somewhat of an art because Altavista, which I used back then, would often return search results that were only tangentially related to my search keywords. The Where's George website was one of those accidental finds. It was a rather primitive website back then but I liked the idea of tracking currency for fun, and 8 years later, I'm still there.

Anyway...


First, my "Your Bills" summary:

You have entered 128,190 Bills worth $220,575
Bills with hits: 24,363    Total hits: 32,917
Hit rate: 19.01%   Slugging Percentage: 25.68% (total hits/total bills)
George Score: 1,383.12
Your rank (based on George Score) is #21
(out of 51,987 current users with a George Score. [100.0 Percentile])
Your State Rank in New Jersey is: 2 out of 3,180 [99.9]

I'm still pretty close to the top in both state and sitewide ranks!


I think the most appropriate table for this occasion is the Breakdown by Year:

Breakdown by Year - Hide
Year	Bills Entered	Dollar Value	Average Bill Value	Percent of Total	Cumulative Total	Bills with hits *	Total Hits *	Hit Rate	Cumulative Bills w/Hits
1999	374	$2,234	$5.97	0.29%	374	16	21	4.3%	16
2000	4,297	$9,689	$2.25	3.35%	4,671	863	1,097	20.1%	879
2001	22,708	$44,748	$1.97	17.71%	27,379	6,169	8,752	27.2%	7,048
2002	27,421	$46,097	$1.68	21.39%	54,800	6,555	9,270	23.9%	13,603
2003	19,500	$28,013	$1.44	15.21%	74,300	3,685	5,105	18.9%	17,288
2004	15,400	$26,432	$1.72	12.01%	89,700	2,408	3,172	15.6%	19,696
2005	14,500	$24,205	$1.67	11.31%	104,200	1,978	2,413	13.6%	21,674
2006	14,700	$24,188	$1.65	11.47%	118,900	1,876	2,185	12.8%	23,550
2007	9,290	$14,969	$1.61	7.25%	128,190	813	902	8.8%	24,363
* Bills entered that year which have received at least one hit.

I might've overdone it in 2001 and 2002. I'm still getting the occasional hit here and there on some of the many bills entered in those two years.




My WG hit rate (bills hit / bills entered) peaked at the beginning of 2004 and has been in decline since. I think I've already bored all the people in my neighborhood with Where's George bills. :)




This chart shows how the average value per bill of the bills I've entered in my WG account has changed over time. The minimum is, of course, $1 if I enter 100% singles. A higher bill value average means that I've been entering more bills of higher denominations. This chart shows that I've been entering more singles in recent years.