Hi all

This week is complete and as usual I have some crypto 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 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 (within Steemit because I have no data for discord etc!) 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 (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
credo	0.109983	22.521664	74	4.883437
qsounds	2.555484	623.157331	124	4.100864
edje	2.418587	879.450109	161	2.750113
curie	277.745316	121358.4074	2562	2.288637
cervantes	328.575227	178176.5637	604	1.844099
samiwhyte	0.636906	360.07674	112	1.768805
jaeydallah	0.043997	26.808014	123	1.641185
choogirl	37.154448	22820.65219	734	1.628106
coolguy123	8.36759	5285.672244	2088	1.58307
steemtrail	15.675456	11576.52507	287	1.354073
osm0sis	1.796703	1365.262822	149	1.316013
aburmeseabroad	1.791651	1362.77061	177	1.314712
xervantes	6.534027	5028.090579	77	1.299505
rok-sivante	123.570926	95367.40208	197	1.295735
clumsysilverdad	1.500775	1159.169446	578	1.294698
deaconlee	2.190672	1713.06718	408	1.278801
dragonking	0.11798	92.705477	205	1.272633
goldendawne	7.811926	6216.051185	432	1.256734
greenrun	8.395687	6782.472852	394	1.23785
dandesign86	2.295651	2032.102632	349	1.129692
dontstopmenow	4.556329	4124.652406	60	1.104658
beanz	57.63724	53128.12288	176	1.084873
instructor2121	6.248991	5827.35807	272	1.072354
funcrypto	0.006999	6.599136	6	1.060567
steemitri	2.710606	2589.97906	284	1.046574
cranium	6.862006	6640.53732	692	1.033351
cryptoctopus	345.363268	344277.8696	396	1.003153
josediccus	0.385937	385.014874	185	1.002395
teamsteem	401.58501	417472.6491	1625	0.961943
maintain4real-eu	0.125981	136.897929	115	0.920254
costanza	4.597359	5101.198841	152	0.901231
kaysar07	0.029996	33.50862	14	0.895183
connecteconomy	1.106823	1249.895539	111	0.885532
jlordc	0.012997	15.044965	74	0.86387
kawsar	0.012999	15.065761	67	0.862794
erikaflynn	0.806866	949.117032	135	0.850123
smasssh	4.339243	5149.083255	235	0.842721
mammasitta	12.177758	14903.21942	1032	0.817123
swelker101	0.851859	1042.696705	43	0.816977
revisesociology	0.802881	1004.617455	122	0.79919
themarkymark	4.25634	5534.72647	132	0.769024
karensuestudios	6.311898	8362.941549	130	0.754746
kid4life	0.865884	1219.120135	135	0.710253
dagger212	1.479722	2096.348161	52	0.705857
clio	3.89943	5560.272691	120	0.701302
steemfirst	0.009999	14.999517	112	0.666589
allesia	0.142971	228.189029	136	0.626545
thinknzombie	3.643436	6744.135426	2552	0.540238
killerkuasha	0.059991	117.595449	322	0.510147
ewuoso	0.322944	803.4137	1436	0.401965
steemibu351	0.010998	29.451193	138	0.373437
retiredinsamar	0.186979	583.453916	118	0.320469
pariza	0.006999	24.184429	90	0.289384
darkerhorse	0.017999	91.693746	51	0.196291
joe.nobel	0.043993	276.649943	53	0.15902
djmalith	0.016997	304.832227	22	0.05576
steemit.lover2	0.001	24.414692	28	0.040948

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:

In the interest of sharing rewards I have removed @zapncrap (14.410016), @biophil (5.626285), and @miniature-tiger (4.550333) to give a chance for new winners :)

• And so, this weeks top spot goes to the newly formed @credo community account which is a 'Support Project for Newbies And Investors' - Well done!

• A long time member of the curation league, @qsounds takes 2nd spot - nice!

• And in 3rd spot, I think a member who made last place in the beginning these weekly posts, a fine effort from @edje who has consistently improved over the past few months :)

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• The average curation reward/Steem Power this week is 1.46SP, down from last weeks average of 1.57.

• Not many users made it to 2.0 SP/curation this week. Maybe people are looking at reaching a higher spot in league 2....

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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
@coolguy123	41992.6
@goldendawne	41846.6
@abh12345	36937
@carlgnash	36783.4
@tarazkp	36421.4
@deaconlee	34001
@teamsteem	30816.4
@choogirl	30336.2
@acidyo	30052.2
@mammasitta	29710
@cervantes	29261
@lpessin	28785.8
@gniksivart	28139
@clumsysilverdad	27556.6
@mariannewest	27528.4
@techslut	27416
@cranium	26963.8
@xervantes	26923.6
@fitinfun	26819.4
@josephsavage	25937.2

Well done to @coolguy123 who tops the league of engagement and excellence this week!

Also very well done to abh12345 @goldendawne and @carlgnash who have finished 2nd and 3rd - happy to see you guys here! (again!)

Worth noting that the top 4 in this league have received delegated Steem Power with a view to supporting the communities around them. @fulltimegeek's master plan in action :)

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 13th January 2018 at 10:00 am CET}

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Thanks for your support!

Asher @abh12345