Hi all!

This weeks' curation league post is brought to you from the Island of Mauritius!

A minimum of 15 SBD in prizes are available by stating your interest below. You will be entered into both leagues, which are probably best called tables, as they are reset each week.

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 author' 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 the 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 engaging 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.

SteemSQL is now a monthly subscription service and so your support in this post is greatly appreciated!

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 14 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.

Don't let this put you off entering though - you will be automatically excluded/appear depending on the criteria above.

Curating for maximizing returns - League 1

User	C Rewards	Steem Power	Votes Cast	Reward per 1000 SP
credo	0.134026	32.535912	100	4.119339
qsounds	2.232346	631.994732	108	3.532223
samiwhyte	0.93121	384.177646	137	2.423905
curie	254.098542	117052.5119	2801	2.170808
edje	1.879299	935.814646	151	2.008196
r-bot	2.0103	1108.619758	125	1.813336
fiveboringgames	28.857236	15967.6479	289	1.807231
mgood	0.372061	205.894174	152	1.807048
maverickinvictus	1.788262	1038.82122	434	1.721434
choogirl	41.53891	25158.62552	1517	1.65108
greenrun	11.351919	6889.704271	274	1.647664
jaeydallah	0.047011	32.735144	315	1.436115
steemitri	3.765675	2666.781203	382	1.412067
revisesociology	1.626302	1205.146711	547	1.349464
limabeing	1.391271	1037.31362	85	1.341225
aburmeseabroad	2.1644	1629.872533	177	1.327957
osm0sis	1.921388	1505.43357	215	1.276302
dandesign86	2.797471	2226.26417	500	1.256576
htliao	25.190681	20262.58917	448	1.243211
tpkidkai	0.402053	330.278663	136	1.217315
sneakyninja	0.94118	835.497004	119	1.126492
instructor2121	6.581835	5889.183278	123	1.117614
beanz	56.462586	52566.87068	121	1.07411
halcyondaze	0.564097	542.541461	164	1.039732
maintain4real-eu	0.144026	145.678769	48	0.988657
salmanbukhari54	0.232023	235.815905	60	0.983918
erikaflynn	0.952147	983.654582	186	0.967969
rok-sivante	90.426206	93498.62104	502	0.967139
josediccus	0.418076	440.202749	165	0.949735
cryptoctopus	317.537697	340029.4622	367	0.933853
connecteconomy	1.183201	1294.716735	165	0.913868
karensuestudios	7.850251	8691.715485	122	0.903188
costanza	4.615761	5137.587578	222	0.89843
smasssh	4.94489	5546.599084	197	0.891517
jlordc	0.10202	115.134166	114	0.886094
steemtrail	10.158502	11652.3017	121	0.871802
dontstopmenow	3.880657	4746.455454	91	0.817591
paulag	0.149031	188.488602	75	0.790665
mammasitta	11.611291	15182.67857	682	0.764772
mariannewest	2.121411	2869.469874	419	0.739304
majes.tytyty	11.234105	15710.93984	351	0.71505
soyrosa	0.465095	665.946737	118	0.698396
cranium	4.226773	6821.194619	1064	0.619653
clio	3.244513	5874.231417	158	0.55233
rayne122	0.081016	151.138464	115	0.536039
ikrahch	0.012004	23.087555	84	0.51993
jawad09	0.062011	129.800162	45	0.47774
killerkuasha	0.059013	125.710456	78	0.469437
retiredinsamar	0.372073	902.644014	157	0.412203
djmalith	0.126019	306.290315	250	0.411437
dragonking	0.042007	108.484242	153	0.387215
pariza	0.006002	29.94606	54	0.200416
joe.nobel	0.052009	277.830156	135	0.187196
littlejoeward	0.05501	303.437807	20	0.181289
cemke	0.005001	28.623303	231	0.174719
thinknzombie	1.281287	7372.0013	866	0.173804
steemibu351	0.006	35.789449	87	0.167661
josephjim	0.002	15.041846	26	0.132991
darkerhorse	0.007002	104.524713	13	0.066985
nayyabsipra	0.001	15.027601	26	0.066565
yura81	0.001	15.048199	53	0.066474
sunnyofoz	0.001	15.0696	102	0.066379
steemit.lover2	0.001	35.812553	51	0.027928
dagger212	0.022006	2130.869894	0	0.010327
hazelgrace25	0.001	143.919043	9	0.006949
User	C Rewards	Steem Power	Votes Cast	Reward per 1000 SP

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 16.34, @zapncrap 8.28, and @biophil 5.53 removed for bots/trails sorry! )

• @credo takes first spot this week, well done again guys!

• @qsounds in the places again - 2nd this week!

• @samiwhyte in 3rd, good job!

Well done to @edje who also performed very well this week.

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• The average curation reward/Steem Power this week is 1.36, up from 1.22 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
@gniksivart	4235286.8
@goldendawne	3722215.8
@blazing	3168829
@carlgnash	2147476
@yura81	2079099.6
@themobilewriter	1944009.8
@lpessin	1812169
@teamsteem	1793172.4
@coolguy123	1784981.2
@maverickinvictus	1738091.8
@biophil	1525171.8
@instructor2121	1504137.2
@josephsavage	1458010
@pataty69	1081636.4
@choogirl	992790.2
@beanz	975870.8
@ewuoso	966160.6
@salmanbukhari54	907146.8
@beeyou	881893.8
@erikaflynn	736621.4

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

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

Also very well done to @goldendawne and @blazing 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.}

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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 or suggestions, 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 4th February 2018 at midday (UTC)}

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Thank you for your support, have a great day!

Asher @abh12345