KZN Card Submissions

In the 29 days from 19-Apr to 18-May, 239 cards were submitted for pentads in KZN. There were nine new pentads covered. 51 observers made submissions.

This equates to 8.2 cards per day, 4.7 cards per observer and 0.3 new pentads per day. It is interesting to compare the submissions per day over the last few reporting periods:
19/04-18/05 [29 d]: 8.2 cards / day
29/03-19/04 [21 d]: 8.7 cards / day
15/03-29/03 [14 d]: 9.9 cards / day
17/02-15/03 [26 d]: 7.7 cards / day
11/01-14/02 [37 d]: 8.5 cards / day
05/12-11/01 [37 d]: 10.2 cards / day

What this does seem to indicate is that we have a fairly stable submission rate of between 8-10 cards / day for KZN.

What is noticeable in these stats is that new pentads are certainly much harder to get to. For the same period, the card submission rate for new pentads was as follows: 0.31, 0.71, 1.14, 1.00, 0.89 & 0.93.

The attached list is sorted [in descending order] by new pentad submissions, then by number of cards, then by Observer, which means that Alan Manson topped the list with 4 new pentads and 4 cards, followed by Tim Wood with 1/11, Duncan McKenzie with 1/10, Klaus Heyer with 1/3 and Frank Rautenbach with 1/3.

If we change the sort order to te number of cards submitted, new pentads and then name [again in descending order] we have: Johan Gouws on 21 cards with 0 new, Michael Lee 19/0, Trish Strachan 14/0, Richard Johnstone 12/0 and Tim Wood with 11/0.

Again, well done to all the many others who also contributed.