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The Nosedive

Here we go again. Some time ago I wrote a two blog posts about statistics and numbers of geocachers: •  It's going downhill  - Is geocaching declining? •  Quo Vadis Horreum Terrae? - Why is geocaching declining? Since then a year has passed - oh man time flies when you're having fun - and I thought it would be worth revisiting these numbers. Actually I was tracking them for a while now and it's fair to say the game took a nosedive. However lets look at total numbers of 2015 and 2016 first since these years are truly gone by and whoever wanted to log a find would have done that by now. Active Players = 1 find or more that year / Very Active Players = 100 finds or more that year   Remarkably in both years the very active players make up 4.7% of the active players. This roughly 5% seems to be a reoccurring number as shown in previous posts. However there's a clear decline of 7% from 2015 to 2016 which was only 1% from 2014 to 2015. Let's move o