Stat Me Please

Here's some Group stats:

• As a group, we caught 426 fish in just over 3 hours of fishing
• The creel value was a whopping $1,247.27
• The average fish value was $2.93
• The Carp Pros had the highest creel value with $470.71 or 38% of the total catch
• The Gaff Master only caught 6% (27) of the total quantity of fish, but they were worth 17% ($217.28) of the total value showing the benefit of hunting the larger fish. They led the Tournament with an average fish value of $8.05.
• The Bass Turds caught 21% (88) of the total quantity of fish and they were worth only 19% ($240.58) of the total value
• The average day for the group netted 142 fish with a creel value worth $415.76
• The group average ($351.79) rebounded close to the record setting 1st season ($358.61) when normalized to an 11 event season after slipping a bit in 2005
• Once again, the majority of the fish (65%) were in the Black slot (3.1" - 5")
• Interestingly, the Orange slot (less than 3") showed a remarkable resurgence since last year, capturing 7% of the total fish in 2006, up from 2% in 2005
• The White slot (5.1"-7") showed the biggest drop off with only 20% of the total this year, down from 45% in 2005.

Here's some Individual stats:

• Merle led the way with the highest creel value of $249.90 (18% of the combined value)
• Steve caught the most fish with 85 (20% of the combined total)
• Tom P had the highest average fish value with $24.07
• Tomski led Week 1 with 61 fish/$103.43 creel.
• Jeff led Week 1 with the highest average fish value of $2.06
• Tom P swept all categories in Week 2: Most fish (3), Highest Creel ($68.35) and Highest Average Fish ($22.78)
• Merle led Week 4 with 35 fish and a 175.59 Creel
• Tom P led Week 4 with an average fish value of $25.03
• Russ, Steve and Merle have improved thier performance each of the past three years (see chart below)
• PoBoy is the only angler with a consistent downward trend since 2004. Perhaps the beer pong is impacting his "performance"