WAVES
34 surfers have ridden 3065 waves across five events and the world champ, John John, has only caught 53 waves of them. On the other end of the scale sits Julian with his bung wing, he's somehow managed to paddle into a whopping 154.
MONEY
There's been almost $3mil direct debited into 34 bank accounts across the globe so far this year. Italo being the run away at the moment, with Julian a close second. In fact, there's only 7 surfers who've earned over 100k this season.
The Approach
To make it all work, we went and grabbed the data around how many waves everyone has caught, the prize money they’ve won (via World Surf League site). We pulled data from surfers who are on tour and scrapped the wildcards, except Mikey Wright – he’s basically full time anyway.
From there it was just playing around in a spreadsheet to get the figures dialed in and see who was what where and played around with a few formulas to help get some insights around it all.
Below are some stats on our dual event winner, Italo, along with defending world champ John John. We also threw in Michael Rodrigues, as he’s got the lowest Cash Per Wave number due in part to catching 158 waves this year.
128 WAVES
Most Waves Ridden
Bali, 54.
Least Waves Ridden
Snapper & Brazil, 13.
$234k won
Snapper - $11,500 (13th)
Bells - $100k (1st)
Rio - $11,500 (13th)
Bali -$100k (1st)
Ulus - $11,500 (13th)
CPW
Cash Per Wave - $1832
Average CPW - $1477
Bells CPW - $2941
Bali CPW - $821
53 WAVES
Most Waves Ridden
18, Brazil
Least Waves Ridden
5, Bali (injured)
$59k won
Snapper - $10,000 (25th)
Bells - $11,500 (13th)
Rio - $14,700 (9th)
Bali - $11,500 (13th)
Ulus - $11,500 (13th)
CPW
Cash Per Wave - $1117
Average CPW - $1295
Bali CPW - $2300
Brazil CPW - $817
158 WAVES
Most Waves Ridden
48, Snapper
Least Waves Ridden
16, Bells
$74k won
Snapper - $19,000 (5th)
Bells - $10,000 (25th)
Rio - $19,000 (5th)
Bali - $11,500 (13th)
Ulus - $14,700 (9th)
CPW
Cash Per Wave - $470
Average CPW - $504
Bells CPW - $625
Snapper CPW - $396
WAVES
Total Number - 725 waves
Average Point - 21 waves
Most Waves
Michael Rodrigues - 48
Least Waves
John John Florence - 8
CASH/WAVE
Average Point - $795
Most Earned
Julian Wilson - $2128
Least Earned
Michael Rodrigues - $396
WAVES
Total Number - 492 waves
Average Point - 15 waves
Most Waves
Italo Ferrieira - 34
Least Waves
Mikey February - 6
CASH/WAVE
Average Point - $1083
Most Earned
Italo Ferrieira - $2941
Least Earned
Jeremy Flores - $525
