Working with Python has been a bit easier than trying monster excel formulas for sure. The current project gives me the entire list of followers for the last number drawn, including a count of the followers for that number, and the most recent 1% to allow a visual of recent trends. Then added a mode for the trends list to make a quick "pick".

Because I have always looked at the pick 3 as 3 separate games of 1 in 10, this lends itself to coding that is able to be used again.

The script has a function for pick 3 that has 3 of the same algorithm working on a different column of the .csv file (imported as a pandas data frame). This enables adding an additional algorithm to process different history files, so adding pick 4 and pick 5 should not take much time. Doing that tonight.

Paper play has no solid results yet, maybe later when I get to the laptop I can post a screen shot of what I am working with.

The 1% recent trends list seems to be the tweakable parameter. I have decided to try this route as the strictly excel based systems were getting too complex to maintain for daily games.

Anyone else using Python for exploring this hobby?