The ultimate goal is one pick for one game. There are really 3 parameters I can adjust...

1. The number of recent followers in each list

2. The number of lists

3. The skip length of each list

The day for night thing was an observation when the pick for day came out straight for night, but that adds cost and defeats the original purpose of the system.

The list length is the easiest to adjust. Perhaps the next move should be to try several list lengths at once to see which one got closest to the last draw before updating the databases today. That sounds like the plan. I expect that each game may have it's own list length setting.

Also making a copy of the script, suppressing all output but the picks and getting the new script ready to process the back test.