Hi,
Thanks everybody for you replies.
Rjoh…
If you are playing just a few combinations, why generate all the possible combinations and then filter them? Wouldn't it be faster to only generate combinations using only the numbers that your filters wouldn't eliminate within parameters that your filters would accept?
The reason I run all possible combinations is to test the performance of an individual filter. Total combinations-filtered combinations=the reduction. Historical tracking tells you what the percentage error of the filter is. Because of the filter types I run, the amount of resulting combinations will vary every game. That is because I consider lottery picks to be dynamic rather than a static event. In addition, my primary filters are based on positional distribution properties rather than individual numbers.
lottoarchitect…
It doesn't have to be all the possible combinations, that's the extreme scenario. A normal filtering application would be to filter down from a full covering of eg 12 numbers. Any good filter or combination of filters would eliminate tickets from this set to bring it down to a reasonable cost.
And what is the performance of the individual reduction elements in your normal filtering application? To get to a 12 number scheme you must have reduction method that has an associated error rate. If you look at the Maddog challenges in the jackpot section, the majority of people are having a very rough time with the 12 number scenario. In which case, it does matter what wheeling method you use if you don’t have any reliability in the 12 numbers you’ve chosen.
Onlymoney…
after years of using filters i came to the conclusion that the best filter is finding matches. this process relieves the user of the stress of reducing individual numbers. These practices usually also eliminate the winning numbers in the process.
If you watch the total amount of error generated by your filters you will know almost exactly what the odds are that you have eliminated the winning combination.
RL, drsan…
Thank you, I’ve got my work cut out to run the numbers to check out what you’ve suggested.
In conclusion, we all are pursuing the solution to finding the best way to predict the lottery numbers with different methods. I really enjoy the insight that having visibility to different methods gives you. There is a couple common threads, that regardless of methods that we all have to contend with…
1) The amount of error in your calculations…. It’s simply good math to do it. Why get involved with or generate something that has 100% chance of failure? Maybe it’s one of the reasons why a system isn’t performing or isn’t performing as well as it could.
2) There is no simple clear cut method/filter that reliably indicates what the next lottery number picks are apt to be. Yes, I have had my runs of lower tier wins also, but I also know it can be done in a better way.
The common denominator for all of us is what constitutes a good filter or reduction method to achieve the best combinations or best numbers to bet on?
Thanks all