Quotes: Originally posted by BobP on February 10, 2004
IMHO the best lottery software design should offer prediction with a switch that allows it to be turned on and off, thus everyone can be happy.
I think there are several software camps to date, and I think they were mentioned in another thread somewhere else (RGL?)... You have predictors, analyzers and wheelers. Some tend to combine a few features of both, but usually they are in one camp or the other. With that in mind, why would you want to turn the prediction feature off in a program that is specifically designed to generate predictions?
True lottery software worthy of the name would have a self correcting prediction routine that automatically plays the system in all its manifestations against the history, finds the most succesful path now due and present that result to the user.
Some software's have this option, but the design of WINHunter itself basically prohibits this type of feature from ever existing, since there are an infinite amount of settings possible in the software.
And how exactly does software determine "successful path now due"? You started out by saying that the user should be in control. but now you want the software to make the decisions? Sounds like you want software with options, and lots of them.
I'm not talking about the one that generates thousands of "systems" until ten hit and suggests you pick one of them, they don't hit again in the next draw.
WINHunter can generate lots of result-sets from Optimization runs, where the user decides what to save. Again, this goes back to a main question, how do you determine what is a "good" set of options?
Until software can pull itself up by its own boot straps we can only look at its picks and try to find where among its picks the winning numbers turn up so we can wheel numbers from those ranges. Let the current software predict or at least rank all the numbers, after the draw circle where they were so you can get an idea where it puts the winners among the ranked results often enough to be worth covering. BobP
Don't take my replies wrong Bob, but it seems you want to have options, but you also want the software to make choices/decisions for you. WINHunter can do a mixture of both. Honestly though, I have not seen ANY software that will guarentee a solid winning method to win (not even my own software spits it out for me... Dang). And "rank" numbers? Rank them how? What methods are best to rank them by? Now you want the software to rank them? What if you dont like a particular ranking method, or how much/how little history it uses to rank them by?
I can tell you this... WINHunter was designed to expose as many options as possible to the user/software developer in order to be able to produce filtering schemes of any configuration. No other lottery software has filtering options like WINHunter (and I say that strongly, challenging anyone to prove otherwise). WINHunter was never meant to compete with other software, but to prove concepts and ideas and to hopefully push the envelope of lottery software. IMHO, it has succeeded in doing just that.
Now with WINHunter being freely available (YES, free...) and users having the ability to contact the author directly, I have honestly not seen many users jump on board. Why? Free software not good enough, users like to pay for it instead? Open communication with the author? When was the last time you emailed Bill Gates and got a direct reply? Really, I am at a loss when it comes to users these days. Maybe you could look at WINHunter and point me in the right direction, but most of the features you are asking for already exist in WINHunter already.
I know the above language is strong, but it is not directed at you at all. I know WINHunter is not "THE" tool of lottery tools, and it may not have all the options users are looking for. Other users may not like the software because there is no automatic download of their state history files, etc. The WINHunter project was started as an Opensource project for one reason, to enable the enlistment of the users themselves to further the project and to prdvent the project from ever dying or fading away.
If you are serious about finding a winning configuration, and your serious about owning software like what you mentioned, why would you not have a copy of WINHunter installed?