Sometimes it gets discouraging to envision what you want to do on a sheet of paper, craft it into an excel spreadsheet and realize the information that you wanted is indeed presented correctly BUT provides no help whatsoever when the numbers are drawn...

I knew straight statistics wouldn't be the holy grail, otherwise everybody would win.

So what I have left is my original design goals...

1. treat each digit separately (pick 3/4)
2. make a unique pick for each draw
3. make ONLY one pick for each draw

Sometimes you get tempted to toy with settings to "enhance" backtest results, knowing that it won't propagate forward... I just saved myself quite a significant amount of time by realizing and stopping this in my current endeavor.

Since the project began, i had managed to avoid any straight results, but picked up $440 in box results because it was cheap to add them, but in the end, box was wrong... but funded the system thus far. 

So i sit with my excel skills getting slowly sharper, but positive results still missing. BUT unlike last time, i refuse to allow myself to drop my experimentation and computer skills due to lack of results. The current framework is good, I must wait for the next idea or inspiration, but the framework is there... updating draws until then.

So, i believe the statistics are a part of the puzzle, but after exhaustive attempts, I now know they are not the ONLY part...

but what next?