Basically, to its own Basic?

The word basically is a great word, in my opinion.  I believe that you should only use the word to describe a noun or with an adverb when describing action.  I’m gong to go with Basically Basic in this Case.  I'll take it to mean “What have WE GOT In the 5_39 Lottery?”  In California we have around 8800 Lines x 5 Columns of Numbers 1-39.  Add to that a Date Column and an optional Game Number and that is as Basic as it Gets.  It all comes surrounded by a Fence that Reads "These Lines Have No effect on the Other Side of the Fence.  WE imagine that there is something in the Lines that will tell us something about the Next Line.  So It Starts.

We  Add 39 Columns, one for Each Number.  We Dive in and start Counting.  We count how many times that a number has hit in the 8800 Lines.  We call it a Hit Count.  We next divide the Number of Lines by the Hit Count to get a Frequency.  We can then Select on Overlay of any number of consecutive Lines and Count and divide to Get a Frequency over that Game Period.  We can Roll the Overlay over the Game History and Watch these values Change.  I typically used a Game Overlays of 20+ Games. 

The Next thing we look at is Where did a Number Hit in the 8880 Lines.  We Start Counting how many lines down from the Top Line until we spot a number.  We call that line count a Skip.  With the Skip and Frequency calculated for every Number + the actual Draw Numbers (5 more columns) We then Divide the Skip by the Frequency (39 more columns).  Expressed as a percentage it tells us how the Skip Relates to the Frequency.  When a Skip is less than a Frequency the percentage is less than 100%.  When the Skip is Greater than the Frequency, the percentage is greater than 100%.  That is pretty much it for the Basic Math that can be applied to the Numbers.  We Can Do Sums, Odd/Even...stuff like that as well.

In the Past, I used to Start a game with several bags of Numbers.  3 Bags were labeled Hits each with an additional 1, 2, or 3.  The bag labeled "Hits_1" contained the Numbers with the 13 Lowest Hit counts.  The Bag Labeled "Hits_2" (The Middle 13) and the "Hits_3", (The Top 13) Hit Counts.  In the Pick 3/4 I used the Same Grouping. The bags were just lighter.  I carried 4 more Bags that I used to label "S/F 1 thru 4".  Here again I bagged the Values from the Lowest 10, Low Middle 10, High Middle 10 and Highest 9.  That was about all that my systems were calculating thru their various Name Changes, most recently the Fantasy 5 DNA Program.

Some may think and Be Right, that I have NO METHOD.  I Totally Accept that and I will not deny it.  What I mainly do is Make TOOLS.  I create a series of buttons to push and Walla...out pop some combinations.  Close to those Buttons I show some data about an Options History and its effect on the Output.  The Options select Bags of Numbers and Discards the others.  An Option can affect all 5 of the Draw Columns or a Single Column.  I show Graphs of the Values hits for Each Option, Looking for inspiration to follow any Trend that I See (Or Don't).  I run hundreds of Back tests and Graph the Results from various Fixed Option Settings and have tried a few that used a formula to select the Option with minimum success. 

Along Comes the "8 Game Round".  The Idea was in a pamphlet handed out by a Guy who got out of a Buss with a picture of a Check for $150K.  Emblazoned on the Side sere the Words "My Method is the ONLY WAY to the promised Land" in Large Green Letters. I tried to poke around the Buss a little.  See what Powered it.  I asked to look at the Engine and the Man Said, “Read this and Get in or we are leaving without you”. 

Here is What the Concept did to my Processes.  It Totally Changed What was to be Counted.  It Changed the Way those things were Counted.  It Totally changed how the Numbers found their way into the Hit Bags. It also seems to have affected my sense of Time.  Instead of bringing counts to a game, I was Leaving a Game With the 3 Bags.  It is not a big deal, I thought.  Just a different definition?  No, it was also a different Count. It Effectively added a Hidden Group, those Numbers that had not hit anywhere in an 8 Game round. It just means that you have to Add 1 to Every Numbers Hit Value to Direct them, if you will, to their Bag for the Next trip to the Draw. The normal top value for a numbers hits in an 8 game Round is 3, and any more and a Number goes to Bag 3.  Going back to my Drone, it gave me a whole new way to measure the Terrain (I was a Surveyor in My former Life).   It also gave me a glimpse into what was powering the Buss that the Mystery Man Got Out of.  All of my Old Stuff was there waiting to be viewed thru this new Scope, So I flew around.  I grabbed a little bit here and there and I went to work on some new Buttons. 

I will admit to you that I Feel Free of the Grip of Strategy and that my Files really don't have One.  They are What/If derived from If/Then.  Endless Back Tests looking for the right If/Then is the focus of each Test.  That is the Information that I Try to Locate by the Button to "Inspire" a Guess. 

What About These Tools? What do they Do? A Couple of years ago, I created a skeleton, a Block of the Basic Data that could expanded to fit any Inquiry. Simple Stuff Like “How Many Hits for Each Number, stuff like that. And more complicated like “What Numbers have hit alongside the Number 5?” I add a few more columns to the Base that match a Formula and the derivatives of its options creating a new Range to be analyzed and Rolled back in Time.  Twins?  Triples? Got Them too. 

Additional Data (Columns) can be added based on Any Formula and these in turn can be distributed across a few More Columns, Usually the Number of Options in the Formula or the Number of Places that the Formula might include or combinations thereof are added.  Once a New Set of Columns is added that History is available to View next to a Button with which to select an option as an Excluder or Includer.  The Buttons control an area of a Worksheet that Selects Items that match the Filter Selection and Sends them on for having Passed of Failed the Test.  Multiple Filters, Pass or Fail the Numbers again and again. Numbers Pass 1 or more Filters for example or they could fail them all.  All of this so far is still Not a Strategy or a Method.  It is Only a set of Options for the Tool based on the Names Given to the group of Columns that created and support the Options themselves.   

The Takeaway? 

I did not sell myself very well, (Not that I am actually for sale) as an asset when it came to the Data that Victor’s Method would Require.   I believe the Tool can be easily adapted to those Formulas.  Providing that the Structure Definitions are the Same, The Tool can be easily modified to a Specific Number of Buttons and a Guide or a suggested Sequence in which they should be pushed.  That is WHAT VICTORS METHOD is when run by a Computer Program aka TOOL. The Tool Does this by changing its columns based the Formulas or Watch Values and updating the Assignments to Each Number produced by said formulas.  Multiple Methods can be Applied.  I suspect that much of the Data is already in the Giant block all ready to be Looked at for Watch Values. Adding a Formula that relates one column to another is most likely part of The Method.

Poor Communication that got Off on the Wrong Foot because I wanted to Fly a Drone instead of getting on the Bus. There have been some Rocky Moments; But, the Important things are all Good.  Frayed relationships are on the Mend.  The Buss is Rolling.  I am not even close to the best at Excel.  Excel is not the “ONLY WAY”.  I don’t talk like that.  I Know a few already on the Buss that will develop a way to apply The Method most likely in multiple programs. 

In the meantime, the Number of columns continues to Grow.  The Number of Files grows as well because the Twins and Triples have to many columns for my computers mind to hold when taken together and creeps when either is taken by itself. People Better Trained in excel could no doubt speed things up a bit.  That might not be necessary with the right Export or Assembly Strategy that exports Text Files or csv files for use by the Control Panel on the Tool.  Kind of like a Sim Card that could put the Tool on autopilot.

For those that might have missed it.  Drone = Tool.