The next steps for my Python follower system script...

Published: September 3, 2023, 3:05 pm

Updated: September 3, 2023, 3:07 pm

Since the core logic is tested and functioning,time to consider the next steps...

1. Create a desktop application around the script. This will be valuable practice for user interface/ user experience (UI/UX). Using the PA lottery ball images instead of text output would be both easier to read (totally a thing for us older folks) and visually appealing.

2. Add an update the draws option. While it would be nice for the PA lottery to have an API, they sadly do not... but they DO have an RSS feed! I will practice parsing this feed, converting the data to a usable form (text to integer for results and text date to date for draw date.) And then having it build an update sequence to append to all of the results history .csv files. Would have allow for updating multiple draws if I miss a day or two.

3. Work in a back test screen.

4. Work in a statistics screen to display the verbose info for each draw, though the main output would be just the picks.

5. Work in a historical function that can show the results of system pick vs actual draw and derive statistics from that info. Maybe an adjustable time frame, such as last week/month/year/custom date range... would basically just let you query the data from the back test.

6. Figure out how to wrap it into an android solution so the entire package can be 100% mobile.

So while waiting for a win, there is still so much to do... free software engineering lab!

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hypersoniq - Sep 3, 2023, 10:41 pm

Playing with RSS feeds, particularly parsing an RSS url via the Python feedparse library. By learning how the parsed feed is indexed, I can just grab the relevant updates for one day, which would be pick 3, 4, 5 mid and eve and the Match 6.
They can be set up to be appended to their appropriate .csv files.
This is going to have a bit of a learning curve, but it is the same process I used to figure out extracting data from parsed json API returns.
I am hopong to just get the relevant data using the 'in' clause with the if statement.

hypersoniq - Sep 3, 2023, 10:50 pm

Also developing a play strategy for a 4 day test starting tuesday. I figure the most "bang" for the fewest bucks looks like
1. 50/50 ticket for mid and eve pick 3 ($2)
2. 50/50 ticket on mid and eve pick 4 ($2)
3. St and box for mid and eve pick 5 ($4)
4. Match 6 ($)

I usually don't play boxes, but it is an effort to get onto "house" money sooner.

Potential on a hit;
P3.. $250 st / $40 to 80 box
P4.. $2,500 st / $100 to $600 box
P5.. $50k st / $425 to $10k box
M6.. $2 to jackpot.

4 day test. Cost $40. 7 draws per day for $10. Seems like a reasonable test. Considering that $40 came from the $1k match 6 hit, it is technically a house money test anyway... if the box does nothing for 4 days it will be dropped on each game further reducing the cost.

The next steps for my Python follower system script...

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