The system has 2 components, a Python script and spreadsheets. There is a spreadsheet for each of the 8 games (P2, P3, P4, p5 mid and eve).

There are also 8 .csv files containing a copy of all of the draw histories. This is what feeds the Python script with data. This script reads in the data and processes each column to find out what the follower distribution is for each digit.

There are 28 columns to process across the 8 games. The output is a distribution frequency for each column for each of the 10 digits. The inner functions run a total of 280 times over a total run time of 45 seconds. The output is used in the spreadsheet lookup tables.

Moving to the spreadsheets, the draw dates and draw history runs down the far left. Then it is the estimation function, which is the "guess" that is done by looking at the last draw and replacing the numbers with the corresponding values in the lookup table.

Moving over, there is a hit counter that checks to see if the guess matched all digits in the next draw. This is followed by the error function, which tells me how far off each guess was, and in what direction. A -1 means you guessed one too high, and a zero means a match.

Finally is the lookup tables for each column, populated with the 10 digits and the 10 replacements. Entering the replacement values allows me to see how the zero count changes.

In order to play the system, I have a picture of each of the lookup tables so picks are as easy as opening up the lottery website and processing the last draw of each game.

The values in the lookup column are composed of the most frequent follower for each digit based on the output of the python script.

Since follower data changes slowly, it is not required to run an update (roughly an hour process) before every draw. 

I was going to post an image of the pick 2 mid table, but the blog won't take it (probably too big).

This system should suffice until I graduate in July and get some free time back. I probably learned more about actual coding on lottery projects than I did in classes, with the exception of the intro to programming class where I discovered Python was my favorite language.

The areas I am looking to improve are 

1. Updating the draw histories by parsing the PA lottery RSS feed or scraping their results pages. Shame they can't just have an API like some other states, JSON data is much easier to handle in Python.

2. Making the python script auto populate the lookup tables on the spreadsheets.

3. Coding an Android app where I can set up all of the tables, pull in the last draws and generate picks for all games with one click.

In a nutshell my system takes follower data and reduces it to a simple substitution of the last draw digits as easy as one would apply a mirror system.

Happy Coding!