Finally came up with code that tracks the most frequent numbers in the other columns when given one column as a seed.

Passing in a combo locks the columns by those numbers and prints the frequency distribution of 0-9 in the other columns.

Tomorrow (well, later today) will be all about updates so the data can be tested. First by verifying (does the code count of the seed numbers match a countif in the spreadsheet? Also, when filtered, do the top counts match in the other columns?) Then by updating all but the last draw to see if it works better with followers as a seed or angular followers...

Surprisingly rapid development on this one once I dialed in the main data structure, which was a list of tuples. Because tuples are immutable, there is slightly less memory required when running the code.

Weighing in at less than 80 lines of code...

Also will put the finishing touch on the version that does pick 5 games... that one is looking like it will come in at around 100 lines of code.

Of course it remains to be seen if it picks any winners at all, but don't ALL systems break apart at that stage anyway?

Syntactically and semantically correct is my part, the rest is up to the state...