For this year, I moved into gathering follower distributions, basically raw Markov probabilities. The number most likely to follow another in a column is not always right, but sometimes they are. So generating one pick is possible, but it does not win with enough regularity to be interesting. It always seems that the columns are out of phase with each other. 

The new addition aimed to help fix that by analyzing the raw Markov probabilities of the digits that appear with a locked column in the other columns. This introduces 3 new picks into the mix, taking the cost from $1 to $4, and if none of the digits appear in the seed, you have no chance of a win (which is why the decision was made to change from $1 straight to 0.50/0.50 straight/box.

Another fundamental change was brought in when I decided to move from the frequency of raw numbers into the realm of vectors. The angles formed between draws shift the data from a near uniform distribution to more of a bell curve distribution because the angles are both positive and negative.

All the ideas, all of the imagined and then realized code solutions... still no winners...

It is time consuming to constantly update every draw history file to get accurate data to work with, each csv has a spreadsheet as well. Angular data is calculated via lookup tables and needs to be copied every single draw.

It seems like a great deal of work for something that does not produce results.

Having used the lookup table because it was the quickest solution, and having recent success with the Python dictionary structure in the latest script... I am thinking of quite literally automating the boring stuff...

I will continue to take a shot here and there with the new scripts to give it a fair chance, but I feel the need to focus on automating the update process.

The script will pull data from the PA lottery RSS feed and attempt to read it back to fill in the missing dates in the .csv files. If I use a dictionary in place of the lookup table, it can generate angular data on the fly... hopefully.

I have once again depleted the idea vault, the angular and cross column ideas were based on the concepts of other lp members.

I just missed a box hit today on the PA mid... had 2 of 3 on the last number generated. So I do have something to experiment with, but it may be time to finally set to the task of automating the update process. It is a motivation killer to go through 8 spreadsheets and 16 csv files on a daily basis, then run 2 scripts just to get a pics.

But something is definitely missing from the solution of generating a winning combo, and I am not sure what that is...