I do not have a day off until Wednesday, so that is when I hope to put a pick 3 sheet together for the PA mid and eve games.

So, from the updater csv files I will import PAPickThreeMid.csv and PAPick3Eve.csv into their own sheets. This will give the first 4 columns of Date, ball 1, ball 2 and ball 3.

Will have to skip the first 2 draws so the formulas will have a full vertical set to measure. But the plan is (starting from the E column...

Col E will be the standard horizontal sum.

Col F, G and H will be the vertical sums

Col I will be the sum of the vertical sums

And finally Col J, K and L will be the "lead in" vertical sums, such that if the last 3 draws were.

247

103

785

The lead in vertical sums are the sums of the oldest 2 draws, so from the above example 3, 4, 10.

This will hopefully make it easier to tell which sums might help with prediction, as the lead in v sum + your pick will give the 3 draws needed to have a v sum and an h sum.

While I will be just getting a feel for the data by looking at it, and profiling the bell curve for each, this may just be the perfect application of my old follower script, as it will display the distribution of sums that tend to follow each of the 28 possibilities (or the 19 possibilities in the lead in sums)

Because of the modular column by column approach of the follower script, it needs zero modifications to be applied to this new data. It will also scale from the pick 2 through the pick 5 and beyond. The time invested tweaking scripts for systems that did not directly work proves useful because the code is still reusable! Framework building blocks...

Also have a few days to think and imagine before writing a single formula. Like adding an L column to get a sum of the lead in sums... going all in on the sum theme!