Been thinking about the current plays... did not get any hits outside of the Match 6 so far, and they were small wins.

After calculations and analysis over a few decades, my conclusion is, though it MAY be possible to use computing power to help find winners, I simply lack the ability to do it! I don't see patterns because there are none! The Markov chain would have found them applied to followers... in any other data, the steps taken would have been rewarded with results... identifying trends in other domains yet ending up with nothing useful in random data after multiple attempts using every statistical technique ever learned might just mean it is true, this is really an impossible quest.

That being said, I did learn a great deal of software engineering thanks to this hobby. I did not spend months hand crafting an application that works on both Windows and Android not to use it...

It's time to change focus...

Time to scrap the current cyclic play scenario. If my app would ever be a coincidental match to a number, that is all it would be... coincidental. So, if the whole premise is disproven, impossible to pick a single combo for the next draw in any game, be it RNG or ball drawn, then why continue to play for peanuts?

So a new strategy emerges... alternating weeks on PB and MM... if it is dumb luck anyway, even the base jackpots with another winner would be enough to retire comfortably... why not just skip over the small games and just go for the big ones?

New plan, alternate weeks of PB (3 draws, $12 total with the add ons) and MM (2 draws, flat $10). That comes in under the price of the old system which budgeted $14 per week... in 2 weeks it is $6 cheaper!

If a jackpot starts climbing then pause the alternating games and stick with the higher jackpot.

So, one pick per draw, taken from the data in the app. I already know the follower data is not helpful in the selection process, so it will be based on the transition areas from the classifier, using follower data as a tie breaker... once I patch up the app to display all of the rows.

So that is the new plan for the rest of the year. NOT playing both games at the same time (even though a weekly budget of $22 is not unreasonable), but alternating until jackpot levels begin to diverge. However, I will take $22 out of that $27 Match 6 win and start next week with BOTH games.

The vertical sums went nowhere, because on the surface it ends up being a pick from 10 draws prior, not back testing enough wins to justify playing. When applying the averages or modes, there were draws where the value exceeded the 0-9 range, even with a "lottery math" tweak, back tests were not profitable at all. That will not make it into the app, but it is interesting trying new ideas once in awhile.

There is still the path to be explored with SQL, but I don't know which direction that may take.

I am not able to make one thousand to one odds work, so let's go for a few hundred million to one... maybe I AM an idiot...