Hmmmmm.  For beginners.... PB last night:

5

8

10

16

24

5

Last 10 times 5 has hit as redball on MM and PB.

1/18/2005	10	23	28	39	51	5
3/17/2004	7	15	20	24	43	5
1/10/2004	2	13	19	27	50	5
1/24/2003	16	31	37	40	41	5
11/23/2002	15	16	19	21	49	5
11/22/2002	11	16	19	22	46	5
9/17/2002	7	10	19	26	44	5
1/19/2002	21	23	35	41	49	5
11/30/2001	7	8	20	21	42	5

It usually isn't quite so cute.

Looks as though the followers method I was using last nit works okay, but I was trying to refine it down too far, and I was using a requirement they appear on all four sets to get the numbers down to something manageable.  24, 10 and 5 appeared on all four sets.  8 and 16 only appeared on 2.  Fortunately, the same two.  I screwed up on 10 and missed it as one appearing on all 4 lists because of my defective brain and a lot crowded into a little time.

So, maybe it's just a matter of dropping back using those two, which will increase the number of numbers to between 20 and 25.... at least it would have last night.  We'll see.

But I  probably wouldn't have picked 5 using my method last night, comparing red hit histories to my filtered set.  It wouldn't have looked good without 16, 10 and 8 in the mix.

Anyway, I dunno if anyone's interested in all this.

Got a couple of anecdotes in mind I was going to include by way of introducing some human insanity, but I'll maybe get them later.

Jack