Original Blog Entry: Pick 5 week test ends tonight..

hypersoniq — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 15:13:44 GMT

No hits straight or boxed, but having 3 out of 5 was the most frequent event, followed by twice having 4 of 5 on the day game... and one of those had 3 in position.

1:100,000 odds on a straight hit, 120:100,000 odds on a box.

Statistically it performed better (without actually hitting) than recalculating the followers for each draw. Updating the draw history files once a week is much less time intensive than daily.

I will re run the program after updating the draws. Perhaps one more week before taking what was learned from this pick 5 experiment and rolling it down to the pick 3 to continue testing at 1/2 the cost.

Looking at combos and permutations and also staying with a combo for a week rather than 1 draw are all in direct opposition to everything I have worked on for the past 20 years, However, what I have seen in this last year has pretty much left me with the sense that isolating individual columns is never going to work. There is still a nod to frequency when deciding the straight combo, and 3 out of 5 in the right place was a positive indicator that it is as good as any other solution... but studying the permutations of the desired event (5 unique digits) and having the spreadsheet be able to instantly verify the correctness makes sense to me... still only playing one combo for day and one combo for night.

I will be trying to stick to the above for awhile to give it an actual chance.

Why limit to 5 unique digits? Because there are 120 permutations and the $1 box bet returns $425, well below the $600 claim form threshold.

Will be waiting for any type of win before an attempt at running the vertical horizon frequency by combo position program on the PB or MM. That seems like something that should wait until I am back on house money...... [ More ]