Original Blog Entry: Passing the time while in a cycle

hypersoniq — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 10:59:22 GMT

The nice part about running in 4 week and 2 week cycles is not needing to be constantly updating the draw history. It is just as easy to grab the next 28 draws of Match 6 and the next 28 draws of pick 3 as it is to update weekly.

There is an advantage to not updating during the test... I can run the program again in the exact state it was in when I made my selection to see how the pick may have been interpreted differently. When the paper play on the pick 3 reaches 14 days since the last update, I can see what I noticed and see where in the results the next 14 draws came from. Same with the Match 6 when the 4 weeks of the live trial are up.

The sorting modification should be done on pick 3 by this weekend. When that goes live, I have 2 weeks to implement that in the Match 6 script.

The pick 3 will be re run with the same data in 9 more draws, then the sorted list can be checked against the next 14 draws to see if a hit may have come on the other neutral lines, not just the central one. I have to understand the manual process before even beginning to imagine an automated phase 2 solution.... [ More ]