Hey Win D and CarBob, How ya guys doin?
Yes Win D, the 32 combos I posted is 26.6% of the whole 120 boxed no-match matrix. I should clarify that those are only the no-match B.L. combos. There are also B.L. doubles and triples as well. The entire B.L. Matrix hits at least 30% of all games - including the doubles and triples. I only posted just the no-match numbers because thats what I was anticipating for the midday...(I guessed wrong lol). But yes, you can and should expect the B.L. no-match numbers to win at least 30% of all no-match games.
The same can be said for the B.L. doubles...they should win 30% of the time when doubles are drawn.
I also filter for the boxed doubles and triples that are in the current matrix. As of tonight, there would be 33 no-match, 22 doubles, and 6 triples that would be in the entire B.L. set...thats 61 combos, which equates to 0.27727272727272727272727272727273 or about 28% of the full 220 boxed matrix. Lol, I tell ya, figures with a 27 or 72 seem like magic when it comes to Pick 3 mathematics....270 doubles, 720 no-match....and the expected BL boxed matrix set equaling a number like that.
There does appear to an advantage to playing Benfor Numbers. It's rather hard to determine the exact advantage because back testing some parts of the system is a real pain in the wahoo. The hard part of back testing is calculating the total amount of numbers in the B.L. Matrix for each and every drawing you want to test. Finding B.L. hits is rather easy however, because B.L. numbers and their hits are determined by skip intervals.
Since I dug this system back up and created a new spreadsheet for it (16 games ago now), I've recorded the amounts of combos in the B.L. matrix every game. And in the last 16 games, there has been no more than 61 total combos, and no less that 56. The most no-match numbers in the B.L matrix for any given drawing was 33 and the least was 28. As for the doubles in the matrix, there has been a low of 19 and a high of 23. There has been 6 triples in the matrix each drawing too.
16 games is not a large data set to work with, but I do expect the B.L matrix to fluctuate right around 58 to 62 numbers (No-Match, Doubles, and Triples combined) in each and every game. I expect around 30+ of those to be No-Match and 20 or so to be doubles. There will usually be 5 or 6 triples as well.
If my expectations hold true, then that means that the 60 B.L. numbers (on average)...which is 27.3% of the total 220 boxed matrix, will win at least 30% of all games. Lol now for the kicker: if you can win 30% of all games with a 27.3% of the combos, then you have a 2.7% advantage. LOL theres that magic 2 and 7 again.
I'll post more before the night is over...If you guys P.M. your email addresses, I'll send you spreadsheets for your states - gimme time to update everything though.