The more I think about this...the more it makes me believe that this is becoming futile regardless of what strategy I employ. Using a system or playing the same set or just qps..the outcomes don't seem to change much.
I seem to hit 2 of 5 a little more often (overall) for example when using historical draw data to select numbers than playing the same sets, but I still don't win anything significantly bigger.
QPs are the worst of the 3 choices in my opinion, but then agian, in another lottery game here, I won more with a qp than I have won with anything else in this pick 5 game.
And by playing the same set of numbers...you may finally get a decent hit if you're patient enough...but the waiting process could become expensive if you're playing daily or every other day. In my case here...while it would have "felt great" to have finally hit 3 of 5 again tonight...realistically, if I had played this same set of numbers every other night from the start of October till now, I'd have spent close to $30 already while waiting for this one combination to hit...assuming I didn't buy more than 1 ticket each drawing, which would mean I'd still be down $10. But I guess that's useless data, since 4 of 5 could have possibly hit tonight instead of 3 of 5, in which case I would have won $555, and playing the waiting game would have absolutely been worth it.
Starting to lose hope. Next month's probably going to be my last month of lotto...might just go back to the stock market lottery after all