I did a backtest for Pennsylvania "Dueness" and was courious about other states so I selected Florida combined draws.
I've been looking at Libra Dave's method of "Dueness Index" for the Florida Pick 3 Combined Midday & Evening draws.
To calculate the Duesness:
1. Calculate the Total Number of Hits in your states Pick 3 game. I'm testing this using all 8,737 Florida Pick 3 Combined Draws
For example, the combination 000 has hit 7 times in 8,737 draws. So the average is 1248.14
2. Next, I calculate the current skip since the combinations hit. In the example 000 the current skip is currently at 1765. Which hit on June 5, 2007.
3. To calculate the "Dueness Index" take the "Current Skip" 1765 and divide it by the "Average" of 1248.14 which gives you a "Dueness Index" of 1.41410
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I've been back-testing the "Dueness Index" for the last 12 segments. A segment is a total of 7 draws. Almost every segment a combination with a "Dueness Index" of between 0.80000 to 0.89999 has hit.
Last week (Segment 12) 539 hit with a "Dueness Index" of 0.83232 (Saturday, April 24 2010 - Evening Drawing)
Segment 11 - No Winners (Monday, April 19, 2010 Midday - Thursday, April 22, 2010 Midday)
Segment 10 - No Winners (Thursday, April 15, 2010 Evening - Sundayy, April 18, 2010 Evening)
Segment 9 - 901 hit with a "Dueness Index" of .84983 Monday, April 12, 2010 Evening (Monday, April 12, 2010 Midday - Thursday, April15 , 2010 Midday)
Segment 8 - No Winners (Thursday, April 8, 2010 Evening - Sundayy, April 11, 2010 Evening)
Segment 7
365 hit with a "Dueness Index" of .83621 Thursday, April 8, 2010 Midday
438 hit with a "Dueness Index" of 085991 Monday, April 5, 2010 Evening
333 hit wiht a "Dueness Index" of .82614 Monday, April 5, 2010 Midday
(Monday, April 5, 2010 Midday - Thursday, April 8 , 2010 Midday)
Segment 6 - 192 hit with a "Dueness Index" of .80691 Sunday, April 4, 2010 Midday (Thursday, April 1, 2010 Evening - Sunday, April 4 , 2010 Evening)
Segment 5 - No Winners (Monday, March 29, 2010 Midday - Thursday, April 1, 2010 Midday)
Segment 4 - 166 hit with a "Dueness Index" of .88978 Sunday, March 28, 2010 Midday (Thursday, March 25, 2010 Evening - Sunday, March 28 , 2010 Evening)
Segment 3 - 136 hit with a "Dueness Index" of .81103 Wednesday, March 24, 2010 Midday (Monday, March 22, 2010 Midday - Thursday, March 25 , 2010 Midday)
Segment 2 - 583 hit with a "Dueness Index" of .87765 Saturday, March 20, 2010 Midday (Thursday, March 18, 2010 Midday - Sunday, March 21 , 2010 Evening)
Segment 1 - No Winners (Monday, March 15, 2010 Midday - Thursday, March 18, 2010 Midday)
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9 Hits in 12 Segments. Segment 7 had 3 hits. Segments 1, 5, 8, 10 and 11 had no hits.
I figured that you would need to play a large number of combinations but for this week the total number of combinations with a "Dueness Index" between 0.80000 and 0.89999 totals 48 combinations.
These are 48 Straight plays not Boxed Plays. So 48 combinations out of 1000 total combinations.
Here is the list for this segment 13: Monday, April 26, 2010 Midday through Thursday, April 29, 2010:
Test this for the next 7 draws.