If you are playing a Pick 3 game where you have balls 0 through 9, what you could do is take each Position 1, Position 2, and Position 3.
Total number of past draws = 126 (If draw is everday would equal 18 weeks)
Look at Position 1 balls 0 through 9
1. Calculate the number of hits for each digit from 126 draws.
2. For example it the Digit 0 hit 14 times in the last 126 draws you would have a ratio of 14:126 and a probability of 9:00 (126/14) and a ratio of 1:9
3. Calculate the "Current Skip #" from the past 126 drawinsgs (how many draws back Digit 0 hit). For example if Digit 0 hit 32 draws ago in Position 1 the skip would be 32
4. Calculate the "Highest/Maximum Skip #" from the past 126 drawings. For example if the Digit 0 hit 14 times you would look at the 14 skips in the last 126 draws. Take the highest skip number.
Current = 32 Previous order of skips = 21,5,5,2,1,15,11,5,3,13,1,1,8,1
5. Calculate the "Median Value" for Digit #1. So for example the 14 skip values were the following:
21,5,5,2,1,15,11,5,3,13,1,1,8,1
The Median would calculate to a Median Value of "2"
So what are we going to take from the calculations above.
The image above was taken from Pennsylvania Pick 3 Evenng Pick 3 drawings.
I highlighted the Digit 4 in Position 1. You can see that on average the Digit 4 should hit a total of 12.6 times in 126 drawings.
The current hits from the past 126 drawings totals 8 times.
The next column you see it is below the average 12.6 by -4.
In the next column it has a skip of 27 meaning the last draw that the digit 4 appeared was Saturday April 24, 2010 (4-6-8)
The ratio is 8:126 with a probability of 15.75 (126/8) with a ratio of 1:15 and a Median of 8.50
The Median of 8.50 was taken from the skips from the 8 previous skips: 1,22,4,10,6,16,8,9
So the Digit 4 would be a possible play for tonight based on the fact it has a Median Value of 8.50 and a Current Skip of 27, which is over 3 times the Medain Value 8.5. The Average number of times the Digit 4 should appear is 12.6 times over the past 126 draws and it only hit a total of 8 times, -4 less than the average.