"You must be talking about something else. If so, what is it?"
I'm talking about how people play TTTs! For some reason you keep on assuming they play all the possible combos in every drawing, but they don't.
"Do you want to see the result of the expansion of the 16 base set into its 96(MAX) BOX combinations?"
It's all useless information to anyone not playing your way. If the TTT produces any kind of hits, players I know try to isolate where in the grid the hits come from and adjust their play accordingly.
"There are a maximum of 96 unique BOX combinations of the 16 numbers in the TTT set."
The last time I looked there are 9 digits on a TTT grid creating at the most 84 unique box combinations and 504 straight combos. But this again is useless information to the average players I know who choose 2 or 3 combos and plays 50 cent back-ups.
"WHAT % OF THE 1 MILLION ( ± ) STRAIGHT BETS PURCHASED WILL BE $500 WINNERS? "
Over time that number should be pretty close to whatever the lottery vig is. PA pays $500 for $1 so they should expect to profit on average $510,000 for every $1 million in sales.
"I think if you take another look you will find that is precisely what my backtest is finding, counting, and displaying !!"
Using your method in PA, the back testing showed no straight hits for almost 8 years as if anybody would actually continue to play a system that failed that many months in a row. If you're trying to prove your method of play in PA doesn't work, you certainly proved your point.
In the TTT thread you directed me to, intuition and hunches are used to choose the numbers so unless I happen to have the right intuition and hunches, that system is useless to me. I'm no expert on how all players choose their numbers nor is it any of my business how much they win or lose. If people are having fun discussing and/or playing any type of system it should be no skin off yours nose or mine.