I believe I may have said it was in a potential flag formation.
The 16th day scenario regarding flag formation, must be theory as I did not see anything regarding that in the book. And certainly I dont think its paramount. But consider cold periods of certain numbers.
Take 38
It has had NUMEROUS cold periods, and has only recently gone into a "formation".
The skip pattern of the 38 is not a flag formation per se. But it has more hits than the 11, and thus I like to think it has more momentum to hit again.
The 11 was poised for a 2 - 5 "upstroke" as gail calls it in her book.
The first upstroke is the most dangerous because its the least predictable.
Although the 13 recently scored a 2 5 upstroke 9 days ago. It has since gone to 2 5 and now at 10. Incidentally when Luminus made his 100 line prediction he fell into the trap of the gail howard flag formation. He had 13 as power number in a X12X12345X12345? But a 2 5 5 skip pattern is rarer than a blue lobster.
My final conclusion regarding a TRUE and PERFECT flag formation, is that the skip pattern will continually over a period of time hit at a MAX skip of 5 or 6 games. As long as it continues to hit at that skip max, then it is a variation of a PERFECT flag formation.
For example the 15 that scored at 1 day skip last night has had a Maximum skip of 5 within its recent hit streak. A PURE and PERFECT flag formation will not go over max skip of 6 games during its streak.
If the 11 is truly going to go into a flag formation, (which i dont think is the best patterns possible) then it will hit at a max of 6 games, and then churn out a small skip, (between 0 and 3 games in between)
Regarding the skip of 16 being necessary for a flag formation, i dont think thats necessarily true. The long skip could be 20 or 24 games or even 10 I dont think the long skip really has any bearing on the generation of a flag formation. And often the hottest number and not always the coldest number will go into a flag formation. But If a predictable number over the last 365 games has had three long skip periods of say 16 25 and then 13, i might look for the number to hit again within 4 to 6 games.
So say 16 2 5 2 is something better to look for in terms of skip patterns. I have done some analysis and I think a skip of 2 5 5 happens maybe once in a whole year.
But a better pattern to look for is perhams 16 0 3 0 or 16 5 2 0 ( a perfect reverse cascade flag)
Power number for 11/10
38 3 day bottom within a hot and hitting formation.
I will also play the 11 again, and test the 6 day max of the perfect flag formation. It will not be a power number per se because its too unpredictable that the 11 will actually score. A more flag formation type number is the 3 because if you look at the pattern of 1 1 and now 5, it conforms to that flag skip of 5 days which gails shows in her book.
So for number 11 we are looking for 2 6 or X12X123456?
For number 3 we are looking for 1 1 5 or X1X1X12345?
For 38 we are looking for 1 3 3 or X1X123X123?
Predictability wise I believe the 38 and 3 trump the 11 in predictability, due to the short term momentum factor.