Quote: Originally posted by garyo1954 on Sep 24, 2014
FYI: 2step is a 4/35 with a bonus ball played in Texas. It has nothing to do with Pick3. Be funny, sarcastic, criticize, critique, add an opinion, ask a question, suggest I quit posting, whatever suits your mood, BUT PLEASE KEEP PICK3 OUT OF IT.
TIA
For those of you who are not familiar with RL-RandomLogic's digit play, the idea is to break the game into DIGITS, instead of numbers. And example would be 01, 19, 23, 34. Typically, that is the way it is read.
Under RL's system you have a Front Digit set and a Back Digit set, 01, 19, 23, 34. The RED being your Front Digit set (0,1,2,3) and the blue numbers (1,9,3,4 ) comprising the back digit set.
Awhile back I began to wonder what would happen if, rather than track the Front Digit set individually, we devised a means of tracking a group of these Front Digit sets.
For that purpose I decided if we just added the individual digits together and called it FSUM (Front Sum) we could put the sets in some order. The results are what you see in the chart.
Here, I've run the entire 52360 combinations counting each Front Digit Set. I like coloring charts. The totals between FSUM 3 and 8 come to 45444, roughly 86.8% of the entire matrix has a Front Digit set that falls in that area.
No, they are not all good sets. Running an old result file I compared the result of real drawings vs mathematical expectations. The blue and powder blue are the bottom of the totem pole. Not a single individual set has produced more than 20 hits in over 1300 draws. Combined they have only 143 hits.
Red are the top 5. Combined they total over 500 hits, or 1 of every 3 drawings.
Orange are the second 5. With over 300 hits total, they hit on average 1 out of 6 drawings.
The uncolored/clear sets are middling producers.
Although I am fairly confident in the FSUM method, I'm not totally sold on the results produced by the small (control) file. The nest step will be to combine the pretest results with the draws which should produce about 7000 sets.
Also in the works is the BSUM, Back Digit Sum, produced by adding the four back digits together. There are 35 of those sets. Again you see the WONDERFUL coloring I do ( don't even get out of the lines anymore). For the back digit combinations I've taken a PICK4 chart and rearranged it to match the totals.
Same garble. Heavy hitters are in the center of our chart. Without going through the entire matrix, I've noticed a few nuances in dealing with the back numbers. Most back four digits will produce 1, 5, or 15 sets while 1,2,3,4, and 1,2,3,5, and 1,2,4,5 and 1,3,4,5 produce 35 sets. More work to be done on that.
Finally we'll produce a third sum called a TSUM, the sum of the FSUM + BSUM and see where that leads.
It's quite alright if you didn't sign up for this class. Its all free of charge, like all the good stuff on LP.
The floor is open.
G