tdempsey
To add a picture to your post you have a couple options. You can upgrade your LP account and
then upload you pics or use something like tinypic. Link->http://tinypic.com/ After uploading your
image Tinypic will provide a link that you can copy and paste into the post using the tools Todd has
provided.
As for the topic content I think just about everything one could imagine has been posted here at
one time or another. Lots of good ideas that can help but none go so far as putting a winning ticket
in your hand. Filters are the killers of jackpots. Not that filters are bad it's just that if often takes too
many to reduce to a playable amount of lines. Each filter used increases the odds. Lets say that you
can reduce the matrix with 10 filters set to single values. If each filter has five options then the odds
of hitting them all are 1 in 5x5x5x5x5x5x5x5x5x5=9,765,625. This value can often exceed the total
number of lines within the matrix because not all filter values have the same reduction effect.
simple odd/even example
In a 5-39 matrix around 70% of the sets in the matrix will have either 2 or 3 odd numbers. Sets with
0-1-4-5 odd numbers make up the remaining 30%. If you set a odd number filter to 1 then it will have
a big effect on the reduction where setting 2 or 3 will have far less.
The worth of a filtering system is really not how well it reduces but how easy it is to predict. We can have
great reduction filters but if we can't predict them then they have no real value. I am a fellow programmer
and have been writing lottery software for close to 25 years now. Predicting the JP is a pipe dream but
the lower prizes are anyone's game.
Post away, always interested to see what others are doing.
RL