Quote: Originally posted by Andrew on Mar 2, 2017
A quick question for the Guru's out there...
I have often wondered if we are looking at the wrong methods to measure a machine's signature. Hit counts, pair hit counts, etc.
Does any lottery software exist that plots a heat map of each drawing across that lottery's history, based on that individual drawing's position on an imaginary line starting from index #1 (the lowest drawing) to the last index # (the highest drawing possible) ?
I ask because one of the last ideas I wanted to build into WINHunter was index based analysis functions. You assign an index number to each drawing based on the numbers drawn... i.e., drawing 1-2-3-4-5-6 (index #1), 1-2-3-4-5-7 (index #2), etc. (WINHunter already calculates the index values of the drawings, btw)... With this indexing system in place, I then wanted to plot a "heat map" of a drawing history. With this heat map, you could see where the machine was hot/cold. Using a user defined index block size, you could group index values together and view a histogram of how the drawings fell over time. If a particular block contained multiple hits, or not. You might see that some blocks never hit at all.
If WINHunter predicted 25 balls, but you wanted to reduce that down further (who wouldn't want to do that), WINHunter could then calculate which indexes the predictions fell into and cross that with the lottery heat map. Predicted Indexes that fell into lower heat positions could be scored accordingly. In other words, WINHunter could then score it's predictions as if they were drawings and choose the highest ranking numbers from those 25.
Another function you could do with this heat map is use recent drawings as eliminators for large swaths of indexed drawings, i.e., index #1,000,000 blocks out index #900,000 to #1,100,000 for X number of draws.
This type of functionality works best for wheeled number sequences by eliminating tickets created by the wheel. So, if WINHunter predicted 25 balls and you played a 4if6 wheel, WINHunter would wheel the predictions and then remove the indexed tickets from the results. Voila, a highly targeted list of drawings to play.