Hi all
I ran a few test on the new option that I am working on and decided to post more on what I have been doing.
First I decided not to go with the user adjustment but rather set it up like this. The program starts with the last
15 games and if all the rogue digits show a different number of hits then it moves to the next position. However
if 2 or more digits show the same amount then the programs adds another game to the total. It does this until
each rogue value has a different total. It then repeats the precess for each rogue position and displays the result.
Rogue-A example
2 shows 6 times
1 shows 4 times
0 shows 3 times
3 shows 2 times

In the picture if we look at the totals for each column A=2, B=2, C=1, D=2 and E=2
Rogue A the 2 was the top highest hitting value with 6 shows
Rogue B the 2 was the 2nd highest hitting value with 5 shows
Rogue C the 1 was the top highest hitting value with 7 shows
Rogue D the 2 was the top highest hitting value with 5 shows
Rogue E the 2 was the 2nd highest hitting value with 5 shows
These totals are after the database was updated so they could have been -1 or the same before the draw.
Being that the correct rogue values fell within the top 2 values for each position and 3 of them were the top
hitting value I decided to build a tool to analyze to see how often this sort of thing happened.
The tool calculates the totals the same way but drops down one game each time so that the data would be
what it was at the time of the drawing. To make the data easy to understand the data value outputted is the
value that showed ranking. 1=top hitter, 2=2nd, 3=3rd and 4=4th. So 13112 means that rogue-A was the
top showing value, rogue-B was the 3rd, rogue-C was the top, rogue-D was the top and rogue-E was the 2nd.
Here is a sample of the data I got.
12113
14433
44333
11134
21441
44122
24312
32341
22222
12442
34414
13332
41113
24222
44441
11224
12223
21221
12441
41211
44413
41422
31221
43123
24223
14313
13433
44342
22133
33224
34432
32323
31322
41244
31341
21434
13132
13244
21113
42112
As you can see the rankings are all over the place. In order to use this to any advantage one would need
a full set of analysis tools and based on my gut feeling I don't think it would be any easier that predicting
the rogue values from what's already included.
Back to the drawing board.
RL