hypersonig = The only way they would equal my LOP's would be if you tracked specific digits by specific positions......say when was the last time "x" digit played in "x" position.
Basically the 1-4 & 5+ rule could apply here better because when tracking "positions" rather then by specific digit you can rule in or out certain digits from play but with a slight twist.
For instance, out of a 96 game database for Texas and tracking by positions, the 1-4 & 5+ rule seems to favor digits 5+ out rather then the most recent 4 games. For position 1, there have been 37 instances where the digit that plays in that position came from within 4 games of last time they appeared in that position.
For position 2 the digit that has played in the 1-4 game rule is slightly better at 42 but still about a 50/50 as to whether the digit that appears in the 2nd position will have come from previous 4 games or had played in that position in over 5 or more games.
For position 3, it is a 36/96 ration for digits that play in that position to have come from the most recent four Pick 3 games vs games 5 or more out.
Now when you try to track a "specific digit" for each position you are going to have a much wider spread. Even in tracking by position my charts show there were 27 digits that went 10 or more games without playing in 1st position. I cant tell what those specific digits are because I dont track specific digits by specific positions, just that whatever digit that did play in 1st position had gone 10 or more games from last time they played in that position. The longest period of "no play" for a digit was 49 games without appearing in the 1st position.
For the 2nd position there had been 22 digits that had gone 10 or more games without playing and the longest period for a digit to re-appear in 2nd position was 52 games.
For the 3rd position there had been 25 cases where a digit went 10 or more games without appearing in the 3rd position and the longest period of no-play was 33 games before reappearing.