Win D,
Thanks for the comments. I do see your position.
I know, I know. I wanted to create the new Crunch version a long time ago. I am just more interested in the prediction or forecasting of numbers than in tracking etc.
So systems such as MasterMind 3, Wild Wheel 3 and Candy Number are just more exciting for me. I guess Candy Number is a mix between tool and prediction system, because it tries to come up with a potential Key Number, while allowing the user to select their own. But because of requests for sum, root sum implementation etc I got back in to working on the Crunch.
Back to your previous comments: Besides the combining or separating Midday/Evening draws (another always interesting topic) I would like to throw some thoughts at you again on the tracking part, particularly related to "Straight" hits.
If you are looking into "Straight" hits and "Straight" hits only, my point of view is that you have to look at each position within the result separately. That means that the draw of a digit in each position is one dvent, not related to the other two dvents. Other than in a lotto game, where more than one number is drawn for the same field, in a PICK 3 lottery these are unrelated dvents.
Coming form this view point there are only ten possible results per position, with each a chance of 1 in 10, and a re-occurring expectancy of 1 in every 10 draws. Adding an additional 5 draws would make a digit that did not appear for 15 draws certainly a very "COLD" one. After that, it cannot be colder than cold. That would be the end of my personal "Straight" horizon.
Once you combine "Straight" with "Boxed" hits, you are combing three unrelated dvents together into one. By doing that the digit per position goes into the background, and is exchanged by the combined number, with properties such as High/Low, Even/Odd, Sum, Root Sum, Key Number etc. Now a 6-way-number can have one of 6 combinations.
Now different chances come into play, Master Mind and Wild Wheel both eliminate recent box numbers from their suggestion list, Wild Wheel ranks the numbers according to frequency etc. Putting last hits into the back of the selection, even though I do that too, to a certain extent at least, makes me wonder. When you think that after a 6-way-number was drawn, the chance that at least one of the digits comes back is 65.7%, even the chance that 2 numbers re-appear is still 15%. Those chances make me wonder whether eliminations are really good, and that - of course - would question tracking, the short-term tracking I do, as well as the long-term tracking.
Just some thoughts,
Good Luck!