First off I'd like to say to Windows 10, the user-face is nice and purty. It all looks great and everything is nice and easy to find and get used to. HOWEVER, 100 to 150 crashes per day is just unacceptable. Offline, I average about half to better than that. So you windows 10 update creators have cost me COUNTLESS hours worth of work. That's ok though, what I wanted done is now done. My stubbornness has pushed me to make it happen anyway.
Second off, as my puppy spends most of her time in the bed, with not being able to get on the internet for the noise as my company, I can now recite every word of A Nightmare on Elm Street from the DVD on loop that has been playing for days now. I can handle setting here being alone, but I've got to have some kind of background noise. My ability to set for hours working on something is pretty high and my patience is fairly high, although the Windows 10 crashes has really REALLY tried it.
Now. I'm sure most are going to say what difference is all this going to make. Much like most of what I've posted. It may not make one bit of difference. I pretty well know the feelings of most on here and I've no problem with anyone here or their thoughts or feelings on the games. I'm only doing this to point out what research I've done. What work I've done may end up useless and irrelevant. If it does, then I've learned an awful lot of programming in Excel and learned a lot about numbers. Plus had a lot of fun creating something that whether it proves fruitful or not, I'm really proud that I knew nothing about programming (Excel only), and made exactly whatever came to my mind. Had some help of course. I don't know anyone that hasn't though somewhere down the road. I am most definitely thankful to everyone that has helped me.
I have finished my book of stats!!!!!! SO SO HAPPY AND THANK GOD!!!! I'm very proud of it. I took a less than a 6kb book and now I know exactly what my books do. I also know a lot about the draw that I wouldn't otherwise. I know how many hits it has produced for each position for the past 13 years worth of draws. I know how many 5 of 5's, down to 1 of 5's was attainable and with how many options per pick was needed to make those possible. I know from 1 times all the way to 2 times in .05 increments exactly what does what where and when. From 1 to 2 times with what I'm doing makes a big difference. Knowing what percentage to tune to to give the most possible hit/win ratio to options is next with it. Running stats on not just the game, but whatever this is I've built is, I can see deeper into the game, but I also can see what I need to do to these to make them work consistently and where to do it. So if you are a system player, run stats on your system to see where and what it is producing is the best advice I can give. By running it over and over in so many increments should let me narrow it down like I wanted. I not only know what happened from January through December from year to year, I also know what happened say, every January for the last 13 years. I've learned that certain months do have differences in them that others do not have. Have had should I say. But it's been the same differences for the past 13 years straight so just maybe it will hold true for the next 13.
What difference does running the stats make? Maybe none. But as of now, I know that say March's 3rd pick needed more options to give a higher average of minimum hits, but it's only needed a middle of the road setting to produce an average of 15 hits per month for the last 13 years. That means that March needed a few more starting options for this to give me the opportunity of having the next winning number as an option in my pool of numbers to have the next winning number visible to pick. From that I know to look at my percentages to see where I would have to adjust March to average 15 hits per month and then see how many options I needed to make that possible. To reach that point of average I would have needed an average of 11 options for every March draw that has happened to be able to have the next winning number available about half the time. Just to throw it out there, by adjusting .05% more, my average went from 15 hits to 17 hits and only picked my options up by an average of 1. So I gained 2 more hits on average with 1 more starting option. I don't know how good or bad that is for sure, but it doesn't seem to bad to me.
Some months needed a few more options whereas some could have gotten by with much less and still held a high average of hits per their month. Basically, this tells me how many options per pick have produced how many hits and how many 1 of 5s' through 5 of 5's. I know, unless it produces very few options with a high percentage of hits/wins it's no better than a guess. I may be able to make it do that, and I may not. Awful close to finding out though. Even if I have to stay offline to find out, that's what I'll do. Everything is backed up on discs, thumb drives, encrypted folders, external drives and in the clouds and I can always reinstall Windows 7 on another drive and stay completely offline if I have to.
I did go a little further with it than I expected, but it kind of made sense to do so. This stat book gives me every months data on it's own page so I can see exactly what has happened each month. I know how many options made how many hits/wins per month and what percentage allowed that. Another sheet shows me every hit from every month in one place. One sheet shows me what percentage gave how many options. A sheet shows me all the minimum hits per month, all the maximum hits per month and all the average hits per month at what percentage. I can follow it month after month and month to month per year. I also know that I could have used the same total of options from 2007 that all the way to 2019. That even with 2 matrix changes of 2 extra balls per, that didn't change in the grand scheme of things. It did make some changes, but I should know from the data about how much to have it adjust for provided any more changes are made. Up or down. I do know that years don't change much, but months have indeed differed in data to others. Why? I do not know. Some months needed a little higher numbered pool and some needed lower numbers per position. Again, I don't know if there is a reason for that. Just what I see. The further I was talking about was being able to physically see how many more hits per position and wins happened from month to month and month after month. Which did more than I was expecting. I can now look and see by how many each grew or declined per and find a trail of ups and downs to adjust for also. HOPEFULLY! I believe I can, but if I can I don't know. I won't say I can for sure, but won't say I can't either. Either way, I enjoy it. It keeps my mind off stupid stuff and as bad as I hate to say it stupid people that I really wish wasn't. That's another story though.
So we'll see what happens I guess. Best of luck to all!