A legitimate criticism of the Date workup is that, in many states, it produces a lot of numbers. In fact, this is why I hesitate to report hits for states where I have a lot of history (too much history) like Pennsylvania, for example. I have a lot of history for Pennsylvania, back to March 1977. So when I get a Date workup hit in Pennsylvania, I always check to see what century it came from. LOL! Seriously, that is one aspect of the Date workup that I see, but these are random numbers we're talking about, and random numbers do whatever the heck they feel like. That's what makes them cool. And madding. For example, here is a bit of Cool & Madding that showed up yesterday:
Colorado
Date Workup
02/26/2014 Midday: XXX Evening: 969
02/26/2015 Midday: XXX Evening: 436
02/26/2016 Midday: XXX Evening: 375
02/26/2017 Midday: 357 Evening: 427
02/26/2018 Midday: 263 Evening: 077
02/26/2019 Midday: 412 Evening: 643
02/26/2020 Midday: 242 Evening: 633
02/26/2021 Midday: 766 Evening: 412
Colorado, in their entire history have only drawn 4431 Pick 3 numbers. That's nothing compared to the large cohort of states that began drawing around 1989-1991. But yet, in that short history, Colorado drew a straight Date workup hit yesterday. According to my theory, Date workup hits will try to clump together next day or second day after the first.
FWIW, I note that Colorado's draws are computerized. I don't understand yet whether that makes a difference in how this workup behaves. I'm looking into it.
In the meanwhile, here are the Date workups for the first and second day after the first in Colorado. Let's see if they get another and when it falls.
Colorado
February 27th - First Day After
02/27/2014 Midday: XXX Evening: 626
02/27/2015 Midday: XXX Evening: 276
02/27/2016 Midday: XXX Evening: 237
02/27/2017 Midday: 822 Evening: 086
02/27/2018 Midday: 317 Evening: 791
02/27/2019 Midday: 017 Evening: 263
02/27/2020 Midday: 114 Evening: 540
February 28th - Second Day After
02/28/2014 Midday: XXX Evening: 297
02/28/2015 Midday: XXX Evening: 641
02/28/2016 Midday: XXX Evening: 497
02/28/2017 Midday: 175 Evening: 298
02/28/2018 Midday: 755 Evening: 573
02/28/2019 Midday: 906 Evening: 193
02/28/2020 Midday: 498 Evening: 873
Good Luck wherever you are playing.