bliss United States
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PRO TIP: The best way to view this thread, is to go up to the top of the page and hit that PRINT button. Don't Actually Print It!!! But that PRINT button causes the page to be rendered as one flat page with no graphics so it's much easier to fly through the data. It's very fast searching through that page so you see the numbers move the way I wanted you to. Try it!
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Quote: Originally posted by ram on Sep 10, 2021
Wow!, now that's a report Thanks for the tip on the print/scroll, A lot of data there. The way I'm reading this, it looks like
a positive return if you have at least 7 straight wins and a about 400 of box hits. Is that correct?
Thanks, ram! Sorry for the delay in answering, but I had to take a day to to catch up on life after making that thread. lol. The short answer to your question is, Absolutely! While processing that 70,000 line second-cut file, it didn't take long to see that pattern emerge. I flew through the file, searching on the ~ marker, just like I'm encouraging folks to do here, and it was obvious that a run of 5 consecutive hits was the optimum threshold for the length of a run to rule in. After I made that decision, I found a few runs of 4 consecutive hits which I threw out just like a computer program would. The goal was to have an honest look at what I would have for output if I wrote code to tease out these numbers.
CONFESSION: If you look at the post for 7/13/21, you can see that I forgot to throw out the lines which weren't part of the winning ensemble of numbers. Oops! I caught all this after the fact when there was nothing I could do, but I thought I should confess to that little goof-up.
Thanks again for taking the time to look through this thread!
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Just a quick stab at this... It looks to me like they might be using the expiration dates in the draw numbers ? 183 days or on a holiday it will be 184.