Appreciating the guide to MDIEditor And Lotto and lottery filters
Appreciating the guide to MDIEditor And Lotto and lottery filters
Posted by GD on February 23, 2001.
In Reply to: A Survival Guide to “MDIEditor and Lotto” posted by Ion Saliu on February 22, 2001.
Thanks, Mr. Saliu. You're a gentleman and a scholar.
GD
: First time poster here, so please excuse any redundancies. I appeal to your better nature to be patient.
: I have downloaded Medieditor lotto software, and I have been able to analyze several hundred cases of lottery data with it easily. Good job, Mr Saliu. I think I understand how to use Medieditor's stats. to generate optimized lotto5 combinations fairly well...the optimizations however..., but let me summarize your instructions in my own words insofar as I understand them with the hopes that you'll correct me in those areas where I have gone astray:
: 1-Enter lottery data with most recent cases starting at top.
: 2-Click on "stats"/and then click "Lotto5" and then I enter my 800-case lottery file entitled "Lotto5_todate"
: 3-Since I have inputed 800 cases of lottery numbers previously, when Medieditor asks "How many drawings to analyze," I assume I should input all 800 drawings which it already shows in the query box anyway.
: Ion Saliu: I recommend between 100 and 200 past lotto drawings. The last trends are the strongest.
: 4-Next, for "Biggest Lotto5 number" input, it seems self-explanatory; whatever the largest lottery number is in the lottery drawings: in this case, 39.
: 5-Next, click "OK" and after Medieditor's analysis is complete, it displays said analysis.
: 6-The next step is where I am a little shaky; the optimized lotto5 filtering inputs. I understand your directions to be as follows:
: 7-Now that one has the Medieditor lottery analysis, one then clicks on "Lotto" and then "Optimized Lotto5" It then asks for a file name. File "Data5" always appears by default there before I even enter anything, but I assume that I'm supposed to replace it(Data5) with my original lottery data file, "Lotto5-todate" so that the lotto wheel will have those numbers from how ever many drawings my external filter inputs will tell the optimization routine to do a regression on.
: 7-Next it asks, "From how many previous drawings to eliminate all 3,4 & 5 lotto number groups? Median value: 70 for a 39/5 game."
Ion Saliu: The median for the “Three” lotto filter is 70; i.e., in half the cases “Three” is 70 or less; in 50% of the drawings, “Three” is 71 or higher. You can see the movement of “Three” in the stats reports. For example, it was 16 in your report fragment.
: 8-Again, I assume it's all 800 cases of my original raw data from my original lottery draw data file in order to be most sensitive. The "Least5" file, that has all least-likely number pairings, I assume is automatically read by Medieditor so it can incorporate all "leastwith" pairs in its optimizations, and it is not entered here in lieu of my original lottery data file.
: Ion Saliu: See above. Setting “Three” to 800 may be way too high. Have you ever seen Three = 800+ in your reports? You should always be careful with the default in the dialog box.
: 9-Next it prompts to "Enter biggest number in the Lotto5 game," which is obvious: again, 39, I assume.
: 10-Finally one comes to the external "any" and "ver" filter inputs where one is told, "Set the filters based on the reports in the Stats. menu...."
: OK, lets assume we have any/ver filter values as follows:
: three any1 any2 any3 any4 any5 ver1 ver2 ver3 ver4 ver5
: 16 01 03 03 07 11 03 12 12 17 17
: 11-Now lets pretend that in the any5 position, the number 4 has consistently come after 11 for dozens of drawings; therefore, I would tend to want to make optimized combinations from the four most recent drawings for the next drawing since I would anticipate that four would very likely come after this 11 also.
: Ion Saliu: This is a point I don’t get, (Karl M?).
: 12-Therefore in the "Max" "Any5" input I would put "4" since I only would wish to make optimized combinations from the pool of numbers from the previous 4 drawings. I don't understand why there even HAS to be a "Min" "Any5" input. All I want is all four previous drawings' numbers, and the min. option, to me, just seems unnecessary. But...since I apparently "have" to fill it in also, I put a 3 in that one. I still don't comprehend (even after several readings) the "ver" filters nor the "Four" filter--actually I don't recall even seeing one that was properly designated as a "four" filter unless it was when the optimized lotto5 prompted for the max. number. If it is it's fairly ambiguous on just WHAT max number it wants.
: Ion Saliu: I gather you want sometimes to settle for 4 winning numbers, instead of 5. So, you can set “Min_Any5=3” and “Max_Any5=4”. It can generate 5 winners for the cases where “Any5” is exactly 4. If “Any4” is exactly 4, then such setting should give you 4 winners in one or more combinations. The reports in “MDIEditor” show the “Max” values for the filters. By contrast, LotWon WS reports show the “Min” levels! I still prefer DOS, so I keep going on the LotWon path (it has seniority!). Again, if you see good frequencies for say, “Any5” of 11 OR less, you can set “MAX_Any5=11”. Let’s exemplify with a string like 11, 9, 8, 7, 7, 4, 5, 10, 11. You’ll win in all 9 cases if setting “Max_Any5=11”. You can set “MIN_Any5=3” and also win in all cases. If you set “Min_Any=6” you’ll win 7 times (it loses when “Any5” = 4 or 5).
: 11-Anyway, I enter just those two min. and max any5 inputs, leaving the other any filters blank since I understand that only the any5 filter works for a 5-number lottery and the rest are ignored. I also left all ver filters blank since I find the directions a bit vague as well as the four filter's--wherever/whatever THAT is.
: Ion Saliu: You can use the same procedures as for “Any”. You don’t need to know what “Ver5” exactly does. But since this filter is usually high, you should use OFTEN its MIN level, and very rarely the MAX level. I assume the Ver5 in your game is consistently in double digits. Just set “MIN_Ver5” = 10.
: 12--Results: It works I think, and I do get apparenlty optimized combinations. However, since I'm not sure if I was supposed to input the Least5 file or that DATA5 file that always appears in the input in lieu of my original raw lottery data file, I am not entirely sure that my optimized combos. are what they should be. If I did assume correctly then the optimizations should be fine. One last thing: I have experimented with putting a '1' in the min. Any5 and a '2' in the Max. Any5, but the program freezes and I have to do a ctrl/alt/delete and lose whatever combos. it was generalting. They seem perfectly acceptable inputs. I don't undertand why it locks up.
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