Posted by Ion Saliu on February 22, 2001.
In Reply to: Questions on filters in lottery and lotto software posted by GD on February 20, 2001.
First time poster here, so please excuse any redundancies. I appeal to your better nature to be patient.
I have downloaded Medieditor, 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 "Lotto 5" 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 number is in the 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, "Lotto 5-to-date" so that the 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 number groups? Median value: 70 for a 39/5 game."
• Ion Saliu: The median for the “Three” 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 lotto 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.
• Ion Saliu: Very, very tight filters! If you have 10 numbers in the last 2 drawings, then C(10,5) = 252 combinations. You should get combinations, provided your computer is fast enough AND you did not use any other filter! If you also used “Three = default number in input box”, then I can guarantee ZERO combinations! That’s what happens: The program keeps searching for non-existing combinations! I wonder how many times your reports showed “Any5 = 2”. If you only see “Any4 = 2” then the program should generate combinations with 4 winning numbers. But, be patient, especially if your computer is not very fast. Besides, I said this before, Windows is a slow-poke. One reason I keep following the DOS path…
Mr. Saliu, if you will, please go over my methology point by point and point out where I'm misapplying your excellent software, and I won't bother you ever again. Thanks.
GD
• Ion Saliu: I hope I did go over your methodology step by step. And thanks for your contribution to this survival guide to “MDIEditor and Lotto”. But please consider my DOS lottery software as well.
• Ion Saliu: Matter of fact, I am disappointed with the performance of Windows software, as far as lotto is concerned. So, I took all the filters in MDIEditor and Lotto WE and moved them to my LotWon DOS software (end of 2004). But I created 4 or 6 layers for the filters in MDIEditor and Lotto WE; the same thing as in the DOS version. The strategy checking programs also scan for all the filters as in one application. Furthermore, I created a lottery utility to generate for me lotto combinations in the hit situations for a particular strategy. The worst kept secret is that a strategy generates a larger amount of combinations when it hits. Therefore, if a lottery strategy generates very few combinations, it signals not to play it. And thus we save more money.
Such features are also much requested by the growing army of the users of my lottery software. But I learned a good lesson. The more features I add to my lotto freeware, the more headaches I cause to myself. I decided that my best policy at this time (end of 2004) is to keep quiet. No more freeware from me. That translates to a whole lot more chances for me to actually play the lottery. I neglected my playing, while helping many others use my free software. I announce any changes in the forum, or on the 'What's New' page. I can't afford to answer individually anymore. Now, I said that if one wants more of great stuff, one wants to make an offer I can't refuse. Well, it looks very hard to make a compelling offer to me.
I just look at one lottery strategy, any strategy. It shows to me beyond reasonable doubt that a strategy puts in my pocket some $5,000 in three months (in the pick-3 game). That amount can be 10 times higher for the pick 4 game. You tell me there is a reasonable price to pay for my lottery software! Ain't no fair price to pay for my lotto or lottery software. That's why I don't sell no lottery or gambling software no more. It was one of the reasons I offered my software as freeware. I said to myself: “Self, there is no way a customer could pay a price according to the potential value of your software!
You can only make it free and hope that the winners will respond to your generosity in the same manner!” Not! Non! Homo sapiens is the most unfair creature in the history of nature. You know what? That's a great survival quality! The number of potential lawyers willing to check for big lottery winners who used my software surprised me. There is legal merit in cases against those who won big using my software but not sharing anything with me. I understand it well now. I wouldn't tell a word about my method or lotto software that led me to a big win. The potential lawsuit is looming huge. I wouldn't complicate my life. Forget about that BS, fairness!
• Yes, people who use my lottery/lotto software complain that it is complex. I realize that myself. But I always take complexity with efficiency and good performance. It is hard work, but nothing else works better. It might not be attractive to the faint at heart or the illusion drinker. If life is too easy, it ain't good for nothing. The humans would have not evolved from the animal stage if life were too easy. Listen to me, Parpaluck! If life is too easy, it ain't good for nothing. You don't even realize you are living, if life is too easy…
• An obsessive type of request pertains to the ION filters in MDIEditor and Lotto, as well as some filters in LotWon DOS lottery software. How are the filters built? What do the filters mean? What are the formulas and algorithms that create the lotto filters? What's all the buzz about, crocodilulé?
The filters in my lotto and lottery software represent complex mathematics. Also, I change the filters quite often, not to mention that I even replace some filters from time to time. Could I ever be able to keep every user up to date with the meaning of every filter in my lotto, lottery programs? I, the author, forget sometimes what that particular filter, or that particular filter represents. Yet, I do not need to know in order to create a lottery strategy.
Trying to understand what each filter does complicates my lottery and lotto software unnecessarily. The lottery filters are better understood if the source code is revealed and the user is a programmer as well. Now, we got to the heart of the matter, kokodrilo! Only lottery/lotto/software developers want to know all about the filters. They want to incorporate similar features in their software.
That is, they want to steal my ideas; and, then, they want to thumb their ugly noses at me! They are the ones who ask so insistently that I explain to them how the filters are built. They still won't be fully satisfied: They want the source code, with very clear comments! Regular (normal!) users of LotWon lotto lottery software and MDIEditor and Lotto do NOT need to know how the filters are built. End of story.
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