Hi Joe,
I imagine you are very busy, but would you mind building another good filter?
The filter would work with number distances in the tickets removing/leaving the ranges of occurrences specified by the user for the groups of distances. The number of specific distances in the ticket not their position would decide whether the ticket would be removed or left in the package.
The structure and function of this filter would be similar to the Occurrence of Distinct HD filter.
Its name could be the Occurrence of Number Distances at Any Position.
Following the review of the statistics for number distances, I came to the conclusion that for my 6/45 game the distances could be arranged in 8 approximately equal groups (probably it would be OK also for 6/49 games):
Distance: 1
2
3
4
5 - 6
7 - 9
10 - 15
16 & above
The checkboxes would allow the selection of the groups required.
I am not sure what groups of distances would be appropriate for 5/xx games. I depends also on the total pool of numbers in the game. People interested in it should express their opinions.
The range of possible occurrence for each of the group should be from 0 to 5 (from 0 to 4 for pick-5 games), and there should be spinbuttons for entering the settings.
The example of a possible setting:
1 Min 0 Max 1 occurrence
2 Min 0 Max 1
3 Min 0 Max 2
4 Min 0 Max 2
5 - 6 Min 0 Max 1
7 - 9 Min 0 Max 1
10 - 15 Min 0 Max 1
16 + Min 0 Max 0
The count function that you use in your filter brings about the greatest results when Min and Max Count are equal to the number of groups filtered. Setting the Min Count to lower values weakens the filtering power (sometimes it might be useful, but I do not use such setting). If Min Count is 0 no tickets are filtered out (Leave). This is my observation, but I do not have any special suggestions regarding the Count function.
I believe that it is necessary to target several important parameters of the ticket and the number of specific distances in it, regardless of their position, seems to be important or very important.
Best Regards
Jerzy