Hi Stan,
I'm getting more familiar with using the Winning History Charts, but still have a lot to learn. For my particular Lotto game, the Delaware Multiwin 6/35, I have only about 132 draws in the database since the game began.
(Regarding this statement I wanted to mention also that it took me awhile to figure out what the "___" tickets meant under the Update button. Of course it is the amount of draws listed in the database. At first I thought it meant that the program had picked this amount of tickets to find or filter, so perhaps you might want to chage this description there in case anyone besides myself was getting confused by it.)
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i'm sure it is described in the documentation somewhere. with so many controls the various filters and other functions need it's difficult to design a simple and easy to understand user interface...
Returning to my starting statement....as I began to get more familiar with the program and observe more, I noticed that the grand total column of my Summary chart was increasing each draw from the previous. I had been having trouble filtering the 1.6 million combinatins with the Winning History Sums
filter and getting any tickets left in the package. For my last attempt though, after picking my -10, +10 values for the 0 thru _10 columns, I added them up to make sure that they totaled slightly more than the last grand total value before filtering, even though I had reduced the values in some columns and increased them in others. This seemed to assure that I got picks in the package. This piece of info might come in handy for anyone using the program with a smaller database. After observing this, I opened several other databases to check how the grand totals ran in the Summary pages and saw that in a lotto with hundreds or thousands of draws, the Summary page grand totals in the last column were fairly consistently the same. I'm still not clear on exactly what the program is doing (the theory) with the winning history stats, though I understand how the values move across the page from column to column. Regards, Lottobrain
i think this may have something to do with the fact that your database has 132 entries only. therefore not all numbers may have been drawn 10+ times in the lottery history so the sum values are rising slightly. but it should even out later on.