edymurph wrote: ... hitting the exact 9 position, reducing the 3 million combinations to 64,000 or so, then hitting the exact 8 position, reducing those 64,000 to 3,000, and then hitting the exact 10 position, reduces to less than 100, since it depends a lot on the numbers that occur in that contest ...
mimie wrote:so that means the filters in complex filter work by parallel processing then combine the processed files into 1 instead of serial processing? why then use a complex filter cause it would give way more tickets?
It seems I completely forgot about the option for the "count of filters to pass" in a complex filter group. This was probably the main reason why I thought about the progression and hierarchy setups. So I will try and give better/correct examples here.
The "filters to pass" option in a filter group allows you to choose a min/max count of filters to pass to accept/reject tickets. The setting I was using(or forgot to check) was, min:[3]/max:[3] filters to pass for the group. Examples using draw #1818 and a full wheel(3,268,760). Each filter setup has [All 1,818 draws - Mon, Wed, Thu, Fri] & [Accept];
Filter Group with min
[3]/max
[3] filters to pass. All three filters must pass before a ticket is accepted.
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Match Winning Numbers with -> 9 checked [Min 585/Max 585] = accepts 65,140
Match Winning Numbers with -> 8 checked [Min 429/Max 429] = accepts 1,539
Match Winning Numbers with -> 10 checked [Min 420/Max 420] = accepts 46
46 total tickets accepted.Filter Group with min
[1]/max
[3] filters to pass. One to three filters can pass before a ticket is accepted.
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Match Winning Numbers with -> 9 checked [Min 585/Max 585] = accepts 65,140
Match Winning Numbers with -> 8 checked [Min 429/Max 429] = accepts 68,286
Match Winning Numbers with -> 10 checked [Min 420/Max 420] = accepts 67,275
200,701 total tickets accepted. This setting, min[1]/max[3] filters to pass, is the same as setting up a single Match Winning Numbers filter with those values.
The order of filters in a group(or hierarchy) doesn't matter unless you setup certain filters to pass conditions or need certain Back-test results(but thats another topic in itself). So using the EL complex filter you can split filters, arrange the hierarchy, check filter performance(etc.), to create special filters or statistics as needed. No other lotto program I know of can do this. Since a lot of information has changed, if anyone has a question let me know. Hope this helps.