This thread is to address ideas raised by Jack on the Vtracs for 6/49 thread.
Jack proposes that the Vtrac field of 24 can be broken into 3 sets of 8 Vtracs: 01-08, 09-16 and 17-24. Then the lower and higher Vtrac groups could be combined to make the lowest and highest Vtracs of a playable combination -- L,x,x,x,x,H.
For example:
01-17
01-18
01-19
01-20
01-21
01-22
01-23
01-24
02-17
.
.
.
08-17
08-18
08-19
08-20
08-21
08-22
08-23
08-24
The remaining Vtracs would be the "center court", ie. the pool of numbers from which the central 4 digits of the combination would be drawn.
Using the ON49 Vtracs database, Icewynd found that combinations with these starting and ending Vtracs represent 86% of the Vtrac combinations.
Further, by converting the lower Vtrac to only the lower number of its pair (e.g. Vtracs 01-08 convert to numbers 01-08) and converting the higher Vtrac to the higher number of its pair (e.g. Vtracs 17-24 convert to numbers 42-49), 45% of the actual draw combinations are captured by this approach.
This would seem to show promise as a method of constructing combinations, however the challenge is determining which 4-digit combination to use as the center numbers of the combination.
Jack proposes that the Vtrac field of 24 can be broken into 3 sets of 8 Vtracs: 01-08, 09-16 and 17-24. Then the lower and higher Vtrac groups could be combined to make the lowest and highest Vtracs of a playable combination -- L,x,x,x,x,H.
For example:
01-17
01-18
01-19
01-20
01-21
01-22
01-23
01-24
02-17
.
.
.
08-17
08-18
08-19
08-20
08-21
08-22
08-23
08-24
The remaining Vtracs would be the "center court", ie. the pool of numbers from which the central 4 digits of the combination would be drawn.
Using the ON49 Vtracs database, Icewynd found that combinations with these starting and ending Vtracs represent 86% of the Vtrac combinations.
Further, by converting the lower Vtrac to only the lower number of its pair (e.g. Vtracs 01-08 convert to numbers 01-08) and converting the higher Vtrac to the higher number of its pair (e.g. Vtracs 17-24 convert to numbers 42-49), 45% of the actual draw combinations are captured by this approach.
This would seem to show promise as a method of constructing combinations, however the challenge is determining which 4-digit combination to use as the center numbers of the combination.