This is a little off topic but maybe it will help a few people to think about what some are posting.
I have been following another topic here at LP and build a tool to back-test that system over
what would be one year of play. The picture below shows the results of a sort of a side by side
comparison of that method vs the Mini-3. Remember the mini-3 in it's current state is in the red
ie, not profitable.
The Back-test tool was coded to match exactly one of the most used methods described in the other
topic. The total lines for one years play came to 112,240 vs the 10,060 generated by mini-3 with
only an increase of 13 straights. The average number of lines generated by mini-3 using the same
data set to trap a straight is 591.7. My math says the other system would need to produce 189
straights to achieve the same hit rate given the total number of lines in play.
According to the test, the average lines to trap a straight using that method is 112240/30=3,741.3
which is 3.7 times greater than the expected average.

I hate to dump on anyone here trying to help others but it seems my advice was ignored concerning
the data produced testing that method. Here is what I think is misleading about that post. In many
of the post where a hit is proclaimed, it may be up to 10 draws later.
Think of it this way, Lets say that we start with Sunday and use the mid-eve sets to make the calculations.
The method averages around 15 to 20 lines but lets go with 15 to be generous. The first day we start with
15 sets which would be played for the next 10 games. It would cost $150 to cover. In my back-test of the
method I limited it to the next 4 games so $60 to cover. This is still in the realm of possibility but here is where
it breaks down. Next we move to Monday's mid-eve draws and play another set of 15-lines for 4 following
games. Since we are playing the next 4 games for each calculation of sets here is what we end up with.
day-1+4 = 15+15+15+15
day-2+4 15+15+15+15
day-3+4 15+15+15+15
day-4+4 15+15+15+15
day-5+4 15+15+15+15
You can see by day 4 we need to play 60 lines every day from that point onward. Remember I am only using
the next 4 games where the post boost hits up to 10 games later which would cost 10*150 to cover or 1500
total lines in play. The method does get a lot of hits looking at up to the following 10 games but when we have
1500 lines in play to choose from, well, hmmmm, I can hit a straight + 2 or 5 box sets every game playing only
1000 lines. By using the following 10 draws to look for a hit the method should produce several box hits and at
least one straight given the number of lines to choose to look for hits.
I added a option to my main pick-3 program so that I could test that method every day. Here is what
I found over the limited time I have been running the test in forward play. So far it has hit 3 box hits and the total
lines generated or in play so to say, is 500. The odds for a 6-way box are 1 in 167 and if we divide 500/3 we get
166.6 which matches the expected. If we look at the totals shown in the pic above we see 138 box hits in 112240
lines so it averages 1 in 112240/138=813.3, overall vs picking at random is 1 in 167 for a 6-way, 1 in 333 for a
3-way and 1 in 1000 for a straight.
RL