You must've read my mind because I was just thinking about this yesterday, lol
Before I explain what I think is the best way, I want emphasize that in my experience in California, for the most part the numbers are showing near the top of the pyramid which helps narrow this whole thing a lot. In the example below, the highlighted area in red is where they're hitting 99% of the time.
Example only, 103-173-143.....403-031-314-140......703-033-337-370, those types of triangular shapes.
1
4 0 7
3 1 3 3 4
3 0 8 2 0 1 3
Now, the way I'm testing this to reduce the cost is to only use numbers from the previous winner because most of the time at least one number repeats from the previous winner.
So for example, If I was to play the top of this triangle for tonight, I'd use the previous winning numbers as a clue. Let's say the last winning number in my state was 209. The only number that matches 2, 0 and 9 is the 0 in red.
My picks would be in triangular form cause they ALWAYS show that way in a win. 013-074-017-073-033-034-041.
Of course If there more than one match, you'd have more combos, and that would be too much.
The other problem is that since I started this, the winners wee coming from workouts from winning numbers two days prior, and now in the past few days it's shifted to previous days's workouts. So it's hard to tell which winning number to use, last night's, yesterday's mid draw, two days ago's eve, or two day's ago mid.
I believe the best way is to stick to one date and just set up a web like a spider. I don't believe chasing the trends in this case is good. The cost will be too much and it can get frustrating.
I'm going to wait till this trend in Cali returns to two days ago's winning numbers for a workout, just like it did when I first started this thing.