Has anybody tried to create a strategy based on the total number of cards dealt, w/o paying attention to what the values of the cards are? For instance, if players and dealer hit twice on average for the first round in a one deck game, then we can infer that lots of low cards have likely been taken out of the deck, right?

I used to search for a better counting system, in vain; now I'm searching for a simpler one, surely in vain once again.