I read the following in Gail Howard's Lottery Master Guide: "That which can happen most often will happen most often" or something along those lines anyway. And she's right.
For instance in a 5/39 matrix there are 194,940 combinations that have 3 odd and two even numbers. There are 184,110 combo's that have 2 odd and 3 even numbers. That adds up to 379, 050 combo's. 379,050 is 66% of all possible combo's, so if you looked at T5's history of 6,537 drawings to date, I'm sure you'd find that 4,314 of those drawings were 3odd/2even and 2odd/3even. So it makes sense to "go with the percentages" when you pick your numbers and play lines that are made up of either 3/2 or 2/3.
The problem is the trends we can identify in T5's history are very broad non-specific trends. But that's the best information you're gonna get with regard to predicting what number's will be drawn tonite. That's why wheeling numbers is a good strategy, because it covers a broad range of combo's. That said, wheeling can get very expensive. The cost of wheeling numbers can get to the point that the average lottery player cant afford to do it. The good news is that it doesn't have to cost a lot of money, there are plenty of affordable wheels around.
Most the columnists in Lotto News/Stats are big fans of wheeling. They all recommend it. Stan Rose put in his column in the latest edition of Lotto News "Playing just a few tickets won't do it. That 'puts you in it to win it' but it doesn't do anything for ball coverage." And number/ball coverage is a big deal in any high odds game."
I think he's right, but my question is this: How much money are we talking about spending? I don't know if I can afford to spend as much money as the columnists think might be required, or if I'd even be willing to risk that much money in the first place. That's the thing that never makes it into print in any lottery book or newspaper. They never say "Here's how much you'll probably have to spend." Of course, that's a personal decision, only you know how much you want to spend, or can afford to spend playing the lottery.
At any rate, keep playing no matter how much money you can afford to spend because you just don't know what will happen. You might get very lucky and never regret having spent that ten dollar bill. I recently did something with regard to playing that I've never done before. I renewed my subscription to Lotto, but instead of renewing it at $2.00 a week like I had done for years, I upped the ante and renewed it to $4.00 a week. Yeah, that cost me an additional $104 dollars per year on top of the $104 per year I had been spending on Lotto, (I had to give up doing something else I like to spend money on to find that extra 104 bucks) but like The NY Lottery says "Hey you never know". G5