There were 16 unique numbers in the last six draws for California’s Fantasy 5 on 10/29/07, that is an all time low in the table I’ve built that records its daily count.  It has the last 3300 or so observations; one day I’ll get around to back-filling the rest of the dataset though 3300 will do for now.  The related fields in the table tend to show that when a low unique count shows up, there’ll be “replacement” or turnover, where numbers that haven’t shown up in a while fall back into favor.  The way more interesting metric is that there’s been a huge run of pairs of numbers repeating in the last 13 draws and it could recur yet again on 10/29/07.  I’m going to be playing my pesos today by only playing the last  5 or maybe even 4 draws only and that pairs or three numbers from x (1 – 6) draws back will repeat yet again. 

 

Date	Draw1	Draw2	Draw3	Draw4	Draw5	Draws Back	Actual Pairs
10/28/07	7	12	16	35	39	1,2,3,9	35,39, 16,39, 7,35, 12,35
10/27/07	24	26	35	36	39	2	35,36
10/26/07	2	10	16	25	39	2,3,7	2,16, 2,25, 2,25
10/25/07	7	10	28	35	36	9	28,36
10/24/07	2	3	16	23	24	1,9	2,23, 2,23
10/23/07	2	23	25	27	34	4,5,8,9	2,25, 2,27, 2,23, 23,25
10/22/07	7	13	14	19	24	5	13,19
10/21/07	8	29	32	36	37	8	29,37
10/20/07	3	11	12	15	28	4,6	12,28, 11,12
10/19/07	2	12	25	33	35	5	12,25
10/18/07	2	13	17	27	29	1	2,13
10/17/07	2	4	13	19	37	8	4,37
10/16/07	12	13	26	28	36	5	12,26

 

In a post from a few months ago, I mentioned that all 5 numbers will have been picked from the last 4 draws, well that occurred on 10/14/07.  No I didn’t win on that day, it snuck by since I was playing a slightly different strategy.

 
On the programming side, I did get further along on building code for wheeling or generating all combinations of 5 from a pool of 15 numbers.  A simple version is working; I’ve got to expand on it for it to be useful.  I just got sidetracked with so many other things.  Plus I think I’ll adapt it for pick 3 games first as a way of getting the overall concept working on a faster timetable…. this is just a brief update on the previous blog.  I have more building and writing to do on that topic as well.