So this is really my first blog entry, and my first method of prediciting lottery numbers.  Basically the method is this ... using the history table from this web site for the lottery I am playing, I find either the most commonly picked numbers that have not been drawn in a month or more; and just to work from the 'flip' side at the same time I pick a second set of numbers that are the least commonly drawn and have not been picked in a month or more.  The questions I have are how many historical drawings to inlcude in the data set used to make the table; and are there more than one set of machines used by the lottery folks to draw the numbers.  It seems to me that these things would influence the results.

Are there any changes to this method that others have found effective?

What are some other methods of picking numbers?