Original Blog Entry: New York Lottery "Time Window" for the frequency/number transitions

edge — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:52:25 GMT

Compiled yet another statistics this time for the New York Lottery game.

Data was assembled for the last 100 draws between 07/19/2008 and 07/01/2009 (ref. 1) and simulation run to detect optimal time window when a game play using frequency/number transition would yield best performance.

One surprising fact was detected: not a single set of complete (6) hits was found, despite prediction sets reaching upwards of 34 numbers! (see ref. 2) (i.e prediction made with 34 numbers on 05/16/2009 for the upcoming draw 05/20/2009 yielded only 1 number, so this in fact is the opposite result!

However the task at hand is to determine optimal Time Window in this game, and so search is narrowed down to 5 hits while minimizing prediction set size.

Just as in the power ball game, draw # 45 has yielded first 5 hits in the predictions and it was accomplished with 25 numbers (one duplicate due to an overlap) below

Draw Sequence: 45 -----------------------------------------------------------

Number/Frequency (Sorted by Frequency)

Number 22 27 42 56 57 58 59 20 09 16 23 34 44 46 50 01 10 11 19 29

Frequency 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 02 02 02 02 02 02 02 03 03 03 03 03

Number 30 35 41 02 04 06 07 08 12 15 18 21 25 31 37 38 45 53 54 28

Frequency 03 03 03 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 05

Number 33 43 47 48 49 51 03 05 13 24 36 39 52 55 14 17 26 32 40

Frequency 05 05 05 05 05 05 06 06 06 06 06 06 06 06 07 07 07 09 09

Predictions made on: 12/20/2008 for the next draw: 22 27 59 20 09 09 16 23 50 01 10 41 02 04 54 28 33 51 03 05 55 14 17 26 32 40 [26 Numbers]

Matched [For Date]: 12/24/2008 22 41 02 17 32 [Total = 5]

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In the summary, the elusive 6th number (to complete the jackpot) has not been reached using this method, the type of attractor present in this game is of a very different kind than in games with 59.

References:

1. http://members.lotterypost.com/edge/programs/data/past_nyp6_numbers.txt New York Lottery draw results (time period between 07/01/2009 07/05/2008)

2. http://members.lotterypost.com/edge/programs/doc/nyp6_large.txt large (full output including frequency tables) containing frequency/number predictions

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