Tennessee Lottery oversight committee to convene in November

Comment #10

rapalaw — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 13:16:12 GMT

1) Tn Lottery hired Rebecca Paul because of her status as an experienced lottery director.

Rng systems have been on the market for many years, why would the lottery spend $120,000 +

on ball machines that 2 1/2 years later are now too expensive to run. Only to buy Rng system

for $ 220,000+ from the same vendor. Should she not have been aware of the cost before hand?

2) The cost saving are to be in personnel for the drawings but they still use 2 -4 people to run

the Rng. L... [ More ]

Comment #9

computerhead723 — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 07:15:30 GMT

you can add more PIGS to the dinner plate in Tenn. and many other state lottery's ;

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Comment #8

LOTTOMIKE — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 07:06:49 GMT

mississippi,arkansas and alabama are nearest to me so i'm pretty much screwed unless i drive to either texas or missouri which are both 3 or 4 hours away.all i can do is hope they bring the balls back because i'll never play the RNG ever.its cheating plain and simple.

Comment #7

tnlotto1 — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 03:52:11 GMT

i go to kentucky and georgia to play since they border tennessee. some people would have to travel over an hour to hit a neighboring state like one of the carolinas.

Comment #6

LckyLary — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 00:42:21 GMT

What's to compare..... I am guessing that they are comparing the frequency count, type of # drawn (singles, doubles..) looking for any kind of bias in either RNG or ball drawings. I run all kinds of backtests on my algorithms so if a game is impossible to win enough to be worth playing then I won't touch it. TN is a small state; people can go to neighboring states and play there instead, right

Comment #5

takeitez — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 19:34:43 GMT

(from the above )

The Tennessee Lottery is paying KPMG between $80,000 and $95,000 to perform an audit, said Kym Gerlock, lottery spokeswoman.

Seems a bit strange to me!

I know if I had a shakey company, I would want to hire and pay the firm doing the audit.

The State of Tennessee is right on top of this mess!

ez

Comment #4

four4me — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:21:59 GMT

Gene Osekowsky, said companies he worked for, such as General Mills, would test new systems in tandem with the old system for at least six months before switching. In that way, any kinks could be ironed out.

In this case there is nothing to compare RNG drawings are not related to mechanical ball drawings in that computers contain codes and balls don't whats to compare.

However had the Tennessee lottery ran their new RNG program for any duration of time i doubt they would know if the RNG pr... [ More ]

Comment #3

DoubleDown — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:39:56 GMT

Sorry....

Comment #2

Todd — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:30:04 GMT

Thank you, but that's op.

Comment #1

DoubleDown — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:06:13 GMT

Good story Mr. Northrop-

This Tennessee thing gets more interesting by the day....

Tennessee Lottery oversight committee to convene in November

Lottery Post — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:22:11 GMT

By Todd Northrop

Accounting firm to audit lottery and provide results to committee

Following a disastrous couple of months for Tennessee Lottery, the legislature has decided to convene a meeting of the Oversight Committee and audit the lottery's operations.

Senator Bill Ketron and Representative Ulysses Jones are co-chairs of the committee.

According to a staffer in Senator Ketron's office, the committee has met several times in the past, mainly to discuss issues related to education... [ More ]