Powerball stats updated at USA Mega! https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/164579 Lottery Post Forum Topic: Powerball stats updated at USA Mega! en-us Lottery Post RSS Generator Reply #4 https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/164579/913773 https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/164579/913773 Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:39:13 GMT Todd I'm not sure how you're calculating percentages, but when I calculate the percentage of 2+1 winners of who played Power Play, it comes out to 19.55%.

]]> Todd Reply #3 https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/164579/913487 https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/164579/913487 Tue, 16 Oct 2007 20:30:26 GMT Raven62 WTG Todd! (Just my way of saying Thank You!)

Thank You: Todd!

Approximately 20% of the winners in each category bought tickets with the Power Play option, but when calculating the percentage for 2+1 winners it came out to something like 46%. I guess it's possible that a higher percentage of 2+1 winners bought the Power Play option. Thanks for the explanation of how to read the page and the source of the data displayed there (Official Powerball Website).

]]> Raven62 Reply #2 https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/164579/913443 https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/164579/913443 Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:55:20 GMT Todd Something tells me your WTG's are sarcastic.

The 2+1 winners (and the other levels) listed at USA Mega are correct. Unless you're saying the official Powerball site is wrong, of course.

I think the problem may be that you're reading the page wrong. The page says (for the recent 2+1 winners) 18,454 (3,608 with Power Play). That means a total of 18,454 tickets matched the prize level, and 3,608 of those 18,454 tickets were played with Power Play. (Meaning 14,846 were not played with P... [ More ]

]]> Todd Reply #1 https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/164579/913334 https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/164579/913334 Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:51:06 GMT Raven62 WTG Todd! U Da Man!

PS: Could you also fix the Powerball Ways to Win Page: The 2+1 Winner figures don't seem to match. (the number of 2+1 non-power play winners and 2+1 power play winners are out of line percentage wise when compared to overall non-power play and power play ticket sales.

]]> Raven62 Powerball stats updated at USA Mega! https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/164579 https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/164579 Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:47:53 GMT Todd The Powerball statistics page at USA Mega has been updated to separate the draws with the two additional white balls that started Aug. 31, 2005. I know a lot of people have been waiting for the change, so I'm glad to finally get it done.

Now you can see how 14 is the most popular Powerball, drawn three times more than the next most popular Powerball, and that the number 6 has not been drawn since May 16th (5 months).

The Powerball stats page can be found here:

http://www.usamega.com/po... [ More ]

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