Going to share a tip (MegaMillions)

Reply #10

Doc Tor — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:23:33 GMT

Jimhowlett

Would you send me you spreadsheet that you us to pick you numbers?

Doc Tor

Reply #9

RJOh — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:08:21 GMT

My data base with 1173 records has both the old BigGame and MegaMillion results. If I just want to use the MM data since the last matrix change I limit my search to the last 329 records. If I just want to use the most recent records that have all 56 numbers I limit my search to the last 34 records. What ever history of the game I want to compare, it's all there at my finger tips. Since no combination of five have repeated during the entire history of the game, I check my picks using the whole da... [ More ]

Reply #8

Jimhowlett — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:18:40 GMT

That's why it is essential that you adjust your tracking system to the trends. For example, for MegaMillions, I keep track of the past 50 drawings. That's about 6 months. That is my sample from where I look at my patterns. Anything beyond that I consider outdated and possibly a skew. Sometimes too much information is too much information and you want to create a window of relevance instead of looking at the entire picture. So once I start to accumulate more than 50 drawings on my spreadsheet, I... [ More ]

Reply #7

guesser — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:19:03 GMT

Jim, as you surmised, the lottery listens to no one.

I have charted (PB) where we had a repeat number in 48 out of 100 games - nearly 50% - then it slowly dwindled to 12%, and I'm not even sure where it is today... 46 out of the last 100 games, so it's going back up, BUT over the last 12 games, we have had 4 repeat numbers - including two in one game, so it's more like 3/12, 25%, so maybe it's cooling off

Reply #6

Jimhowlett — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 15:32:00 GMT

I should probably have been more specific but I meant there is a good chance it would repeat last night (aka, it is overdue). We must remember the lottery listens to no one. Nothing is set in stone until after the fact.

Still, I wont $10 on this play (playing $5) with my new system so I'm happy.

Reply #5

RJOh — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:07:33 GMT

Everything Jimhowlett predicts will happen probably several times before the end of the year, it just not specific enough to predict it will all happen tonight. When I pick my combinations for tonight's drawing I will pick ones with profiles similar to 70% of previous winning numbers but have never matched more 3of5 of them.

Reply #4

spy153 — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 22:36:05 GMT

Judging by that, it doesn't look like it will do it again for the rest of the year., unless there were more in '07.

Reply #3

RJOh — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:45:02 GMT

There are only 3,819,816 possible combinations of 5 in a pool of 56 numbers. If you use the numbers from the last drawing as a key number one at a time then there are 1,249,500 possible combinations of 5. Choosing the right Mega ball make the task of winning the jackpot 46 times harder.

Reply #2

Stew12 — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:24:06 GMT

Even if we were *sure* to know what the 4th ball will be, odds would still be 1 in 15,688,530 to get the rest.

Reply #1

RJOh — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:26:36 GMT

Actually in the last 328 MegaMillions drawings since the last matrix change, the bonus number has only repeated in the next drawing seven times, so that's 7/328 or about 1/47.

06/17/08 05 14 25 47 49 36 7

06/13/08 08 09 14 38 44 36

05/06/08 04 21 46 53 54 26 6

05/02/08 08 28 37 53 55 26 5

04/29/08 19 24 35 44 51 26

06/15/07 01 05 16 26 30 21 4

06/12/07 03 13 19 31 50 21

02/16/07 17 35 40 46 48 41 3

02/13/07 03 09 24 29 41 41 2

02/09/07 32 39 46 48 49 41

Going to share a tip (MegaMillions)

Jimhowlett — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:13:34 GMT

Look for the fourth ball to repeat itself from the previous drawing soon. Also, ball 1-ball 2 is overdue to be consecutive (i.e. first ball is 13, second ball is 14, etc).

In about 3 or four drawings hence, the Mega ball will be due to repeat from the previous drawing.