Commonalities among PB winning combinations

Reply #18

RJOh — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 16:08:50 GMT

Any time you play the PB with overall odds of 1:35 of hitting anything of value, you're shooting in the dark but if you've noticed when the lights come on(after the drawings) that targets seem to had a pattern, while not pick where you shoot the next time the lights are out? If you're only shooting 10-20 times, you can't do any worst than shooting randomly in the dark.

I don't take any of the opinions personally, I posted the question to get the views of other members. Thanks for yours.... [ More ]

Reply #17

RJOh — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 20:45:48 GMT

Last night's winning numbers 12 14 34 39 46 +36 weren't totally within the 95% parameters.

matched: digits sum gaps range

0 = 194 6 145 2-20 35

1 = 85

2 = 12

3 = 3

4 = 0

5 = 0

PB #36 was from the top 24th repeating position but because 5 of the higher rated positions had the same numbers it would have been rated at 18th.

Now that both MM and PB jackpots are reset I'll work on refining my ideas until their jackpots are worth playing again.

Reply #16

RL-RANDOMLOGIC — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 03:47:28 GMT

RJOh

I found this question interesting because a while back I started looking only at the draws where someone

won a JP. I started with PB and then moved on to other games. What I found is that when a certain type

of set was drawn then it was very likely someone would hit. Many times I could just look at the set and do

a few counts and predict if someone won. I started doing this without thinking and most days I can not

only tell if the JP was won but I can often predict if more th... [ More ]

Reply #15

JKING — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 21:14:11 GMT

I agree with Bobby....without indicators, trends, pointers, trigger, addtional probabilities ....etc, you are shooting in the dark. I guess you could wheel it, so you could get more coverage in the dark...but where to aim? How to aim? Almost every post at the LP avoids answering this fundamental and most basic of questions. So, just kick around the same stats that have been kicked around for years, use the same filters that have been around since the LP began, perhaps we could talk about would c... [ More ]

Reply #14

Stack47 — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 18:35:40 GMT

The range should be proportional if each combo was sold for every $5 million in sales but if QPs are truly random, ten or more tickets could match 5 numbers or none. When we buy a QP are we getting a combo that hasn't already been sold or a random combo from the 5,006,386 combos

Reply #13

dk1421 — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:26:03 GMT

I have a Quickpick my husband bought 2 years ago for Powerball: 10 - 20 - 30 - 40 - 50. PB: 30

Didn't win a thing, of course.

Reply #12

bobby623 — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 14:40:42 GMT

In my humble opinion, there are No commonalities.

Unless a system, workout, set of statistics, or whatever, includes clearly definable 'triggers' regarding what might happen next, what's

the point.

Although I'm not really sure what the data shows, I don't see anything in these stats that would help me choose numbers for tonight's Powerball drawing.

Reply #11

four4me — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 17:55:51 GMT

I think there are commonalities with the same ball sets over time. But we never get to know what ball set is in play next or last for that matter, i use the same group of numbers in a wheel for the MDogs challenges only changing one or two numbers for every draw and every 6 to 8 draws i get a 3 number win a lot of times. Could this be an attempt to pull off a commonality? I think so.

Reply #10

RJOh — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 17:29:15 GMT

Since only one combination of 5 of 5,006,386 can be correct, how wide would you expect the range of match5 to be

Reply #9

Stack47 — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:18:51 GMT

I forgot to edit after I posted. The questions should read:

If QPs are really random, shouldn't some drawings have a much higher or lower percentage of 5 number matches

Reply #8

JKING — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 03:17:42 GMT

Hi,

Do I detect a little fustrastation? The standard models and filters aren't working to expectations? Yet your stats show that you are doing something right. Aside from what I suggested in the mathematics and the lottery post (math section), you might want to consider this. Track how many games it takes to use all the lottery numbers...how long for 75% of them to be used.... etc. It's not a silver bullet but....

Good luck

Reply #7

Stack47 — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 00:22:40 GMT

Makes you wonder how random the QPs really are. I don't check every drawing but in the few I've checked, the ratio of 5 number matches is pretty close to the expected matches based on the number of tickets sold. Every once in a while a player should expect to get a QP with 1-2-3-4-5 or 23-24-25-26-27 but I've never read where one LP member one of those tickets or never talked to anybody that did.

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Reply #6

Coin Toss — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 18:40:17 GMT

Let's think about this.

PB and MM are drawn twice a week, so depending on the first day of the year being a drawing day or not let's call it about 104 drawings a year.

Of those 104 drawings, 8 to 12 result in a jackpot being paid.

Of those 8 to 12 jackpots, 70 -80 %, or 5 to 8 go to (UT-OH!) QPs. There is the only coinsistent commonality.

Most of any other commonalities, if they even produce winners in the lowest prizes range, only go towards the purchase of more tickets.

Let's fa... [ More ]

Reply #5

rdgrnr — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:53:19 GMT

The most glaring commonality prevalent in winning PB combinations is that they aren't in my repertoire.

I find intuition to be my most consistent modality and that has been ranging in the 100% wrong range for a few decades now.

That being said, it's time to drink my lunch.

Reply #4

RJOh — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:32:26 GMT

There were some commonalities between the previous PB combinations and the one drawn 10/29 and they were useful for eliminating combinations if you were playing 20 lines or less.

For example when comparing all 293 combinations with each other 95% of them had:

matched: digits sums gaps ranges

0 = 161-204 4-8 88-226 1-29 17-57

1 = 75-116

2 = 7-23

3 = 0-2

4 = 0

5 = 0

The winning combination 11-16-40-51-56 +38 matched the previous 293 drawings:

matched: digits sum gaps

Reply #3

Stack47 — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 17:33:13 GMT

I used similar strategies on Rolling Cash 5 using only the combinations that produced jackpots and over time the results were close to the expected probability. Brad Duke used frequency of the last 50 drawings to hit his jackpot and I've matched 5 numbers on RC5 wheeling 15 numbers but I never had a 5 number match on one line because I used abbreviated wheels. Unless a full number wheel is used, the order the numbers are placed into the wheel are the most important factor.

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Reply #2

B$Rizzle — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 16:27:55 GMT

Coin Toss I agree. For the smaller matrix games its more possible to follow patterns, # combo's, due #'s, etc etc...When we get to PowerBall, there is just too many combo's to to the game.

Powerball all boils down to luck. The possibilities are so endless thats the only thing that will help a player win. I play Quick Picks on PowerBall 99% of the time because there really is no way to manipulate the game itself

Reply #1

Coin Toss — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 14:44:24 GMT

RJOh,

Are there rules to follow that are more likely to forecast the next PB winning combination?

I'd say no. There may be rules that a certain number often gets paired with another number, but two of five pays nothing. Any 5 + 1 game is actually two games, even if you have the 5 of 5, you still have to have the right botom matrix number.

No rule or rules can predict one combination of over 195,000,000 + combinations.

Commonalities among PB winning combinations

RJOh — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 04:11:47 GMT

Do PB winning combinations share similarities and commonalities? Are there rules to follow that are more likely to forecast the next PB winning combination? If there are what are they?

This is the kind of knowledge many come to LP hoping someone has and is willing to share. This kind of information would come in handy now that the PB jackpot is $200M+ and climbing.