I wrote a Java app to generate lotto numbers...

Reply #15

Stack47 — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 22:35:31 GMT

I think they would switch ball sets on purpose.

Just a wild guess, but isn't the reason they switch ball sets is to insure a random drawing

Reply #14

RJOh — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 19:19:09 GMT

That's probably true. With so many recent members using words and terms I've never heard, it's hard to tell if they actually have any new ideas or just using new words and terms to describe the old ones.

Some times it seems likes newer members are reinventing the wheel and getting the same results of others who came before them. They are confirming rather than adding to knowledge already established.

Reply #13

SergeM — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 15:56:22 GMT

I have a few different ways to check for patterns. If one is really obvious, then I think they would switch ball sets on purpose. Eventually the same thing happens again, even with another ball set.

Reply #12

Stack47 — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 15:14:42 GMT

Conditional Random Field is an oxymoron and probably another way of saying filtering all the combinations in any size matrix. And from what I read, your program basically does about the same thing without the catchy name.

Reply #11

RJOh — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 12:34:29 GMT

I don't but maybe someone else who knows what it is does. I was just reusing the term as incognegro used it in his post, that was the first time I had ever come across it.

Reply #10

LottoBoner — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 08:15:59 GMT

Do you use CRF in GWBasic

Reply #9

LottoBoner — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 08:11:16 GMT

You could also compare the successes of

100 games versus 50 games versus 25 games...per day...

if your system has to play so many games...it is not predicting...it is guessing haphazardly...

the key question is how many games do you have to play before getting a four number win?...

if you play 500 games...(not at once)...you should be able to break even...

it is all about winning the lower tier prizes to buy more time...otherwise you are playing out of pocket...

if the system w... [ More ]

Reply #8

RJOh — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 01:29:45 GMT

Bottom line: Would you have won more than or as much as it cost to play? If not, then the CRF has to learn a lot more.

Reply #7

LottoBoner — Thu, 31 May 2012 20:38:51 GMT

In my opinion...a good pattern to recognize is when all winning numbers are adjacent to the previous draw.

So that includes all +1/-1 numbers...and repeat numbers...

So if your winning combination was 5 10 11 23 32

your next set of numbers to wheel would be 4 5 6 9 10 11 12 22 23 24 31 32 33, this set has only 13 numbers to play.

this way your set is limited and the max numbers for you wheel at any given time would be 15 numbers if the previous draw has no doubles and the extrem... [ More ]

Reply #6

LottoBoner — Thu, 31 May 2012 20:30:46 GMT

After deciding that the goal is to play...i needed to do some real soul searching...

I have sat down all day to figure how much i want to wager...

after 22 hours of mind bending thought analysis...i have come to the conclusion...

i want to play one dollar.

I am so confused.

Reply #5

aquariuslottery — Thu, 31 May 2012 18:32:34 GMT

Looks like you like stats for your number predictions and look for patterns that may facilitate the task. I'm in the same ball game and believe that only stats based on actual numbers drawn have any reasonable chance of predicing future winners.

Every lottery will have its own patterns and the further you look back (in respect of past draws) the more you will discover. Computerizing the analysis will definitely make things easier. I think most people playing lottery at least tried and observe... [ More ]

Reply #4

incognegro — Wed, 30 May 2012 21:20:37 GMT

Daily drawings, I simulated 100 combinations over ten drawings. 1 dollar per drawing. That's $100 per day for ten days = $1,000 total.

I explained the pattern recognition but I can't post the link to the source code or the documentation.

Basically, the CRF (Conditional Random Field) learns a pattern in a stream of random integers fed to it and then spits out what might come out next.

Reply #3

SergeM — Wed, 30 May 2012 18:46:12 GMT

If the goal is to play, you must have figured out how much you want to wager.

5/36 sounds like piece of cake.

You are very confusing:

three weeks, how many drawings, what are the payouts, how many combinations do you play, how many numbers did you pick? What is your pattern recognition

Reply #2

StdDev — Wed, 30 May 2012 18:25:20 GMT

sound interesting, how can I participate

Reply #1

incognegro — Wed, 30 May 2012 17:48:48 GMT

Forgot to mention that I would share my software with anyone willing to help.

The application itself is rather large and it is still in its alpha testing phase. I don't want to hard-code too much of the generator engine until I can tweak the pattern-recognition algorithm first.

Some details about the algorithm itself:

I used Sunita Sarawagi's CRF pattern recognition code to build the generator engine. You can find code and explanations here: oops, can't post the link, sorry.

It took... [ More ]

I wrote a Java app to generate lotto numbers...

incognegro — Wed, 30 May 2012 17:02:55 GMT

Hi all.

I'm a software engineer for Ricoh Corporation.

I wrote a Java app over the past four weeks while at home recovering from surgery that will generate lottery numbers for one game here in Florida, called the Fantasy 5.

The numbers go up to 36 and I used lotto numbers from 1997 to now to generate a pattern recognition algorithm to predict the next sets of numbers.

I tested a few predictions and only had one full hit (all 5 numbers match) over three weeks. According to the number... [ More ]