In looking at various lottery systems out there it is not clear to me if everybody considers terms like "cold", "due", "hot" , etc. in the same way.
I feel I need the opinion of experienced players on the following issues:
If a number hits a lot, say 15-25 times of the last 100 draws, and its median skip is low, say 1 ,2 or 3, (meaning it had a tendency to repeat often in the last 100 draws) but the number has not appeared for say, 8 draws already,
Is it now cold?
Is it overdue?
Is it still hot?
Should I stop looking at the last 100 draws and take a smaller sample?
I have seen suggestions that I should eliminate such numbers from my pool, that numbers that hit a lot, but also have recent skips less than their normal (or say, median skip) are the ones likely to keep repeating. At first sight I cannot agree completely.
Is there some sort of weight scoring system?
For example, how do you weight, (score) the following factors?
That a number hits a lot
That it skips little and lately has a large skip
That it lately has low skip
That its most often pair also hits a lot
etc..
You see some of these factor can sometimes be contradictory, and still be interpreted as a good thing for the particular number.
How about if a number hits rarely, but is lately on a roll?
I wonder if a value (say 1 for a positive, 2 for even better, -1 for a bad quality) could be assigned to each factor, and that way we could see each number's "score" in choosing a pool of numbers for the next draw.
What do you people think?
Does such a system exists already?
Of course I could wait and see, and come up with my own opinion eventually, but it is only lately that I consider to be able to afford playing a few tickets a week, so I'm just begining to look into these things.
Thank you for any response.