Good day ladies & gents,
I was reading through the various topics and only saw 2 or 3 relating to the skip count of the lottery numbers. I was actually surprised as to me this is the most important part to actually predicting the lotto.
I saw a thread asking if there was any analogy to the flipping of a coin compared to the lotto, the answer there was no, but I answer with a resounding YES!! The skips form the common factor between the two. Please bear with me while I explain.
Taking the simple balanced coin. After 1000 flips, one would expect roughly a 50% Heads and a 50% Tails rate, so if I had to flip a coin a few times and show you the results, H,T,T,H H T H T T H H H H - If I had to ask you to place a bet now, it is virtually guaranteed that you will place your money on Tails. You have subconsciously worked the skip values out in your head. Taking the Tails to stand for a hit and Heads to stand for a skip, you worked out a skip sequence of 1,0,2,1,0,4. The median works out to 1, and, considering the last skip value is 4, the current sequence is already 3 coin tosses past the due median. This can be said to be equal to a 1/2 Lotto, now to expand this to a 6/49 lotto....
Keeping track of 49 skips nowadays is fairly easy utilising a spreadsheet or custom program, but the information is still quite erratic for us to really make any sense out of it. Our next step is to make this a bit easier for us to work with, so we incorporate pairs and triple combinations. These combinations are different in the sense that not both or all three numbers have to hit, just one of them is sufficient to qualify as a hit for that combination. Pairs now gives us 1176 combinations and Trips now gives us a staggering 18424 combinations to work with. The major advantage of this is that statistical medians and other information is much more consistent.
This plethora of information can swamp us... thank goodness for computers By having a feature where we can now say, "give me a list of all the triples that have a median of 1 but are now 3 past their median" starts allowing number sets to shine through. Taking the concept that nature will usually always take the easy path to rebalance any oddities, if we get back 100 rows of which 70 of them contain the number 19, i is quite reasonable to say that if 19 is drawn, the system would have re-balanced easier it self compared to if 7,11,13 needed to be drawn.
Now usually the Lotto can be broken down into 3 distinct categories of balls. The Opening batsmen or Hot Numbers - these are the numbers that have been drawn within the last draw or 2. The Cold Numbers - these are numbers that have not appeared for a while but are now due, and the in-betweeners - the numbers that are touching their median to starting to exceed it. By being able to recognize the skip patterns that define the characteristics of these different groups, you are then able to isolate 2 or 3 balls from each group to create your winning ticket from.
This is the concept of how my WinnaLotto program works... the Lite version is free, grab a copy, there are a whole bunch of these filters with it the main ones and others that I call confirmers.
Regards
Patrick