I see what you're saying and it makes sense Stack. Say you have 6 pre-draws before the official drawing
and those numbers that are drawn are: 129, 458, 230, 234, 126, 888 and the final, official drawing (after
they've determined there are no malfunctions in the machine and everything is 'good to go') number is
457. If you knew what the pre-draw records were, wouldn't it be hard to get over the fact that if you played
458, 457 was the winner? Especially using systems/tracking/patterns that have been fairly consistent and
somewhat reliable? In PA I wish there was a place to find pre-draw info. On the website they will explain the
process but they do not show the results..nowhere I found anyway. (maybe that's a good thing though)
I can see crow's point also. Where we differ is in that PA has better trackable (predictable?) results than
some states I've looked over. The pre-draw info does not become a concern for me unless something
totally unfitting of the patterns and cycles of numbers comes into play...the ones where all you can do
is scratch your head and think, huh??
This could become a fairly complex discussion, there are people who believe that pre-draws screw up
systems, are unfair and are just plain cheating. The higher percentage of those that believe that probably
have the results available to them. I think I would tend to fit into that higher percentage too if I was able
to view the pre-draw data in PA.
There will always be 'bouncing ping pong ball theories' where people think there is nothing but totally
random involved...then there will always be the systems and numbers crunchers who 'know' it's more than
that.
I'm one of those....latter types.