Casper,
As I said in my post, I don't think there'll be a lot of "new news" in the stats, but my guess is there is not a jackpot winner at least 50% of the time. (Maybe more than 50%) There was no jackpot winner again last nite... That's five drawings in a row without a jackpot winner.
Whether or not a jackpot is won is usually a function of something called "coverage". There are 575,757 possible combinations of five numbers in a 5/39 matrix. Take5 is a 5/39 game, so it has a 5/39 matrix. (To win a jackpot players have to match all 5 numbers that were drawn out of the 39 numbers/balls that dropped down into the drum)
In order for there to be a 50/50 chance of a jackpot winner, 50 percent of those possible 575,757 combinations (287,879 of them) have to have been sold - meaning those 287,879 combo's were "covered". The higher the number of combo's sold, the better the chance of a jackpot winner being sold. If they sold every one of those 575,757 possible combo's, (100% coverage) that guarantee's at least one player is going to win the jackpot. But the reality is they never sell all 575,757 combo's. My guess is they sell 50% or less of them each day. On holidays like Thanksgiving or Christmas, ticket sales are sluggish, so the coverage on those days is very low. The good news in that is if there is a jackpot winner, it'll very likely be just one person/winner. So I always try to sneak out of the house on Christmas Day to buy a ticket. The Mrs. G5 don't like me sneakin' out of the house on Xmas Day so I gotta be real careful when I do it. After she's had three or four glasses of wine is usually when I make my move. Five glasses of wine is even better.
The other good thing about Take5 is that the money allocated to the jackpot rolls down if there is no jackpot winner. (Last nite, four numbers paid $1,062) I've looked at other states 5/39 games and I can tell you, they stink compared to Take5. Some have fixed prizes in the lower tier and if you match 4 numbers you'll win a fixed 100 bucks. But no rolldown also means the jackpot money grows for the next drawing if there was no jackpot winner drawn. IMHO, no rolldown is better than Take5. The downside of no rolldown is as the jackpot grows, more people will buy more combo's which only increases the chances that the jackpot will be divided equally among multiple winners. So that big fat jackpot because of no winner in several consecutive drawings usually gets whittled down quite a bit. G5