Hello,
I came on here several months ago as MathKat and was banned for trying to post a link.
I've been watching for some time and I resigned up earlier today. I won't make the same mistake twice. The link I tried to post was merely a link to the USA Mega site that shows where you can look up the past drawings and a comprehensive search where you can put in a set of numbers and it will show you how many times that set has come up and how many winning combinations of that set has come up. IE: 3 + M.
I've been pouring over the numbers when I have time, which unfortunately I have very little.
But what I've been doing my search based on the Mega Numbers. In other words I search each winning ticket for a particular winning number and marking down the results. So far I've only gotten through 20 of the mega numbers so my table is no where near done. But I have so far documented (and continuously updated) the results of 508 out of the 1636 drawings from over the past 16 years 5 months (roughly) and what I've come up with so far is this (and keep in mind that this is only based on those 508 drawings so far, but they are spread out through out) is that there have been no repeats of any 5 + M, 5 (w/o M), or 4 + M combos. Not a single one. There are times where 4 number combos have been repeated but it's rare. Repeats of M + 3 combos are also rare. Much more commonly repeated are 3 number, M+2, and Mega + 1 (obviously).
Again this is not complete data the mega numbers I've searched so far are 1, 4, 10, 13, 14, 16, 19, 27, 29, 32, 36, 39, 41, 44, (and the ones no longer in use I did these just get them out of the way and for the purpose of having all possible data: 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, & 52) so I guess really if you look at it this way I've really only completed 14 of the 46 that really count.
I would like to post my graph (even though it's not complete) so my information above will actually make some sense. But I'm afraid of getting botted again, so I'm not sure how to go about it.
I could try copy and pasting it, but I don't know how well that will work.
But if you're looking for number combos that have a more likely chance of winning, my best advice is to use the search on the USA Mega site and make sure you're picking combos that have never come up before. Also if you really think consecutive numbers, all even #s, all odd numbers, will help you, you definitely incorporate those into your strategy. I don't think that really matters personally. But it couldn't hurt to try it.