Sorry to keep bombarding you good Florida Lottery Raffle players with my posts, but I thought I'd pass on one more piece of info just for comparison's sake.
The Connecticut Lottery has been holding raffles twice per year too. And that's where the similarities end.
Max of 275,000 ten dollar tickets sold for ONE top prize of $1,000,000. (275,000 to 1 odds)
I'm situated about 45 minutes from CT, and my work pool and I were playing "SuperDraw" quite a bit until I heard about PA's Millionaire Raffle. At the time, PA was just like CT in that they held a July 4th and New Years raffle. But the PA raffle had soooooo much better odds that my pool at work and I ditched CT in favor of PA.
Last July 4th CT held a SuperDraw raffle. They sold 137,000 tickets out of a possible 275,000, so from a player's standpoint, it was unbelievably good odds. As of today, there has been no mention of a New Years Day 2016 Raffle on The CT Lottery's website. If they gonna do it, they'd better get on the stick!
Another thing; CT also experiences that last minute rush by players to buy tickets. Ticket sales are slow until the last week when they explode. (It happened last July 4th too, although you'd never guess that from the amount of tickets they sold) I dunno why players do that in CT too. My guess is that this phenomenon will happen in Florida too. I don't know if anybody has done any kind of analysis as to when in the sales cycle the top prize winner in CT was sold like was done for PA.
My guess about the last minute rush to buy tickets is that cost of a ticket has a lot to do with it, although I do believe there are multiple reasons as to why it happens. People probably don't want to commit twenty bucks to a raffle until they absolutely have to. I would think too that some people are concerned that if they bought a ticket early on, and misplaced it and then learned they won a million dollars.......
In July of 2014, the top prize winner did not come forward until about Labor Day. That's because he was driving through CT on I-95 and got stuck in a Memorial Day traffic jam. He pulled off I-95 into a rest stop to buy gas and take a rest from the jam. He saw a sign in the gas station for SuperDraw, liked the odds, bought a ticket, shoved it in his wallet and forgot all about. Just before Labor Day, he was going through his wallet, saw the ticket, checked the CT Lottery's website, and you know the rest of the story! G5