Hi Feisty!
Like you, (and as can be seen in my earlier posts in this thread) I think Maxodd's Range Chart has merit to it. That said, I would add that I would use it in combination with other charts/spreadsheets and software that I currently use. One thing that I've noticed about it is that it clearly demonstrates that in the entire history of Florida's Fantasy5, the combination of 1 2 3 4 5 has never been drawn, nor has 32 33 34 35 36. (No big surprise!) To my mind, playing numbers positionally does make sense. For instance, in NY's Take5, five numbers in the same number group are rarely drawn. That last happened in T5 on 12/25/2014 when #'s 31 32 33 37 39 were drawn. Because it's rare for five numbers in the same number group to be drawn together, having five consecutive numbers drawn from the same number group is even more rare, and The Range Chart demonstrates that point. To me, the chart is telling players to avoid playing 1 2 3 4 5 etc. Conversely, I think it also tells players in which positions it makes the most sense to play any given number(s).
I'm thinking about creating a Range Chart (Excel spreadsheet) of my own for NY's Take5, but I'll probably take a slightly different approach to creating mine than Maxodds did creating his.
The approach I'm considering in making my spreadsheet is this; I may take just one years worth of Take5 drawings and calculate the percentage of times any given number appears in any given position. I'm not expecting to see a radically different chart than what's seen on Maxodds Range Chart. It's just a personal preference thing on my part, and by using percentages, I would think that those percentages would apply to almost any other year as well. We'll see! G5