"The sales per draw have been amazingly consistent over the last few draws and show no signs of increasing despite the relatively large size of the jackpot. "
It's not all that consistent, and it's much easier to see if you look at the change in revenue from each drawing (starting at $100> $110 million):
| $23,294,330 |
$436,660 |
up |
| $22,952,415 |
-$341,915 |
down |
| $24,492,395 |
$1,539,980 |
up |
| $24,019,680 |
-$472,715 |
down |
| $24,827,525 |
$807,845 |
up |
| $25,383,490 |
$555,965 |
up |
| $26,710,625 |
$1,327,135 |
up |
| $27,569,975 |
$859,350 |
up |
| $30,636,060 |
$3,066,085 |
up |
| $34,565,830 |
$3,929,770 |
up |
| $39,105,090 |
$4,539,260 |
up |
| $48,410,245 |
$9,305,155 |
up |
| $51,455,980 |
$3,045,735 |
up |
| $45,785,995 |
-$5,669,985 |
down |
| $35,739,515 |
-$10,046,480 |
down |
| $38,515,850 |
$2,776,335 |
up |
| $38,176,610 |
-$339,240 |
down |
| $38,247,415 |
$70,805 |
up |
| $37,776,550 |
-$470,865 |
down |
| $39,318,745 |
$1,542,195 |
up |
| $41,638,840 |
$2,320,095 |
up |
| $42,863,010 |
$1,224,170 |
up |
| $42,323,025 |
-$539,985 |
down |
| $47,019,800 |
$4,696,775 |
up |
What's definite is that we haven't reached the point where sales start to go up quickly, but the last PB didn't start to go up quickly until it got past $600 million.
"Seems to be the exact same increase every week........Why is that? "
Because sales depend on the size of the jackpot, and at $5 a ticket a given increase in jackpot size doesn't draw very many extra players into the game. Still, revenue for a given jackpot size has only dropped below what it was at $2 per ticket for the last couple of drawings. The last time MM got past $600 million was at $2 per ticket and sales started picking up at about that amount. Base on what I see I think it looks like players are behaving about the same way at $5 as they did at $2, but there are only about half as many players.
