With my system I use data from previous lottery drawings to pick my numbers. I play all the possible numbers in the core combinations(the basic 5 or 6 number combination) so in a 649 game I would play at least 9-10 lines to cover all 49 numbers, however if the combinations included a bonus number, I would be a little more selective for that one number. I have never won a jackpot with this system, but I did match 5 of 6 in Ohio649P last year. That is the best I have done so far, and overall I'm in the red, but I don't think QP's(quick picks) would have given me a better selection. I usually play 20-40 lines of numbers when the jackpot is a decent size or more if I'm pooling with other players.
While it is true that previous random dvents have no effects on future random dvents and no one can predict a random dvent, these random dvents do have their limits or perameters, for example in the Powerball lottery exactly 5 balls are picked from a group of 53 and a bonus ball picked from a different group of 42, so if you were to pick all six balls from a group of 95 balls instead, you would be be dealing with 869,107,785 possible combinations rather than 120,526,770 combinations. Every lottery have parameters, I reduce them to limit my selections even more. In all lotteries I have noticed that in the short run certain smaller combinations appear more than others and larger combinations seldom appear more than once, I use this information when picking perameters to limit my combinations selection. I also look at sums (the total of all numbers), gaps(the difference between two adjacent numbers in a sorted order), ranges(the difference between the lowest and highest numbers), number of hits and number positions once the combinaions are sorted. I'm trying to pick combinations with similar profiles of previous winners.
As of 05/03/03 the Powerball had 60 drawings since changing to a 6/53 +1/42 format. I checked the history of those drawings and these are the perameters I come up with:
Sums = 32-199 *(87-162) ave. = 133
Gaps = 1-39 *(1-24) ave. = 9
Range = 8-52 *(27-48) ave. = 36
Column 1 = 1-32 *(1-18)
Column 2 = 4-45 *(5-28)
Column 3 = 6-46 *(16-40)
Column 4 = 9-50 *(21-49)
Column 5 = 10-53 *(39-53)
Bonus = 1-42 *(33) only the ones that has hitted at least one time
* these are my perferred numbers since I'm only playing 10-20 lines because they cover 75% of the occurances. I would use the wider range if I was playing more lines and play all the bonus numbers if I played more than 42 lines.
matched 0 = 29-43
matched 1 = 11-27
matched 2 = 0-7
matched 3 = 0-1 *(0)
matched 4 = 0
I never play a combination of five that has hitted
Now that I have the perameters that I want to use I will pick 20 combinations randomly which will include all 52 numbers in the core combinations and 20 different bonus numbers. These would be my picks for 05/07/03 if I was playing.
1. 06 20 34 39 50 +17
2. 09 11 26 33 44 +02
3. 04 08 28 32 48 +06
4. 03 21 24 25 45 +41
5. 13 14 36 42 52 +10
6. 10 12 16 37 43 +28
7. 05 15 19 38 41 +32
8. 17 23 29 30 49 +05
9. 07 18 22 27 47 +21
10. 01 15 31 40 46 +42
11. 13 19 35 39 51 +20
12. 02 06 24 29 48 +11
13. 05 23 28 41 53 +34
14. 14 16 17 30 45 +40
15. 03 09 21 40 49 +31
16. 08 22 27 31 50 +13
17. 07 26 35 43 47 +25
18. 12 20 36 37 44 +07
19. 01 25 32 34 42 +08
20. 04 11 33 38 51 +01
Playing 20 combinations should improve my odds accordinly.
MATCH GAME ODDS PLAYING ODDS
5 / 5 +B 1 : 120526770 1 : 6026338
5 / 5 1 : 2939677 1 : 146983
4 / 5 +B 1 : 502195 1 : 25109
4 / 5 1 : 12249 1 : 612
3 / 5 +B 1 : 10685 1 : 534
3 / 5 1 : 261 1 : 13
2 / 5 +B 1 : 697 1 : 34
1 / 5 +B 1 : 124 1 : 6
0 / 5 +B 1 : 70 1 : 3
OVERALL 1 : 36 1 : 2
This is my system, it hasn't won a jackpot, but it keep me thinking and making playing the lottery more fun for me.
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