Last night for a friend in South Carolina I did an analysis of the Combined Database for South Carolina that I have. Have been telling him and others for some time now how most digits will play before they reach 5 or more games out from last time played. Here's what I found.
In my database for SC Combined I have 382 total entries. Since there are 3 digits per game you take 3 x 382 for total 1146 digits during this period of time which starts 9-3-2003 to 3-27-2004. Of that time, 902 digits (79%) of the digits came from the most recent 4 games played. This leaves a balance of 244 digits (21%) that came from 5 or more games out.
While this seems like an overwhelmingly large number of digits and one might think that concentrating on strictly digits within last 4 games is sufficient with further analysis you have other findings. When you look at the ratio of things according to the number of entries I think it puts things in better prospective.
For instance, during the 382 game time period, there have been only 10 instances where all 3 digits came five or more games out. This is 30 digits out of 1146 which is not quite a 3% ratio. There were 129 games where NO digits came 5 or more games out which is little over 33% of the total time. While this is no clear majority it is still significant.
During the 382 game period there were 46 instances where 2 digits came 5 plus games out which accounts for about 25% of the digits that do play 5 plus games out.
While there clearly is not an overwhelming majority of games effected by all digits coming from the most recent four games, what this analysis does show is most of the time there will be at least 2 digits come from within the most recent 4 games with ONE digit coming 5 or more games out.
I think this analysis would apply to any state results no matter what the state. Reason being I did another analysis for SC according to how many entries had Sum Totals 0-10 (Singles), 11-20 (Teens) and 21-27 (Twenties) with pretty much the same results for a Texas Analysis I did over a year ago.
Those results being, that the majority of the time all digits that play will Sum Total 11-20 with the 2nd largest group being Singles (0-10) and far behind digits that Sum 21-27. For South Caroline, there were 98 games that Summed 0-10 and 35 games had Sum Total 21-27 which leaves a balance of 249 games that had Sum Total 11-20.
This is pretty much the same results I got for the Texas analysis a year ago with 2 1/2 times more games that Sum Total 11-20 then Singles and only 1/3rd as many games of Singles that Sum Totaled 21-27.