Quote: Originally posted by Colin F on July 16, 2004
OK. Let's say for each of these 6/49/B1 Lotto Games around the world they decide to use the same physical Lotto Draw Machine and it is transported by plane from one location to another.
So the History for each Draw Location and the History of all the Lotto Games is from the same Lotto Draw Machine.
In determining what one thinks will come up in the next Draw is there any difference in using the Draw History from one location or the History of all Draws?
Further, if one accepts that the Lotto Machines are no different from one Location to another in terms of producing Random Combinations then one can ask this same question without transporting the Lotto Draw Machine.
Mustn't duck the hard questions you know!
Colin
I'm only speaking for Florida where I was faced with very much the same kind of question.
For Pick-6 Florida changes the ballsets every two years, they destroy the old and buy new. My concern was what difference this might make.
Over the years I've done this test twice using the Gail Howard software.
Taking the two year range within which the ballsets were in use, I looked at the draws by quarters and as a whole and found for the quarters and the whole, the numbers that were hot and numbers that were cold in the first quarter were also hot and cold in all the quarters taken individually as well as overall the two years.
In other words, what was hot stayed hot and what was cold remained cold consistantly over the two year period.
When the ballsets were replaced, most of the numbers for the next quarter were no longer at the rate they had been. After two years of being hot the ballset change happened and most of the previously hot numbers fell to a lower rate of hits and cold numbers suddenly became average and some hot. I wasn't surprised a few didn't change because there is no reason some new numbers with the same ball number as the old wouldn't also be hot or cold.
I conducted this test twice when Florida changed out the ballsets and am convinced the only history to use for "prediction" is what has occured since the ballsets were last replaced with new. BobP