Jackpot statistics in MM & Powerball games

Reply #9

RJOh — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 07:11:49 GMT

I usually only play one game at a time. I played the 10 PB lines I posted on the prediction board and now that PB and MM have reset I can get back to playing Classic Lotto this Saturday.

Reply #8

msharkey2001 — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 18:26:04 GMT

Thanks for the info RJOh. I'll go back to the 90's and look at that data in order to get myself a bigger sample size. Good luck tonight in Classic Lotto and PB.

Reply #7

RJOh — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 18:01:44 GMT

You might want to go back to 1992 when the game became known as PowerBall then you would be looking 2170 drawings and many more changes in its format.

Reply #6

RJOh — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 17:05:22 GMT

I don't think you need math to find the answer to your question, you just need to look at a list of all the previous PB drawings since the 5/59 matrix change and count the ones that fall within the parameters that you've described.

During the last 426 PB drawings that the 5/59 matrix has existed the sums of the combinations have varied 50-251 and the gaps between the numbers in the sorted combinations varied from 0 to 44.

The bonus number (red ball) have only been reduced to 35 during the... [ More ]

Reply #5

msharkey2001 — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 15:46:12 GMT

I see your point RJOh and that is regardless of the strategies you use or trends you look at you'll never be able increase your odds of winning that are in any way statistically significant. That's why I joined LP a few months back, to get tips and insight from players with much more experience and know-how than myself.

I do have one question for you or any other LP member in the know for that matter and that is if I intentionally stop playing PB white ball number sets that are at least 5 num... [ More ]

Reply #4

RJOh — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 15:00:13 GMT

One thing I've noticed about PB and MM and that is no combination of five has ever come up more than once. Assuming that continues to be true reduces the possible winning combinations by more than 2000 for both games.

Reply #3

msharkey2001 — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 14:22:25 GMT

In much the same way that logic is only the beginning of wisdom, not the end of it, mathematics is only the beginning of lottery success, and not the end of it. While it's statistically true that any number has an equal chance of coming up in a lotto drawing as compared to any other number, random data does tend to have interesting ways of grouping itself for lack of a better term. I think of it as a tendency of random events to bunch itself together.

Random groupings can be seen in ordi... [ More ]

Reply #2

thaencyder — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 08:11:58 GMT

Its simple mathmatics meaning that each number has an equal chance of winning. No matter who claims to have cracked the code, it's simply is not true. There is no easier way to win it. Those who claim to know are liars since it'd make sense for them to goahead and win the large prize themselves, consisitently.

Good Luck

Reply #1

RJOh — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 07:27:07 GMT

There are players who claim to have studied the data and came up with a strategy to make the time they spent during it pay off. Their strategy is to sell the information however I suspect if the information could help them win a lottery they would probably use it for that instead.

Jackpot statistics in MM & Powerball games

hsg2000 — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 05:38:57 GMT

I have seen the jackpot analysis and statistics of numbers played in MM Powerball but I have not been able to understand what do they mean and stand for.

Can anyone who knows of this can shed light on this. Is there anything we can find out to select numbers my playing the game.

Further how can this help us in selecting the numbers to play.

Thanks