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How do you know if your Lottery System is getting better ?Reply
RJOh I need to rephrase or remove my previous statement, The stats when used correctly can offer some good information and give a person a better understanding of what one might expect. There is no way to analyze data without using the stats in some way. What I was attacking was maybe my own attempts to quantify my selections into a mathematically provable set of rules which ended in failure. We must use all our abilities as best we can because the odds against us are so great. I
May 21, 2011, 7:32 pm - RL-RANDOMLOGIC - Lottery Systems Forum

Visual non-statistical sampling / grouping / chainsReply
RJOh I agree because unless the data selected is somehow position specific then the results would be hard to place for the next drawing. Sorting the numbers from low to high does this. Games with less then a 500 draw history won't yeild many matching patterns unless a person only uses a couple draw values in the search. The decades will yeild more results when looking at the digits and one of the values returned will most likely hit in the next draw but you will still need to m
May 20, 2011, 2:36 pm - RL-RANDOMLOGIC - Lottery Systems Forum

Of Cat Washing and BacktestingReply
BobP has a lot of very good material stemming from the many years he has spent writing about lotteries and I'd be surprised if he didn't recommend some testing before using it. Tests like that are contemplation testing. It provides a chance to get a feel for how the method works and to get accustomed to using it. Yes. I do tests like that as well. Its test like RJOH points out that are worthless. If you can count on one hand how many times 999 came out in the history of the Texas night game,
May 15, 2011, 1:31 pm - garyo1954 - Mathematics Forum

Maddog's 2011 MM & PB Challenge StatsReply
Powerball results 5/07: 2-11-27-47-55 + 15 Nelson 1 3+0 Mymonthlypicks 3+0 Old Eagle 1+1 Winlotta 1+1 Grave 1+1 CutlassBob 1+1 RJOh 0+1 Maddog 0+1 __________________________________________________ Almost made it: Sully16 , JonnyBgood07 , Pillsbury , ESR54 , Rdgrnr , and Four4me , all with 2+0.
May 8, 2011, 9:05 am - fja - Jackpot Games Forum

Interest In Backtesting and Simulating Lottery SystemsReply
If you would take my advice and read Someone's opinion who isn't a member of LP? P.S. Hint: A Backtest does not require a Monte Carlo simulation component. Based on observation, RJ back tested RC5 and found that in slightly over 50% of drawings 1 - 2 numbers repeated and I did the math showing the probability that slightly over 50% of all the possible combinations have 1 - 2 repeating numbers. From that innocent exchange you said: It seems that you and RJOh are basically saying
May 7, 2011, 5:03 pm - Stack47 - Mathematics Forum

What is a lottery system? What distinguishes a lottery system from guesses, dreams and quick picks?Reply
Brad Duke is the best example I can think of. He won PB May 2005. He said then he picked the winning numbers using a series of numbers, he had been playing for years Years later in a Fortune magazine he talked about his system. He picked out the 15 most frequent PB numbers and used those in his system for the next 4 years. Sorry, I'm new and not allowed to put up links. Does his system qualify as a system? Not in the true sense. But I always find those stories fun to read.
Apr 22, 2011, 12:28 pm - imagine - Lottery Discussion Forum

Backtesting and Simulating Lottery SystemsReply
RJOh I wrote my first lottery program on a tandy computer. It had two external 5.25 360K floppy drives and was the envy of everyone. I remember that I had to put in the first disk and turn it on then after it read that disk I would need to put in a second disk before it would boot to a A:\ prompt. I later got a 20mb HDD for it that was mounted on a ISA card. I think it was called a winchester drive. I remember thinking that it would take the rest of my life to fill a 20mb drive. I
Apr 15, 2011, 2:11 am - RL-RANDOMLOGIC - Mathematics Forum

Backtesting and Simulating Lottery SystemsReply
RJOh Thanks for the reply, This makes much more sense then what I was trying. The approach I used above does not take into account number coverage and treats each set in a first come first serve. If the set passes all the filters it is accepted which could produce sets with very few total numbers. I was working on a option to limit paris, trays and quads matches but need to work out a way to control how many of each to allow without putting the process into a endless loop. This s
Apr 13, 2011, 9:31 pm - RL-RANDOMLOGIC - Mathematics Forum

Should lottery winners share with colleagues?Reply
^^^THIS^^^ As I am sure most of us are, I tend to be a very generous and trusting person, almost to a fault. However, like RJOH said, once you start the gravy train rolling, people will be at the station every day anxiously awaiting it's arrival. Win the lottery and everyone will have their hands out...friends, relatives, co-workers, neighbors, and people whom you never even heard of who have absolutely nothing to do with you. I also think many have contempt for rich people, and especia
Apr 10, 2011, 4:33 pm - ameriken - Lottery News

If you had 10 bucks to bet...Reply
tickets or chances per draw 10 possible combos of 5/39 numbers = 575757 MATCHES ODDS WINNING COMBOS EXPECTED WINNERS 5/5 1 : 575757 1 0.0000173684 4/5 1 : 3387 170 0.0029526345 3/5 1 : 103 5610 0.0974369395 2/5 1 : 10 59840 1.0393273551 _______________________________________________________________________ overall odds are 1 : 8.7 1.1397340000 total expected winners True, adding a few more decimal places would change the results and show no differences in the two bet
Apr 6, 2011, 6:09 pm - RJOh - Lottery Discussion Forum