I was going to add a couple examples which were similar but not as drastic as what we experienced last year so you can see how things played out the following year, but the board timed out. The goal was to find a past example of what we're experiencing now to get a sense of what to expect this year, i.e. Are we finally going to clean up those leftover unhit combos? Here's what I found:
After 2011, there were 22 unhit combos:
Combos Which Did NOT Fall in 2011
039
057
139
348
358
568
002
033
066
344
366
399
447
455
499
558
577
000
111
222
666
777
Next I charted up the January/February numbers from the year after 2011 (i.e. 2012) and plotted the unhit combos from above to see if they started raining down in the new year. Take a look at the chart and see what you think.
01/01/2012,004,786
01/02/2012,357,723
01/03/2012,620,758
01/04/2012,737,391
01/05/2012,384,632
01/06/2012,805,307
01/07/2012,607,765
01/08/2012,392,026
01/09/2012,945,247
01/10/2012,336,520
01/11/2012,326,853
01/12/2012,740,858
01/13/2012,588,273
01/14/2012,745,530
01/15/2012,990,711
01/16/2012,786,376
01/17/2012,884,045
01/18/2012,872,090
01/19/2012,315,938
01/20/2012,259,193
01/21/2012,161,658
01/22/2012,288,752
01/23/2012,304,341
01/24/2012,497,155
01/25/2012,776,193
01/26/2012,390,606
01/27/2012,140,441
01/28/2012,056,828
01/29/2012,701,547
01/30/2012,807,215
01/31/2012,671,002
02/01/2012,128,432
02/02/2012,603,999
02/03/2012,758,008
02/04/2012,028,845
02/05/2012,332,397
02/06/2012,416,644
02/07/2012,927,389
02/08/2012,548,407
02/09/2012,345,547
02/10/2012,159,015
02/11/2012,494,473
02/12/2012,889,852
02/13/2012,406,285
02/14/2012,697,261
02/15/2012,435,514
02/16/2012,985,423
02/17/2012,896,315
02/18/2012,576,981
02/19/2012,264,194
02/20/2012,188,118
02/21/2012,393,033
02/22/2012,218,061
02/23/2012,855,071
02/24/2012,748,150
02/25/2012,070,509
02/26/2012,915,771
02/27/2012,533,654
02/28/2012,808,953
02/29/2012,836,330
That's what actually happened. I invite you to draw your own conclusions. Since I already had the 2016/2017 example charted, I'm also going to post it. It doesn't behave precisely the same as the above example, but I still think it shows the that the hits tended to cluster together. Here you go:
Combos that Did NOT Fall in 2016
045
003
004
007
009
112
155
177
224
225
288
299
488
899
111
222
444
666
888
999
Same as before, I charted up the January/February numbers from the year after 2016 (i.e. 2017) and plotted the unhit combos from above to see if they started raining down in the new year. Take a look at the chart and see what you think.
01/01/2017,295,959
01/02/2017,279,172
01/03/2017,101,694
01/04/2017,017,115
01/05/2017,395,022
01/06/2017,120,364
01/07/2017,653,980
01/08/2017,937,160
01/09/2017,999,395
01/10/2017,655,392
01/11/2017,090,042
01/12/2017,472,736
01/13/2017,143,049
01/14/2017,537,881
01/15/2017,997,885
01/16/2017,725,356
01/17/2017,973,923
01/18/2017,379,186
01/19/2017,101,601
01/20/2017,689,477
01/21/2017,099,493
01/22/2017,732,789
01/23/2017,984,305
01/24/2017,008,228
01/25/2017,308,180
01/26/2017,583,416
01/27/2017,301,030
01/28/2017,162,613
01/29/2017,443,237
01/30/2017,211,615
01/31/2017,989,282
02/01/2017,722,701
02/02/2017,882,074
02/03/2017,087,584
02/04/2017,522,553
02/05/2017,502,895
02/06/2017,287,140
02/07/2017,307,228
02/08/2017,361,177
02/09/2017,146,480
02/10/2017,775,570
02/11/2017,267,825
02/12/2017,720,294
02/13/2017,963,603
02/14/2017,191,870
02/15/2017,740,463
02/16/2017,139,450
02/17/2017,221,007
02/18/2017,657,811
02/19/2017,068,393
02/20/2017,088,696
02/21/2017,826,803
02/22/2017,527,532
02/23/2017,022,759
02/24/2017,091,323
02/25/2017,054,617
02/26/2017,815,399
02/27/2017,930,699
02/28/2017,397,936
I may be grasping at straws here, but what I see above just looks like a variation of what I always do. Look for a cluster of hits X number of draws apart, wait a certain number of days, look for another cluster of hits X draws apart. In 2012 X was equal to one and in 2017 X was equal to 4. In both cases there was about 21 days between clusters. It remains to be seen if the current numbers are going to align like these past two examples did, but it's something to think about.
