The 2014 Number-Picker’s Challenge has finally come to an end, and I know that you are all on the edge of your seats to hear the name of the winner.
Several players predicted only once and scored brilliantly on that one draw, however, consistency over the long-run is clearly a better measure of number-picking skill. Based on this criterion, the winner of the challenge is:
Frank
Congratulations, Frank! 
You have convincingly demonstrated your skill in picking lottery numbers over a large number of draws! Well done!
3 members participated regularly. For this group I have listed below the names, number of draws played, number of prections made (draws x 20), number of correct predicitons, number of times the player matched 5 or more of the winning numbers (including bonus), and percentage of hits (correct predictions divided by total predicitons)
Frank 100 2000 293 8 14.7%
Icewynd 105 2100 305 8 14.5%
Niteowl 75 1500 200 7 13.3%
Another group of members participated semi-regularly. Below are their statistics.
Jol 43 860 130 3 15.1%
Lottery Hits 39 780 118 5 15.1%
Ramijami 40 800 114 6 14.3%
Blitzed 44 880 123 2 14.0%
Bloubul 38 760 105 2 13.8%
The final group of members participated in only one or a few draws.
Savagegoose 1 20 5 1 25.0%
Winalot2007 1 20 5 1 25.0%
Madam 4 80 13 0 16.3%
Patron 2 40 6 0 15.0%
The most sucessful way to pick numbers over the long-term, however, turned out to be the set of random numbers that were genereated for each draw.
Random 105 2100 327 14 15.6%
It seems that randomness is really the best way to deal with randomness, altough 105 draws certainly is not sufficient to make a final judgement on that question.
Again, thanks to everyone for their participation. It has been most interesting.
Good luck!
Several players predicted only once and scored brilliantly on that one draw, however, consistency over the long-run is clearly a better measure of number-picking skill. Based on this criterion, the winner of the challenge is:
Frank
You have convincingly demonstrated your skill in picking lottery numbers over a large number of draws! Well done!3 members participated regularly. For this group I have listed below the names, number of draws played, number of prections made (draws x 20), number of correct predicitons, number of times the player matched 5 or more of the winning numbers (including bonus), and percentage of hits (correct predictions divided by total predicitons)
Frank 100 2000 293 8 14.7%
Icewynd 105 2100 305 8 14.5%
Niteowl 75 1500 200 7 13.3%
Another group of members participated semi-regularly. Below are their statistics.
Jol 43 860 130 3 15.1%
Lottery Hits 39 780 118 5 15.1%
Ramijami 40 800 114 6 14.3%
Blitzed 44 880 123 2 14.0%
Bloubul 38 760 105 2 13.8%
The final group of members participated in only one or a few draws.
Savagegoose 1 20 5 1 25.0%
Winalot2007 1 20 5 1 25.0%
Madam 4 80 13 0 16.3%
Patron 2 40 6 0 15.0%
The most sucessful way to pick numbers over the long-term, however, turned out to be the set of random numbers that were genereated for each draw.
Random 105 2100 327 14 15.6%
It seems that randomness is really the best way to deal with randomness, altough 105 draws certainly is not sufficient to make a final judgement on that question.
Again, thanks to everyone for their participation. It has been most interesting.
Good luck!
