doug_w said:
Thamks for the reply, much appreciated. From a quick look through the Lotto Results for Saturday Draw here in Sydney a lot of the numbers drawn fall below the Medion.
Now Balls that have a Skip greater than the Median, surely the Standard Deviation would be useful in picking numbers eg if Ball Skips isgreater than the Median + Standard Deviation the ball is overdue and could be a possible number to pick.
I'll be interested in how you get on with this too.
However, in my experience so far, I'm finding that numbers above the median are more likely to be on long streaks, e.g. all numbers that are not only overdue, but well overdue will be found there.
If one treats the median as 50%, then one could consider this pattern for a 6/49 lottery, with a median of 5 draws
- 50% of balls once drawn should reappear in the next 5 draws (skips 0-4)
- the next 25% of balls once drawn should reappear in the next 5 draws after that (skips 5-9)
- the next 12.5% of balls once drawn should reappear in the next 5 draws after that (skips 10-14)
(adding 5 draws each time and halving the percentage each time)
So looking at the numbers in groups like this may be more of an advantage?
In the past, I used to look at numbers in each skip position and if the expected number of balls was more than one less than the number of balls in that position, then I would consider them. That is when I noticed that individual numbers, or groups of two or more numbers would
drift through, and for numbers above the median, you could be waiting a while for any of them to hit. Meanwhile, they bias your selection, because they keep on coming up.