Lowest Winners For Match 3 & Match 4 For UK 649 Lotto.

[PAB]

I noticed this morning while updating my DataBases for last nights draws that the Main UK 649 Lotto, draw 1,829, Wednesday the 3rd of July 2013, had the lowest numbers of winners for the Match 3 & Match 4 since it's inception back in 1994.
I wouldn't say that the numbers drawn were completely out of the ball park though. The numbers were...

15, 27, 31, 40, 41, 49, Bonus 01

This gave winners of the Match 4 of 9,245 and a prize of £108.
This gave winners of the Match 3 of 192,514 and a prize of the usual £10.

I wonder if this is the usual scenario that the majority of numbers players pick are less than or equal to 31, mainly because those numbers are birthdays, anniversaries, childrens ages, house numbers etc?

Regards,
PAB


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12:45, restate my assumptions.
(1) Mathematics is the language of nature.
(2) Everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers.
(3) If you graph the numbers of any system, patterns emerge. Therefore, there are patterns, everywhere in nature.

 

[Icewynd]

The numbers were...

15, 27, 31, 40, 41, 49, Bonus 01

This gave winners of the Match 4 of 9,245 and a prize of £108.
This gave winners of the Match 3 of 192,514 and a prize of the usual £10.

I wonder if this is the usual scenario that the majority of numbers players pick are less than or equal to 31, mainly because those numbers are birthdays, anniversaries, childrens ages, house numbers etc?

But, surely, this isn't the first time since 1994 that there were 3 numbers higher than 31? If you have data back to 1994, perhaps you could compare similar draws (i.e. 5 high numbers) to see if the prize stats are also lower than average.

Is there something else about these numbers, e.g. 3 or 4 long-shots, that could account for people shunning them? Or maybe the Quick Pick algorithm 'forgot' to include some?

Do you have access to sales data? Maybe overall sales were just lower due to some outside factor (eg. large JP on another lottery diverted money away from this lotto?)?

Interesting stuff!

 

[PAB]

Hi Icewynd,

But, surely, this isn't the first time since 1994 that there were 3 numbers higher than 31? If you have data back to 1994, perhaps you could compare similar draws (i.e. 5 high numbers) to see if the prize stats are also lower than average.

Is there something else about these numbers, e.g. 3 or 4 long-shots, that could account for people shunning them? Or maybe the Quick Pick algorithm 'forgot' to include some?

Do you have access to sales data? Maybe overall sales were just lower due to some outside factor (eg. large JP on another lottery diverted money away from this lotto?)?

I will do further investigating on this when I get a bit more time and report back.

Regards,
PAB


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12:45, restate my assumptions.
(1) Mathematics is the language of nature.
(2) Everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers.
(3) If you graph the numbers of any system, patterns emerge. Therefore, there are patterns, everywhere in nature.