Listen, My Toys, forget mode and average. You are dealing with a random event. With random events only the median counts. At last you are realising the importance of skips when dealing with the lottery. I suggest you stop wasting your money on the lottery until you know what is going on. Download Pick-6. Read everything on Saliu's site and experiment with the programme. You will end up being a more knowledgeable player. Saliu's site tends to be confusing and at times he appears a little mal. It is like a bazaar of ideas. Read the post on Monty's paradox, it really turns conventional ideas upside down. Look at the post on LIE files. Human fallability can be used to our advantage.
Bush Happy aka Bossies, Saliu's software does not predict numbers. It predicts groupings of 2,3,4 and 5 number groupings plus some other patterns. The winning numbers fall into the patterns if you set the filters correctly.