Lottery Strategies - Lets Cut a Little Deeper
The Lottery Footprint (LFP) I introduced a few days ago is the first tool that makes it possible to compare one lottery strategy to another; to rank them. The higher the LFP is, the better the strategy.
Yesterday, we discovered that the typical lottery player in Lotto Texas 6/54, spending $25, had an LFP of 0.97. But, because you were using LONA™, the Lottery Number Advisor, your LFP was 6.51. Lets use this as our starting point for today. I say, starting point, because there is much more you can do to improve your LFP even further.
In today’s example, we’ll look at odd numbers. As we discussed earlier in, Lottery Statistics - That’s Odd., having Lottery Jackpots with all odd or all even numbers is a rare event. So, you decide, and rightly so, not to play any wager that has all odd or all even numbers.
But, using LONA™, you also notice that one of those rare events happened in the last drawing; all six numbers were odd. Your curiosity is piqued and you check to see what happened in the next drawing whenever all the numbers were odd. You discover that in the following drawings there were never more than 4 odd numbers. So, you decide to only play wagers that have from 1 to 4 odd numbers. This choice removes an additional 387,600 wagers from play leaving 3,450,780 possible wagers. The result is that your LFP has gone up from 6.51 to 7.24. That’s an 11.2% improvement.
LFP=25/3.45078=7.24
So, How much would the typical player have to spend to achieve the same LFP as you? The answer is $187.
Dollars=7.24×25.827165 = $187
Amazing! But, the Lottery Number Advisor isn’t done yet. With LONA™’s help, we can do even better. Tomorrow we’ll break 200.
Can you think of a way to do better? Let me know and well share your ideas right here.
Is this a valid theory? Knowing the winning combinations that you would not have known during the first cast of Lotto Texas; a pattern is shown by finding the sum of the times drawn of the winning numbers. What this means is that when picking numbers, simply looking at the number’s frequencies of being drawn and spreading the numbers out between 1-54 will not work. History has shown that the least frequent and most frequent of numbers will not every be drawn in combination even though it is possible. At this moment Lotto Texas usually falls between 170 and 185 with the most frequent times drawn being 44 and bottoming out at 17.
Hi Sam,
Thanks for you comments. I don’t understand what your comment has to do with this particular post but it does pertain to several others. Hopefully, my comments below will convince you to, at the very least, reassess your position.
Your statement that history has shown that low and high frequency numbers don’t hit in combination is contradicted by the facts in every lottery (at least in the US and Canada). Since, you referenced Lotto Texas will stick with that.
The hot numbers or high frequency numbers appear in more drawings than any other category of numbers. That’s how they became hot numbers to begin with. Not including them in your play list simply means that you will not be in the running to win the jackpot well over 90% of the time. Include them or not; you’re choice.
Longshot numbers (numbers that haven’t hit in the last 10 drawings) are heavily populated with most of the low frequency numbers. And, on the average over 273 Lotto Texas drawings, 1.82 of the winning numbers are longshots! That’s over 30% of the winning numbers drawn! If you don’t include them in your play list, you do so at your own peril.
What do I mean by that? Well, no longshots occurred only 20 times out of the last 273 drawings. That means that 93% of the time you didn’t have a chance of winning the jackpot unless you included some of these low frequency numbers in your play list.
This effect is true in lottery after lottery. Not including a mix of high and low frequency numbers in your play list is like playing baseball without a bat.
This contradicts your statement most emphatically!
Actually it proves my theory. My theory says that the six most frequently drawn numbers and six least frequently drawn numbers are never drawn in one cast. In Lotto Texas, 17 has been drawn the most with 44 times. On the opposite end is 54 with a total of 17 total times being drawn. This creates a pool of numbers between 17 and 54 that are related to all jackpots. What is the relation? Well the sum of these numbers in every jackpot falls above 150. For example, yesterdays winning numbers were 6-11-13-18-26-49. The relative frequencies of being drawn are 24-22-22-33-37-34 which totals 172. This can be done since the first cast. It isn’t a huge limitation but it is my contribution. It was a lot of information for me to try and keep it short, so I’m not surprised it was not articulate in my first post.
Hi Sam,
Well, you probably don’t want to look at the Lotto Texas results from last Saturday. 4 Longshots and 2 Hot numbers. That puts a rather emphatic exclamation point on my last comments.
I enjoy hearing about new lottery analysis techniques. In this particular case I don’t see any benefit. There are literally millions of number combinations that meet your sum requirements so I don’t see how that helps.
But, if this works for you then I wish you well and hope you win the big one. As for me, I’ll continue with the strategy that has worked for gamblers for ever; playing the odds.