Friday, April 21, 2017

Lottery Number Stats

Lottery is purely random in theory.  However, does Random Generator get more money or Same Repeat Number or the Most or Least Frequent Number wins the prize.

Tasks:

1. Decide on the lottery, http://www.calottery.com.  Using the simplest Fantasy 5 first.
  • Power Ball
    • 5 (1-69) + Power ball (26)
  • Mega Millions
    • 5 (1-75) + Mega (15)
  • Super Lotto Plus
    • 5 (1-47) + Mega
    • Winning Combination
      • 5 + Mega
      • 5
      • 4 + Mega
      • 4
      • 3 + Mega
      • 2 + Mega
      • 1 + Mega
      • Mega
  • Fantasy 5
    • 5 (1-39)
    • Total Possibilities: 575757
    • Possible Winning Combination: 63337 
    • Winning Combination
      • 5 - 1 - 1 in 575757
      • 4 - 170 - 1 in 3387
      • 3 - 5590 - 1 in 103
      • 2 - 57576 - 1 in 10
2. Get all the historic data from calottery.com
3. Run model with

  • same set of 5 number
  • previous draw number
  • most frequent
    • in 6 months
    • in 12 months 
  • least frequent
    • in 12 months
    • in 24 months
  • random number
4. Compare the winning.




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