Number Movement Statistics

This function evaluates decrease/increase in numerical value of number in each position within the ticket.
When statistically evaluating package tickets the value is calculated as the difference between numbers of package tickets and the numbers from the latest draw from the selected range of lottery history.
For example if the latest draw in your winning numbers selection is:
28/2009 1st Wed,16,18,22,23,28,29,24
and the package tickets are:
09,15,25,26,33,41
04,07,11,38,41,43
18,23,38,42,46,49

Then the calculated number movement values for package tickets are:
-07,-03,+03,+03,+05,+12
-12,-11,-11,+15,+13,+19
+02,+05,+16,+19,+18,+20

The statistics for winning numbers are calculated as the difference in ticket numbers between two consecutive draws.
For example if the selected range of winning numbers draws is:
28/2009 1st Sun,06,13,14,19,41,42,29
28/2009 2nd Sun,23,29,36,42,44,47,07
28/2009 1st Wed,16,18,22,23,28,29,24
28/2009 2nd Wed,02,13,16,17,25,40,27

Then the calculated number movement values for winning numbers are:
-17,-16,-22,-23,-03,-05
+07,+11,+14,+19,+16,+18
+14,+05,+06,+06,+03,-11

The decrease is indicated by "-" sign. As it can be seen from the table and charts the distribution in all positions of assessed lottery (when the selected range of lottery history is long enough) is roughly equal to the normal distribution with the peak around the difference with value "0". It means that there are very frequent situations where individual drawn numbers are repeated, albeit in one ticket position only. The distribution in the package depends on how the tickets were generated and which filters were applied.

The chart of number movement shows the occurrence of individual number movement values in both directions (decrease/increase). Use Options button to display charts for different ticket positions. The movement distributions can be displayed for all ticket positions at the same time however it is not very useful as the charts overlap each other significantly due to the nature of assessed parameter.

The following chart shows assessment for the first ticket position for 1000 random tickets. The tickets are compared against the last ticket in the winning numbers database (1st draw Sun from Expert Lotto 6/49 demo lottery with numbers 6,13,14,19,41,42).

Because the highest drawn number in the first position is "6", the largest negative change is to number 1 which means reduction by -5. It can be seen from the chart that there is really no lower decrease. If the file is statistically significant (equal distribution) then it should apply that sum of occurrences of negative movement (movement "-1" to "-5") is roughly the same as the sum of all occurrences of positive movement (i.e. values equal to zero and values higher than zero).

Note: Pay attention to the selection of winning numbers draws when evaluating tickets in the package as that selections defines the draw that the package tickets will be compared with.