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Best Tickets
This filter selects tickets from package, which have the highest match with all other tickets in package. Filter compares each ticket with rest of the package in similar fashion like the Match Summary function on the Visual Package page and it leaves the desired count of tickets with the best results.
The primary key for best tickets comparison the count of matches in six numbers (for a 6/xx lottery), the secondary key in the match in 5 numbers, the tertiary key is match in 4 numbers etc. However since in most cases there are no duplicate tickets expected in the package the primary key is insignificant. If you choose to filter for only one best ticket then the ticket with the highest match in 5 numbers is shown.
The resulting best tickets are sorted in their natural order as they were positioned in the original package before filtering. When using Show result when finished function the first displayed ticket may not be the actual best one with the best coverage. Furthermore significantly higher match in lower count of number may indicate the correct way to optimum selection while difference in Match in 5 could be negligible. Such selection is strongly dependent on the way the original package was generated and on the filters applied before the Best Tickets filter.
If the package was generated using random tickets with maximum overlap in 4 numbers and it contains the Jackpot winning ticket then there won't be any Match 5 tickets at the same time. Similarly if we leave in the package only tickets with a single Sum Root value there won't be any Match 5 ticket either (if it contains the Jackpot one). Therefore in such cases the significance of Match 4 is higher then Match 5.