Why
do we study winning numbers history?
The
goal of betting is to find the winning combination of numbers. One of
the most common strategies is to select a set of numbers larger than the
count of winning numbers being drawn and then create tickets covering
all or the most of combinations of these numbers. Majority of Expert Lotto
features will help you in doing so.
However
in this part of the application we are trying to use a different strategy.
The strategy is based on evaluation of frequency of number occurrences
in the lottery history.
To
understand this strategy you should be familiar with Winning
Numbers History page.
Expert
Lotto presents the winning numbers arranged in tables and provides simple
functions and visual tools helping you to estimate the future values in
Winning Numbers History tables. Your estimates then provide input
parameters for Winning Numbers
History filter. If you manage to fit your estimates into +10 and -10
error margin from the actual value then your can reduce the list of all
possible tickets (almost 14 million tickets in lotteries drawing 6 numbers
from a pool of 49 numbers) in such a way that the resulting set contains
tens to hundreds tickets. However
this resulting set is guaranteed to contain the Jackpot winning ticket.
Example
[Expert Lotto 6/49]
- Write
down the last two draws from Winning Numbers
page (28/2009 1st Wed a 2nd Wed). The tickets used in this example are:
16,18,22,23,28,29 (28/2009 1st Wed)
and
2,13,16,17,25,40 (28/2009 2nd Wed)

- Switch
to WN History page. Make sure
that options 1.st Wed, 2nd Wed. and 1stSun, 2nd Sun
as well as All Draws are selected and click Update button.
The data in the table are updated. Click the header of column labeled
"0" to sort the numbers in ascending order according to their
occurrences in the winning numbers history.

Numbers 2,13,16,17,25 and 40 are given as the latest draw with the
history period "1". The sum values in Summary
Table are as follows:

Write these values down, you will need them in following steps. These
values are automatically provided in the Winning
Numbers History filter. Also note the values in the Summary Table
page. In this case the values are:
368,746,1202,1646,2008,2407,2773,3154,3500,3867,4241
- Select
Edit in the Winning
Numbers menu. Click Hide box in the row for the 2nd Wed 28/2009
draw. The record will change as follows (see the highlighted ticket):

Note: Should you wish to repeat the exactly same example then you
must skip all recent draws.
- Switch
to Winning Number History page
and press button Update. The table is recalculated as if the
2nd Wed 28/2009 draw has not been made yet.
- Go
to Ticket Generator and select
Ticket Numbers range 1 to 49, check option Generate maximum
possible number of tickets and then click OK. The maximum
possible count of tickets 13 983 816 is loaded into the package.
- Select
filter Winning Numbers History
and enter the sum values you wrote down earlier into appropriate table
cells while adding 10 in the Max column and subtracting 10 in
the Min column.
Note: Make sure you are entering values into the table in Sums tab.
The filter window should look like follows:

Fields 1st.Wed, 2nd Wed, 1st Sun, 2nd Sun
are options for winning numbers selection. All checkboxes to the left
of History Index column must be selected. Select And as
the Logical Condition. Also select Leave in
the Matching Tickets panel. Now click button Apply.
The tickets in the package are backed up first and then you will see
filter's progress bar showing the number of tickets processed so far.
Because of the large number of tickets being processed this task is very
time consuming, especially on slow PCs.

- When
the filtering is finished you will get a message how many tickets are
left in the package as well as how many tickets were removed from the
package. In this case the number of tickets left in the package is 196.
These remaining tickets always contain the Jackpot winning ticket (2,13,16,17,25,40
in this example).

- To
verify this switch to Visual
Package page and click the winning numbers on the panel (right hand
side). The numbers are highlighted in table's header. The last table column
shows the match with the Jackpot winning ticket. (The ticket with blue
background in the figure below)

Note: Only tickets matching the winning numbers in 5 or 6 numbers
were left in the package. The Jackpot winning ticket has blue background.
All 196 tickets in the package met filter settings (error margin +/-10
from the expected sums in each column). After using option Remove
Match in (see figure above) the ticket you were looking for remains
in the package.
- As
the last step in this example you must edit the winning numbers database
again. Select function Edit in Winning
Numbers menu and switch option Show skipped entries.
Remove the "Skip" flag of the winning ticket to
restore the winning numbers database record.

Notes
- The
number of tickets in the package can be reduced even more. When evaluating
entries in the Summary Table you can see
that quite frequently the differences in 3 to 5 columns are lower or equal
to +/-10. Then the filter settings should change as follows:

As you can see additional filter condition is defined:
This condition requires that in any of 3 to 5 columns the difference
between the last known sum value and the expected sum value is to be at
most between -10 to +10. Usually the number of tickets left in the package
is higher (in the order of hundreds).
- Winning Numbers History page offers
other supporting tools helping you to determine more accurate filter parameters,
e.g. you can evaluate Differences Chart
for more accurate ranges of sum differences in each column.
- You
can also reduce the package contents by using functions from History
Differences tab.
- This
function can be used for a selected draw(s) in a week only. In the example
below the function will process the 2nd Wednesday draws only:

However in this case you must also change all values used in the procedure
- sums, tables with history of numbers, charts etc.
- When
using these functions for other lotteries and/or other winning numbers
periods, you must realize that the values of sums, ranges, count of the
latest draws, number of tickets left in the package etc. will differ from
the example provided above! However the function principle does not change
and it always provides
a small set of tickets containing the Jackpot winning ticket.
Notes:
- The setting for margins to +/- 10 is recommended
only. You can change these values in any way. The wider margins the more
tickets are left in the package after filtering.
- Min/Max settings in the rows of Winning
Numbers History filter need not be identical. Some margins can be
left wider and you can omit some margins at all.
- By
checking option At least "xx" to "yy" columns
must pass you choose the minimum and maximum count of columns that
must meet filter conditions. This applies to any combination of columns.
The resulting sums (use button Lookup Min & Max Ranges to
look them up ) will not match your original estimated margins but they
should be wider. This option is suitable when we expect mistakes in our
estimates because the tickets left in the package will still contain the
Jackpot winning ticket you are looking for. The larger the difference
between "x" and "y" the more tickets will remaining
in the package after filtering.
- The
program remembers the last used settings for margins in this filter.
- Check
that your selection of winning numbers matches the one from Winning Numbers
History page before filtration and always use Update Sums button
to refresh the table in filter window.
- Visit
www.expertlotto.com to see a detailed instructional video describing the
steps in this chapter.