Any Excel VBA or Excel functions that can help with general lottery forecasting?

[angExcelentflea]

Permission to post, admins...

Mostly the posts here about the lottery concern with random number generation, with pick-3 games and with lotteries dealing with huge numbers (e.g. 5 out of 90). I am only concerned with general, simple lottery forecasting concerns.

So, I'm wondering if anyone here knows some VBA formulas for the following tasks:
a) Counting the frequency of each number in a lottery game

b) Determine which are "hot" numbers, "cold" numbers and "overdue" numbers within a certain draw period in a lottery game

c) Know how many times a number is paired with another number

Hope you would consider helping me out in this...

 

[jimrward]

If we had the answer we would all be millionaires

 

[jmacleary]

It would be possible to generate analyses such as you refer to, but if its the UK lottery, then they already give that data - see https://www.national-lottery.com/lotto/statistics

I would imagine other lottery runners would have similar data available.

 

[Kyle123]

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[Fluff]

@angExcelentflea
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[angExcelentflea]

PS - Due to earlier circumstances, was forced to post this concern in other Excel forums. Here's the link to the other forum:
https://www.mrexcel.com/forum/redir...or-vba-for-some-lottery-prediction-tasks.html

 

[angExcelentflea]

Reply intended for Kyle123: Since I couldn't edit my original post, I included a note explaining why... It had something to do with some misunderstanding with the other forum and was badly in need of answers. If any original idea comes up here, the other guys will know...

To admins: sorry if this post peeved you. Just wanted to make sure somebody will give ideas to my concern....

 

[joeu2004]

if its the UK lottery, then they already give that data - see https://www.national-lottery.com/lotto/statistics

Just a "random" observation (wink).... Be careful with your interpretation of the overall frequency table. That lottery changed from 1-to-49 to 1-to-59 in Oct 2015. That is why the frequency of 50-to-59 is so far out of line, not some inexplicable bias in the selection process.

 

[angExcelentflea]

Reply for joeu2004:
Interesting. So, does that mean the usual way of forecasting lottery won't apply to the 6/59 game?

By the way, any idea what VBA formula or Excel function to use to get "hot", "cold" and "overdue" numbers?
No other site I looked into gives any idea as to how...

 

[joeu2004]

does that mean the usual way of forecasting lottery won't apply to the 6/59 game?

First, my previous comment was specific to the UK lotto game. If you are not interested in the UK lotto game per se, ignore my comments.

Second, I hope you know that there is no reliable way to "forecast" or predict the outcome of any specific lottery drawing.

And none of the statistics like the ones at https://www.national-lottery.com/lotto/statistics will improve your odds of matching a specific drawing.

(The only way to improve your odds of matching is to purchase more tickets, each of which is different.)

That said, you have to pick 6 numbers from 1-to-59 somehow. And any method is as good as another, because all combinations (tickets) have the same probability of matching a specific drawing.

My previous comment relates to the fact the UK lotto changed from 6/49 to 6/59 after 8 Oct 2015 (Thu).

But the statistics at https://www.national-lottery.com/lotto/statistics cover "20 years". (Actually, apparently at least back to 27 Dec 1995.)

Consequently, some statistics are misleading.

For example, the 6 least-often drawn numbers are all in the 50s because those numbers were available to be drawn only in the last 400 of the 2465 drawings that are covered by the statistics. Well, duh!

For the same reason, the total frequency of the numbers in the 50s are significantly lower than 1-to-49.

In fact, IMHO, the only valid statistic is the "most overdue numbers", since that seems to mean only the most number of days since last drawn.

any idea what VBA formula or Excel function to use to get "hot", "cold" and "overdue" numbers?

It is certainly doable. Some statistics can be calculated with Excel formulas alone. Some are best done using VBA procedures.

Before anyone can help you, you need to specify the lotto that you are interested in, or its parameters.

Such calculations are fun. But I'm afraid that I should not take the time to participate.

Good luck!