Number elimination

[Frank]

Len Wrote:What was up with the system?

I don't know if I can explain it briefly, but I did some work for a guy called 888 on my other forum which created a table of counts of skips, over lotto history - where a skip was the number of draws between appearances of each ball. It showed that there were more skips of one draw than skips of two draws, more skips of two draws than skips of three draws and so on till there were zero or very few skips of 70 draws or more.

I knew there was something misleading about this information but couldn't quite put my finger on it, but went ahead and used it to create a table of numbers most likely to repeat. From the above table, last drawn and the one before featured highly in most cases. Using the bottom of the table was supposed to eliminate some numbers, but it wasn't successful.

I gave this a lot of thought and it dawned on me today that the table only counted ADJACENT skips with no appearances in between. For example..
Example ball 14 appeared in the draws below.

skip...... draw no.
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