This is something I've chimed in on before.....
I consider myself to be decently educated when it comes to mathematics, after all I am a 5 year
college graduate with a B.S. in Computer Science and a minor in mathematics. I know some of you
are more advanced then I am mathematically, my point is that I'm fairly intelligent when it comes to math.
But anyways, I am a very logically thinking person and I'm just going to offer my opinions here.
I feel that a system cannot accurately predict a winning result. I am inclined to think that at best, these systems
can give you a "sweet spot" for how many combinations you play vs the likelyhood you will win. It's common sense
more than involved math at that point. If you play every possible megaball number, then you know regardless of
which megaball is draw, you will match one of them.
If we look at a quarter, it has two sides and thus two possible outcomes when it is flipped. Law of averages state that
it will land on either side 50% of the time. You can flip it 10 times, 100 times or 1,000,000 times and you should be
pretty close to that. After a long run of the result coming up one way, the law of averages says that the other side is
"due" to hit. Now on anyone one single flip, the probabilty does not change. It's still 50% for each side. This coin flip
doesn't "know anything" about the past 50 or next 50 flips.
It's interesting enough. If your going to bet someone that they can flip heads, on a per flip basis then you'll probably wind
up about even. If your going to bet someone that they can flip heads 5 times in a row then you'll likely win the vast majority
of the times.
The same applies to a dice, or even a jackpot game like mega millions or power ball. The balls don't know anything about
each other, or any previous/future drawings. Every single draw, every single number has the same odds of hitting. Will the
numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 come up together very often over a 1000 drawing stretch? Probably not, but they have the same chance to do
so as any other combination.
I would say there can be merit in the systems, but to I don't believe they can pick winning numbers. They simply offer some "sweet spots"
as to how many combinations to cover. There is no promise to it, but they can also allude to numbers and combinations that "should be due"
It's true that the more you play, the better your chances are. If you don't play at all then you can't win
and if you play every combo you will almost always lose.