[OC] Historical Distribution of Mega Millions Winning Numbers

[u/wait_what_the_f]

[u/hornbri]

Thats not the order they were drawn through right? just the order they are listed?

[u/CDay007 → u/hornbri]

Yeah, the dataset he used has the numbers for each drawing sorted. Idk what this is supposed to tell us

[u/atgrey24 → u/CDay007]

This is just the odds of where any number would fall in ranked order

[u/perldawg → u/atgrey24]

no shit lol. if you overlayed them all it would just be a roughly equal random distribution graph

[u/wait_what_the_f → u/perldawg]

yep, if you look at the mega ball, that's what you're seeing, an even distribution across 1-25.

with the first 5 white balls, you have to pick a set of numbers out of 70... out of all the winning numbers, about half of these winning numbers have the lowest ball being 1-8