*This page breaks down winning POWERBALL (RED numbers) in Powerball
Unlike our white numbers, our Powerball (red) numbers go up to 26, and we have only one winning red number. We can't avoid superstitious birthday people, but we can still play with our numbers and get some interesting stats.
Let's start with easy stuff and split our red numbers to two equall sets. LOWER set will get numbers {1, 2, 3,...13}, while our HIGHER set will contain numbers {14, 15, 16,... 26}
Let's see the winning rates of our splits over time
| Splits | All Time | Last 6 Months | Recent Trends | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Times Drawn | Percentage | Times Drawn | Percentage | Times Drawn | Percentage | |
| Lower{1-13} | 569 | 49.74 % | 34 | 42.5 % | 15 | 57.69 % |
| Higher{14-26} | 575 | 50.26 % | 45 | 56.25 % | 11 | 42.31 % |
This is where our RED numbers get tricky. If we follow the same logic we applied to our white numbers, our red numbers can be sorted into 3 unequall sets of numbers. And unequall is a mild word here. Is this going to ruin our analysis?
Remember, trends can get surprising. So, although having 3 unequall sets is FAR FROM ideal, we will still be able to get some interesting information.
Our sets of RED balls will look like this:
ONES = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9}
TENS = {10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19}
TWENTIES = {20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26}
| Sets | All Time | Last 6 Months | Recent Trends | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Times Drawn | Percentage | Times Drawn | Percentage | Times Drawn | Percentage | |
| Ones | 406 | 35.49 % | 25 | 31.25 % | 11 | 42.31 % |
| Tens | 417 | 36.45 % | 29 | 36.25 % | 7 | 26.92 % |
| Twenties | 321 | 28.06 % | 26 | 32.5 % | 8 | 30.77 % |
If you look at the Powerball's prizes it is easy to notice the importance of getting the red ball (also called POWERBALL) correct. Out of 9 prizes that Powerball offers, 6 of them are tied to the red ball, including the grand prize.
So, the red ball is a sort of an anchor to the rest of your chosen numbers. We can't create analysis of the so called "WINNING HANDS" for the red number, like we did for the WHITE numbers, but what we can do is to create an analysis of WHAT white numbers win together with certain red numbers.
My naming conventions aren't great, so I named this the POWERBALL MATRIX and you can check it out here -> POWERBALL MATRIX