Please Advise

[Frank]

Yes Ive done it with the UK Lotto when it was a 649 lottery. I analysed just the main balls and I ignored the end balls e.g number 49 can have a ball less than itself (I counted that possibility) but 49 could have a ball more than itself if you assumed that it wrapped around back to ball number 1.
I ignored that possibility and at the other end number 1 could in theory have no. 49 as one less if it wrapped around. I ignored that.
The study was over 2065 draws. I refer to them as 'adjacents' and there are 2 types of adjacent, rising adjacent (one more) and falling adjacent (one less).

Here are the statistics:-

Draws which have at least one rising adjacent 1146 =55.52%
Draws which have at least one falling adjacent 1149 =55.67%
Draws which have at least one adjacent either type 1659 =80.38%
Draws which have at least one rising adjacent AND at least one falling adjacent 636= 30.7%

There were mixtures of combinations of adjacents as you can see, sometimes just one type sometimes both types. You can infer from the above that 19.62% of draws had NO adjacent matches.

Also the above figures are true whether you compare 2 adjacent draws (consecutives) or whether you compare 2 draws with a skip of N apart, the figures are the same whatever the value of N.

So you've a 80% chance that the next draw will have an adjacent to the current draw, but then you have to guess higher or lower, and which ball will it be, you have a 1 in 12 chance on the second decision.

The question is, does this help ? Ive never tried to use it to predict a result.