Honest lottery statistics, and nothing more.

What this site is

LotteryStatLab publishes historical drawing data for Powerball and Mega Millions, and the statistics that come from it: how often each number has appeared, how long since it last appeared, and which numbers have shown up together. Everything here is a record of what has already happened.

What this site is not

We do not sell predictions, systems, or "winning numbers." We do not claim any method improves your odds, because none does. Every valid combination has an identical chance in every drawing, regardless of what came before. If a lottery site tells you otherwise, it is selling you something.

Where the data comes from

Draw results are imported from the New York State open data portal, an official government source. Our updater runs daily, validates every row, and refuses to overwrite good data with a bad response.

Why we ignore most of the history

This is the part almost every lottery statistics site gets wrong, so it is worth being precise about.

Lottery games change their number pools periodically. When a game adds or removes balls, every statistic computed across that boundary becomes meaningless: numbers that did not exist before look artificially rare, and numbers that have since been retired still appear in the rankings.

So we only count drawings from each pool's current format:

Notice that Mega Millions has two different starting points. Its white balls have been drawn from 70 since October 2017, but the Mega Ball pool shrank from 25 to 24 in April 2025. Those are two separate games from a statistical point of view, so we count them separately. White-ball statistics use the full run; Mega Ball statistics use only the drawings since the change.

That means our Mega Ball figures are based on a deliberately small sample, and we say so on every page where it matters. We could show a larger, more impressive number by ignoring the change. It would be wrong.

How to read our numbers

Every profile page compares a number's actual appearances against the count a perfectly fair draw would produce. Differences of 10–20% are completely ordinary in a dataset of this size, and larger swings are normal in smaller ones. "Hot" and "overdue" describe the past; they do not forecast anything. A number absent for 60 drawings is exactly as likely to appear next draw as one drawn last night.

Verify everything

Always confirm winning numbers and prize claims with the official source—powerball.com, megamillions.com, or your state lottery. We are an independent analytics site with no affiliation to any lottery, and we cannot pay prizes or verify tickets.

Contact

Corrections, questions, and data requests: get in touch. We publish corrections when we get something wrong.