The challenge with that hockey-stick graph is that it greatly increases the chance of multiple winners. That kills any chance of a +EV. The best lottery drawi

The challenge with that hockey-stick graph is that it greatly increases the chance of multiple winners. That kills any chance of a +EV. The best lottery drawing is the one just before the one that makes news; by definition, it had no winner, so if you had just picked the right numbers, you would have won it all.