***Spring 2020 Lottery Results***

MMMBFan said:

I read a couple pages back in discussions about no tickets for Canada -someone mentioning they didn't have a payment page pop up on Ticketmaster; I didn't either so I went to their site to check my information.  No credit card was listed for purchases I think because my credit card had expired and I haven't bought any tickets since 2018.  I added a credit card then called the 10c TM phone to make sure all was okay for Phoenix and San Diego.  She said all looked ready for ticket purchases.  I know this is very basic info but I recommend you check your TM account if it's been a while

Good call. I got the payment popup and entered my details, and my card info is all updated with 10C, but I just checked and my Ticketmaster account had an old card listed. Not sure if this would have made any difference since I entered my payment details when I put in my lottery requests, but I'm not taking any chances!

there is no impossible outcome with a lottery, nothing is guaranteed even at 99% odds, and I'm sure those odds went down just minutes before the closing.  1%=100 at 10,000 ticket allocation, if the odds went to 80 or 75% it would be even more.

I estimate the demand for any type of seating is more than the allocated seats available.  This is why I believe they do not go with everyone that put in for GA only or BA  as all the GA would be gone on the first draw.

all the winner emails went out which really gives people hope, but it takes time to go to the next draw and again until all the tickets are gone, then the non-winner emails go out.  people are understanably devastated as so much hype about 99% BA choice you will get tickets no matter what.

It is a lottery, 50/50 your name will be drawn for the seats you requested.

amethgr8 said:

there is no impossible outcome with a lottery, nothing is guaranteed even at 99% odds, and I'm sure those odds went down just minutes before the closing.  1%=100 at 10,000 ticket allocation, if the odds went to 80 or 75% it would be even more.

I estimate the demand for any type of seating is more than the allocated seats available.  This is why I believe they do not go with everyone that put in for GA only or BA  as all the GA would be gone on the first draw.

all the winner emails went out which really gives people hope, but it takes time to go to the next draw and again until all the tickets are gone, then the non-winner emails go out.  people are understanably devastated as so much hype about 99% BA choice you will get tickets no matter what.

It is a lottery, 50/50 your name will be drawn for the seats you requested.

I'm not sure how you come to the conclusion there's a 50% chance your name gets drawn. It would seem if you have 99% chance of getting tickets than there's probably a better than 50% chance of you getting your name drawn?

jcoudriet said:

 I chose BA to make my odds better. I will just be happy to be there, but do you think there is a possibility of getting GA if you did put BA at all?

Oh boy...be prepared for the onslaught of peeps telling you that closing BA didn’t improve your odds. 

jcoudriet said:

 I chose BA to make my odds better. I will just be happy to be there, but do you think there is a possibility of getting GA if you did put BA at all?

Yes. In fact your odds of getting GA are exactly the same as if you'd chosen GA only.

Poncier said:

jcmitchell28 said:

jcoudriet said:

 I chose BA to make my odds better. I will just be happy to be there, but do you think there is a possibility of getting GA if you did put BA at all?

Oh boy...be prepared for the onslaught of peeps telling you that closing BA didn’t improve your odds. 

It does make her odds better than choosing GA only.

And to the original question, yes there certainly should be folks getting GA tix who selected BA

I’m not saying anything different. 😊

edocon said:

amethgr8 said:

there is no impossible outcome with a lottery, nothing is guaranteed even at 99% odds, and I'm sure those odds went down just minutes before the closing.  1%=100 at 10,000 ticket allocation, if the odds went to 80 or 75% it would be even more.

I estimate the demand for any type of seating is more than the allocated seats available.  This is why I believe they do not go with everyone that put in for GA only or BA  as all the GA would be gone on the first draw.

all the winner emails went out which really gives people hope, but it takes time to go to the next draw and again until all the tickets are gone, then the non-winner emails go out.  people are understanably devastated as so much hype about 99% BA choice you will get tickets no matter what.

It is a lottery, 50/50 your name will be drawn for the seats you requested.

I'm not sure how you come to the conclusion there's a 50% chance your name gets drawn. It would seem if you have 99% chance of getting tickets than there's probably a better than 50% chance of you getting your name drawn?

just my opinion of the years of reading, participating and learning from the lottery system.

I don't believe the 99% possibility of ticket award is related to my estimate of 50% chance your name will be drawn at all.  I see it as IF your name is drawn from the hat, you have a 99% of winning tickets and 1% of not winning tickets.

So if there are 1000 names in a hat, what are the chances your name will be drawn?  I don't know statistics, so I think 50/50 that my name will be drawn.  

amethgr8 said:

edocon said:

amethgr8 said:

there is no impossible outcome with a lottery, nothing is guaranteed even at 99% odds, and I'm sure those odds went down just minutes before the closing.  1%=100 at 10,000 ticket allocation, if the odds went to 80 or 75% it would be even more.

I estimate the demand for any type of seating is more than the allocated seats available.  This is why I believe they do not go with everyone that put in for GA only or BA  as all the GA would be gone on the first draw.

all the winner emails went out which really gives people hope, but it takes time to go to the next draw and again until all the tickets are gone, then the non-winner emails go out.  people are understanably devastated as so much hype about 99% BA choice you will get tickets no matter what.

It is a lottery, 50/50 your name will be drawn for the seats you requested.

I'm not sure how you come to the conclusion there's a 50% chance your name gets drawn. It would seem if you have 99% chance of getting tickets than there's probably a better than 50% chance of you getting your name drawn?

just my opinion of the years of reading, participating and learning from the lottery system.

I don't believe the 99% possibility of ticket award is related to my estimate of 50% chance your name will be drawn at all.  I see it as IF your name is drawn from the hat, you have a 99% of winning tickets and 1% of not winning tickets.

So if there are 1000 names in a hat, what are the chances your name will be drawn?  I don't know statistics, so I think 50/50 that my name will be drawn.  

but doesn't 99% suggest that there are at least as many tickets than entries?

amethgr8 said:

edocon said:

amethgr8 said:

there is no impossible outcome with a lottery, nothing is guaranteed even at 99% odds, and I'm sure those odds went down just minutes before the closing.  1%=100 at 10,000 ticket allocation, if the odds went to 80 or 75% it would be even more.

I estimate the demand for any type of seating is more than the allocated seats available.  This is why I believe they do not go with everyone that put in for GA only or BA  as all the GA would be gone on the first draw.

all the winner emails went out which really gives people hope, but it takes time to go to the next draw and again until all the tickets are gone, then the non-winner emails go out.  people are understanably devastated as so much hype about 99% BA choice you will get tickets no matter what.

It is a lottery, 50/50 your name will be drawn for the seats you requested.

I'm not sure how you come to the conclusion there's a 50% chance your name gets drawn. It would seem if you have 99% chance of getting tickets than there's probably a better than 50% chance of you getting your name drawn?

just my opinion of the years of reading, participating and learning from the lottery system.

I don't believe the 99% possibility of ticket award is related to my estimate of 50% chance your name will be drawn at all.  I see it as IF your name is drawn from the hat, you have a 99% of winning tickets and 1% of not winning tickets.

So if there are 1000 names in a hat, what are the chances your name will be drawn?  I don't know statistics, so I think 50/50 that my name will be drawn.  

You answered it right there.
If the odds are at 99%, the odds of you getting selected are 99% assuming there are no issues with your submission, not 50%.

Hamilton
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no success. First time I’ve never got what I put in for