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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
Correct: 14 x 13 x 12 x 11
As for 1,001 - that is simply the minimum number of results required in order to create the odds that they desire (there is no smaller denomination that allows for those odds)
So it looks like you take your 1,001 results and copy them 24 times over the spectrum of the 24,024 reults you get from the 4 balls.
For example, Florida gets 250 x 24 = 6,000 lines on their chart
Colorado gets 188 x 24 = 4,512 etc
That works. But still seems a bit unnecessarily complicated to me.
Maybe one of their goals is to keep it incomprehensible.
And I would guess another goal is the optics of 14 balls (for 14 teams)
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If you don't care what the draw order is, then it really is just 1001 combinations:
(14/4)*(13/3)*(12/2)*(11/1) = 1001. Chances are this is how they do it.