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Data quality and sources

What this site actually holds: where every draw comes from, which dates are covered, what has been checked, what has not, and every correction made since the archive was built. Nothing here is hidden behind a script; the same facts are available as JSON.

Powerball

Stored draws
2,017
First draw in archive
Wed, Feb 3, 2010
Data through
Mon, Oct 26, 2026
Next scheduled draw
Wed, Oct 28, 2026
Source last checked
Oct 27, 2026, 10:41 am ET
Data revision
26

Source: New York State Open Data (Socrata) · official results: powerball.com. Fetched by this server on an hourly schedule; your browser never contacts the source.

Coverage by rules era

Powerball coverage by rules era
Rules eraCovered datesScheduledStoredMissing
Powerball 5/59 + 1/39Feb 3, 2010 – Jan 14, 20122042040
Powerball 5/59 + 1/35Jan 15, 2012 – Oct 6, 20153883880
Powerball 5/69 + 1/26 (current)Oct 7, 2015 – Oct 26, 2026142514250

Draws before 2010-02-03 are not in this archive.

Checks

  • Pass Strict validation at import
    Every stored draw passed date, number-format, eligible-number, duplicate and multiplier validation at import.
  • Pass Numbers within each era's eligible range
    No stored row exceeds the eligible numbers of its rule era (re-checked when this report was generated).
  • Pass Every scheduled draw date has a result
    Every scheduled draw date from the archive start to the latest draw has a stored result.
  • Pass No results on unscheduled dates
    No stored draw falls on an unscheduled date.
  • Pass One result per date
    The archive allows one result per game, date and session.
  • Not done Independent audit of every historical draw
    Historical draws have not been independently re-verified against a second official source.
  • Spot check Oct 11, 2026
    Latest published draw (Oct 10, 2026) compared with powerball.com: exact match

Quarantine and corrections

No source rows are quarantined. Source rows that failed validation are kept aside with a reason code and never enter the archive.

No stored draw has needed a correction since the archive was built.

Mega Millions

Stored draws
2,551
First draw in archive
Fri, May 17, 2002
Data through
Fri, Oct 23, 2026
Next scheduled draw
Tue, Oct 27, 2026
Source last checked
Oct 27, 2026, 10:41 am ET
Data revision
26

Source: New York State Open Data (Socrata) · official results: megamillions.com. Fetched by this server on an hourly schedule; your browser never contacts the source.

Coverage by rules era

Mega Millions coverage by rules era
Rules eraCovered datesScheduledStoredMissing
Mega Millions 5/52 + 1/52May 17, 2002 – Jun 21, 20053243240
Mega Millions 5/56 + 1/46Jun 22, 2005 – Oct 18, 20138698690
Mega Millions 5/75 + 1/15Oct 19, 2013 – Oct 27, 20174204200
Mega Millions 5/70 + 1/25Oct 28, 2017 – Apr 7, 20257767760
Mega Millions 5/70 + 1/24 (current); multiplier is ticket-specific, stored nullApr 8, 2025 – Oct 23, 20261621620

Draws before 2002-05-17 are not in this archive.

Checks

  • Pass Strict validation at import
    Every stored draw passed date, number-format, eligible-number, duplicate and multiplier validation at import.
  • Pass Numbers within each era's eligible range
    No stored row exceeds the eligible numbers of its rule era (re-checked when this report was generated).
  • Pass Every scheduled draw date has a result
    Every scheduled draw date from the archive start to the latest draw has a stored result.
  • Pass No results on unscheduled dates
    No stored draw falls on an unscheduled date.
  • Pass One result per date
    The archive allows one result per game, date and session.
  • Not done Independent audit of every historical draw
    Historical draws have not been independently re-verified against a second official source.
  • Spot check Oct 11, 2026
    Latest published draw (Oct 9, 2026) compared with megamillions.com: exact match

Quarantine and corrections

No source rows are quarantined. Source rows that failed validation are kept aside with a reason code and never enter the archive.

No stored draw has needed a correction since the archive was built.

What "verified" means here

Draws are fetched by this server from New York State Open Data, validated against the dated rules and schedules of each game, and compared with the official game sites by spot check. Agreement with those sources is what "verified" means here.

Every historical draw has NOT been independently re-verified against a second official source. Automated checks cover format, eligible-number bounds, duplicates and schedule completeness; they cannot detect a wrong number that is still in bounds.

Draws before each archive start are not in this archive. An older official source for Powerball (1995 onward) is under evaluation and has not been imported; nothing is shown for dates it would cover.

When the source changes a published draw, the stored row is updated and the before/after values are logged below, so analyses can be re-run against the stated data revision.

Machine-readable copy: /wp-json/olp/v1/quality · generated Oct 27, 2026, 10:52 am ET