I have experienced some guys who are chronic gamblers making unimaginable predictions from football player's jersey numbers, basket ball, hockey, rugby etc jersey's numbers. I have experienced this and their prediction is only based on these numbers shown on TV sports analysis consistently and regularly.
These chronic gamblers feel that when these jersey numbers keep flashing on your TV stations maybe during the sports news, analysing the jersey numbers on different clubs and display of the jersey numbers may be a sign that such number will appear as draw for the week and they do their permutations on that.
This is for example what I'm saying with the jersey numbers not about the person but numbers precisely.
The pictures are different and analysed differently for the week.
Like 7,19
Another week 10,7,17
Another week 10,7,17,10 (probably 10 confirmation of banker
for this week)
Another week 8,7,8,10 (probably 8 confirmation of banker for this week)
Another week 16,15
Another week 10
So this particular guy in Nigeria around 5 years ago followed some Jersey numbers he has been monitoring for the week and according to him 3 of the numbers where consistently and regularly appearing on different TV stations for the week and he concluded some numbers and went to stake them 3/3 in the weekend draws and behold! When the matches were played all turned out draws and this guy cashed out from different pool shops where he did the stakings. It was a big winning story in the area alongside few guys he gave the numbers to try their luck.
My question is, have you experienced this kind of gambling with Jersey numbers ?
Note: The pictures are just to illustrate my point with the jersey not particular about who was wearing it and I didn't need to link any source because any jersey number will do or can be imagined, at most written with bare hands.
I think without proper show of calculations there's no correlation between jersey numbers and the draws for the week. To be fair the number 7 is a pretty common number to come up with because of heuristics in our brain. It's way easier to notice compared to other numbers and they might've mistook those as causative forces that would determine what the draw number is for the week. If there's more evidence to show that these "permutations" employed by the chronic gamblers you spoke of I would be more than happy to give it a look-see. Coz at this point it looks to me as if these guys are connecting two arbitrary things together. Unless the games are rigged and these are the ways of organizers to let us know, I don't think there's really a connection between those two.