TopRut draw odds tool. Replacement?

[Yoteassasin]

I can get close enough to NV odds without a lot of effort.
With Powerball, I have effectively the same odds finding the winning ticket on the ground as buying one.

And, $9.99 is effectively $10.
Using that logic, NV odds are 0%.

Haahaha

 

[elkocd]

You can pretty much feed Claude date already and get this with a little elbow grease….

Kind of — as someone who builds AI-driven tools for very large corporations and fed agencies, LLMs are only as good as the context they have. Without specific domain knowledge, they're limited to what's in their training data — which means they'll confidently hallucinate draw odds, fabricate season dates, and get state-specific draw systems wrong.

You can definitely get far pasting data into Claude — it's great at reasoning over what you give it. But there's a gap between that and reliably answering something like "What are my draw odds for Unit 61 bull elk as a nonresident with 3 points, and how does that compare to Unit 70?"

The core problem is domain context at scale. Ten states, many species, 1,400+ hunt units — each with unique draw systems (preference, bonus-squared, weighted random, hybrid pools), residency rules, tag types, and fee structures. That's tens of thousands of rows of draw odds, harvest stats, season dates, and trophy records, plus 175K+ documents from regulations and forums. It doesn't fit in a context window.

That's where RAG comes in — retrieval-augmented generation pulls just the relevant data for a given question and grounds the response in real numbers instead of hallucinated draw odds. And MCP servers / structured data pipelines keep it current as states publish new results and change regulations each year.

The copy-paste approach works for one question about one unit when you already have the data handy. The value of a purpose-built tool is answering questions you *don't* already know the answer to — across states, consistently, with data you can trust.