About the ScratchOffsNY Data Team

Marcus Chen — Lead Data Scientist

Focus areas: Scratch-off lottery mathematics · Expected value analysis · Bayesian prize estimation · New York Lottery game catalog · Lottery retailer performance analysis · Programmatic SEO

Lead data scientist for ScratchOffsNY. Builds the daily Smart Score model that ranks every active New York Lottery scratch-off ticket using overall odds, remaining-prize counts, payout rates, and prize-claim velocity. Background in applied probability and Bayesian inference.

Contact: Discord community · GitHub issues

Priya Shah — NY Lottery Analyst

Focus areas: New York Lottery scratch-off games · Top prize claim tracking · Retailer performance analysis · NY Open Data ingestion

NY Lottery analyst tracking the active scratch-off catalog, top-prize claim feeds, and retailer-level sales velocity. Maintains the daily ingestion pipeline against the NY Open Data and nylottery.ny.gov endpoints and reviews every store and game-level article published on ScratchOffsNY.

Contact: Discord community · GitHub issues

Tom Whitaker — Compliance Reviewer

Focus areas: NY Lottery prize claim procedure · NY State tax withholding rules · NY scratch-off expiration deadlines · Responsible gambling resources

Compliance reviewer for ScratchOffsNY. Verifies every claim made on tax, expiration, eligibility, and prize-cashing pages against the official NY Lottery Players Guide, NY Tax Law Article 22, and Gaming Commission regulations. Reviews all YMYL content before publication.

Contact: Discord community · GitHub issues

Editorial Standards

• Every numeric claim links to its data source (NY Lottery prize feed or NY Open Data).
• Every published article has a named author, publish date, and last-modified date.
• Smart Score factor weights are open-source and version-controlled.
• We never recommend playing past your means. Every page links to NY Problem Gambling.

Read the full Smart Score methodology → · Smart Score changelog →