Statistical technique that shrinks noisy estimates toward a prior to reduce small-sample variance.
ScratchOffsNY uses Beta-Binomial smoothing on remaining-prize counts. Without smoothing, a game with one $1M prize and three sold tickets would dominate the rankings on noise alone.
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