Trackkn

About Trackkn

Where the numbers come from, and the things we won't do.

What the site is for

Most of the money numbers you see are the ones somebody wants you to see. The jackpot on the ad. The price a bookie offers. The asking rent on a listing. Trackkn goes to the official Australian records and shows you what they actually say, in plain words. Every figure has a source and a date. Where the data has a gap, we say so instead of filling it with a guess.

Gambling isn't worth it. Every lottery, Keno game and bet is set up to pay back less than it takes. A few dollars here and there doesn't feel like much, but over the years it turns into real money. We show you exactly how much, using the actual results, prizes, odds and losses, and what that money could have done for you instead.

Living costs, starting with rent. See what tenants really pay in rent by postcode, suburb and council. The figures come from the rental bonds tenants lodge with state governments, so they're the rents people actually signed for. Asking rents don't come into it.

Electricity, against the default offer. See what a household pays in your network area: the government's default price, and every plan retailers sell there, priced at the same usage. Most cost less, and the page shows how much.

Fuel, and when to fill up. See how petrol prices cycle in Sydney, Canberra, Brisbane, Perth and Darwin, the cheapest day to buy, and what good timing saves you in a year. The prices come from the records stations must send their state government.

Your area, in one page. Look up your suburb or council to see its rent, what's lost on the pokies there and the crime police record, each set against the rest of your state. We never rank councils against each other.

Money, and what banks really charge. Every bank has to publish its products, rates, fees and conditions under the Consumer Data Right. The Money pages read them all each night and show the catch in plain words: what a bonus saver pays if you miss a condition, and what new and existing home loan customers pay. It's general information, not advice, and we never rank or recommend a product.

There's a lot of history in here too: 12,595 lottery draws back to 1986, 13,096 draws of add-on and raffle games, 1,885,723 Keno games, and daily odds for 151 sports matches so far.

Who it's for

  • People who play regularly and want to check their numbers fast, and know what a ticket's really worth.
  • Anyone curious about how lotteries and odds work, or keen to put the myths to the test.
  • Whoever runs the syndicate and has to split costs and prizes between friends, family or workmates.
  • Sports fans who'd like bookmaker prices as plain chances, and to know which bookmakers keep the most.
  • Anyone wondering how much they spend, and what regular play adds up to over time.
  • Renters who want to know what new tenants pay nearby, and whether their own rent is fair.
  • Landlords, buyers and agents after suburb rents with history, from records instead of listings.

Decisions it helps with

Have my numbers won?
Run your usual lines against the latest draw and every one before it. You'll see what you'd have spent and what you'd have won.
Is this game worth it this week?
What one game pays back on average at the current jackpot, and how that shifts as the jackpot climbs.
Can I afford to play every week?
We ran thousands of pretend players through 1, 5 and 20 years. See what a typical one spends and wins, and the chance of coming out ahead.
Will the jackpot go?
The chance each jackpot gets won in its next draw. We check those chances against what really happened in past draws.
Should I buy a System?
Exactly what a System covers, costs and pays, and how its chances stack up against separate games.
How do we split a syndicate?
Everyone's fair share of the cost and any prize, down to the cent. Plus how pooling changes each person's chances.
Which numbers should I pick?
Every combination has exactly the same chance. Where picking can matter is sharing: numbers fewer people choose can mean a bigger slice if you do win. The crowd score shows how popular yours are.
Which bookmaker gives better prices?
Each bookmaker's typical margin, and how often the market's favourites actually win.
Is my rent fair?
Where your weekly rent sits among new leases for the same kind of home in your area.
Where can I afford to rent?
Places where the median new lease fits inside your weekly budget.

What it won't do

  • Predict numbers. Draws are random, and the results here back that up. What came out last week does nothing to the odds next week.
  • Give you tips or tell you what to bet. You get the chances. What you do with them is up to you.
  • Send you to a bookmaker. There are no betting links, no ads and no affiliate deals.
  • Guess to fill a gap. If a state doesn't publish figures, the page says so. It won't swap in asking rents or estimates.
  • Pretend to be sure when it isn't. If a result could just be luck, we'll say that.

How it works

  • Results and odds come from publicly available sources. They're collected automatically and updated once a day. Sports odds are a snapshot taken once a day, so they help you understand the market but aren't meant for live betting. Rents come from state rental bond data under open licences and are updated monthly (see rent sources and the methodology).
  • Electricity plans come from each retailer's Energy Product Reference Data, published under the Consumer Data Right and hosted by the Australian Energy Regulator. Default offers come from the AER's Default Market Offer (© Commonwealth of Australia, CC BY 4.0) and the Essential Services Commission's Victorian Default Offer (CC BY 4.0). Plans are checked each night; default offers change each July.
  • Fuel prices come from Queensland's Fuel Price Reporting (CC BY 4.0), FuelWatch in Western Australia (CC BY 4.0), NSW FuelCheck (which covers the ACT; CC BY-SA, so figures built from it can be reused under the same licence) and MyFuel NT (CC BY, to November 2024). We take each station's price at noon each day and average them. They're updated when each state publishes a new month.
  • Recorded crime comes from the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, the Crime Statistics Agency (Victoria, CC BY 4.0), the Queensland Police Service (CC BY 4.0) and South Australia Police (CC BY). Suburbs are placed in councils, and crime rates use populations, from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (CC BY 4.0). Crime figures are updated when each state releases them, every month or every three months.
  • Bank figures come from each bank's own product data, published under the Consumer Data Right. We read every bank once a night, about two requests a second, and keep every change so rate history builds up. If a bank can't be reached, its page says so and shows its last figures.
  • The odds are worked out exactly from each game's rules. Nothing is estimated.
  • To test fairness, each game's results are checked against those exact chances with standard statistical tests, across the whole history and period by period.
  • Sports chances take each bookmaker's prices, strip out its margin, then combine them across bookmakers.
  • Simulations use the prizes each game actually paid out, rather than a prize table on paper.

We do our best, but there may be mistakes. None of this is financial advice.

Your privacy

The numbers you save, the prices you type in and your syndicate members' names stay in your own browser. They're never sent to the site or stored there. You don't need an account, there's no advertising, and we count visits with Google Analytics, with its advertising features switched off (see privacy). Everything on the site is free. We might sell detailed suburb rent reports as PDFs one day, but nothing on the site will ever go behind a paywall.

Photo credits

The sports and guide photos are from Wikimedia Commons, used under their free licences. We've cropped them for the site (and turned the rugby league one around), and the changed copies keep the same licence. Icons are from Tabler Icons (MIT licence).

Playing responsibly

On average, every lottery, Keno game and bet gives back less than it costs. The pages here show you by how much, and our guides show how gambling products are built to keep you spending. If you do play, pick an amount you're OK with losing before you start, and stick to it.

If gambling is causing problems for you or someone you know, free and confidential help is there 24/7 from Gambling Help Online or on 1800 858 858. Here's how to spot the signs.