# How to read a previous-result chart
Every teer site carries one: a long table of past results, date by date, FR and SR side by side. Players call it the chart, the list, or the archive. It looks authoritative — rows of neat digits stretching back months. And it can be genuinely useful, if you know how to read it and, more importantly, how not to be fooled by it.
A previous-result chart is a simple table: dates down the side, FR and SR columns, two digits in each cell. Reading it is easy. Trusting it takes five checks.
**Check one: the dates.** An honest chart runs newest first and names every date. Look for the rhythm of the game — afternoon draws rest on Sundays, so a good chart shows the gap instead of skipping it silently. Missing dates should be marked (off day, holiday, unconfirmed), not papered over.
**Check two: the source.** Where did these numbers come from? A chart is only as good as its verification. If the page can't say how it confirms numbers — or worse, if it fills every date with suspicious neatness — treat it as decoration.
**Check three: the game column.** Each number belongs to one game. A Khanapara 47 is not a Shillong 47. Charts that mix games into a single column, or don't label which game a number came from, are useless for study and dangerous for ticket-checking.
**Check four: the range.** A chart covering years you can't verify is a chart you can't trust. Prefer charts whose history you can cross-check, and be wary of long, perfect-looking histories with no gaps — real archives have gaps.
**Check five: what the chart claims.** A chart is a record. The moment it starts calling numbers "due", "hot", or "guaranteed", it has stopped being a chart and started being a sales pitch. Past frequency is the only honest thing a chart can show you: this number appeared this often, in this date range, in this game. Full stop.
Used right, a chart does two jobs well: it lets you check an old ticket against the announced number for that date, and it lets you count how often each number, house, or ending appeared over a period you choose. Both jobs look backward. The chart has no forward gear, and anyone bolting one on is selling something.