Transparency
How we score, what we disclose, and where the money comes from.
- TransparencyTwo scores kept apart, and the one average we do publish
A single number is an average of things that are not commensurable, and averaging is the operation that deletes the signal. Here is what we keep separate, what we do average, and why those are different operations.
- TransparencyWhy we publish every penalty
A score whose reasoning is hidden asks to be believed. A score whose reasoning is published asks to be checked. Only the second one can be worth anything.
Why a review site should publish its own numbers
Every casino review site is paid by casinos, including this one. That is the business model of the entire category, and a site that implies otherwise has misled you before you have read a word of its advice.
Which makes the only useful question a structural one: not what does it promise, but what has it actually built to keep that money away from the scores. These dispatches are where we answer that in specifics.
The wall. Whether an operator pays us, what the arrangement is worth and whether they are behind on it live in a different part of the database from the scoring code, and the recompute that produces every published score never reads them. Paid placements are labelled, sit outside the ranked order, and never borrow a position they did not earn.
The figures that do not flatter us. How many operators we have actually audited rather than merely listed. How many cases we could not get an operator to answer, with our own unreachable-operator gap counted as ours rather than converted into an accusation against them. Where the median score sits, and what the spread of verdicts looks like — because if everything we listed came out Fully Trusted, that would tell you something about us rather than about them.
Corrections. When we get something wrong we change it and record that we changed it. A correction that is made silently is not a correction, it is an edit.
The full weights and caps are on the methodology page, and the current figures are on the transparency page. This category is the running commentary on both.