Score 0-10 · country by country · 18+
The same question has three answers here, and this site gives all three
Three countries share this engine and disagree about almost everything the engine measures, so the tables are built per country and never averaged across them. Take the licence line, which is the one thing every bookmaker publishes. In Ghana all three books here name the same body, the Gaming Commission of Ghana, and two of them print a registration number beside it; the third names the Commission and prints no number at all. In Nigeria that agreement collapses. One book names the National Lottery Regulatory Commission and a licence number in its own footer. Two more print a pair of numbers each and name no authority anywhere near them, so the column says the number and refuses to say who issued it. Kenya has a page here and no rows yet, and that is deliberate: the country card is written, the authority is named, and no bookmaker enters the table until we can say which Kenyan permit it trades on. The figure each row carries is weighted and the weights are published in full on How we rate: getting money in and out takes the largest single share at twenty-eight points in a hundred, what is on the complaint record takes twenty-four, account and licensing conduct twenty, the welcome offer sixteen and the entry deposit twelve. Read the licence column the way you would read a company describing its own paperwork, because that is exactly what it is: this site quotes those footers, it does not certify them.
Choose your country
Start with your own country, because on this site the country is not a filter on one list, it is the list. A permit issued in Accra does nothing for a reader in Lagos, the currency changes at the border, and so does the answer to the only question that matters when something goes wrong: who has to hear your complaint.
Ghana has three bookmakers here and all three name the Gaming Commission of Ghana. Nigeria has three and they do not agree with each other about what a licence line even consists of. Kenya has a page and no table, and the reason for that is printed on the page rather than hidden by it.
Read this as an overview and not as a country table: it puts every row on one page so the differences between the three markets are visible side by side, and the Licensed in column is the first column for that reason. The table you act on is the one under your own country, because a permit issued next door is not a permit here. The first column repeats the country named on the operator's own licence line. The second gives the body named beside that line, and where a footer prints a number with nobody attached to it this column says so rather than supplying a plausible name; two of the Nigerian rows are in that position, and for anyone about to fund an account it is the most useful cell on the row. The third column carries the permit numbers themselves, all of them where a footer prints more than one. Nothing in these three columns has been checked against a register. They are quotations, and the ordering figure beside them is arithmetic over the weights published on How we rate.
| # | Bookmaker | Licensed in | Authority | Permit number | Score /10 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MSport | Ghana | Gaming Commission of Ghana | GCSB26R0957A, GCCA26S3348H | 8.7 | Open |
| 2 | Bet9ja | Nigeria | not named | 0001074/00000014, 00000014 | 7.7 | Open |
| 3 | BetKing | Nigeria | not named | 00000006/00000008, 00000008 | 7.3 | Open |
| 4 | Betway | Ghana | Gaming Commission of Ghana | not printed | 7.3 | Open |
| 5 | SportyBet | Ghana | Gaming Commission of Ghana | 0000237 | 7.3 | Open |
| 6 | SportyBet | Nigeria | National Lottery Regulatory Commission (NLRC) | 0001014 | 6.7 | Open |
Today across all regions
There is no board of daily tips on this site yet, and there will not be one until it can be kept honestly. A tip page carries a date in its title, and a page that carries a date it cannot keep is worse than no page at all.
What is here today is the part that does not go stale: who is licensed where, what each bookmaker publishes about paying you, what a welcome offer costs once its conditions are read, and which rails move money in each of the three countries.
How we analyse
Every row carries a figure out of ten and the five weights behind it are published in full. Getting money in and out takes the largest single share at twenty-eight points in a hundred, what is on the complaint record takes twenty-four, account and licensing conduct twenty, the welcome offer sixteen and the entry deposit twelve.
Three of those five have very little to weigh on this market today, and the tables show that rather than smoothing it over. What separates the rows at the moment is mostly the licence line, which is why the licence line has three columns of its own instead of one.
Our record
The record page exists and is empty, which is the correct state for it. Nothing has been predicted here, so nothing has been settled here, and a running return on a sample of zero is a number with no content.
The rule that will govern it is set now, before there is anything to protect: a prediction goes up with the time it was posted, gets its result written beside it once the match is over, and stays on the page whichever way it went.
What each column weighs
- Payment rails 28
- Complaints on record 24
- Safety 20
- Welcome offer 16
- Minimum deposit 12
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