What this is, and what it is not

A publication about what a bet costs before it is placed, built around one game and one empty column. Everything below is checkable against the pages themselves.

What this desk has not done

• Nobody here has opened a betting account in Ghana.
• Nobody here has made a deposit or timed a withdrawal. Every cash out figure on this site is a bookmaker's own claim or a third party's published one, and it is labelled that way on every page it appears.
• Nobody here has read a return-to-player figure at any Ghanaian bookmaker. That is why the return column is empty on all seven lines and why the page about it tells you to read it yourself.
• No public review score is printed anywhere on this site. Not one of these brands has a Ghanaian review page with enough reviews to mean anything, and the scores in circulation belong to other countries.

The rule this publication runs on

It costs the site seven bookmakers it could otherwise list, several of them large and licensed. That is the trade: ten publications reading the same thirteen books and ranking all of them produce ten versions of one table, and the only honest way to be a different publication is to disagree about who belongs in the table and to say so above it.

The model, and where it fails

What the games give back is 40 of the 100 points, the heaviest single criterion, and it cannot be scored on six of seven lines. That is published rather than hidden, on every line, because a model that quietly stopped weighing the thing it could not measure would be a more comfortable model and a less true one.

• 40What the games give backThe lobby, and what a punter gets back out of it. It carries more weight here than anything else and it is the criterion this market answers worst: one lobby on the whole slip has been counted.
• 16Getting the money outThe cash out speed the bookmaker publishes, its withdrawal floor, and whether it charges to send you your own money.
• 16What the offer is worth clearedThe welcome offer discounted by its own playthrough, or a checked zero where the book runs none and competes on accumulator bonuses instead.
• 16Licence and public recordRegistration with the Gaming Commission of Ghana, how many licences the record holds, and whether a public review score exists at all.
• 12Reaching a humanChat around the clock, a phone line, an email address that the operator itself publishes.

The model in full, beside the tool that applies it.

Corrections

Two things on this site were built to disagree with the brief that commissioned it, and both are stated on the pages rather than only here. The scale is not called an index of returns, because the fact base holds no returns. And one bookmaker's licence numbers sit on its record and are suppressed on every page of this site, because the same research file that supplied them lists them among the figures that could not be verified.