37 PLATFORMS TRACKED · HOLD COMPUTED FROM OPERATOR PAYOUT TABLES DATA REFRESHED
DFS Collective 37 PLATFORMS · HOLD-VERIFIED
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How we rank

"extracting short term value from predatory betting companies in a way that is unique in the space that doesn't exist yet."

The ranking rule behind every list on this site, stated in full — and how to reproduce the order from the public data.

refreshed 2026-11-04 02:20 UTCfree-first ranking

Who gets ranked

A platform enters the ranking only when three things are recorded for it: a verified live offer, the offer text itself, and a working signup link. A platform whose offer cannot be verified keeps its page and its record, but it is not ranked. A closed platform is not ranked.

The order

  1. No-deposit offers first. Offers with recorded free value — value that needs no deposit — rank first, highest free value first. A tie breaks on estimated cash value.
  2. Then estimated cash value. Every other offer ranks by the midpoint of its recorded expected-value range, highest first. An offer with no recorded range ranks below every offer that has one. Any remaining tie breaks alphabetically by platform name.
  3. Flags are labels only. An offer ending within 7 days is flagged as ending soon. The flag never changes the order.

The numbers on each row

Expected value (EV): a recorded range for the offer, estimated from its stated terms — minimum deposit, playthrough, and expiry. It is an estimate, not a guarantee.

House hold: computed from the platform's own documented payout table — the payout divided by the fair payout (what the entry would pay if every leg were a 50% proposition), subtracted from 100%. Where no payout table is documented, the row is labeled HOLD UNRATED. Hold is printed as information; it is not an input to the ranking.

Free value: the no-deposit component of the offer, in dollars, as recorded.

Verified date: the date the offer's terms were last checked against the platform's own published terms.

What we earn

On 14 of the 37 platforms in the ranked feed, the signup link is this site's referral link, and the site earns a bonus when a reader signs up through it.

What a signup pays is printed on the platform's own page, under "What we earn if you sign up", and in the dataset (the earnings field). Where no per-signup figure is published, the page prints that instead — no figure is estimated.

Earnings never enter the ranking. The sort keys above are the whole rule: no platform can pay to move up, and a platform that pays the site nothing ranks by the same keys.

Check it yourself

The dataset at /api/promos.json is published in ranked order — the same order as the homepage feed and the best-of pages. Each row carries the ranking inputs (free_value_usd, ev_low, ev_high), the hold rating (hold), the verification date (verified_date), and the earnings disclosure (earnings). Same data, same order. The dataset is described at /api/openapi.json.

When an offer or its terms change, the change is logged in public: terms changes. Every platform page prints both dates that matter — Page updated and Offer verified.

This page describes the ranking as the build actually runs it. If the rule changes, this page changes in the same build.