Editorial Policy

Every review on SportsbookBetting.net is written from a funded account at the book. No sportsbook writes, edits or pays for a review, and no book has ever bought a better grade. This page explains how the grades work, what the affiliate money does and does not touch, how often we go back over a review, and how to tell us when we got something wrong.

Nine Categories, One Grade

Each book gets a letter grade in nine categories, from A+ down to C-. A book that would grade below C- in the categories that matter does not get a listing, so C- is the floor on the site.

• History: how long the book has operated, under what ownership, and whether it has ever stopped paying or vanished and relaunched under a new name. Everygame has taken bets since 1983 and BetOnline since 2004. That record counts for something, and a book that opened last year cannot earn an A here no matter how good its software is.
• Disputes: what happens when a player and the book disagree. We look at the player complaints we can find, how the book responds to them, and whether it settles with the player when the book was wrong. A book that voids a winning bet on a technicality it invented after the fact fails this category.
• Payouts: how long a withdrawal takes and whether the book finds reasons not to send it. Crypto at Bovada and SportsBetting.ag usually lands within a day. Checks and cards can take longer at every book. MyBookie is slower than the two leaders and its grade reflects that.
• Winners: how a book treats a player who wins. Some books cut a winning account’s limits within weeks and some leave them alone for years. Bovada limits winning players and we say so in its review. This is the category most review sites skip, and for a sharp bettor it matters more than any bonus.
• Welcome Bonus: the size of the first-deposit offer measured against its rollover and its fine print. A 50% bonus at 5x rollover is worth more than a 100% bonus at 10x, and a bonus you cannot clear is worth nothing. BetOnline and MyBookie both run 10x on the sports bonus, and that costs them here.
• Ongoing Promos: what the book does for you after the first deposit. Reload bonuses, reduced juice, parlay boosts, crypto reload offers. SportsBetting.ag’s standing -105 on NFL and NBA sides is the kind of thing that scores well because it pays off on every bet, not once.
• Support: whether a real person answers, how fast, and whether the answer is right. We judge this on our own tickets about our own accounts.
• Terms: whether the rules are written where you can find them, whether they match what the book actually does, and whether they contain traps like a max bet during rollover that voids your bonus if you cross it.
• Security: how the book handles your money and your data. Two-factor login, how it verifies identity before a withdrawal, and whether it has had a breach.

The overall grade comes from those nine. It is not a straight average. A weak Payouts, Disputes or Winners grade pulls the overall grade down harder than a weak bonus does, because a bonus is a one-time thing and getting paid is forever. That is why Bovada carries an A overall even though it limits winners, and why a book with a generous bonus and slow payouts sits at B+.

What the Affiliate Money Does and Does Not Affect

When you click through to a book, register and deposit, the book pays us a commission. That is the only way this site makes money. Here is where that money reaches and where it stops.

It affects which books we bother to review. We cover books we can be paid by, because reviewing a book we cannot earn from is work with no return. The commission is set in a contract that has nothing to do with the review, and the review is written from the account, not the contract.

It does not affect the grade, the order of the list, the pros and cons, or the final verdict. BetOnline and SportsBetting.ag are sister books with the same owner and the same commission terms, and they carry different grades because they perform differently. Bovada is the editor’s pick because of its live betting and its payout speed, and its review still says it limits winners and is blocked in more than a dozen states.

It does not keep a book on the site. A book that stops paying players, voids winning bets after the fact or goes silent on support comes off the list, commission or not.

No book has ever been offered a better grade for a better rate, and none will be. If one asks, the answer is no, and if it keeps asking, that goes in the Disputes section of its review.

How Often We Go Back

A review is not finished when it is published. Books change their bonus, their rollover, their payout methods and their limits policy without announcing it, and a review that still quotes last year’s numbers is wrong.

We keep our accounts open and keep using them, so payout times and support quality are checked by the ordinary act of betting and withdrawing. We go back over the bonus and terms sections of every review when the book changes its offer, and we re-read every review in full at least once a year. A review also gets reopened when a reader reports a problem we had not seen, when a book changes ownership, or when a payout we are waiting on takes longer than the review says it should.

When a grade changes, the review says what changed and why. We do not quietly move a book from A- to B+ and hope nobody notices.

How to Report an Error

If something on this site is wrong, email editorial@sportsbookbetting.net. Tell us the page, what it says, and what you saw instead. A screenshot of the book’s current terms or your withdrawal timeline helps, because it lets us check your report against our own account rather than taking either side’s word for it.

We answer within 2 business days. If you are right, the page is fixed and a correction note goes at the bottom of it with the date. If a grade needs to move because of what you told us, it moves. We do not remove or rewrite old reviews to hide a mistake; the correction note stays.

One thing to know before you write: we cannot get your money out of a book. We do not have access to your account and the book does not answer to us. Open a ticket with the book first and keep the number. Then tell us what happened, because a pattern of stuck withdrawals is exactly what moves a Payouts grade.