Position in the ledger is not an opinion. It comes from four numbers recorded at every operator, in the same order, on an account this desk funded itself.

• Redeemable credit. The portion of the welcome that can ever convert. Gold Coin totals are recorded for context and scored at zero.
• Redemption floor. The minimum balance the operator will process. The distance between credit and floor is the real cost of the welcome.
• Free clearance time. How many days of free routes it took to close that distance, measured rather than estimated from a promotions page.
• Payout time. Hours from filing to funds received, filed at the floor rather than at a comfortable balance.

How the four combine

Redeemable credit against the floor sets the initial order, because that decides whether a new player has a withdrawal available or a project to complete. Ties break on payout time. Free clearance time then adjusts an operator up or down where the daily routes are unusually generous or unusually thin. Nothing else moves a position: not game count, not interface quality, and not commercial terms.

The review score is a different instrument

The out-of-five score on each review covers the whole experience, including game selection, interface, support responsiveness and how honestly the promotions are worded. An operator can be a pleasure to use and still sit low in the ledger because its cashier is slow. Keeping the two apart is deliberate, and where they disagree the review says so.

Conflicts, plainly stated

Some links on this site are commercial. That relationship never changes a figure, because figures are recorded before any link exists. Where an operator paid slowly, the review says so with the number attached. Nothing in the ledger is sold, and the whole thing is re-tested each sweep with the month printed at the top.