Index last measured 24 July 2026. Cheapest book this week: Playabets at 6.00 percent. Edges takes no bets and never holds your money. Over 18s only.

EDGES

The receipts

Every week, kept exactly as measured

Published tables are never edited. Corrections appear beside the original, dated and explained. That is what makes a claim about bookmaker pricing checkable instead of merely confident.

Published editions

The record so far

Weekly editions

1 published NOTHING REMOVED · NOTHING REWRITTEN
Edition 001 · 4 books · 204 markets · 34 shared fixtures
Week of 24 July 2026
Playabets cheapest at 6.00% R3 186 spread

An archive of one is not yet an archive

This is the first published edition, so this page is honestly thin. The value of a record is entirely in its length. Every Thursday adds a row and no row is ever removed, so what looks sparse today is the thing that makes every future claim on this site checkable.

Edition 001

What this week established

Baseline

The field runs 4.41 points wide

From 6.00% at Playabets to 10.41% at Supabets. Every future week is measured against this starting point.

Method proven

102 outcomes compared like-for-like

Only fixtures that two or more books actually priced, at the same market type. That constraint is what makes the comparison mean something.

Claim tested

A published figure did not hold up

South African commentary widely puts Hollywoodbets around 4.5% on football. Our measurement across 107 markets put it materially higher. One week is not proof, but it is now on record.

Once there is history

What the archive will track

Needs weeks, not code

Margin over time

A line per bookmaker showing who sharpened up and who drifted. The single most useful output an archive can produce, and the one thing no amount of engineering can rush.

Needs weeks, not code

Best-price league table

Which book wins the most outcomes across a season, rather than in one week where the luck of the fixture list decides it.

Needs weeks, not code

Corrections log

Every correction we ever publish, in one permanent place. If we get something wrong, that record existing is the entire point.

Straight answers

About the archive

Why keep an archive at all?
Because a single week is a measurement, not a verdict. Bookmaker pricing policy only becomes visible over time, and a claim about a book being cheap or expensive is worth nothing unless someone can check what you said last month. The archive is what turns our numbers from an assertion into a record.
Do you ever edit a published table?
Never. If a figure turns out to be wrong, the correction is published beside the original with the date and the reason, and both stay up permanently. Quietly changing a number after publication is the single fastest way for a measurement desk to become worthless.
Can I get the underlying data?
Yes. Each edition is generated from a stored snapshot containing every price we read that week. If you are a journalist, researcher or a bookmaker who wants to check our arithmetic, email [email protected] and we will share the file.
How far back does this go?
The first published edition is 24 July 2026. The archive grows by one entry every Thursday and nothing is ever removed, so its usefulness compounds from here.

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