The Bookmaker Ratings
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| Type | Daily sports newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Analytical website |
| Owner(s) | Paruyr Shahbazyan |
| Editor-in-chief | Bradley Gibbs |
| Founded | 1 March 2012 |
| Language | English, Armenian, Bulgarian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Ukrainian, |
| Website | bookmaker-ratings |
Bookmaker Ratings is an online publication covering topics related to sports betting and disputes between players and bookmakers. It is published in seven languages: English, Armenian, Bulgarian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish and Ukrainian.
History and activity
[edit]The Bookmaker Ratings was founded by Paruyr Shahbazyan in 2012.[1] Later that year, the site made headlines after being informed of a possible match-fixing incident in the Russian National Football League between FC Khimki and Petrotrest St. Petersburg, and UEFA asked them to investigate.[2]
The website publishes betting tips for various sports written by the site's authors who range from journalists to ex-players. These authors include commentator Konstantin Genich, former world number 5 tennis player Anna Chakvetadze, football manager of the Russian national team Valeri Karpin, and Russian football coach and a former player Yegor Titov. Other experts in the past have included football World Cup winner Fabio Cannavaro and former heavyweight boxing champion Nikolai Valuev.[3] According to a 2015 interview of Shahbazyan for Forbes, Bookmaker Ratings averaged 1.2 million hits a month, 350,000 of which were unique visitors.[4] The site uses an independent rating system[5] where bookmakers are ranked from 1 to 5 on several criteria.
The site was able to refund more than 1.4m US dollars to players in their first four years of existence.[6]
RB Prize
[edit]In 2018, the Bookmaker Rating introduced the RB Prize, an international award in the field of sports and bookmaking.[7] The awards are presented in 28 categories.
In 2021, the main nominations in the award were announced by football player Luis Figo,[8] Fonbet became the bookmaker of the year, Artem Dziuba became the sportsman of the year.[9]
In 2022, the RB Prize was held at the Irina Viner-Usmanova Gymnastics Palace, Fonbet became the bookmaker of the year for the second year in a row, Dina Averin's athlete of the year, Emmanuel Adebayor announced the main nominations.[10]
Award
[edit]In 2018, the Bookmaker Ratings established its own international Award in sports and betting. The awards are given in 28 nominations.[11] In 2021, football player Luis Figo announced the main nominations for the award. Fonbet became the bookmaker of the year and Artem Dzyuba became the sportsman of the year.[12]
Honours
[edit]- Betting Awards 2015 - Winner, "Best internet portal about sports betting"[13]
- Betting Awards 2016 - Winner, "Best internet portal about sports betting"[14]
- iGB Affiliate Awards 2017 - Shortlisted, "Best Site in a Foreign Language"[15]
- Runet Prize 2018 - Winner, "Media and entertainment"[16]
References
[edit]- ^ "Paruyr Shahbazyan in Forbes".
- ^ "The bookmaker's office recognized the match "Petrotrest" - "Khimki" as negotiable".
- ^ "MegaObzor about BR".
- ^ "Forbes: How to make money on the betting business".
- ^ "Interview with Paruyr Shahbazyan".
- ^ "How bookmaker players achieve payouts in Russia and abroad". 2018-09-07. Archived from the original on 7 September 2018. Retrieved 2022-02-13.
- ^ "Слуцкая и Цзю проголосуют за номинантов Международной премии РБ". РБК Спорт (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2021-02-24. Retrieved 2021-02-27.
- ^ "Фигу назвал международную премию «РБ» в области спорта и букмекерства уникальным проектом". sport-express.ru (in Russian). 2021-04-23. Archived from the original on 2021-05-18. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
- ^ "Премия "РБ-2021": как прошло самое масштабное мероприятие в спортивно-букмекерской отрасли". Life.ru (in Russian). 2021-04-15. Archived from the original on 2021-04-17. Retrieved 2021-04-17.
- ^ "Премия РБ 2022: как прошло самое громкое событие в спортивно-букмекерской отрасли". Ведомости (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2022-07-02. Retrieved 2022-07-03.
- ^ "The expert jury will select the winners in the nominations "Athlete of the Year" and "Best Sports Media"".
- ^ "BR-award: how the largest event in the sports and betting industry was going".
- ^ "Betting Awards 2015 winners".
- ^ "Betting Awards 2016 winners".
- ^ "Shortlist of iGB Affiliate Awards 2017" (PDF).
- ^ "Runet Prize 2018 winners". Archived from the original on 28 August 2020.