Should every book be dropped a full letter grade ?

[Doug]

The D books probably all will go out, so they are now the F's

The C's are a lot riskier, as people exit or migrate to the A's, so they are now D's.

B's are scarce as is, now C's ?

The A's may actually gain, so maybe they can stay A's ?

Anybody agree ?

[Yoshi]

would only cause confusion prolly

[pags11]

might be a good idea...

[tacomax]

would only cause confusion prolly

Indeed.

And since the grades reflect the "% best of the industry" which a sportsbook is, lowering the industry as a whole should have no effect on the grades.

[jjgold]

wsex
cris
greek
jamaica
carib

still A's

[bigboydan]

Why change it.

Just because some books don't accept U.S. players anymore. That doesn't mean that a books grade should suffer over it complying with the governments requests. Maybe a separate rating system of some kind for U.S. player might not be a bad idea.

[Doug]

Books that exist mainly to serve the US market are not the same anymore.

Places like Skybook and Justbet come to mind... good books that are going to lose tons of volume from US, as it is, then if Neteller goes.... how do they even stay open ?

[SBR_John]

Thats a good post/thought.

We had already been working on finding out which books had a high exposure to Neteller closing and adjusting some ratings.

Pinny pulling out is hardly a negative event for the other books. It will make them stronger.

Lots of changing dynamics.

[Doug]

I feel best about:

Greek/Jam
CRIS/DSI
WSEX/Matchbook

5D just a cut below
I still use Mansion, think they may quit, but will pay.

after that it gets tough.

I have lowered confidence in places like SIA,Wagerweb,Sportsbook.com,Skybook, etc., but will use them if I can fund them., and withdraw.

Forget the places like Royal,SBG,Mania,Nine, and the tiny places like Beted,Ussportsbook,Allstar,Empire,etc.