Accurate Top Sportbooks Rankings and Stats! Neat

**JoshW** · 01-08-06, 11:25 PM

Were are you getting popularity data from? Alexa and other don't usually reflect sites popularity too well, especially in a niche industry, but still always interesting to look. Sportbook.com looked way too low, but then I noticed it WASN'T SportSBook.com which I was thinking of.

**datek23** · 01-08-06, 11:31 PM

Alexa is what I used. How ever thats the only thing out there to give a good educated guess, regardless it was kinda fun finding out this info. If you know any other ranking system let me know since I cannot find nothing except Alexa.

**bigboydan** · 01-08-06, 11:32 PM

theres were/are alot of search engines, that had shit books at the top of the search page. so, you really can't base rankings on that at all. I'll put my money on players personal experiences with books, instead of search engine rankings anyday.

JC · 01-08-06, 11:36 PM

Alexa numbers are worthless.

Hitwise is the only service worthwhile. Shrink recently posted some hotwise graphs.

**Brick Tamland** · 01-08-06, 11:39 PM

biggest company in world has D+... proves old saying that bigger isnt always mean they wont stick u in the pooper

**datek23** · 01-08-06, 11:57 PM

I just tried to use Hitwise, where are the rankings? I went further into it when I start seeing Iwon and Excite in some top ten list, where as I go to Alexa and see Amazon, Yahoo, Ebay, Google, and etc. It seems Alexa Rankings are better, I am sorry when I see okay average websites like Excite and IWON makes you wonder about Hitwise so I just quickly left.

JC · 01-09-06, 12:05 AM

Hitwise is a pay service.

Alexa numbers are silly. Go look at wsex vs matchbook. There is no way matchbook is that close to wsex, yet it is on Alexa.

**SBR_John** · 01-09-06, 12:10 AM

http://www.metricsmarket.com

Is a slightly better(I think) source than Alexa but nothing compares to Hitwise...and at $5,000, it better be good.

Something is amiss with BetOnSports's numbers. Probably a DNS change or some kind of anti DDOS or who knows.

**bigboydan** · 01-09-06, 12:17 AM

theres a lot a ways you can manipulate search engines john. you just have to know the tricks of the trade is all.

**datek23** · 01-09-06, 12:25 AM

I justed used http://www.metricsmarket.com, Matchbook and Wsex have almost the same visitiors there. I looked at my prior random top 3 rankings Pinnacle, Bodog, sportinteraction all very close as I written eariler. To test sportbook.com show very low bad numbers as I had put up. I checked Alexa and Metric they have almost the same numbers. So two different website rankings have exactly the same results. Alexa by Popular rank and Metric by views last 30 days. Both show same numbers but by different ways. I sure if we do Hitwise the numbers will be the same.

JC · 01-09-06, 12:30 AM

Originally posted by datek23

I justed used http://www.metricsmarket.com, Matchbook and Wsex have almost the same visitiors there.

That's my point. Matchbook should be a pittance of WSEX, but they have them close.

**datek23** · 01-09-06, 12:37 AM

I hear you, I wish there was a better way to find out these good information and rankings on all these companies, sucks that they have nothing good right now except medicore rankings .

**SBR_John** · 01-09-06, 12:49 AM

OK, lets figure out which books we want and I will beg Shrink to run us a report from Hitwise.

For sure we want:
BoDog
SportsInteraction
Sportsbook.com
WSEX
BetOnSports
Pinnacle Sports

We need to limit it but what others?

**datek23** · 01-09-06, 12:56 AM

Seems like you got the major players,

try

Dimeplayer.com is a good one

sportbook.com is a aweful one

Anyone else got some ideas?

**Illusion** · 01-09-06, 01:58 AM

John, add vip to that list.

**JoshW** · 01-09-06, 07:55 AM

I would be intersted in Hollywood and Bowmans too.