Bookmaker Ratings is an online publication covering topics related to

sports betting Sports betting is the activity of predicting sports results and placing a wager on the outcome. Sports bettors place their wagers either legally, through a sportsbook or bookmaker (colloquially known as "bookies"), or illegally through priva ...

and disputes between players and

bookmaker A bookmaker, bookie, or turf accountant is an organization or a person that accepts and pays out bets on sporting and other events at agreed-upon odds In probability theory, odds provide a measure of the probability of a particular outco ...

s. It is published in seven languages: English, Armenian, Bulgarian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish and Ukrainian.

History and activity

The Bookmaker Ratings was founded by Paruyr Shahbazyan in 2012. Later that year, the site made headlines after being informed of a possible match-fixing incident in the

Russian National Football League The Russian First League (, Pervaya liga), formerly called Russian First Division () and Russian Football National League (FNL) () is the second level of the Russian football league system. The Russian Professional Football League (PFL) used t ...

between

FC Khimki FC Khimki () was a Russian professional football club based in Khimki. History The team was formed in 1996 by merging two amateur clubs from Khimki, Rodina, and Novator. Khimki entered the amateur league and played their first official match on ...

and Petrotrest St. Petersburg, and UEFA asked them to investigate. 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 Anna Djambuliovna Chakvetadze ( ; born 5 March 1987) is a Russian former professional tennis player. In her career, Chakvetadze won eight WTA Tour singles titles. She reached her highest singles ranking of world No. 5 in September 2007, after r ...

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manager of the Russian national team

Valeri Karpin Valery Georgiyevich Karpin (; born 2 February 1969) is a Russian football manager and former player who manages the Russian national team and Russian Premier League club Dynamo Moscow. As a player, he was a midfielder and spent most of his car ...

, and Russian football coach and a former player

Yegor Titov Yegor Ilyich Titov (; born 29 May 1976) is a Russian Association football, football coach and former player who played as an Midfielder#Attacking midfielder, attacking midfielder. He was known for his Playmaker, playmaking abilities, vision, ba ...

. Other experts in the past have included football World Cup winner

Fabio Cannavaro Fabio Cannavaro (; born 13 September 1973) is an Italian professional association football, football coach and former player who last was the head coach of Croatian club GNK Dinamo Zagreb, Dinamo Zagreb. He is regarded as one of the greatest De ...

and former heavyweight boxing champion

Nikolai Valuev Nikolai Sergeyevich Valuev ( rus, Никола́й Серге́евич Валу́ев, p=vɐˈlujɪf; born 21 August 1973) is a Russian politician and former professional boxer. He competed in boxing from 1993 to 2009, and held the World Boxing ...

. 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. The site uses an independent rating system 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.

RB Prize

In 2018, the Bookmaker Rating introduced the RB Prize, an international award in the field of sports and bookmaking. The awards are presented in 28 categories. In 2021, the main nominations in the award were announced by football player Luis Figo, Fonbet became the bookmaker of the year, Artem Dziuba became the sportsman of the year. 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.

Award

In 2018, the Bookmaker Ratings established its own international Award in sports and betting. The awards are given in 28 nominations. In 2021, football player Luis Figo announced the main nominations for the award. Fonbet became the bookmaker of the year and

Artem Dzyuba Artem (or Artyom) Sergeyevich Dzyuba (, ; born 22 August 1988) is a Russian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Russian Premier League club Akron Tolyatti and the Russia national team. He began his career with Spartak Moscow, ...

became the sportsman of the year.

Honours

* Betting Awards 2015 - Winner, "Best internet portal about sports betting" * Betting Awards 2016 - Winner, "Best internet portal about sports betting" * iGB Affiliate Awards 2017 - Shortlisted, "Best Site in a Foreign Language" *

Runet Prize Runet Prize () is a national award of the Russian Federation. Its founder is the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Media, the Russian governmental agency in charge of overseeing the country's mass media. First awarded in 2004, the prize honor ...

2018 - Winner, "Media and entertainment"

References

External links

Official website
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