Where the numbers come from
RakeRadar runs on a database that tracks casino game catalogues, reported return-to-player values, and on-chain wallet activity. It updates continuously. Nothing on this site is typed in by hand from an operator fact sheet, and nothing is adjusted because of a commercial relationship.
Two sources feed the tables you see:
Game catalogue data gives us reported RTP per game per casino. This is the figure the game itself declares. It is the industry reference point and we present it as exactly that.
Public blockchain data gives us wallet balances for operators that settle in crypto. This is genuinely independent, because it does not require the operator to tell us anything.
What we deliberately do not publish
We also track a large volume of public bet records. We do not use them to calculate returns, and the reason is worth stating plainly because other sites do.
Public bet feeds are weighted toward wins. Casinos surface notable results, and collectors capture what is surfaced. Run the arithmetic across our own feed data and the implied return comes out above 100%, which would mean the house pays out more than it takes in. That is not a rounding problem, it is a biased sample, and no amount of processing makes it into a payout figure.
So when you see a site advertising the “real RTP” of a casino based on live bet data, you are looking at a number that cannot be correct. We would rather publish fewer figures than publish that one.
We also do not publish coverage ratios that divide reserves by an estimated daily payout, for the same reason: the payout side of that fraction comes from the same biased feed.
How money affects the rankings
RakeRadar earns commission when readers open accounts through some links, and those links are marked. That arrangement does not touch the ordering of any table on this site, because the ordering is produced by a query rather than by an editor.
What commercial relationships cannot do here: change a reported RTP, change a wallet balance, or move a casino up a list. What they can do is determine whether a given operator has a link at all. That distinction is the honest version, and it is the one we work to.