The price ladder and the method behind it
The board applies the whole model. This page strips it back to the one column the publication is named for and sorts on that alone, so the two orderings can be compared directly. Underneath, each margin is set out with the sample it came from and the words the source record uses about it.
| Price | Bookmaker | Back on a cedi staked | Margin measured on | Board | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BetFox read 9 Aug 2026 | 96.0% 4.21% margin | Indicative8 prices | 6.0 | Read |
| 2 | betPawa read 9 Aug 2026 | 95.2% 5.08% margin | Comparable860 prices | 7.2 | Read |
| 3 | Soccabet read 9 Aug 2026 | 95.1% 5.12% margin | Indicative10 prices | 7.1 | Read |
| 4 | 22Bet read 7 Sept 2023 | 94.9% 5.34% margin | Weak10 prices | 6.2 | Read |
| 5 | SportyBet read 9 Aug 2026 | 94.2% 6.12% margin | Comparable491 prices | 6.1 | Read |
| 6 | Betwinner read 9 Aug 2026 | 93.7% 6.70% margin | Comparable36 prices | 5.9 | Read |
| 7 | 1xBet read 9 Aug 2026 | 93.7% 6.71% margin | Comparable50 prices | 5.9 | Read |
| 8 | Betway read 9 Aug 2026 | 91.8% 8.98% margin | Weak2 prices | 5.6 | Read |
The rightmost column is the board score out of ten and is deliberately out of order here. The book at the top of this ladder sits 6.0 on the model and 5 on the board.
Three grades, computed from the sample rather than assigned by anybody. The rule is short enough to argue with:
Source is tested before sample size, because a figure that did not come from the bookmaker is not rescued by a large sample. That is why the archived capture is graded down even though it holds ten prices, while 1xBet keeps its grade on thirty-six.
Each card sets out the sample, where it came from, how much of the football calendar it covers and the date it was read. Those four fields are what the grade is computed from, so a reader can check the grade against them rather than taking it on trust.
Indicative
Eight mainstream three-way markets read off the live Ghanaian site in a browser, spanning a European final, Dutch, Scottish and Portuguese league football. Median 4.23 and range 3.45 to 4.96, so the eight agree with each other closely. Eight is still eight.
Transcribed from the provenance block on BetFox's record in the shared Ghana fact base, which is where the sample, the source and the reading date are recorded.
Comparable
Every football event on the book carrying a full-time three-way market, crawled across all 235 of its event group pages. Quartiles 4.93, 5.08 and 7.03, so the spread inside the book is wider than the spread between most books on this page.
Transcribed from the provenance block on betPawa's record in the shared Ghana fact base, which is where the sample, the source and the reading date are recorded.
Indicative
All ten England top-flight matches on the book’s own coupon for one weekend. Top-flight football is the sharpest thing any book prices, so this figure flatters Soccabet against the books measured across every division, and its all-football margin is unmeasured.
Transcribed from the provenance block on Soccabet's record in the shared Ghana fact base, which is where the sample, the source and the reading date are recorded.
Weak
The book’s own Ghana pre-match feed, but from an archived capture three years old, taken because the live site is unreachable from where this was read. All ten prices sat in a narrow band. Margins move, and three years is a long time for them to move in.
Transcribed from the provenance block on 22Bet's record in the shared Ghana fact base, which is where the sample, the source and the reading date are recorded.
Comparable
Every football match carrying a three-way market on the book’s own Ghana pricing feed. The feed also publishes its own probability field for each outcome, summing to exactly one against an implied-odds sum above it, which is how the applied margin was confirmed as real rather than a parsing artefact.
Transcribed from the provenance block on SportyBet's record in the shared Ghana fact base, which is where the sample, the source and the reading date are recorded.
Comparable
Real football fixtures on the book’s own feed, after excluding fourteen aggregate specials whose draw prices were implausible. The median rather than the minimum, because this book runs one very sharp league that almost nobody in Ghana bets.
Transcribed from the provenance block on Betwinner's record in the shared Ghana fact base, which is where the sample, the source and the reading date are recorded.
Comparable
The fifty most-popular football events of the day on the book’s own line feed, taken across every division it prices. Its top five European leagues alone are far sharper on their own, which is a fact about the competition and not about the book.
Transcribed from the provenance block on 1xBet's record in the shared Ghana fact base, which is where the sample, the source and the reading date are recorded.
Weak
Two Spanish top-flight fixtures on one weekend, from a third-party aggregator, because the book’s own site served no prices at all. Two prices is not a margin, it is an anecdote about a margin, and this figure must never be read as what the book charges across its book.
Transcribed from the provenance block on Betway's record in the shared Ghana fact base, which is where the sample, the source and the reading date are recorded.
100 points, six criteria, and every book on the board answered all six. A criterion no record can answer is not scored and is not filled in with a plausible default, which is the mistake that once had every bookmaker in this market carrying an invented withdrawal time.
| Criterion | Points | What it reads |
|---|---|---|
| Reaching a person | 22 | A published phone line, an email address, and whether round-the-clock chat is claimed first-party rather than by somebody selling the brand. |
| Licence and standing | 22 | Registration with the Gaming Commission of Ghana, how many licences the book holds, and how long the register has carried it. |
| The price | 20 | The margin built into the book’s own published three-way football prices. No margin on file means no place on the board. |
| Getting paid | 18 | The withdrawal speed the bookmaker itself publishes. Nobody at this desk has held a stopwatch to one. |
| What you can bet on | 10 | How many sports the book actually carries in Ghana, counted from its own navigation or its own feed. |
| The sign-up offer | 8 | What the welcome offer is worth once the turnover requirement is cleared. The smallest weight in the model, deliberately. |
No account on this site belongs to this desk. Nothing has been deposited, no slip has been placed and no withdrawal has been timed with a stopwatch. Every price is one the bookmaker published, every withdrawal figure is the one the bookmaker states about itself, and the reading date sits beside each one.
Because these eight were not measured the same way. One is the median across 860 of a book's own football events; another is the mean of two fixtures from a third party, taken because the book's own site published no prices at all. Both are honest figures and only four of the eight can be set side by side without a caveat.
A three-way market whose implied chances add up to more than one is overpriced by that excess, and the excess is the margin. Divide one hundred by one plus the margin and you have what comes back on a cedi of turnover to somebody betting in line with those same prices.
Because a price you cannot reach is not a price. Reaching a person, holding a licence with the regulator and being paid carry 62 points between them. The ladder on this page is the price on its own; the board applies the whole model.
All but one were read on 9 August 2026. The exception is the archived capture, taken from 2023 because that book's live site cannot be reached, and it is graded down for exactly that reason.