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FoxyPulse standards

How We Test

This page explains, plainly, what we check and what we do not. Earlier versions of FoxyPulse showed scores, “audits” and margin figures that were not backed by measurements; those have been removed.

Sportsbook overviews

What we check:

  • the licence and operating company the operator displays on its own site;
  • which countries the operator says it does not accept;
  • the esports titles and market types listed on the site;
  • deposit and withdrawal methods and the published terms of any welcome offer;
  • responsible gambling tools (deposit limits, time-outs, self-exclusion).

What we do not do: we do not assign scores or star ratings, we have not measured bookmaker margins across a sample of matches, and we do not claim payout speeds we have not observed. Terms change, so always read the operator’s current terms yourself.

Tournament and season hubs

Formats, stages and qualification rules are taken from official rulebooks and organiser announcements, cross-checked against community results databases. Each hub shows the date it was last reviewed. We do not publish win probabilities or “telemetry”.

Calculators

  • Bookmaker margin: for decimal odds o1…on covering every outcome, margin = (1/o1 + … + 1/on) − 1. Example: odds of 1.90 and 1.90 give 1/1.90 + 1/1.90 − 1 ≈ 5.3%.
  • Parlay: combined decimal odds are the product of the leg odds; the margin compounds with every leg.
  • Kelly criterion: stake fraction f = (b·p − q) / b, where b is decimal odds minus 1, p your estimated win probability and q = 1 − p. A negative result means no bet. Many bettors use a fraction of Kelly because p is only an estimate.
  • Map handicap simulator: treats each map as an independent event with the per-map probability you enter and adds up the outcomes of a best-of-three series. It is a model, not a prediction.

Calculators run in your browser, use only the numbers you enter and do not know any real match.

Questions

See our editorial policy or contact us. 18+ only — responsible gambling.

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