Bingo Data

How do you get your data?

Our tools visit each bingo site, every hour, every day, and record game information directly from each bingo lobby, including player numbers, ticket prices and jackpots. Everything we gather is just the same information that is publicly visible to players.For the majority of sites we can see the room name, number of players, prize, ticket price, jackpot and time to next game.When it is time to analyse the data, our system automatically flags potential linked rooms, which we then manually review to ensure that these games are only counted once in our totals.Pre-buy games are excluded from the statistics except for those starting within the next 20 minutes.

What is PPV?

When we analyse player numbers, we often present the data as a 'PPV' figure. This stands for 'Players Per Visit' and is basically the number of bingo players, averaged for that specific time period.For example, on 1st May 2020 we visited tombola once per hour for 24 hours. The lowest number of players we saw was at 5am (3,317 players) and the peak was at 9pm (20,277 players). PPV is simply the average of all these readings taken throughout that day (10,720 players).We have chosen this methodology because we do not track every single game, just those within 20 minutes of our hourly visits. In these circumstances, 'Players Per Visit' makes perfect sense.The only downside to our frequency of visitation is that our results will not include any games taking place outside of that 20 minute window.