Methodology 2026
How Best Casino Emirates treats Trust Index defaults, display order, and empty fields. No invented eight-pillar scores.
What we actually compute
This site does not run a live eight-factor Trust Index. Featured houses without an editor-set score receive a stable hash bucket in the 8.7–9.2 range, labelled provisional. The function lives in featured-trust and uses FNV-1a on the brand slug. The same slug always maps to the same default. /how-we-rate/ is the short note; this page is the longer method.
Editor-set scores
When PocketBase / Command Center stores a non-empty Trust Index, that admin value wins. We do not ship payout-speed, “fairness,” or bonus sub-scores in this release. Missing inputs stay missing.
Display order
Home and /casinos/ show a curated featured list. That is not a live ranking, not an affiliate-earnings table, and not a paid Trust Index. Commercial placement can put a house on the list; it cannot mint a licence number or a traffic claim.
Schema
Review and AggregateRating JSON-LD wait for a real authored, non-provisional review. Money hubs emit FAQPage and ItemList. We do not attach star ratings we did not store.
What we will not invent
No live player counters, sold scores, regulator licence numbers, legal-entity names, same-day claim badges, or payout clocks. We do not port match-betting halls or extra-regional state pages onto this GCC site.
Draft research
Play971 and TrueWin remain draft / research until a named editor finishes a review. They are not featured /go/ houses.
Related pages
- How we rate: The Trust Index buckets and what moves a house up or down.
- Editorial guidelines 2026: How Best Casino Emirates writes comparison notes. No fake metrics. No invented licences. English and Arabic stay in lockstep.
- About Best Casino Emirates: Who we are: an independent EN+AR information and affiliate portal. We do not operate games or invent a legal entity.
- Blacklist 2026: Lightweight v1: no named operator blacklist is published yet. Empty is better than a fake list.