What is Volatility Band?

A volatility band is the word a site puts on a game's variance — low, medium or high. It is a translation, not a measurement, and what it is translated from differs by studio. NetEnt publishes a 0-10 score: Blood Suckers scores 2.7, Dead or Alive 9.9. Nolimit City publishes a number too, but on an undocumented scale where a title can score in the sixties. Pragmatic Play publishes no volatility figure at all, so any band you see for its games came from a catalogue site rather than the studio. Play'n GO does publish one, as a score out of ten and a word in its own catalogue data. The practical consequence is that two games labelled high on the same page may be labelled from completely different evidence. Where the underlying score exists, it is worth more than the word — a game at 7.7 on a 0-10 scale sits at the very edge of high, and only the number tells you that.