Ethan Caldwell

iGaming Analyst · Toronto, Ontario

B.Sc. Statistics, University of Arizona
English, French (working)

I rip apart slot math sheets, track sneaky RTP changes, and manually chart real gameplay data to see how a game actually behaves.

I studied statistics at the University of Arizona and now write from Toronto. Before shifting to slots, I spent four years on a credit card fraud-detection team, separating real transaction patterns from noise in payment data. I moved to full-time slot analysis in 2022, right after a brutal Big Bass session behaved absolutely nothing like its published math sheet. I cover Pragmatic Play and Play'n GO titles for mintyslots, with a focus on flexible RTP ranges, how official volatility feels over a few hundred real test spins, and why the exact same game can feel completely different depending on the platform. I keep a personal spreadsheet of every stealth RTP variant I run into. It is longer than I would like.