This scorecard ranks crypto/gaming/sports/igaming news publishers that look cheap to acquire for SEO — not expired-domain dropcatching.

Inventory funnel: 143,871 domains discovered (Google News + Ahrefs refdomains) → 125,095 left after dropping enormous sites (Tranco top-~10k) and known products/brands (18,776 ignored) → this table’s pool is 11,957 publishers in Google News with no paywall (7,812 pass default ≥1k or NA traffic). WordPress and Independent Blog are default UI filters, not hard excludes.

Filter breakdown (each step excludes from the pool above it):

Filter	Excluded	Remaining
Discovered (Google News + Ahrefs refdomains)	—	143,871
Ignored — Tranco top-~10k / products / brands	−18,776	125,095
Non-news site kinds	−4,743	120,352
Paywall / paid subscription / ecommerce	−11,639	108,713
Not in Google News (inclusion probe not ✓)	−96,756	11,957
Scorecard pool (all rows in DATA)	—	11,957
Default UI filter: WordPress Yes	−7,205	4,752
Default UI filter: organic traffic ≥1k (NA kept)	−4,145	7,812
Default UI filter: Independent Blog only	−10,476	1,481

What was crawled: Verticals: crypto + gaming + sports + igaming + poker. Crypto topics include cryptocurrency, bitcoin, ethereum, crypto news, blockchain, defi, nft, web3, …. Gaming topics include video games, gaming news, esports, playstation, xbox, nintendo, pc gaming, game release, …. Sports topics include sports, sports news, football, soccer, scores, tennis, boxing, basketball, baseball, golf, …. iGaming (industry) topics include igaming, iGaming news, igaming industry, online gambling industry, gambling industry news, casino industry, online casino industry, poker industry, …. Poker topics include poker, poker news, poker tournament, poker industry, online poker, World Series of Poker, WSOP, World Poker Tour, …. locales crawled in this inventory: ar-AE, ar-EG, ar-SA, bg-BG, cs-CZ, da-DK, de-DE, el-GR, en-AU, en-CA, en-GB, en-IN, en-NG, en-SG, en-US, es-AR, es-ES, es-MX, et-EE, fi-FI, fr-CA, fr-FR, he-IL, hi-IN, hr-HR, hu-HU, id-ID, it-IT, ja-JP, ko-KR, lt-LT, lv-LV, ms-MY, nb-NO, nl-NL, pl-PL, pt-BR, pt-PT, ro-RO, ru-RU, sk-SK, sl-SI, sr-RS, sv-SE, th-TH, tr-TR, uk-UA, vi-VN, zh-CN, zh-HK, zh-TW. Inventory tags: crypto (365 pubs tagged), gaming (608 pubs tagged), general (42,057 pubs tagged), igaming (316 pubs tagged), poker (223 pubs tagged), sports (5,575 pubs tagged).

1. Discovery — Google News RSS query matrix (topics × locales below). Hit counts accumulate when a domain keeps showing up.
2. Excluded (hard) — Tranco top-~10k (enormous), known products/exchanges/mega brands, non-news properties, not in Google News (live inclusion probe not ✓), content paywalls, member sign-in / login gates, magazine/ecommerce paid subscriptions.
3. This view — Google News inclusion probe ✓ only (hits alone do not qualify; NA/No stay out). Defaults: WordPress Any, Independent Blog only, Ahrefs organic ≥1k (NA/unchecked traffic kept). Change filters to widen.
4. Buyability Score (0–6) — +1 each for: Independent Blog (plain About, no corp/gov/uni parent, no comprehensive media kit or agency Advertise link, no C-level staff on About/Contact, no Careers/Jobs, no paywall/ecommerce/tickets), free/consumer email, no socials, WordPress, footer donation asks, stock WP theme.
5. Valuation (USD) — non-general categories only (general-only / empty → NA). Sum of checked components: DR 30–39 +$50,000 · 40–49 +$100,000 · 50–59 +$150,000 · 60–69 +$250,000 · 70–79 +$400,000 (else/NA +$0); Health Poor −$50,000; non-English languages (present, no en) +$50,000. Unchecked / empty languages contribute $0, never invented.
6. Enrichment — G News = whether the domain appears in Google News indexed search (not the publisher Follow button); DR / Organic traffic / Health from Ahrefs (health = same-month organic traffic YoY, with a smoothed fallback).
7. NA — any cell where that field was not crawled yet, or the crawl/enrich failed (error/unreachable). Real negatives stay ✗ / none / 0 — they are not NA.