How To Use the Soccer Tool Suite: A Complete Guide

This guide covers the Soccer Tool Suite, for anyone betting soccer player props or match lines across the major leagues and European competitions.

What is the Soccer Tool Suite?#

The Soccer Tool Suite covers the top European leagues, MLS and the European club competitions:

Filter the League column to focus on one competition. Fixtures closer to kickoff refresh more often.

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Value Finder#

The Value Finder lists every soccer player prop we track, with each book's price side by side, our fair value, the EV % at the best price and a recommended stake (Recc. U). Sort by Recc. U to see the strongest bets first, and filter any column from its header.

The essentials, explained in full in How to Use the Value Finders:

• Best Odds / Best Book — the best price on the board, with a one-tap betslip link where the book supports it.
• Fair Odds — our fair value (see FV Mode below).
• EV % — how much better the best price is than fair value.
• Recc. U — the recommended stake in units. Set your Unit $ to see dollars.
• Book columns — every book's price. Hover a price for its sparkline (how it has moved).
• 📈 Movement and 💧 Liquidity — line movement and how much you can bet at the exchanges. See Line Movement and Liquidity.
• Preset filters narrow the board to common views (e.g. high confidence). Hover one to see its exact criteria.

The shared toolkit (⚡ Boost, 💾 Save / 📂 Load, 🎚️ My Weights, 📚 Customize Books, 🚫 Exclude Books, ✅ Must Include and Parlay HQ) works the same on every board; the NFL guide walks through each one.

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Main Lines Tab (Game Lines)#

The 🎯 Main Lines tab is the Main Lines Value Finder, for game lines: 1X2, handicap and total for every match, plus every alternate handicap and total. It works exactly like the Player Prop Value Finder (same columns, toolbar, filters, book columns, boosts, Recc. U, sparklines, line movement, betslip links and Parlay HQ), just with matches instead of players. Quick filters, tuned for game lines: 💎 High Confidence (a strong recommended stake and wide book coverage, a higher coverage bar than props because main lines are quoted by far more books), 💰 Value Long Shots (plus-money prices with a real stake and solid coverage; +EV long shots are rare on game lines, so this is often empty) and 🔥 Steaming +EV (still +EV after the market has shortened the line over the last 24 hours, with a bigger move required than on props because small moves are ordinary on game lines). 🧹 Clear resets every filter. Hover a preset to see its exact criteria.

Reading a row. The Bet column reads like a betslip line: Arsenal (1X2), Arsenal -0.75 (handicap), Over 2.5 (total). Market says which kind of bet it is and Line holds the number, so you can sort and filter by it. Lines are full game, settled the way the books settle them.

Soccer specifics. The 1X2 market is three-way: home, draw, away. Settlement is 90 minutes plus stoppage time, as every book settles it; extra time and penalties don't count. Handicaps include quarter-goal lines (−0.25, −0.75, etc.), which split your stake in two: for example, Arsenal −0.25 on a draw returns half your stake and loses the other half.

Main lines vs alternates. Alternates are simply more rows. The Market filter lists 1X2, Handicap, Total, Alt Handicap, Alt Total, all ticked by default. Want main lines only? Untick Alt Handicap and Alt Total.

Fair value on game lines. A line needs at least 3 sharp-weighted books before we show a fair value or an edge, and exchanges never count toward those 3. With fewer, you still see every book's price, with no fair value and no edge, rather than a guess. Far-out alternate lines are often priced by only one or two books, so expect more blanks there. The FV Mode button works here too, including Market Average.

Settings are separate. Book columns, custom weights and saved filters on Main Lines are kept separately from the Value Finder, so setting up one never changes the other.

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FV Mode: What "Fair Value" Means#

The ⚖️ FV Mode button sets the fair value that EV and Recc. U are measured against. There is no projection model for this sport, so there is no Model option; everything else is here:

• Market FV (default, recommended). Every book is de-vigged, then weighted by sharpness, with Pinnacle as the anchor.
• Market Average. The plain average of every book's price on that exact line, exchanges included, with the books' margin left in (no de-vig). Only realistic prices go in: glitch prices our price checks flag, prices far off the rest of the market, and any book you exclude are all left out. A line also needs at least 3 independent sportsbooks (exchanges don't count toward the 3, and sister books count once); with fewer, Market Average shows "—" rather than a number. Because the margin stays in, its fair odds come out shorter than a de-vigged fair value, so it shows more "edges" than Market FV, especially on one-sided props. It is a reference view, not a recommendation: the edge column reads vs Avg % (best price against the average) rather than EV %, Recc. U shows "—" (no stakes), and nothing in it is tracked, graded or posted. The Parlay Optimizer keeps using Market FV while it is selected. For EV and staking, switch back to Market FV.
• My FV. Your own book weights (set them with 🎚️ My Weights).
• Single book. Any one book's de-vigged price as the benchmark, handy if you want to see which books beat the one you trust.

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The "fee" Tag on Exchange Prices#

Kalshi, Polymarket and ProphetX charge fees (Kalshi and Polymarket when you buy in, ProphetX on winnings), so their posted price isn't what you actually get. On every Value Finder board, best book, EV and Recc. U use the after-fee price. The odds cell still shows the posted price (what you'll see in the exchange's own app) with a small fee tag. Hover it, or tap it on mobile, to see the price after fees. Novig charges no fee on pre-game bets, so its prices carry no tag.

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Lineups and Fair Value#

Books don't all settle a player prop the same way when the player comes off the bench. Some still settle it if he comes on as a substitute: DraftKings, FanDuel, Caesars, theScore and Fanatics on every prop, BetMGM and Bovada on anytime goalscorer, and Bovada, BetRivers and Bally Bet on last goalscorer. Others void the bet unless he starts. A substitute plays far fewer minutes, so the same Over is worth less at the first kind of book.

So fair value depends on the book. At a book that voids non-starters, fair value is his chance of hitting if he starts. At a book that still settles for a substitute, it also prices in his chance of starting and what a substitute's minutes are worth. Once the lineup is confirmed (usually shortly before kickoff), we use it: a starter is priced as a starter, a player named on the bench as a substitute. The best book is the one with the best EV under its own rule, and that holds when you filter books, boost or use a book as FV too.

A small tag next to the best book's badge tells you which applies. Tap it (or hover on desktop) for the note:

• * Lineup not confirmed yet. The price includes his chance of starting.
• On bench Named on the bench. The price is for a substitute's minutes.
• Not in squad Left out of the matchday squad. The bet is void at every book, so its EV is 0.
• Ruled out Listed as injured or suspended before kickoff, so the bet should be void at every book. Its EV is 0 too.

A confirmed starter has no tag, and neither does a book that voids non-starters: its price is already right. Unders aren't tagged for the bench (fewer minutes help an Under), but Not in squad shows on every side.