Browsing games: filters and sorting
Finding bets · Web app · Last updated August 28, 2026
Quick answer
The Games page is a pre-game board: it lists scheduled games with the best price on each side of the main markets, and drops a game once it starts. Use the date button to change the window, the Filters button for leagues, your saved teams and +EV-only games, and the Sort button to reorder what is left.
What the Games list covers
Games shows scheduled, pre-game events only. A game leaves the list as soon as its start time passes, and anything already in play is filtered out entirely. You have to be signed in; signed-out visitors are sent to the login page and returned here afterwards.
The default date setting, All upcoming, is a rolling window of the next several days, grouped under Today, Tomorrow and then dated headings. The list renders a chunk at a time and adds more as you scroll.
A game that has started is not missing
The Games list prices pre-game markets only. Once a game is under way it disappears from here, and Bet Check will not grade a bet on it either. In-game prices live in the Bet Feed instead, behind its Live toggle — a Pro feature.
Choosing a date
The date button on the toolbar offers three quick picks — All upcoming, Today and Tomorrow — plus a calendar for jumping to any single day. Picking a specific day narrows the list to that day only, and the list stops grouping by date because it no longer needs to.
On a narrow screen, choosing Today after the last game has kicked off gives you a No More Games Today panel with a See Tomorrow’s Games button. Any other empty result reads No Games Found. An Unable to Load panel with a Retry button is different — that is an odds-feed problem, not an empty slate.
Filtering the list
The Filters button opens a panel with three controls, and carries a number showing how many of them are switched on:
- Leagues — tap any of the leagues playing in the current window. Picking none is the same as picking all.
- My Games — narrows to games involving teams you saved. Until you have saved any, the panel shows a Set up → link to Settings rather than a switch, and tells you how many upcoming games your teams have once you do.
- Only show +EV games — hides every game that currently has no positive-expected-value bet in it.
Whatever is active shows as a chip under the toolbar; tap a chip to remove that one filter, or Reset to clear the filters and the sort together. All of it lives in the page address, so a filtered view can be bookmarked or sent to someone — ?leagues=nba&hasEv=1 reopens exactly what you were looking at.
If you arrived by picking a team from search, a banner naming that filter replaces the toolbar. Clear it with the × to get the normal controls back. Picking a market hides the toolbar the same way, and on a narrow screen a player-prop market lists the players priced in it rather than games.
The three sort modes
| Sort | What it puts first | Used by default when |
|---|---|---|
| Soonest | Earliest start time | You have picked a specific date |
| Most action | The busiest games — a blend of how many priced bets and markets a game carries, its league’s prominence, and an evening start | You are on All upcoming |
| Top EV | The single biggest edge in the game, then the most +EV bets | Never — you choose it |
Sorting only reorders what the filters already selected; it never adds or removes a game. The Sort menu marks whichever mode is the default for your current date setting.
Reading a game card
- The header carries both team abbreviations and logos, the league, and the start day and time in your own time zone.
- MONEYLINE, SPREAD and TOTAL rows each show the best price available on either side across the books we track, with that book’s logo beside the price. The width of the two moneyline halves reflects the implied probability, so the favourite’s side is the wider one.
- The +EV BETS strip shows how many +EV bets the game has, logos for up to four of the books offering them, and TOP EV — the largest edge anywhere in that game. Tapping it opens the game’s +EV Bets tab. Games with no +EV bet have no strip at all.
The bet count and TOP EV figure on the card are shown on every plan. The per-book EV% inside a market, and the max-bet figure, need a paid plan — see the pricing page for what each tier includes.
On a wide screen the page splits in two: the list on the left, the selected game’s odds comparison on the right, with the first game picked for you. On a narrower screen, tapping a card opens the game’s own page.
On iOS: This screen is web-only. The iPhone app browses from its Explore tab — a Games list with day chips and a Favorites switch — and has no date/sort/filter toolbar of this kind.
Searching, and old links
The search bar above the list matches games, teams, players and markets. The microphone button dictates instead of typing, and pasting a screenshot of a bet slip into it hands the image straight to Bet Check. When search cannot reach the server it says so rather than claiming nothing matched — Search and the command palette covers both bars and the difference between those two messages.
Old bookmarks still work: the older league-in-the-path shape, /games/nba/12345, and any /game/ link both redirect to the game’s current address, keeping the market you had open.
Bet responsibly
A big TOP EV number means a book’s price is far from fair, not that the bet is likely to win. Sports betting is 21+, legal only in some states, and an edge is not income — see our responsible-gambling resources if it has stopped being fun.
Common questions
Why don’t I see games that are already in progress?
The Games list is a pre-game board — anything live or past its start time is filtered out. In-game prices are not gone, they are in the Bet Feed under its Live toggle, which is a Pro feature.
How far ahead does the list go?
All upcoming covers a rolling window of the next several days of scheduled games. To look further out, open the date button and pick that day on the calendar.
My Games shows a “Set up” link instead of a switch. Why?
That filter narrows the list to teams you have saved, and you have not saved any yet. Add teams in the My Teams section of Settings and the switch appears, with a count of your teams’ upcoming games.
What does “Most action” actually sort by?
A blend of how many priced bets and distinct markets a game carries, how prominent its league is, and whether it starts in the evening — a rough proxy for the games most people are betting. It is not a ranking by edge; that is Top EV.
Why does the list say No Games Found?
Your filters matched nothing — most often a league with no fixtures in the window, or “Only show +EV games” on a quiet slate. Tap Reset. If you see an Unable to Load panel instead, odds are temporarily unavailable; use Retry.
Related help
Compare odds across sportsbooks
How the odds comparison on a DawBets game page works: every book’s price, the fair line, the green best price, alternate lines and My Books.
What's on the Explore tab
A tour of the Explore home screen: today's games, the edge heatmap, Hot Players, Books Showdown, and what each plan sees.
How the Bet Feed works
What the Bet Feed shows, how bets are ranked, how often prices refresh, and what an empty or short feed is telling you.
Search and the command palette
Find games, teams, players, markets and live edges from anywhere in DawBets with the Cmd-K command palette or the Games search bar.
Bet Feed filters and saved presets
Every way to narrow the Bet Feed — books, leagues, markets, players, odds range and Min EV — plus saved presets and which plan unlocks each.
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