How the Bet Feed works

What the Bet Feed is

The Bet Feed is a single ranked list of individual bets. Each card is one selection, at one sportsbook, at one price — something you could place right now. It is not a tipsheet or a list of parlays; you build parlays out of the feed by tapping Parlay on a card.

How the order is decided

Strictly by expected value, highest first. Expected value (EV) is the gap between the price a book offers and what we calculate the bet is really worth once the sharp market’s margin is stripped out. Nothing else moves a bet up or down — not recency, popularity or league. A paid feed sets no floor at zero, so bets whose edge has gone negative are not removed; they sort to the bottom.

Two things are held back on purpose. Any edge above a sanity ceiling is dropped, because an edge that large is nearly always a stale price rather than free money — Expected value and fair price explains why. And the feed defaults to games that have not started:

• ●Upcoming — pre-game only. The default, and available to every signed-in plan.
• ●Live — in-progress games only. Pro.
• ●All — both at once. Pro.

What a card in the feed carries

The matchup and start time, the selection and its market, a badge, the EV% and the Fair price beside it, the book and price we point you at, a suggested stake, and the buttons through to the sportsbook. Reading a bet card takes every one of those numbers in turn.

One of those numbers depends on your plan. Free and signed-out feeds keep the EV% on the top card only and hide it on every other one — tapping a hidden figure opens the upgrade prompt, or the sign-up gate if you are signed out. Fair stays on every card at every tier, so you can always compare a book’s price against it yourself. Why your feed says delayed covers the rest of what is capped.

One thing is specific to the feed: every card here carries a badge, because the feed only asks for bets we were able to price. An unbadged quote — one we carry for cross-book comparison and never scored — never reaches this list. What the badges mean is in Bet badges explained.

Tapping the price row opens a sheet listing every book that has the bet, best price first, with the cost of settling for second best written out on each row below the top — the full sheet is covered in Compare odds across sportsbooks.

How fresh the prices are

Every bet has a hard freshness floor: if our odds worker has not re-read that row recently enough, it is not shown at all. Plus and Pro feeds refresh the moment the board changes, with a periodic forced refresh as a backstop. When a price or badge moves, the card flashes green or red and prints the change ("+150 → +135").

Free and signed-out feeds are served a previous snapshot instead, so you see prices after they have already moved. Refreshing more often does not make them newer, and each client says so in its own way — Why your feed says delayed covers both the reason and the signal to look for.

What an empty or short feed means

A short list can also be your plan. Paid feeds load more as you scroll; Free and signed-out feeds get a fixed short list with paging off, plus a card under the last bet saying how many more currently match. See Plans and what each one includes.