Help pages

Strategies

After signing up you should have some strategies from the strategy database (under the tools menu) to play with. These can be deleted if you so wish.

Main Buttons

At the top are four buttons: +New Strategy, Import Strategy, Export Strategy and Re-order.

+New Strategy

Here can enter a strategy name and any notes you wish to store for this strategy. You can have up to 25 strategies.

Import Strategy

If someone has shared a code with you, or you see one on a strategy video, enter it here to automatically import the strategy and its filters.

Export Strategy

If you want to share your strategy, choose a strategy from the dropdown and either share the code for others to import, or share the link shown. The link will automatically import the strategy without the need to click Import. Export and import are also useful if you wish to duplicate one of your strategies

Re-order

If you have many strategies but want them in a certain order you can do so by dragging a strategy up or down in the pop up.

Strategies List

Your strategies appear after the main buttons.

Click on the strategy name to load the strategy and display the filters and upcoming fixtures matching the strategy.

Click on the pencil icon to edit the name of the strategy and the strategy notes. You can also choose whether the strategy will appear on the homepage.

Click on the trashcan icon to delete the strategy.

Filters

Once you have created a strategy you can start adding filters. Each strategy requires at least one filter, and you can have a maximum of ten. The default is GP Avg >= 8. This means you're looking for fixtures where the average number of games played for the two teams is greater than or equal to 8. A full list of abbreviations and their meanings is available in the abbreviations tab. Each filter corresponds to fixture stats for a match (under the stats menu, click fixtures).

Change the dropdowns/values below for an explanation of the filter.

Applies to:

Avg: Average of the two teams
Home team: Home team only
Away team: Away team only
H@H: Home team when playing at home
A@A: Away team when playing away
Venue: Average of H@H and A@A

Min/Max:

Some stats can have a negative value (e.g. H v A and Goal Edge).
|>=| allows you to filter numbers greater than or equal to the positive (absolute) value.
For example |>=| 3 means greater than or equal to 3 or less than or equal to -3.
the | | symbol simply turns any negative number into a positive.
The same applies for |<=|: less than or equal to the positive number.

Click the 'Add filter button to create a new filter. Click the trashcan on the right of each filter to remove it

Choose Leagues

You may wish to trade only certain leagues. Here you can choose any leagues you wish, and they will be stored with the current strategy. Tick any league you wish to include. There are buttons for selecting all leagues and deselecting all leagues. At least one league is required so if you remove all leagues then they will all be ticked again after saving. There is a dropdown box for favourite leagues. Five sets of favourite leagues can be edited in the Settings menu (see the members tab on this page for more information).

Sportsbook odds

Expand this section to choose Sportsbook current odds from Betfair and bet365. These are Sportsbook odds NOT exchange odds. Selecting these odds will show the corresponding odds columns in the Upcoming fixtures table to help narrow down your selections.

Once you're happy with all your selections, click 'Save Filters' to save and reload the page.

Upcoming Fixtures

When you load your strategy the software will find all matches for the next 3 days that match your chosen filters. An example of the table looks like this:

Top toolbar

The show fixtures dropdown is set to 10 by default. You can change this value if for example you have 30 fixtures over 3 pages and want to show them all on the page at once.

Use the search box to search anything within the table, e.g. team name, country, league. You can try it on the table above.

The CSV and Excel buttons will automatically download a csv or Excel file of everything in the table. If you have filtered the table using the search it will only download the fixtures shown.

Ordering

The fixtures are ordered by earliest kickoff time (ascending) by default, which you can see by the green arrow. Click on any heading to order by that column instead. Clicking again will reverse the order (descending). You can try it on the table above.

Add Trade

Clicking the + icon on the left will add the fixture to your Profit and Loss page (P & L). This is accessible from your profile menu at the top right of the page when logged in (see the members tab on this page for more information).

Once added the + icon turns into a tick and will stay that way when you next load the strategy. Clicking again will remove the fixture from your Profit and Loss fixtures. You can click the + icon in the table above to see the change.

Betfair and Stats icons

Clicking the yellow Betfair icon will open in a new window the Betfair league page where you can see the fixture to trade. If the icon is greyed out, it means Betfair do not cover that league. Sometimes Betfair cover a league but do not have any fixtures available yet so you may end up on a 'page not found'. The default link is for Betfair UK. If you live in another country with a different Betfair version you can change this in your profile's settings menu (see the members tab on this page for more information).

Clicking the green stats icon will open in a new window the fixture stats page for that match. This icon appears throughout the site.

Fixture and League columns

Clicking a team name will open in a new window the team stats page for that team. Hover over a flag to see the country in the league column. Clikcing on the league name will open in a new window the league stats page.

Backtest

After creating a strategy, you can backtest to see how it would have performed from previous results.

The layout of this page looks and behaves much like the strategies page in that you can add a strategy, import and export a strategy and re-order your list. You can also update your filters and leagues.

IMPORTANT: When you run a backtest it will use the filters and leagues on the page. This means if you change a filter or update your chosen leagues without first saving, the backtest will run on the changed filters. This is handy if you want to test different ideas but only want to save when you're happy with the backtest results.

Backtest options

There are three main options under the 'looking for' heading.

Win by

For your strategy you are looking for previous fixtures where a team won by a certain number of goals. For example, the home team to win by over 1.5 goals.

Match goals

You are looking for a certain result and number of goals. For example, the away team to win and there to be over 2.5 total goals in the match.

Team goals

You are looking for a certain result and a specific team to have scored a certain number of goals. For example, an away win and the home team to score more than 3.5 goals.

Period to test

Next you want to decide which period of the match to test.

Whole Match

This will test the match from beginning to end. For example, if your strategy requires there to be over 3.5 goals in the game.

First Half

This will test only the first half. For example, if your strategy requires there to be over 1.5 goals in the first half.

Second Half

This will test only the second half. For example, if your strategy requires there to be over 2.5 goals in the second half.

Between

Here you can select which period to test in minutes. For example, the last ten minutes of a match you would choose From: 80' and To: 90'.

NOTE: when you select 45' for the end of the first half, or 90' for the end of the match it will include all added time.

After 1st Goal

You will be testing only the period after the first goal. For example, if the first goal was at 30', the period will be from 31' to the end of the match.

Both Halves

You will be testing both halves separately. The outcome you're looking for would have to happen in both halves.

At period start

If your period is Second Half, Between (excluding from minute 1) or After 1st Goal, you will have the option to choose what you want the state of play to be before the period starts. The options are: Any score, Home winning, Away winning, Draw, Either winning, Exact score, Over and Under. For example, you may want to test the second half and want the home team to be winning at half-time.

If you choose 'Exact score' you have the option to choose the scoreline. For example, for the last ten minutes of the second half you may want the score to be 0-0 at the 79th minute.

Choosing 'Over' or 'Under' allows you to select from 0.5 to 8.5. For example, you may want to test the second half when there have been over 3.5 goals in the first half.

Both halves

You will be testing both halves separately. The outcome you're looking for would have to happen in both halves.

Outcome

The options beneath the period to test will change depending on the main option at the top you have chosen.

Win by

Choose the team first: Home team, Away team, Either team, Favourite or Underdog. The favourite is classed as a team that had odds of 2.0 or less before kickoff. The underdog is over 2.0. If neither team has odds 2.0 or less, there is no favourite or underdog, so the fixture is ignored if you choose one of these options.

Next choose by how many goals you want the team to win by (in the period selected). Options are Over, Under, Exactly or Between.

Examples:
Away team to win by exactly 2 goals
Favourite to win by over 1.5 goals.
Either team to win by between 2 and 3 goals (inclusive).

Match goals

Choose the result you're looking for (in the period selected): Any result, Home win, Away win, Draw, Either win, Home win/draw, Away win/draw.

Next choose how many goals you want in the period selected. Options are Over, Under, Exactly or Between.

Examples:
Away win and exactly 3 goals.
Home win or draw and over 2.5 goals.
Any result and between 1 and 2 goals (inclusive).

Team goals

Choose the result you're looking for (in the period selected): Any result, Home win, Away win, Draw, Either win, Home win/draw, Away win/draw.

Next choose a team: Either team, Both teams, Home team or Away team.

Next choose how many goals you want that team to score in the period selected. Options are Over, Under, Exactly or Between.

Examples:
Away win and home team to score exactly 3 goals.
Home win or draw and both teams to score over 2.5 goals.
Any result and either team to score between 3 and 4 goals (inclusive).

Change the dropdowns/buttons below for an explanation of the backtesting.

Use Pre-Match Odds

If you wish to filter matches by odds click the checkbox and the odds filters will appear as below.

Choose your market and selections and use greater than or equal and less than or equal to filter out fixtures that do not match those odds. For example, you may want the draw odds to be >= 6, or the correct score 0-0 odds to be <= 12.

As with the favourite/underdog option, fixtures will be ignored if they don't match your odds filters. Please note that some fixtures may not have odds if Betfair didn't cover the match, or we don't have the data yet.

Click '+New filter' to add another filter. You can choose up to 10 odds filters. For example, you may want the Over 2.5 odds to be >= 3 and also <= 5. Click the trashcan icon to remove a filter.

Run the backtest

Once you're happy with the options, click the Run Backtesting button. The software will run through every past fixture league by league, and the results will appear in a table. A progress bar will show the percentage of fixtures done. You can click the Stop button at any time to end the backtesting.

The table will look like this. The backtest was stopped after 4 leagues for this example.

Filtering the results

Each league row has a checkbox on the left. When you tick or untick this the totals will update. This can help improve your strike rate by filtering out low scoring leagues. Changing these will automatically change the tick boxes in the 'Choose leagues' section further up the page. You can try this in the table above. Once you untick a league a button will appear: 'Update Filters'. Clicking this will save the filters for your strategy and reload the page. The checkbox at the top left can be used to select/deselect all.

Use the Export buttons at the top to save your table to csv or excel.

Viewing the results

Click the icon on the right of each row for a breakdown of each fixture. This will open a new page called 'Backtesting Fixtures'.

Backtesting Fixtures

The top of this page has a summary of your backtesting options. E.g.:
League: Algeria Ligue 1
Looking for: Team goals
Period to test: 2nd Half
Before start of period: Any score

The table below will look something like this:

Main table

Fixtures are ordered by date. Click a heading to re-order.

Each fixture has a stats icon you can click to see the result stats page

'Score at period start' - this shows the score before the period you are testing. For example, if you are backtesting the second half it will show the half time score.

'Any score?' - This heading will change depending on your selection for 'At period start'. E.g. 'Home winning', 'Either winning' etc. A tick indicates this fixture had the result you're looking for, a cross means it failed. For 'Any score' they will all be ticked. If there is a cross here, the backtesting will not continue looking for 'Odds', 'Strategy Filters' or 'Passed'.

'Score for period' - This shows the score for the period you are testing. E.g. if you're testing the second half and the home team score once and the away team twice in the second half, the score will show 1-2.

'Odds' - If you have set odds in your backtest setup this will show a tick or a cross to show whether the fixture met your criteria. This includes if you used 'favourite' or 'underdog' in the 'Win by' option. If there is a cross here, the backtesting will not continue looking for 'Strategy Filters' or 'Passed'.

'Strategy filters' - Did the fixture pass all your strategy filters. If there is a cross here, the backtesting will not continue looking for 'Passed'.

'Passed' - Shows whether the fixture had the desired end result from your options.

'Failed reason' - If a fixture failed this shows the reason why.

NOTE: A fixture is classed as filtered if it passes every step: 'Score at period start', 'Odds' and 'Strategy filters'. The success rate percentage on the main backtest page is based on these filtered fixtures and whether they passed the desired outcome.

Top toolbar

The show fixtures dropdown is set to 10 by default. You can change this value if for example you have 30 fixtures over 3 pages and want to show them all on the page at once.

Use the search box to search anything within the table, e.g. team name, date, score. You can try it on the table above.

The CSV and Excel buttons will automatically download a csv or Excel file of everything in the table. If you have filtered the table using the search it will only download the fixtures shown.

The Start score, Odds, Filtered and Passed buttons will allow you to quickly filter the table where the relevant column has ticks.

Members menu

The members menu is accessible through the top right portrait icon.

Profile

General

Here you can update your name and password.

We cannot currently change your email address when you've subscribed to Sports-IQ as it is linked to the payment gateway. If you need to change your email, please cancel your subscription then, when your subscription ends, re-register with the new email address. Contact us if you wish to transfer any strategies over to your new account.

Subscription

Clicking 'Manage' will take you to the Stripe portal where you can cancel your membership or upgrade from a monthly subscription to a yearly.

Your current subscription details are also shown including your subscription type, start date and end date.

You can cancel your subscription at any time and will have access until the end of the period shown. You can also convert from a monthly subscription to a yearly which gives you two months free. If you upgrade in the middle of your current period, you will get a discount based on the number of days left of your monthly subscription.

P & L

This page shows your profit and loss should you wish to track your trades.

Fixtures can be added from your strategies page. In the fixtures table for a strategy click the + icon on the left of a match.

Alternatively, you can manually add an entry. Click the 'Manual Entry' button and enter the start time (kickoff date and time), the profit or loss amount if you already know it, the fixture, the strategy, and any notes you wish to add with this entry. All fields are optional and can be edited at any time.

On the left of each entry in the profit and loss table is a trash can icon to remove the entry.

On the right of each entry is an edit button to update the details.

Click on the date range at the top to change which dates you wish to see. The default is set to 'this month'.

Settings

Here you can customise your experience on the site.

Time zone

All match times shown throughout the site are in UK time. Change your time zone to view them in the correct time for your country.

Currency

This affects the P & L page. Profit and loss is shown in GBP (£). Change this for your own country's currency.

Favourite Leagues

Update your favourite leagues here from the defaults. Favourite leagues are used on the Strategies/Backtesting pages and the Custom Tables page.

Exchange

Choose whether to show Smarkets or Betfair links on the site. Betfair links will take you to the league page. Smarkets will take you directly to the fixture.

Betfair version

If you've chosen Betfair as your exchange, the Betfair icon throughout the site links to Betfair UK. As Betfair have different versions for different countries, you can update it here. We currently have Australia, Sweden and Italy options. If your country is not included, please contact us.

Page settings

Match replay default stakes
When using Match Replay the default stake is 100.00. Update it here if you wish.

Strategies on homepage
Choose which strategies will appear on the homepage.