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Betaminic

Strategy backtester 111 leagues No account needed
Free plan · picks from €29.90
from €29.90 for 100 picks

A database of fourteen years of football odds with a filter tool on top. Build a betting rule, see what it would have earned, and check published strategies since the day they were shared.

Whole test ran on the free plan
14 years of odds across 111 leagues Strategies cannot be saved for free Free plan runs the builder and graphs Save button asks, then blocks
Use the database to test an idea you already have, not to pick strategies to follow. We built one that looked excellent, then it collapsed as soon as we checked later years.James Whitfield, Chief Editor
Best for: Football systems bettors
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The Staking Machine

Staking plan analysis Windows plus browser No bookmaker account
£40 a year · 2 devices plus web
from £25 per six months

Software that puts 50 staking plans on the same list of bets and shows what each one would have done to your money. It also reports your real edge, your break-even strike rate and whether your record is big enough to trust.

Full test ran on the free version
50 staking plans on the same bets, one click Shows profit for a bank marked empty No betting account needed Totals of minus 347 and minus 493 from 100
Use it to measure your betting, not to find a staking plan that wins, because our test shows there is no such plan. The plan that tops the table in your good months is the plan that empties your bank in the bad ones.James Whitfield, Chief Editor
Best for: Systems bettors
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Bet2Invest

Closing line value Three plans From €94.95
from €94.95 / month
from €94.95 / month

Tipster marketplace that measures every record against Pinnacle prices and shows closing line value in the table. Browsing all records is free. Paid plans pick the tipsters for you and start at 94.95 euros a month.

Expected return published in numbers
Closing line value shown on every record. The middle plan needs 4,750 euros of turnover a month before the fee earns anything. Every tipster's history readable without an account. All three plans advertise the same 4% return, so the higher price buys more tipsters, not a better edge.
The records are priced honestly, against a market that is hard to argue with. The prices are the problem: 189.95 euros a month needs 4,750 euros put through the market before you are level.Alex Morgan, Sports Analyst
Best for: Judging a record before you pay
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Telegram tipster channels

Free picks in a chat Paid by the bookmaker No verified record
Free to join
from No subscription

Thousands of channels post free picks every day and charge most readers nothing. The money comes from the bookmaker they send you to, which is paid when you lose.

Costs nothing to test for a week
Free to read, with no card and no account needed. The record is screenshots, which can be edited or deleted. Tips arrive fast, often before the odds have moved. Revenue share pays the channel when you lose.
A free channel is not automatically a fraud, but nearly all of them are paid when you lose. Follow one for a week in a spreadsheet before you follow it with money.Alex Morgan, Sports Analyst
Best for: Ideas you check yourself
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OddsPortal

Closing odds Payout % Exchange fees
Open OddsPortal free →
from Free

Odds comparison with a payout column, a price history on every selection and closing prices kept after the match. Free tools for dropping odds, sure bets and blocked odds. The bookmaker list is narrow, and part of it is locked.

Odds kept after the match
Closing price kept on every selection. Twenty books on the match we counted against forty-six on a rival grid. Payout column always visible. Six rows repeat another row's price.
Use it for the closing price and the archive, then check the table against a wider grid. On our match twenty rows carried only fourteen different prices.James Whitfield, Chief Editor
Best for: Closing line value
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Oddspedia

Free odds grid Payout % per book 5 free tools
Free, no account
from Free

Odds comparison across a wide bookmaker list, with a payout percentage per book, movement history and five free tool lists. No account needed for the grid. The country version you land on decides which bookmakers you see.

Payout % on every match
Free with no account. Four different bookmaker counts across its own pages. Payout percentage per bookmaker. Hot Bets rows start at 1.05, far below what its own hit rate needs.
Switch the payout box on and the grid becomes a margin tool, not just a price list. On Hot Bets, drag the odds filter up to 1.35 first.James Whitfield, Chief Editor
Best for: Line shopping in Europe
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mybets-gg

Any bookmaker Works in a phone browser CSV export on Pro
15 AI scans/month free
from $9.99

mybets.gg reads your bet slip from a screenshot, so it works with any bookmaker and never touches your account. The scan runs in a phone browser as well as in the desktop extension. The free plan shows far more analytics than the price page admits, and you mark every result Won or Lost yourself.

Full analytics on the free plan
Reads a bet slip from any bookmaker, with no account link. Every result is typed in by hand, so the record proves nothing. The free plan already shows ROI, drawdown and a calendar map. ROI reads 1.3% on the dashboard and 1.00% on the analytics page.
We marked a match that had not started as a winner, and the dashboard booked 457 euros of profit. Keep it as a diary — it will never be a record anyone else believes.James Whitfield, Chief Editor
Best for: Europe and the CIS
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Closing line value

Explainer Free calculator Decimal and American
Free to read
from 9 min read

CLV compares the odds you took against the odds at kickoff, which is how you tell a good decision from a lucky result. The guide does the sum in decimal odds and shows why the simple version overstates it. A calculator on the page does both.

No sign-up, no account
Work out CLV from any two prices. It cannot find closing prices for you. Strip the bookmaker's cut out and see the honest number. It cannot tell you how much to stake.
Most calculators stop at one division and hand you a number that flatters you. Removing the cut on our 2.10 example takes it from +7.69% to +5.00%.James Whitfield, Chief Editor
Best for: Bettors checking their own edge
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Zort

Any bookmaker 160+ currencies iOS / Android
Free forever
from By region

Zort logs bets from a photo of the slip instead of linking a sportsbook account, so it works with bookmakers no sync app covers. The free plan is a full tracker with no time limit, and it holds 160 currencies or plain units. You check every scan and mark every result yourself.

No account link needed
Reads slips from any bookmaker, shop or exchange, with no account link. Data export is sold in Settings but listed as coming soon on the paywall. Free plan is a full tracker with no time limit. Nothing settles by itself, so every bet is marked by hand.
A scanner beats a sync for everyone the sync ignores. Check the accumulator prices though. Ours saved at 7.74 when the slip said 7.61.James Whitfield, Chief Editor
Best for: Bettors outside the US
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FBref alternatives

Where xG went Free vs paid What is gone
Comparison / 9 MIN
from 9 minutes

FBref lost expected goals in January 2026, and this page sorts the replacements by which number you lost. Understat covers six leagues free, while SofaScore and FotMob run their own model across many more. We opened both and checked, match by match, where the free xG actually stops. The last section is the part every other list leaves out: what no free site brings back at all.

Free to read · Nothing to sign up for
Every site opened and checked in August 2026. Five named sites carry no verdict yet. Names the leagues where the apps do carry xG. Only the entry price for paid APIs.
Understat covers six leagues. FBref lists more than a hundred. That gap is the whole story.Alex Morgan, Sports Analyst
Best for: Bettors who lost xG
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xG

Chance quality, not luck xG into a fair price Where to find it free
Beginner guide
from 8 minutes

Expected goals score every shot by how often shots like it were scored before, so a 0.75 chance is one that went in 75 times out of 100. The guide starts with why a 1-0 scoreline hides more than it shows, then turns two xG figures into fair odds on totals, both teams to score and the match result. It ends with the bookmaker's fee, why the price already knows about xG, and the free sources left after FBref lost its data.

Free to read · Nothing to sign up for
A plain definition, with no formulas to work through. It does not rate teams or hand out picks. A worked example that ends in a price you can compare. It does not cover xA, npxG or post-shot xG.
A 0.75 chance still gets missed once in four. That is not the model being wrong, that is what 0.75 means.Alex Morgan, Sports Analyst
Best for: Bettors new to stats
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FBref

100+ competitions Head-to-head built in No xG
Free, no sign-up
from Free

The free half of the Sports Reference network, covering more than 100 men's and women's competitions. Open a squad page and it gives you the season record, the home and away split, clean sheets, penalties won and conceded, cards and minutes, with the full match logs sitting behind them. The expected goals that made the site famous were deleted in January 2026 and have not come back.

No paywall on any table
Home and away splits, penalties and cards on one page. It cannot show chance quality, only how many shots were taken. Links straight from a fixture to the full meeting history. It has no live data, so nothing arrives during a match.
Look at the penalty column before the goal column. Twenty five goals with eight from the spot is a different striker.Alex Morgan, Sports Analyst
Best for: Bettors researching small leagues
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Kelly stake calculator

Full, half, quarter Decimal and American Break-even built in
Free, no sign-up
from Free

Our own stake calculator, built for this guide. Enter a price, your own chance and your bankroll: it returns the stake in cash and as a share, with full, half and quarter Kelly one tap apart. It also shows the break-even chance sitting inside the price, your edge over it, and how fast the bankroll grows at the size you picked.

Free, no account needed
Full, half and quarter Kelly one tap apart. It cannot check whether your own chance is right. Takes decimal and American prices in the same field. It treats every bet as standing alone, so related picks come out oversized.
Drag the slider past the second line and watch the growth number turn red. That is the argument against staking big, in one gesture.James Whitfield, Chief Editor
Best for: Bettors with their own numbers
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Odds converter

Five formats Implied probability Margin and no-vig
No sign-up · Nothing is saved
from Margin, no-vig

A converter for decimal, fractional, American, Hong Kong and Indonesian odds. It also shows the implied probability, the break-even win rate, and the return and profit on your stake. Enter both sides of a market and it gives the bookmaker margin and the no-vig odds.

Free, no account needed
Five formats update at the same time. It does not pull live odds from bookmakers. Turns any price into a break-even win rate. It cannot tell you if a bet is worth making.
Convert the price first, then read the break-even number. That percentage is the part you have to beat, and it is the only part the bookmaker sets.James Whitfield, Chief Editor
Best for: Moving between American and decimal odds
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RebelBetting

Value + sure betting 100+ bookmakers Prematch only
14-day trial, no card
from €69 / month

A value betting and sure betting service run by Clarobet AB in Sweden, working with Pinnacle since 2009. Both feeds come under one subscription, with a tracker that logs and settles every bet. Plans are separated by the size of the edge they let you see, not by the bookmaker list.

14-day trial, no card needed
Fourteen day trial, no card, both products included. Cheap plans cap the edge you are allowed to see. Bets log in one click and settle by themselves. Prematch only, with no live scanning.
Start the trial and count how many finds you could place at bookmakers where you are still unlimited. If that number is small, the plan you pick will not change it.James Whitfield, Chief Editor
Best for: Value bettors
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