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How To Use OddsShopper To Place The Best Bet And Profit!

Updated December 12, 2023 | 7:07 am CDT by Greg Ehrenberg

Profiting as a sports bettor doesn’t have to be difficult. While the math and research behind creating OddsShopper is complex, using the tools is easy! OddsShopper makes betting simple, profitable and affordable for bettors of all experience levels. It’s why we’re here right now, this as this is a step by step post on how to use OddsShopper to place best bets and, hopefully, profit.

How To Use OddsShopper To Place Best Bets… And Profit!

The first thing you want to do to find bets is to click on the top left of the OddsShopper home page on the Betting Tools drop down menu. From there, you select Positive EV Bets. This is where you will find the best projected bets from our market based betting model.

On the top right of the screen, enter the amount of money in your bankroll. Using his data, OddsShopper will give you recommended bet sizes so that you are not only placing the best bets, but also placing optimal bet sizes to grow your bankroll.

Next, it’s time to start finding bets. We recommend you sign up at as many sportsbooks as possible to ensure you get the access to all the top projected bets. However, if you are only playing on a limited number of books, you can use the sportsbooks drop-down menu to select the books that you wager on. This will make it so the the odds page only shows +EV projected bets from the books you have access to.

To place your bets, here is all the info you need to know from the projections page. From left to right, these are what all the columns are.

– Player/Team: This is the team or player that you are betting on
– Bet: The market you are betting on (for example, ing yards, points etc.)
– Line: This is the best available line for the market as well as whether we are recommending you to bet the over or under
– Odds: The best available odds on the recommended bet
– OS Rating: This combines all the information on bets (odds, EV, xWin) to sort the bets by best ones available
– EV: This is the expected return on your bet
– xWIN: The percentage of time the bet is expected to win
– Bet Size: Using the bankroll information that you entered earlier, this is the amount of money OS recommends you wager on this bet
– True Odds: This is what our model projects are the fair odds for each bet
– EV Age: This shows how long the recommended bet has been up
– Sportsbook: This shows which book has the best available line on the market

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All you have left to do from here is to to the Sportsbook and place the bet with the recommended bet size!

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