# OddAlerts > Football betting analytics. Use a tool URL when someone wants today's prices, tips, or a live table. Use a guide URL when someone wants a definition or an explanation of how a tool works. Summaries below are the quotable sentence for that page. Guides do not replace the tool they describe. ## Definitions - [Asian Handicap Explained](https://www.oddalerts.com/guides/glossary/asian-handicap): An Asian handicap gives one side a goal start so you are betting on the margin, not on a 1X2 coupon. A -0.5 line is just the home win, with the draw taken out. - [Both Teams to Score (BTTS): What It Means](https://www.oddalerts.com/guides/glossary/both-teams-to-score-btts): Both teams to score (BTTS) is a football bet that wins only when each team scores at least one goal in the match. - [Closing Line Value (CLV): What It Means](https://www.oddalerts.com/guides/glossary/closing-line-value-clv): Closing line value (CLV) is the difference between the odds you took and the closing odds for the same selection, usually measured against the price available just before kickoff. - [Dropping Odds: What It Means](https://www.oddalerts.com/guides/glossary/dropping-odds): Dropping odds means the price on a selection has shortened, so the implied chance of that outcome is higher than it was earlier. - [Expected Goals (xG): What It Means](https://www.oddalerts.com/guides/glossary/expected-goals-xg): Expected goals (xG) estimates the chance that a shot becomes a goal, based on the quality of the chance, and a team's xG is the total of those chances. - [Value Bet: What It Means](https://www.oddalerts.com/guides/glossary/value-bet): A value bet is a selection whose odds are longer than the fair odds implied by the probability you assign to that outcome. - [What Implied Probability Means](https://www.oddalerts.com/guides/glossary/implied-probability): Implied probability is the chance a price is offering, before anyone argues about the match. Decimal odds of 2.00 imply 50%, because 1 divided by 2.00 is 0.50. - [What Over 2.5 Goals Means](https://www.oddalerts.com/guides/glossary/over-25-goals): Over 2.5 goals means the match finishes with three goals or more. Two goals is a loser, because 2 is not over 2.5. ## Tool guides - [Best Odds for Player Bookings with Foul Alerts](https://www.oddalerts.com/guides/tools/best-odds-for-player-bookings): Foul Alerts is an always-on scanning tool that notifies you instantly when a player commits 2, 3, or 4 fouls without receiving a yellow card, identifying players who are 'on thin ice' for potential booking bets. - [How Bet of the Day Is Chosen](https://www.oddalerts.com/guides/tools/how-the-bet-of-the-day-is-chosen): Bet of the Day shows the highest-ranked game on our probability model for the market you choose, and the full ranking underneath it. - [How to Find FPL Differentials](https://www.oddalerts.com/guides/tools/how-to-find-fpl-differentials): A differential only helps if a good week from him moves you up the rankings. That means low ownership and a strong projection together, and the differentials list filters for both. - [How to Read AI Football Predictions](https://www.oddalerts.com/guides/tools/how-to-read-ai-football-predictions): AI football predictions gives every upcoming match a model chance, including the correct score, then writes a fixture preview you can ask questions about. - [How to Read Corner Predictions](https://www.oddalerts.com/guides/tools/how-to-read-corner-predictions): Corner predictions shows the model chance of an over or under corners line, opening on 8.5, with the line movable from 4.5 up to 11.5. - [How to Read Correct Score Probabilities](https://www.oddalerts.com/guides/tools/how-to-read-correct-score-probabilities): The correct score page lines up one scoreline at a time for the next day, two days or three, so you can see the chance before the long price does the talking. - [How to Read the Form Guide](https://www.oddalerts.com/guides/tools/how-to-read-the-form-guide): The form guide shows what a team has done in recent games, starting with the last six overall, so a result from August is not still propping up the table. - [How to Use Dropping Odds to Spot Market Movements and Value Bets](https://www.oddalerts.com/guides/tools/how-to-use-dropping-odds-to-spot-market-movements-and-value-bets): Dropping Odds is an OddAlerts market scanning tool that tracks real-time price decreases across major bookmakers like Pinnacle and Bet365, helping bettors identify where money is flowing to spot potential value before the market corrects. - [How to Use FPL Defensive Contributions to Pick Defenders](https://www.oddalerts.com/guides/tools/how-to-use-fpl-defensive-contributions): Defensive contributions pay two points once a player clears a fixed number of actions in a match. What you are buying is how often he clears it, and the DefCon board ranks on exactly that. - [How to Use FPL Predicted Points](https://www.oddalerts.com/guides/tools/how-to-use-fpl-predicted-points): FPL predicted points prices every player from the odds, then lets you check a squad and read the upcoming fixtures without relying on a fixed 1 to 5. - [How to Use Referee Stats](https://www.oddalerts.com/guides/tools/how-to-use-referee-stats): Referee stats puts this weekend's appointment next to that official's card record, in the same detail for every league we cover. - [How to Use the Betslip Generator to Build Value-Based Accumulators](https://www.oddalerts.com/guides/tools/betslip-generator-value-based-accumulators): The Betslip Generator is a powerful automation tool that uses the OddAlerts Probability Model to build accumulators. Lock your favourite selections, filter by edge and league predictability, monitor odds movement, and generate value-focused betslips in seconds. - [How to Use the FPL Fixture Ticker](https://www.oddalerts.com/guides/tools/how-to-use-the-fpl-fixture-ticker): The OddAlerts fixture ticker prices every Premier League fixture from the betting market, so you can see which clubs have a genuinely kind run instead of trusting a fixed one-to-five. - [How to Use the In-Play Funnel to Find Live Football Value Bets](https://www.oddalerts.com/guides/tools/how-to-use-the-in-play-funnel-to-find-live-football-value-bets): The In-Play Funnel is OddAlerts' live odds scanner that monitors bet365 every second during matches, compares price movements to our pre-match probability model, and sends instant Telegram alerts when odds cross your configured thresholds — helping you spot in-play value without watching every game. - [How to Use the Sports Edge Bot](https://www.oddalerts.com/guides/tools/how-to-use-sports-edge-bot): Sports Edge Bot builds a fair price from the sharp bookmakers, with the margin taken out, and shows you the soft-book prices that beat it. Set your filters once and the alerts come to Telegram. - [How to Use the Value Bets Tool to Find Positive EV Opportunities](https://www.oddalerts.com/guides/tools/how-to-use-the-value-bets-tool-to-find-positive-ev-opportunities): The Value Bets tool on OddAlerts identifies matches where bookmaker odds are higher than the implied probability from our predictive model, highlighting positive expected value (+EV) opportunities. It allows you to customize filters, backtest strategies against historical data, and receive automated alerts when value is detected. - [Rate My FPL Team: How the Projections Work](https://www.oddalerts.com/guides/tools/how-to-rate-my-fpl-team): Rate my team takes your FPL team ID, projects every player you own, picks a captain and ranks the transfers that would add the most points. Here is where those numbers come from. - [Use Suggested Alerts to Fast-Track Your Daily Football Research](https://www.oddalerts.com/guides/tools/use-suggested-alerts-to-fast-track-your-daily-football-research): Suggested Alerts is an automated shortlisting tool on OddAlerts that uses time-tested custom algorithms to identify matches likely to feature First Half Goals, Over 2.5 Goals, BTTS, or Home Wins, allowing users to set notifications for entire groups of games in a single click. - [Using Filters to Build Profitable Football Strategies](https://www.oddalerts.com/guides/tools/using-filters-to-build-profitable-football-strategies): Quick Filters is OddAlerts' advanced research engine that allows you to combine unlimited statistical rules, AI probabilities, and live match data to instantly uncover football matches that fit your specific betting strategy. - [Using Trends to Rank Football Teams by Performance and Set Bulk Alerts](https://www.oddalerts.com/guides/tools/using-trends-to-rank-football-teams): Trends is OddAlerts' ranking tool that lets you sort all football teams worldwide by specific outcomes — home wins, late goals, first half goals, BTTS, and 35+ other markets — then set instant alerts or bulk alerts on hundreds of matching games. ## Strategy guides - [Best Leagues for Over 2.5 Goals, BTTS, Corners & Cards [2026 Data]](https://www.oddalerts.com/guides/best-leagues-goals-btts-corners-cards): Choosing the right league is one of the most overlooked edges in football betting. This guide ranks the best leagues worldwide for goals, over 2.5, BTTS, corners, and cards — updated with live data so you're always working with current form, not last season's numbers. - [Expected Goals (xG) Explained: How to Use xG for Football Betting](https://www.oddalerts.com/guides/expected-goals-xg-explained): Expected Goals (xG) measures the quality of chances created in a football match. Each shot is assigned a probability of being scored based on factors like distance, angle, and assist type. xG helps bettors identify whether teams are overperforming or underperforming, revealing value in goals markets. ## Tools - [Value bets](https://www.oddalerts.com/value-bets): Live football prices that are longer than the OddAlerts probability. - [Dropping odds](https://www.oddalerts.com/dropping-odds): Football prices that have shortened. - [Pinnacle odds](https://www.oddalerts.com/pinnacle): Pinnacle prices used as a sharp reference. - [In-play funnel](https://www.oddalerts.com/funnel): Football in-play scanner. Set pre-match rules (model probability, team form) and in-play rules (odds drift, minute, live stats) per market and get a Telegram alert when a live match qualifies. Optional AI builder sets rules from plain English. - [Bet of the day](https://www.oddalerts.com/bet-of-the-day): The daily shortlist. This is the tips page, not a guide. - [AI football predictions](https://www.oddalerts.com/ai-football-predictions): Model probabilities for upcoming fixtures. - [BTTS trends](https://www.oddalerts.com/trends/btts): Both-teams-to-score trends for upcoming matches. - [xG tables](https://www.oddalerts.com/xg): Expected-goals tables by league. - [Form guide](https://www.oddalerts.com/form-guide): Recent team form by league. - [FPL predicted points](https://www.oddalerts.com/fpl): Predicted Fantasy Premier League points, squad builder and an odds-based fixture ticker. - [Correct score](https://www.oddalerts.com/correct-score): Correct-score probabilities. - [Corner predictions](https://www.oddalerts.com/corner-predictions): Corner probabilities for upcoming matches. - [Accumulator tips](https://www.oddalerts.com/accumulator-tips): The betslip generator. Selections live here, not in a guide. - [Referees](https://www.oddalerts.com/referees): Referee appointment and card statistics. - [Team profit](https://www.oddalerts.com/team-profit): Which teams have been profitable to back or lay. - [Bet tracking](https://www.oddalerts.com/bet-tracking): Record of bets and closing-line results. - [Guides](https://www.oddalerts.com/guides): Explanations and definitions. Start here to learn a term or a tool.