How To Use The OddsShopper +EV Tool To Find Value Bets
You sign up at OddsShopper, open the dashboard, and see a wall of tools, sports, and numbers. If your first reaction is "great, but where do I actually start?", you are exactly who the +EV tool was built for. It takes the whole betting board across every major sportsbook and pre-sorts it down to the bets that are priced in your favor, so you are not the one squinting at odds trying to guess which line is a bargain. By the time you finish this guide you will be able to open the tool, read a single number, and know in seconds whether a bet is worth a look.
Watch: How The OddsShopper +EV Tool Works
Here is the full walkthrough of the +EV tool from the OddsShopper channel, showing exactly where it lives on the site and how the board sorts itself:
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What A +EV Bet Actually Is
+EV stands for positive expected value, and the idea underneath it is simpler than the abbreviation makes it sound. Every bet has a fair price, the no-vig estimate of what the odds should be once you strip out the sportsbook's cut. When a book leaves a line up that pays more than that fair estimate, you are getting the better of it, and betting spots like that consistently carries a positive expected return over a large sample, even though any single bet can still lose. That is a +EV bet, and the OddsShopper Rating is the tool doing that comparison for you.
The lever that creates those spots is line shopping. The same outcome is rarely priced identically at DraftKings, FanDuel 🎁, BetMGM, and Caesars, so one book is almost always paying more than another on any given bet. A quick way to feel it: say one book lists a player at +150 and another lists the same player at +220. The +220 pays out more on an identical wager, so you would always take +220. That comparison is exactly what the tool runs for you, on the entire board, at once.
If you want the concept on its own before you touch the tool, our complete breakdown of how to find +EV bets walks through the math, and the expected value calculator guide lets you run a single bet by hand.
The OddsShopper Rating: Our +EV Score, Explained
Here is the piece that makes the tool worth opening: the OddsShopper Rating. It is our proprietary score for how strong a bet is, and it is what the board sorts by out of the box. The higher the number, the more the price is in your favor. As a rule of thumb, a rating of 20 or higher signals a solid, playable +EV bet, and the ratings climb well beyond that when a book has really left a line behind.
| OddsShopper Rating | What It Signals |
|---|
| 20 Or Higher | A solid, playable +EV bet |
| Climbing Well Past 20 | An even stronger price the book is lagging further behind on |
Focus on that first row, because it is the one you will use most. A 20-plus rating is the number to scan for when the board is long, the tool's signal for a pretty good +EV bet. The walkthrough shows an NFL player prop rated 44, which is a good example of a rating climbing well past that mark. You do not have to calculate any of this; the score is already sitting in its own column, ready to sort.
How To Use The +EV Tool Step By Step
Getting to the board takes just a couple of clicks:
- From the OddsShopper site, open the premium betting tools and choose positive EV bets.
- That drops you onto the All Odds & Bets page, the general +EV board.
- The board loads already sorted by the OddsShopper Rating, highest first, so the strongest prices are sitting at the top before you touch a thing.
That default sort is the whole point. You are not hunting; the best-rated bets come to you. From there every column is sortable, so if you would rather rank by raw EV, bet size, or win amount, you click that header and the board re-sorts. But for most people, most days, the pre-sorted OddsShopper Rating is the fastest read on the board, which is exactly why we lead with it.
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Filtering Down To The Bets You Actually Want
A pre-sorted board is useful; a pre-sorted board narrowed to what you care about is better. You can filter it on three axes:
- Leagues And Sports: highlight only the leagues you follow (say NFL and NBA) and everything else drops out. Leave it untouched and the board pulls in every sport it covers.
- Sportsbooks: if you only have accounts at two or three books, hone in on those so you are never shown a price you cannot actually bet.
- Bet Categories: game lines, team totals, player props, futures, and most things in between are all filterable, and each is searchable.
Player props are where the filtering pays off. Say you want NBA points props specifically. Highlight player props, then points, then the NBA, and the board rebuilds around exactly that market. In the walkthrough that filter surfaces Kevin Durant as the number-one rated points prop on the board. You do not need the number memorized; the takeaway is that a market you could have spent twenty minutes shopping by hand gets sorted to a single top result in a couple of clicks.
That is the same 20-plus signal from earlier doing its job again: once you have filtered down to NBA points, the ratings still rank the field, so the top row is the strongest priced prop in the market you chose.
Where The +EV Tool Fits With The Rest
The pre-game +EV board is the workhorse, but it is not the only screen. Once a game tips off, prices move fast and a pre-game board goes stale, so Portfolio EV and the in-game EV screen re-run the same rating on live markets, catching value that only appears mid-game. And when a price gap between two books is wide enough to bet both sides at a locked-in margin, that is where arbitrage comes in. Start on the +EV board, then reach for these once you are comfortable reading a rating.
FAQ
What is the OddsShopper +EV tool?
It is a pre-sorted board of the available bets across the sportsbooks and sports OddsShopper covers, ranked by our OddsShopper Rating so the bets priced most in your favor sit at the top.
What is a good OddsShopper Rating?
A rating of 20 or higher signals a solid, playable +EV bet. The higher the number climbs, the more the price is in your favor, like the 44-rated NFL prop in the walkthrough.
Do I need to know any math to use it?
No. The tool does the expected-value comparison for you and shows the result as a single rating. If you want to understand the math anyway, start with our expected value calculator guide.
Can I use it for just one sport or one sportsbook?
Yes. You can filter the board to specific leagues, sports, bet categories, and books, so you only ever see prices you can actually bet.
The Bottom Line
The reason a full betting board feels overwhelming is that the work of finding value usually falls on you: comparing books, spotting the soft line, doing the mental math on every price. The tool flips that. So here is the whole routine in one breath: open the All Odds & Bets page, leave the default OddsShopper Rating sort alone, filter down to the books you can actually bet and the leagues or markets you follow, then work the top-rated rows instead of scanning the entire board. Read that one number, trust the sort, and the board stops being a wall of odds and starts being a shortlist.
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