BetFinderGoing deeper
Search, filters & sorting
Find any team, runner or event with search (Ctrl+K), filter the board by minimum probability, and sort by kick-off, probability, value or confidence.
Updated 2026-06-07 · BetFinder team
On a busy day the board holds hundreds of games across twenty-odd sports, and BetFinder gives you three layers of tools to cut that down to the handful you actually care about: a global search in the top bar, sport and league scoping from the sidebar, and a toolbar above the board that filters and re-orders whatever is left. None of them hide anything dishonestly — every control works on the same numbers the rows themselves display.
This guide walks through each layer in turn, plus the small conveniences around them: breadcrumbs, collapsing leagues and the sidebar, and how it all rearranges itself on a phone.
Search from anywhere
The search box lives in the top bar on every screen, with the placeholder Search teams, leagues, races… Press Ctrl+K (or Cmd+K on a Mac) and the cursor jumps straight into it — the small Ctrl+K hint inside the box is a live shortcut, not decoration. As you type, the whole board narrows to matching games; clear the text and everything comes back.
Search matches the names of both sides of a game — teams, players, fighters — along with event titles and league names. That last part matters for events with no home-and-away pair: a race card, a golf tournament or an outright market is findable by its title, so typing Yorksurfaces the York races and typing a tournament’s name surfaces its winner market. Search stacks with everything else on this page: if a sport scope or Min prob filter is active, search narrows within it. One thing to know: picking a sport from the sidebar or the mobile sport rail clears any search, since you have just told the board where you want to look instead.
Next to the search sits a bell icon for alerts. It is honestly labelled Alerts (coming soon)and is disabled — no alerts ship today, and there is nothing behind it to configure yet.
Breadcrumbs and the scope label
The left side of the top bar always tells you where you are. On the board it reads Dashboard › Upcoming betting board; on a game’s match page it grows to Dashboard › Upcoming › the game’s name. Clicking Dashboard is the universal reset: it returns you to the full board and clears any sport scope and search in one go.
Just below, the board toolbar’s left end shows the current scope — All sports, or the sport you have scoped to — and a live count of how many games currently match everything you have set. Watch that count as you tighten filters; it is the quickest way to see how much of the board each control is removing. The sports coverage guide covers scoping by sport and league in detail.
The board toolbar
The toolbar above the board holds two controls you will use constantly — Min prob and Sort — plus the Lay and Build acca mode pills at the end. The demo below is the real toolbar wired to four real rows, so you can try both controls right here.
Min prob
Min prob hides games whose headline pick falls below a chosen chance, with presets from All through 20%+, 30%+ and 40%+ up to 90%+. The number being tested is the headline pick’s probability — exactly the percentage on the row’s confidence chip — so at 70%+ the board becomes a list of strong favourites only, while the low rungs are made for field events: a strong racing favourite in a field of ten often sits at 20–40%, well below where a football favourite lives. Any preset above All also drops Awaiting price rows: a game with no honest number yet cannot clear a number-based bar.
Sort
Sort re-orders everything that survives the filters, four ways:
- Next to play— the default: soonest kick-off first, the board as a schedule.
- Best probability— the pick most likely to land first, ranked by the confidence chip’s percentage.
- Best value — ranked by the headline pick’s edge, the same number on the green mini-tag. Games with no credible edge claim sink to the bottom; see the value bets guide for what that tag means.
- Confidence — grouped by confidence tier, High first, with games inside a tier ordered by their value and probability numbers.
The two pills at the end of the toolbar arm the board’s two modes, and they are mutually exclusive — arming one disarms the other. Build acca turns row taps into betslip legs (covered in the betslip guide), while Lay flips the board to betting against selections and swaps the toolbar controls to match: Min lands, a Risk cap and lay-specific sorts, all explained in the lay betting guide.
The rugby Code toggle
Rugby appears as a single sport in the navigation, merging both codes. When the board is scoped to Rugby, an extra Code toggle appears in the toolbar with Both, Union and Leagueoptions, letting you narrow to one code without leaving the merged scope. It only exists inside the Rugby scope — you will not see it anywhere else.
Collapsing what you don’t need
Games sit under competition bands — one header per league. Click a band and its rows fold away; while collapsed it summarises itself as, say, 6 of 10 with confidence, meaning six of its games carry a real priced pick. Click again to reopen. The full anatomy of bands and rows lives in the betting board guide.
The sidebar collapses too: the toggle at its top (Collapse sidebar / Expand sidebar) shrinks it to an icons-only rail, handing the width back to the board — every sport stays one click away via its icon. And the BetFinder brand button at the very top is another full reset, returning you to the complete board from anywhere.
On a phone
On phones and tablets the desktop sidebar gives way to lighter controls. A hamburger button (Open menu) at the top left opens the same sidebar as a slide-in drawer over a dimmed backdrop — close it with the X or by tapping the backdrop. For quicker switching, a horizontal strip of sport icons sits above the board: a starred Allbutton plus one icon per sport, with paging arrows when more are off screen. Scope to one sport and a second strip appears beneath it — All eventsplus each of that sport’s competitions with a game count — so you can drill to a single league with two taps.
The toolbar adapts as well: when the screen is too narrow for the segmented button rows, Min prob and Sort become compact dropdowns automatically. Same options, same behaviour, less width.
Quick answers
How do I find an outright, like a tournament winner?
Type the event’s title into the top-bar search. Events with no home-and-away pair — races, golf tournaments, outright winner markets — are indexed by their titles and league names, so they surface by name just like a normal fixture.
Why did the board go empty when I set Min prob to 90%+?
Because nothing currently qualifies — genuinely. The board shows Nothing scheduled for this selection. Try another sport or clear the filters. rather than padding the list with weaker picks to fill space. Picks at 90% or better are rare by nature; drop to 70%+ or All and the games return.
Where did the Min prob buttons go on my phone?
They became dropdowns. On narrow screens the toolbar swaps its segmented buttons for compact selects so everything still fits on one line — the presets and sort modes inside them are identical.
Can I set up alerts for games that match my filters?
Not yet. The bell icon in the top bar is labelled Alerts (coming soon)and is disabled — it is there as an honest signpost of what is planned, not a feature you are failing to find. For now, the fastest workflow is to open the board, set Min proband a sort, and scan — the two controls take a second to set and reshape the whole board.