Soft lines, formerly Edge Finder, scans individual outcomes for prices that sit away from your selected reference. It helps you investigate where operators disagree. The reference you choose is part of the result, so read it alongside the edge.
Configure your first scan
The toolbar works like Positive EV's: Pregame or Live, search, Boost, Table or Cards on the top row; Filters, League, Markets, Books, Comparing and Sort on the second.
- Choose a league and a market you understand.
- Pick your books.
- Use Comparing to choose the reference: the market average, Pinnacle or another book, the next best price, or one of your custom models.
- Open Filters for the minimum edge and the odds range.
- Sort by Edge %, Game time, the comparison's price, Kelly stake, or Model / filter.
- Press a row to open it in the side panel.
Soft lines opens capped at +500, so long shots don't fill the list. The cap shows as a chip. Change it in Filters, or set it to any price.
Read one opportunity
| Field | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Selection | The exact player or team, side, line and market |
| Best price | The price the row highlights |
| Comparison | The reference the price is measured against; the column is named after it |
| Edge % | How far the price sits from the comparison; not a win chance |
| Kelly stake | A stake from your saved bankroll and Kelly percent |
The side panel
- Where the price sits: the row's prices on one axis, with the comparison marked. It shows at a glance whether the best price stands alone.
- The odds: every book's price. A one-way market shows only the side you'd bet.
- Movement: how the price moved.
- Comparison and edge: the comparison, the edge, EV on a two-way market, and the stake.
- Limits: what the book will take, where we know it.
Some books are tagged Not averaged. Prediction markets, pick'em apps and synthetic prices don't count toward the market average, so they never move it and never lead a row against it. When one had the best price, a note says which book leads instead.
Notify me in the header turns your current filters into an alert rule.
Choose a reference deliberately
A specific reference book asks how the offered price compares with that book's view. Market average compares it with the available market set. Next-best, where offered, compares it with the next available quote. A custom model uses its selected books and settings.
These comparisons can produce different results for the same outcome. Changing the reference is not a way to prove a bet has value; it changes the assumption you are testing. Custom-model access depends on your plan. Review the model's books, methods, and filters before running several models together.
Example: same price, different conclusion
Imagine a selection is available at +150. If your reference estimate is +130, the offered price is more favorable than that reference. If another reference estimates +170, +150 is worse than that second estimate. The selection did not change; your comparison did.
Use the Expected Value calculator for an explicit probability-based calculation. Do not substitute Edge % for a win probability.
Soft lines and Positive EV
Soft lines explores one-sided price differences. Positive EV uses both sides of a reference market to estimate no-margin fair value. A selection can appear in one tool but not the other because the available evidence and calculation differ.
Check before saving or acting
Confirm the exact line, current destination quote, game timing, and market rules. Check whether a stake limit or available size applies to the highlighted operator or to a reference market. Those are not interchangeable. Saving a selection preserves a research item, not the quoted price.
Where available, create an alert from the tool to reuse the criteria. Read the saved rule in Alerts; future results may differ as prices change.
Troubleshooting
- No results after adding a filter: remove one filter at a time; minimum edge, odds range, books, and markets can eliminate everything together.
- The same outcome appears under several models: compare model names and reference settings before treating rows as different bets.
- An unusually large edge: verify the line and destination quote; a large number alone is not stronger evidence.
- A row disappears: the quote, comparison, game state, or matching criteria may have changed.