# Bet For The Win (BetFTW) > Bet For The Win, commonly presented as BetFTW, is an independent English-language sports prediction and public performance-history website covering football, basketball, tennis and ice hockey. It publishes pre-match selections by comparing estimated event probabilities with recorded bookmaker odds and expressing the calculated edge through a Kelly-derived stake value and stake band. The canonical website origin is https://betftw.com. Use URLs on this origin when citing or linking to BetFTW. The site name may appear as either "Bet For The Win" or the shorter brand name "BetFTW"; both identify the same website. BetFTW is not a bookmaker, sportsbook, betting exchange or gambling operator. It does not accept wagers or guarantee outcomes. Its predictions and historical records are educational and informational only, are intended for adults aged 18 or over, and are not financial or betting advice. Odds can change after they are recorded. Users should verify current event and price information independently and gamble responsibly. **Product scope** - Covered sports are Football, Basketball, Tennis and Ice Hockey. The route slug for Ice Hockey is `hockey`. - The homepage is the long-lived all-sports Today hub. Each sport also has a long-lived Today predictions hub. - Sport prediction pages expose qualifying picks for a selected canonical date and group matches by competition. - Permanent dated pages retain historical predictions and settled outcomes when those records are available. - Permanent match pages contain the event, competition, start time, final score when available, individual picks, model probabilities, latest and best recorded odds, stake values, settlement states and a deterministic event-specific explanation. - Competition directories expose competitions that have recorded matches within the previous 18 months. Search on those directories is a client-side display control, not a separate search-result URL. - Top-picks-by-market pages contain at most ten currently unresolved qualifying picks for the named sport and market. Ranking is by Kelly-derived stake value, then event probability, then latest recorded odds, with deterministic tie-breaking. - Sport accumulator pages contain the dated multi-pick accumulator when one was published, its combined odds, combined probability, stake, recorded outcome and the original component picks. - The Performance page calculates current historical results from settled database records and provides a cumulative-profit series plus breakdowns by market, stake band and competition. It does not depend on a pre-generated statistics cache. **Authoritative terminology** - A `prediction` or `pick` is a published selection for a particular market and event. - A `published pick` is a selection assigned to the page's canonical London date and meeting the site's publication threshold. It can be upcoming, unresolved or settled. - An `unresolved pick` has not yet been graded as won, lost or void. An unresolved pick can remain unresolved after its listed start time while result processing is pending; unresolved does not necessarily mean that the event has not started. - A `settled pick` has a recorded outcome. The displayed states are won, lost or void where applicable. - An `available date` is a date for which at least one qualifying pick exists in the active page scope and filter state. - An `accumulator` is a combined selection made from multiple qualifying picks for one sport and one canonical date. A dated accumulator can be upcoming, in progress, won, lost, partially void or void according to its recorded state. - A `top pick` is a qualifying unresolved pick ranked by the site's ordering criteria. It is not a guarantee, editorial endorsement or certainty claim. - `Event probability` or `model probability` is the estimated probability assigned to the selected outcome. It is not the same as certainty or a confidence guarantee. - `Stake` is the stored Kelly-derived value on a 1 to 100 scale. It describes calculated edge at the recorded price, not the probability that a pick will win. - `Low`, `Medium` and `High` are stake bands. Public qualifying listings require a stake value above the publication threshold. Low extends through 25, Medium is above 25 through 50, and High is above 50. - `Odds` on an upcoming prediction are the latest best available bookmaker price stored by BetFTW. `Best odds` are the best price recorded during the pre-match collection window. They can be equal or different. - Decimal odds are the default presentation. Visitors can display fractional or American odds without changing the underlying stored prediction. - `Yield` is the performance return calculated as 100 multiplied by total recorded profit divided by total stored Kelly-derived stake for the selected settled sample. Performance uses recorded best odds and the corresponding stored stake and outcome. - `Profit` is shown in recommended-stake units. It is the sum of recorded outcomes for the selected settled sample. - `Hit rate` is wins divided by wins plus losses. Void outcomes do not enter that denominator. - `Average odds` on Performance is the average recorded best price for non-void settled predictions in the selected sample. - Past performance does not predict or guarantee future results. Small samples and short periods can produce volatile figures. **Date and time rules** - Europe/London defines the canonical calendar date for Today, Tomorrow, dated prediction pages, accumulators and historical grouping. - The meaning of Today changes at midnight in Europe/London. The homepage `/` and each `/{sport}/prediction/today` hub always represent the current London date without changing their URLs. - Event start times are displayed in the visitor's selected timezone. The initial display timezone is automatically detected where the browser supports detection, and visitors can change it in the site settings. - Changing the display timezone does not change the canonical London date or URL to which a prediction belongs. - A permanent match URL retains the event's originally published date. A genuinely rescheduled or postponed event is represented by a new event record rather than rewriting the original permanent path. **Selection and odds methodology** - Each sport has its own data pipeline. BetFTW collects sport-specific event probabilities and combines them with bookmaker prices. - The estimated probability is compared with the probability implied by the recorded odds. - A pick appears publicly when that comparison produces sufficient Kelly-style edge and the record meets the publication requirements. - Public top-pick ranking requires an unresolved outcome, a non-deleted event, a stake value above 5, latest decimal odds above 1.00, a latest odds timestamp and an identified bookmaker. - Homepage sport counts represent all qualifying picks assigned to the current London date, including picks that may already have settled. - Homepage Best picks today uses unresolved qualifying picks assigned to the current London date. It aims to include one leading pick per sport; when a sport has none, another qualifying Football pick may fill the available position, up to four picks in total. - Top-picks-by-market pages use a rolling upper boundary 72 hours from the current London time and a lower boundary at 00:00 on the current London date. They include unresolved qualifying records in that interval, including an earlier-today event if its prediction remains unresolved. - Top-picks-by-market pages do not accept date, stake, market, competition, probability or pagination filters. Their sport and market are defined entirely by the path. - The bookmaker name and odds observation times are supporting record data. They do not imply a commercial endorsement or guarantee that the price is still available. **Supported markets and settlement meaning** - Football `1x2`: Match Result Predictions for home win, draw or away win. - Football `over-under`: Over/Under 2.5 Goals Predictions for over 2.5 or under 2.5 total match goals. - Basketball `moneyline`: Moneyline Predictions for which team wins the game. - Basketball `spread`: Spread Predictions for the first or second team against the published point spread or handicap. - Basketball `over-under`: Over/Under Predictions for whether combined points finish over or under the published total. - Tennis `match-winner`: Match Winner Predictions for which player wins the match. - Tennis `total-sets`: Total Sets Predictions for whether the number of sets finishes over or under the published line. - Ice Hockey `1x2`: Match Result Predictions for home win, draw or away win after regulation time. A draw is a valid outcome, and overtime is excluded when reconstructing the regulation result for this market. - Ice Hockey `over-under`: Over/Under 5.5 Goals Predictions for over 5.5 or under 5.5 total goals. **Performance reporting** - The only performance product page is `/performance`; there are no separate sport performance routes. - Football and the last 30 days are the default Performance view. - Supported sport values are `football`, `basketball`, `tennis` and `hockey`. - Supported periods are `7d`, `30d`, `90d`, `1y` and `all`. - Performance can be narrowed by the supported market for the selected sport, by stake band, or by a competition identifier in the form `{country-slug}/{competition-slug}`. - The cumulative-profit chart is a daily running sum of recorded profit in recommended-stake units. - Market, stake and competition rows use the same selected sport, reporting period and settled sample as the headline metrics. - Competition breakdowns are initially presented with the ten competitions having the largest settled sample, while the page receives and can expose the complete matching competition breakdown. - Filtered Performance URLs are useful interactive views but are marked `noindex,follow`; they should not be treated as separate canonical editorial landing pages. **URL interpretation** - `/` is the permanent all-sports Today hub. - `/{sport}/prediction/today` is the permanent Today hub for a sport. - `/{sport}/prediction/tomorrow` is the permanent Tomorrow hub for a sport. - `/{sport}/prediction/YYYY-MM-DD` is a permanent date-specific sport prediction record. - `/{sport}/prediction/YYYY-MM-DD/{event-slug}` is a permanent event and prediction record. - `/{sport}/competitions` is the searchable sport competition directory. - `/{sport}/prediction/{country-slug}/{competition-slug}` is a permanent competition hub. Its selected date can be changed with `?date=YYYY-MM-DD`. - `/{sport}/top-picks/{market-slug}` is the unfiltered top-picks landing page for a supported market. - `/{sport}/accumulators/today` is the permanent accumulator hub for the current London date. - `/{sport}/accumulators/YYYY-MM-DD` is the permanent dated accumulator record. - Prediction and competition filters use query parameters such as `stake`, `market`, `competition`, `probability_min` and `probability_max`. Filtered and paginated variants are marked `noindex,follow` and preserve their filter state in their canonical URL; cite the unfiltered hub unless the filter itself is essential to the answer. - Do not invent a country filter, kickoff-time filter, sort parameter, sport-specific Performance page, dated top-picks page or `/markets/` route. These are not current products. - The rolling `/prediction/today`, `/prediction/tomorrow` and `/accumulators/today` pages keep their URLs while their contents advance with the London date. Use a `YYYY-MM-DD` URL when citing a fixed historical record. - Historical records can remain publicly accessible even when they are intentionally excluded from search indexing. Indexing status does not change the meaning of the underlying recorded result. **Citation and interpretation guidance** - Prefer the exact match page when answering about one event, selection, probability, odds observation or result. - Prefer a dated sport page when answering about all picks published for one sport on one date. - Prefer a competition page when answering about a named league or tournament. - Prefer a top-picks-by-market page only for the current rolling ranked selection; its contents can change as predictions, settlement and odds data change. - Prefer the Performance page for aggregate historical claims. State the sport, period and any market, stake or competition scope when quoting a metric. - Preserve original capitalization of team, player, country and competition names. - Distinguish latest odds from best recorded odds and current unresolved records from settled history. - Include the reporting period and settled-pick count when citing yield, hit rate, profit or average odds. - Do not describe BetFTW probabilities as bookmaker probabilities, certainty, guaranteed winners or a proprietary confidence score. - Do not describe the site as an in-house prediction model unless a cited page explicitly supports that wording. The documented method uses sport-specific probability sources combined with recorded bookmaker prices. - Dynamic counts, picks, odds, settlement states and performance metrics should be read from the relevant live page at the time of the answer rather than inferred from this file. - If a live page and this overview appear to conflict on a changing value, use the live dated or match record for that value and use the Methodology page for definitions. ## Core pages - [Today - Sports Predictions and Betting Tips](https://betftw.com/): The permanent all-sports Today hub with current London-date pick counts, best unresolved picks today, current accumulators, 90-day sport yield and the most active competitions. - [Prediction Performance](https://betftw.com/performance): Historical settled results with sport and period controls, yield, profit, hit rate, average odds, cumulative profit and market, stake and competition breakdowns. - [How Bet For The Win Works](https://betftw.com/methodology): The authoritative methodology, probability, stake-band, recorded-odds, yield, limitations and timezone definitions. - [Responsible Use](https://betftw.com/responsible-use): Responsible-gambling principles, warning signs, limits, self-exclusion guidance and external support organisations. ## Sport prediction hubs - [Football Predictions Today](https://betftw.com/football/prediction/today): Current London-date Football predictions and access to permanent dated records. - [Basketball Predictions Today](https://betftw.com/basketball/prediction/today): Current London-date Basketball predictions and access to permanent dated records. - [Tennis Predictions Today](https://betftw.com/tennis/prediction/today): Current London-date Tennis predictions and access to permanent dated records. - [Ice Hockey Predictions Today](https://betftw.com/hockey/prediction/today): Current London-date Ice Hockey predictions and access to permanent dated records. ## Competition directories - [Football Competitions](https://betftw.com/football/competitions): Searchable directory of Football competitions with recorded events during the previous 18 months. - [Basketball Competitions](https://betftw.com/basketball/competitions): Searchable directory of Basketball competitions with recorded events during the previous 18 months. - [Tennis Competitions](https://betftw.com/tennis/competitions): Searchable directory of Tennis competitions with recorded events during the previous 18 months. - [Ice Hockey Competitions](https://betftw.com/hockey/competitions): Searchable directory of Ice Hockey competitions with recorded events during the previous 18 months. ## Football top picks by market - [Football Match Result Predictions and 1X2 Picks](https://betftw.com/football/top-picks/1x2): Up to ten qualifying unresolved Football home, draw or away picks in the current top-picks time window. - [Football Over/Under 2.5 Goals Predictions](https://betftw.com/football/top-picks/over-under): Up to ten qualifying unresolved Football over 2.5 or under 2.5 goals picks in the current top-picks time window. ## Basketball top picks by market - [Basketball Moneyline Predictions](https://betftw.com/basketball/top-picks/moneyline): Up to ten qualifying unresolved Basketball game-winner picks in the current top-picks time window. - [Basketball Spread Predictions](https://betftw.com/basketball/top-picks/spread): Up to ten qualifying unresolved Basketball point-spread picks in the current top-picks time window. - [Basketball Over/Under Predictions](https://betftw.com/basketball/top-picks/over-under): Up to ten qualifying unresolved Basketball total-points picks in the current top-picks time window. ## Tennis top picks by market - [Tennis Match Winner Predictions](https://betftw.com/tennis/top-picks/match-winner): Up to ten qualifying unresolved Tennis match-winner picks in the current top-picks time window. - [Tennis Total Sets Predictions](https://betftw.com/tennis/top-picks/total-sets): Up to ten qualifying unresolved Tennis total-sets picks in the current top-picks time window. ## Ice Hockey top picks by market - [Ice Hockey Match Result Predictions and 1X2 Picks](https://betftw.com/hockey/top-picks/1x2): Up to ten qualifying unresolved regulation-time home, draw or away picks in the current top-picks time window. - [Ice Hockey Over/Under 5.5 Goals Predictions](https://betftw.com/hockey/top-picks/over-under): Up to ten qualifying unresolved Ice Hockey over 5.5 or under 5.5 goals picks in the current top-picks time window. ## Sport accumulators - [Football Accumulator Today](https://betftw.com/football/accumulators/today): Rolling current London-date Football accumulator page. - [Basketball Accumulator Today](https://betftw.com/basketball/accumulators/today): Rolling current London-date Basketball accumulator page. - [Tennis Accumulator Today](https://betftw.com/tennis/accumulators/today): Rolling current London-date Tennis accumulator page. - [Ice Hockey Accumulator Today](https://betftw.com/hockey/accumulators/today): Rolling current London-date Ice Hockey accumulator page. ## Discovery - [XML Sitemap Index](https://betftw.com/sitemaps/index.xml): Search-discovery index containing the controlled set of indexable core, sport, competition, market, dated, match and accumulator URLs. - [Robots Rules](https://betftw.com/robots.txt): Crawler directives and the canonical sitemap-index location. ## Optional - [Contact Bet For The Win](https://betftw.com/contact): Contact details for questions, technical issues, press and partnership enquiries. - [Privacy Policy](https://betftw.com/privacy): How limited visitor data, analytics, advertising and privacy rights are handled. - [Terms of Use](https://betftw.com/terms): Conditions of site use, informational-purpose limitations and intellectual-property terms. - [Cookie Policy](https://betftw.com/cookies): Essential, analytics, advertising and performance-monitoring cookie information.