What the Player Props Finder does and which stats it covers
A player prop is a bet on one player, not the score. You might back a winger to have 1 or more shots on target, a holding midfielder to make 2 or more tackles, or a hot-headed defender to pick up a card. The Player Props Finder is the tool that finds those players for you, so it is the fastest way to research football player props.
You give it a rule, such as 1 or more shots on target in at least 8 of the last 10 matches, and it checks every player who has a game coming up. The ones who pass show up as cards, sorted by how well they match. Each card links to the player, shows their recent games, and puts the live odds from Bet365, Ladbrokes and other books right there so you can judge the price without leaving the page.
It works across 115+ leagues, from the Premier League, La Liga and Bundesliga down to smaller divisions, and it covers stats most sites ignore. As well as goals and assists you can search shots, shots on target, tackles, tackles won, fouls, cards, saves, dribbles, interceptions and offsides, which makes it a real tool for foul, tackle and card markets, not just goals.
How every filter works
This is where the tool gets powerful, and it is far more flexible than it first looks. Every filter stacks on top of the others, so you can ask for something as exact as defenders who made 2 or more tackles in at least 8 of their last 10 league starts, at home, against an easy opponent, priced 1.80 or better. You never have to set them all. Pick the stat, press search, then add filters to trim the list. Here is what each one does and why it helps.
Search criteria: the stat and how to measure it
The stat
Pick what you are betting on. Shots, tackles and fouls have one-tap buttons, and a dropdown holds the other markets: goals, assists, goal involvements, shots on target, tackles won, cards, fouls won, foul involvements, saves, offsides, interceptions, dribble attempts, successful dribbles and being dispossessed. That is 17 in all, and the foul, tackle and card ones are markets most stats sites will not help you research.
Hit rate or average
This is how the tool measures the stat.
- Hit rate counts how often a player beat a number. For example, 1 or more shots on target in 8 of the last 10 matches, which reads as an 80% hit rate.
- Average is their mean over the window. For example, 2.3 shots on target on average over the last 10 matches.
Hit rate is about being reliable, average is about volume. Most of the time you want hit rate.
The number to beat
Set the line, which is the number the player has to reach. For 1 or more shots on target the number is 1. For 2 or more tackles it is 2. The steps change to suit the stat.
The match window
This is the flexible bit people miss most. You choose how many of the player's most recent matches to look at, anywhere from the last 3 up to the last 20. A short window like the last 5 reacts fast to current form. A long window like the last 20 is steadier but needs a bigger sample. Ten sits in the middle. The same player can look great over 5 games and only average over 20, so the window you pick shapes the whole result.
The hit rate percentage
When you use hit rate, a slider sets how strict to be, from 10% up to 100%. At 80% over 10 matches, the player must have cleared the line in at least 8 of those 10 games. Loosen it for more names, tighten it for only the surest.
Match context: date, leagues and opponent
Fixture date
Choose which upcoming games to include. Quick buttons cover today, the next 24 hours, 3 days and 7 days, or you can tap exact dates on the calendar up to three weeks out. Use it to line your research up with the games you actually plan to bet.
Leagues
Pick which competitions to search. They are grouped by country with a search box, so you can look in just the Premier League, or across every league at once. Leave them all on if you are casting wide.
Opponent difficulty
This is the filter that finds soft spots, and it is worth using. It looks at how much of your stat the next opponent usually gives up, then lets you keep only the kind matchups. Take shots: an opponent that allows 15 shots a game is a much easier draw than one that allows only 8, so a player facing the leaky defence is far more likely to hit. Set it to Easier to see only those good spots, or type your own range, like opponents who allow 15 or more. It is the difference between backing a player in a good matchup and one in a hard one.
Next fixture at home only
A simple switch that only shows players whose next game is at home. Handy because many players do more in front of their own crowd.
Player filters: which players, and which of their games count
Positions
Keep only the positions you want: goalkeeper, defender, midfielder or forward. A player counts if they played any of the ones you pick. Good for pointing a shots search at forwards, or a tackles search at defenders.
Home or away matches
This filters the player's past matches, not the next one. Set it to Home and the hit rate uses their home games only. Away does the same for away games. Both counts every game. It is useful when a player does much more at home than away, or the other way round.
Lineup status
Filter by whether the player is in the predicted or confirmed lineup for their next match. A predicted lineup is our expected eleven before the team is announced. A confirmed lineup is the official one, which comes out about an hour before kick off. Set it to confirmed on match day and everyone who is not actually starting drops out.
Minimum minutes
A slider from 1 to 90 minutes. Only count matches where the player was on the pitch for at least this long, so a game where they played 10 minutes is not treated like a full 90.
Started match only
Turn this on and the tool only counts past matches where the player was in the starting eleven. Games where they came off the bench are thrown out. This matters for shots, passes and tackles, where a short cameo would drag a hit rate down unfairly.
Next fixture league only
Turn this on and the tool only counts past matches from the same competition as the player's next game. So if the next match is a Premier League game, cup ties and European nights are left out, and you judge the player on like-for-like games. Remember these conditions stack: last 10 matches, in the same league, where the player started, and only if they are predicted to start next, all at once.
Odds: only show bets worth taking
Odds line
Odds lines are always a half number, like 0.5, 1.5 or 2.5. That is on purpose: 1 or more shots on target is the same as over 0.5, and the half number means there is never a tie when a player lands exactly the whole number. So pick 0.5 for a 1 or more bet, 1.5 for 2 or more, and so on. Odds show for the main markets: goals, shots, tackles, fouls, cards and saves.
Minimum odds
A slider that hides short prices. Leave it at the bottom and players without odds show too, so nothing is hidden. Drag it up, say to 1.80, and you only see bets priced 1.80 or better, which is how you skip the odds-on favourites.
Bookmakers
Choose which books to compare from Bet365, the Kambi books, Ladbrokes and Paddy Power. The card then shows the best price among the ones you picked.
That is a lot of levers, and that is the point: you can be as loose or as exact as you want, and every filter stacks with the rest. The flip side is that with this many options it is easy to lose track, or to spend longer setting filters than betting. If that happens, Player Trends does the opposite job. It runs sensible conditions for you across every league and just shows the players who keep landing a stat, each with a Confidence Score, so it is the quick way in when the finder feels like too much.
How to read a player prop card
Every result is a card. It is small but it holds a lot, so here is every part of it.
- Player and team. The photo, name, club badge and position sit top left. Tap the name for the full player page or the badge for the team.
- The price. Top right shows the best odds across your chosen bookmakers for the bet. Tap it to see each book's price. If there are no odds, a green badge shows the hit rate instead, like 80% hit.
- The rule and how well it is met. A line reads back the condition, like 1+ shots on target in 8 of 10 matches, so you can see the record at a glance.
- P90 and Avg. P90 is output per ninety minutes, which is fairer to players who come off early or on late. Avg is the plain average over the window.
- Recent form. The row of small squares is the player's last games, newest on the left. Each square shows the league badge, the number they got (green if they beat the line, red if not), the minutes they played, the position they played, the opponent badge, and an H or A for home or away. A copy button grabs the numbers and a share button saves the card as an image.
- Next fixture. Below that is the upcoming match with the date and time. A pulsing dot shows the player's expected spot: purple for a predicted lineup, green for a confirmed one. Next to it, the opponent strength bars show how much of that stat this opponent usually gives up, so you can see if the matchup helps.
Sorting the results
Above the cards you can change the order:
- Success rate puts the most consistent players first. This is the one to use most of the time.
- Highest average shows the biggest producers, handy when you want volume rather than a low line.
- Lowest average is the flip side, useful for under bets.
- Next fixture orders by which games kick off soonest.
Most props are over bets, where you back a player to reach a number or more. If you want an under bet instead, where you back a player to stay below a number, search a low line like 1 shot and sort by lowest average. That surfaces the players least likely to reach it, which is what an under needs.
Hit rate vs average: what each means for player prop betting
Hit rate is the safer default. It counts how many games a player cleared the line, so every match counts the same. One huge game cannot trick it. A winger with 1 or more shots on target in 8 of his last 10 is a steadier pick than one who had six shots once and went quiet.
Average can mislead. A player who scored a hat-trick once and did nothing for seven games can still show a tidy goals average. The number looks good, the form does not back it up. If you use average, pair it with a short window of three to five games so one night cannot skew it.
A good place to start is a hit rate of 80% over the last 10 matches. It is strict enough to cut the noise but still gives you a list to work with. If you get too few results, drop the percentage or widen the window before anything else.
If you would rather have this judged for you, the Player Trends page scans recent form automatically and gives each pick a Confidence Score out of 100. That score weighs the recent form, how comfortably the player clears the line, and how tough the next opponent is, so it is a quick second opinion on a name you found here.
Example: a shots on target search
Say you want wingers who are likely to have a shot on target this weekend, at a price worth taking. This six-step search finds forwards and midfielders hitting 1 or more shots on target in at least 8 of their last 10 starts, at odds of 1.80 or better. Here it is, step by step.
- Pick the stat: shots on target. Choose hit rate.
- Set the line to 1, the window to 10, and the hit rate to 80%.
- Under match context, choose the next 7 days and leave the leagues on.
- Under player filters, pick forwards and midfielders, turn on Started match only, and set lineup status to predicted or confirmed once teams are near.
- Open odds, leave the line at 0.5, and drag the minimum to about 1.80 so you skip short prices.
- Sort by success rate and read the top cards.
The same search, panel by panel
The list now shows wide players who keep testing the keeper, priced at 1.80 or better, with a game in the next week. Open a card, glance at the recent form row and the opponent strength bars, and you have your shortlist.
Turning a shortlist into a bet
- Check they start. A great hit rate means nothing if the player is on the bench. Wait for the predicted or confirmed lineup dot, or set the lineup filter.
- Compare the price on the card. Tap the odds on a card to see what each bookmaker offers. The best price is shown by default, so you can tell at a glance if one book beats the rest.
- Mind the opponent. The strength bars on the card tell you if the matchup helps. A shots pick against a team that smothers shots is a worse bet than the hit rate alone suggests.
- Do not chase short odds. A 90% hit rate at 1.20 is often priced about right. The value tends to sit a little further out.
- For card bets, check the referee. A player's card rate is only half the story. Look up the official on the referee stats page, since a strict referee lifts every card bet in the game.
- Dig into the player. Every card links to the player's own page, where you can filter the same stat by home or away, league and season. You can also browse the ready-made trends for shots, tackles and cards.
Free and Premium
You can use the Player Props Finder for free. A free account gives you 3 advanced searches a day, which is enough to research a weekend. Premium removes the daily limit so you can search as much as you like, and it comes with a 3-day free trial. See the pricing page for what is included.