Tutorial: Creating A Search

Objective

Create a search to discover compelling trends.

Procedure

Choose your inputs. Get the data that you want to see. You have full customization over the results.

Required Inputs:

• Select Team: Choose an individual team or "All Teams" to see league wide trends
• Record Type: Choose which historical record type you'd like to see - Straight Up (SU), Against The Spread (ATS) or Over/Under (OU). Multiple selections are enabled
• Favorite/Underdog: Choose whether you want to see your selected team's historical performance as a Favorite, Underdog, or both (Overall)
  • If you select Favorite or Underdog, you have the ability to specify a spread range or a single spread.  For example, you could select Underdog and adjust the slider to +7 to +30 to see how a team has performed when getting between 7 to 30 points
• Time Frame: Choose whether you want to see your selected team's historical performance over a selected number of past games or over a selected number of past seasons
  • For NFL, our database goes back to 2009 for the regular season and postseason and 2012 for the preaseason
  • For NBA, our database goes back to 2015 for the regular season and postseason
• Season Type: Choose whether you want to see your selected team's historical performance in the preseason, regular season or postseason.  Multiple selections are enabled

Additional Variables:

• Choose which additional filters you'd like to layer on
  • Head-to-head vs. an opponent, home/away, temperature, after a win, etc.
• You have the option to layer on more than one filter should you want to create a more granular search
  • Be mindful that adding more than one filter may decrease the significance of the sample size