Variance Lab
Find profitable patterns and see which pre-match events are replicating them.
Variance Lab is OddsMonitor’s premium backtesting and pre-match scouting module: it analyzes historical events, identifies parameter combinations that produced profit, and helps you find not-yet-started matches with similar characteristics.
Use historical data to find pre-match opportunities.
Variance Lab does not just show which signal appeared on a single event. Its goal is to help you discover which configurations worked in the past and then search for not-yet-started matches that match those same parameters.
See how to move from backtest to PRE-match search.
In the video you can see the practical Variance Lab workflow: selecting filters, searching for profitable historical patterns and applying the same parameters to not-yet-started events.
Demo video del modulo. I dati visualizzati dipendono dagli eventi storici disponibili e dai filtri applicati.
Test the history
Start from settled events and filter by signal, odds, variance, gap, ratio, matched volume, overround and peak timing.
Find profitable patterns
Check which combinations produced profit, positive ROI, interesting hit rate and a sufficient number of events.
Apply filters to PRE matches
Once you find a pattern, you can search for upcoming matches showing the same market parameters.
Create an operational shortlist
Get a list of matches to monitor before kick-off, based on patterns that already showed profit in history.
The value lies in the combination of filters.
A single isolated data point says little. Variance Lab becomes powerful when you combine multiple conditions and observe whether that configuration historically produced an edge.
From profitable patterns to not-yet-started matches.
After finding a profitable historical configuration, you can reuse the same parameters to search for matches still in pre-match.
In this way Variance Lab becomes a selection tool: it does not simply tell you what happened in the past, it helps you identify future events showing conditions similar to those that produced profit.
First find the profitable pattern, then search for compatible PRE matches.
The final question is not just “did this signal appear?”, but: did this combination produce profit in the past, and are there upcoming matches replicating it today?
The values above are only a graphic example. In the real module, results are calculated on historical data stored by OddsMonitor.
A good pattern is not one that wins once. It is one that holds over time.
The first filter is simple: did the setup produce historical profit?
A pattern with few events can be random. You need a minimum number of cases.
Winning often is not enough: you need to understand whether the return is proportionate to the risk.
The pattern must be built with clear parameters, not with random selection.
Want to find PRE matches based on already tested patterns?
Use Variance Lab to start from historical data, identify profitable setups and search upcoming matches showing similar conditions.