Are you tired of manually sifting through hundreds of football fixtures to find matches that meet your specific criteria? What if you could create intelligent filters that automatically identify matches based on team performance, form, and historical data?
Introducing Strategies , KickerGPT's powerful PRO feature that lets you build custom filters to find fixtures that match your criteria. Whether you're analyzing high-scoring home teams, teams with strong head-to-head records, or matches with specific goal patterns, Strategies makes it easy to discover the fixtures that matter most to you.
What Are Strategies?
Strategies are custom filters you create using a combination of conditions based on team performance metrics, form, injuries, and historical data. Think of them as your personal assistant that scans through all available fixtures and surfaces only the matches that meet your exact criteria.
Each strategy consists of:
- A name to help you remember what it's for
- An optional description for additional context
- One or more conditions (up to 10) that define your filtering criteria
Why Use Strategies?
Save Time
Instead of manually checking dozens of fixtures, let Strategies do the heavy lifting. With a few clicks, you can filter through hundreds of matches to find exactly what you're looking for.
Stay Consistent
By defining your criteria upfront, you ensure you're always applying the same logic when searching for fixtures. No more second-guessing or inconsistent filtering.
Discover Patterns
Strategies can help you identify patterns and trends you might have missed. By combining multiple conditions, you can create sophisticated filters that surface unique match characteristics.
How to Create Your First Strategy
Creating a strategy is straightforward. Here's a step-by-step guide:
Step 1: Navigate to Strategies
From the main navigation, click on Strategies. This feature is available to PRO users, so make sure you have an active PRO subscription.
Step 2: Click "Create Strategy"
You'll see a "Create Strategy" button in the top right corner. Click it to open the strategy creation dialog.
Step 3: Name Your Strategy
Give your strategy a descriptive name. For example:
- "High-Scoring Home Teams"
- "Strong Away Form"
- "Head-to-Head Dominance"
- "Low Injury Risk Matches"
Step 4: Add a Description (Optional)
While optional, a description helps you remember what this strategy is designed to find. For example: "Finds home teams with strong recent form and high goal-scoring rates."
Step 5: Add Conditions
This is where the magic happens. Click "Add Condition" to create your first filter.
Every condition has four key components:
1. Condition Type - What metric to evaluate
Choose from 11 different metrics:
- Home Form: Form points (W=3, D=1, L=0) from the home team's recent matches
- Away Form: Form points from the away team's recent matches
- Win Rate: Win percentage in recent matches
- Head to Head: Win percentage in head-to-head matches between these teams
- Injuries: Number of injured players
- Goals Scored: Goals scored per match
- Goals Conceded: Goals conceded per match
- Recent Goals Total: Total goals (both teams) per match
- Clean Sheets: Clean sheet percentage
- Both Teams To Score (BTTS): Percentage of matches where both teams scored
- H2H Goals Scored: Goals scored per head-to-head match
2. Operator - How to compare
- `>` Greater than
- `<` Less than
- `=` Equals
- `>=` Greater than or equals
- `<=` Less than or equals
3. Value - The threshold to compare against
A numeric value that the metric must meet
4. Target - Which team(s) to evaluate
- `HOME` - Apply condition to home team only
- `AWAY` - Apply condition to away team only
- `BOTH` - Both teams must meet the condition
5. Last Matches (Optional) - Time window
Specify how many recent matches to consider (1-20, default: 5)
You can add up to 10 conditions per strategy. When you add multiple conditions, a fixture must meet all conditions to be included in the results. This allows you to create very specific filters.
Real-World Strategy Examples
Let me show you two practical strategies you can create:
Strategy 1: "Best home team"
Goal: Find matches where the home team has strong form while the away team is struggling.
Conditions:
1. Home Team Strong Form
- Type: `Home Form`
- Operator: `>`
- Value: `1`
- Target: `Home`
- Last Matches: `5` (default)
Meaning: Home team has earned more than 1 point from their last 5 home matches
2. Away Team Weak Form
- Type: `Away Form`
- Operator: `<=`
- Value: `1`
- Target: `Away`
- Last Matches: `5` (default)
-Meaning: Away team has earned 1 point or less from their last 5 away matches
What This Finds: Matches where a home team with any positive form faces a struggling away team with virtually no away form. This creates excellent opportunities for home wins, as you're combining home advantage with contrasting team momentum.
Strategy 2: "More than 1 goals to happen in a match"
Goal: Find matches where there are higher or better chances of more than 2 goals happening.
Conditions:
1. Head-to-Head Goal Scoring
- Type: `H2H Goals Scored`
- Operator: `>=`
- Value: `1`
- Target: `Both`
- Last Matches: `5` (default)
- Meaning: The team has scored at least 1 goal per match in recent head-to-head encounters
2. Home Team Scoring Consistency
- Type: `Goals Scored`
- Operator: `>=`
- Value: `1`
- Target: `Home`
- Last Matches: `5` (default)
-Meaning: Home team averages at least 1 goal per match in recent games
3. Away Team Scoring Consistency
- Type: `Goals Scored`
- Operator: `>=`
- Value: `1`
- Target: `Away`
- Last Matches: `5` (default)
-Meaning: A team averages at least 1 goal per match in recent games
What This Finds: Matches where both teams have proven goal-scoring ability, with historical evidence from their head-to-head meetings showing they consistently find the net. This creates a high probability of seeing at least 2 goals in the match.
Finding Matches
Click the **"Find Matches"** button on any active strategy card. Boot Room Bot will scan through all available fixtures and return only those that meet all your strategy's conditions.
The results page shows:
- Total number of matches found
- Matches grouped by league
- Each match's details, including which conditions were matched
Tips for Creating Effective Strategies
Start Simple
Begin with 1-2 conditions to understand how they work. You can always add more conditions later to refine your filter.
Use Realistic Values
Don't set thresholds that are too high or too low. For example, requiring a 100% win rate will likely return zero results. Start with moderate values and adjust based on results.
Strategies are a powerful way to take control of your football fixture research. By defining your criteria upfront, you can quickly identify fixtures that match your analysis approach, saving time and ensuring consistency.
Whether you're a casual fan looking to find interesting matches or a serious analyst building systematic research approaches, Strategies gives you the tools to filter through the noise and focus on what matters.
Ready to create your first strategy? Head to the KickerGPT and start building your custom filters today!
Note: Strategies is a PRO feature on KickerGPT. Upgrade to PRO to unlock unlimited strategy creation and advanced filtering capabilities.