How to restrict the bot to certain competitions and teams

A bot looks in every competition unless you tell it otherwise. In Competitions and teams, in step 3 (Conditions), you choose which leagues the bot works in, which matches are left out and, if you want, only certain teams.

All, Only these or All except these

• All: the bot looks in every competition. It doesn't count towards the 3 conditions.
• Only these: the bot only looks in the competitions on the list.
• All except these: it looks in all of them except those on the list.

With Only these or All except these, type the name in Search competition and click each one to add it (another click removes it). The search stays open, so you can add several in a row. If you type "England", Add all these competitions appears, so you can add the English ones in one go.

There are two more ways to fill the list:

• My favourites adds the leagues you marked as favourites in your settings;
• you can paste a comma-separated list, like the one the Time Machine copies. The Copy list button does the opposite: it copies this bot's competitions so you can paste them into another.

Only these and All except these count as 1 of the 3 conditions.

Excluding types of match

Under the competitions there are four boxes: Exclude women's, Exclude friendlies, Exclude cups and Exclude u23, u21, u19. They are for when you want lots of competitions, but not these matches.

Exclusions don't count towards the 3 conditions: they remove matches from the list, but they don't make the bot more demanding within a match.

Keywords

To filter by part of a name, use Keywords and choose Name contains or Name doesn’t contain. Type the parts separated by commas: "England" picks up every English competition, "U19" the under-19 ones. In the old builder this was called words to include or exclude.

Keywords count as a condition.

Only these teams

In Teams, choose Only these teams and search for them by name. They appear with the badge and the country, so you don't mix up two clubs with the same name. My favourites adds the favourite teams from your settings.

In Playing, you choose Doesn't matter, At home or Away. With At home or Away, you can also set the team's pre-match odds in As favourite, for example Favourite (odds up to 1.80).

The list of teams counts as a condition, and the team's odds count as another.

Which one to use?

• You follow a few leagues and know them well: Only these.
• You want almost everything except a few: All except these, with the exclusions.
• You want a whole country or to remove a type of name: Keywords.
• You follow a few teams: Only these teams.

To decide, the Time Machine helps: it runs the bot on past matches, and the list of leagues in the report can be copied and pasted here.