Search
The search bar lets you jump directly to any league, event, or player and then pick a market — all without navigating menus.
What search does
The search bar sits at the top of the app and gives you a direct path to any odds view without scrolling through sport menus or filter dropdowns. Type a league name, a team matchup, or a player name and the bar resolves it to a specific market on the Odds Screen, opening that exact market view in one or two steps.
Press / from anywhere in the app (when no input is focused) to jump the cursor into the search bar instantly.
What you can search
Search works across three categories of entity, each returned in its own group:
- Leagues — matched instantly from a local index as you type; results appear before the network round-trip completes. Each result shows the league name and its parent sport.
- Events — specific matchups such as "Lakers vs Celtics" or "Chiefs vs Bills". Each result shows the teams, the league, and the scheduled start time.
- Players — individual athletes; useful for going straight to player-prop markets. Each result shows the canonical player name from the SmartStake registry and their league. Sportsbooks often spell the same name differently, but those aliases appear as one player result.
The dropdown opens as soon as you have typed at least two characters. Results for events and players come from the server with a short debounce; leagues resolve immediately from cached data.
Two-step selection
Selecting a result does not navigate immediately. The bar enters a second step where the chosen league, event, or player appears as a chip and the input refocuses to let you filter markets. The market list is scoped to the sport of whatever you selected: choosing an NFL event shows NFL markets, and choosing a player shows only player-prop markets for that player's sport.
Skip market selection
If you do not need a specific market, press Enter after selecting an entity and the app will navigate to the Odds Screen with that entity pre-filtered. For a selected player, it defaults to the first available player-prop market.
You can remove the chip at any time with the X button on it, which returns the bar to the initial entity-search state.
Keyboard shortcuts
/— focuses the search bar from anywhere on the page (ignored when an input or textarea is already focused).Enter— when an entity chip is selected and no market is highlighted in the list, navigates to the Odds Screen without waiting for you to pick a market.
Where search takes you
Every search result resolves to the Odds Screen. The URL is built with the relevant parameters: matchKey and league for events, personId, playerName, and timeframe for players, and league and timeframe for leagues. The canonical personId selects the player; playerName is only the readable label shown in the interface. Any sportsbook selection already active on the current page is carried into the new URL. From there you can explore lines across books or drill into a market view for the full cross-book breakdown.