Most sports betting apps show you odds. Parlay Research shows you why those odds might be wrong—and lets you ask questions in plain English. We built it because we were tired of switching between five apps just to figure out if a player prop was worth taking.

The Problem We Solved

If you've ever tried to research a bet, you know the drill. Open ESPN for injury reports. Check Twitter for lineup news. Compare odds across DraftKings, FanDuel, and BetMGM in separate tabs. Look up the player's last 10 games on Basketball Reference. By the time you're done, the line has moved.

We wanted everything in one place. Not just odds—context. The kind of information that actually helps you make a decision.

What We Built

Live Odds From 10 Sportsbooks

The homepage shows every NFL, NBA, and college football game for the week. For each game, you see the best available spread, moneyline, and total across DraftKings, FanDuel, BetMGM, Caesars, ESPN BET, Hard Rock, BetRivers, Fanatics, Bally Bet, and BetPARX. Click on any odds button and see what every book is offering—no more opening 10 browser tabs.

The platform automatically highlights the best line. If FanDuel has Chiefs -3 and DraftKings has Chiefs -2.5, you'll see DraftKings featured. Simple, but it saves real money over a season.

Scout AI: Ask Anything

This is the part we're most proud of. Scout is an AI assistant that actually knows sports. Type "Tell me about the Lakers" and you get their recent record, key injuries, betting trends, and upcoming schedule. Ask "Who's been hot from three?" and Scout pulls the relevant stats.

Under the hood, Scout uses RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) to pull from our database of player stats, team data, injury reports, and historical odds. It's not just ChatGPT with a sports prompt—it has access to real, current data.

Some things people actually ask Scout:

"What's the injury situation for tonight's Celtics game?"
"How has Patrick Mahomes performed against division rivals this year?"
"Show me props for Jayson Tatum"
"Which teams are good against the spread as underdogs?"

Scout answers in seconds. No more digging through articles or spreadsheets.

Game Pages With Everything

Click into any game and you get the full picture: both rosters with injury statuses, depth charts, team statistics, recent performance, and a news feed pulling the latest headlines. For NBA games, we show player props with odds comparison. For NFL, you get position-by-position breakdowns.

There's also a body diagram that visualizes where injuries are on each team. Sounds gimmicky, but it's actually useful for seeing at a glance whether a team's O-line is banged up or their secondary is healthy.

Shareable Betslips

Build a parlay on Parlay Research, click share, and you get a URL. Anyone with that link can see your picks—no account required. They can load your betslip into their own account with one click, or export it directly to their sportsbook of choice.

We built this for the betting community on Twitter and Discord. If you're posting picks for your followers, you shouldn't have to screenshot your betslip and hope people can read it. Send a link, they see exactly what you're betting, with current odds.

How It Works (The Technical Bit)

Data ingestion: We pull odds from multiple APIs, normalize everything into a consistent format, and store it in PostgreSQL. Odds update continuously—when a line moves at DraftKings, our users see it within seconds.

GraphQL API: The frontend talks to a GraphQL layer that assembles game data, rosters, statistics, and odds in a single request. This is why game pages load fast—we're not making 15 separate API calls.

Scout's brain: Scout uses a RAG pipeline. When you ask a question, it first retrieves relevant data from our database (player stats, team records, recent news), then sends that context along with your question to an LLM. The model generates an answer grounded in real data, not hallucinations.

Caching: Popular games get cached aggressively. Sunday afternoon during NFL season, thousands of users are looking at the same games. We cache at multiple levels so the database doesn't melt.

What's Next

We're adding more sports (MLB and NHL are coming), deeper player prop analysis, and letting Scout learn from each user's betting history to personalize recommendations. We're also working on QR codes for betslip sharing and social media integrations.

The goal is simple: make Parlay Research the one place you go before placing a bet. All the data, all the odds, and an AI that can actually help you think through the decision.

Try it at parlayresearch.com.

Building Parlay Research: A Smarter Way to Bet on Sports