Keeping Track Of Your Units.

[dc32551]

Hello i'm new to this forum and new to sports betting as a whole. I just got an account set up at a book and i'm wondering about units. i was wondering how you keep track of them. i'm not a big noney better(probably betting between 10 and 500 dollars). Can someone give me an example of how to keep track of units. Any help would be much appreciated.
thanks
Tanner Guindon
Brantford,Ontario,Canada

 

[BgFutbol]

Hello, welcome to the forum.

Units is a term used by sports handicappers, monitors and amateur handicappers posting in sports betting forums used in correspondence to record to show the actual amount of money won or lost relative to their win/loss record. We'll give you an example here:

Let's say you go to a pro handicapper's site and he states that he is 50-35 for +11.5 units on the season. Let's assume that he's calling a unit a $110 bet to win $100 on each game. At the standard -110 betting odds, he's more or less saying that he's won 50 games (50x$100=$5000.00) and lost 35 (35x-110= minus $3850.00.)

Since his unit is $100 and he's up 11.5 units, this would state that he is beating the book for $1150 on the season.

Don't be confused though, a unit doesn't have to be $100. If your a small bettor which MANY are, your unit may be $10 with your bets risking $11 to win $10. In that case, you would be up 11.5 x $10 = $115.00.

Since you will bet with small bankroll I suggest you to play with unit of 10$ or less. You wont lose your money fast in this way. You can record your picks by microsoft office. Its ofcourse done by hand, but you can always look back at what you did.