Unit
A standardized bet size; typically 1% of your bankroll. Lets bettors compare results across different stake levels.
A unit is a single normalized bet. Tipsters and bettors use units instead of dollars so results are comparable across bankrolls.
Standard convention: 1 unit = 1% of bankroll.
- $1,000 bankroll → 1 unit = $10
- $10,000 bankroll → 1 unit = $100
Tipsters report results as “+12.4 units on the year” rather than dollars. Sharp bettors flat-bet; same unit every wager; to reduce variance damage. The opposite (varying bet size by confidence) is called “to-win” or “tier betting” and works only if your tiering is genuinely calibrated.