Sports Betting Tips: Winning Percentage vs Units Won

When online betting, fans should look towards the units they have won rather than an overall winning percentage as this is a better indicator of profit. Units won calculates the overall profit based on the total number of games they have won. For fans betting on units won you want to look at an overall victory total instead of your winning percentage each day. If you end 150 wagers with a 55 percent winning percentage you have won 83 units and lost 67. Yet if you are looking at each day’s individual winning percentage you are likely to bet higher and higher in an attempt to inflate your winning percentage.

The sports enthusiast with the mentality of winning 55 percent overall is using the units won mentality in that you should have a lot of volume in order to accumulate a smaller overall profit. In sports such as hockey and baseball, this school of betting is the best route to follow when wanting to make an overall profit. To come out with a 55 percent winning total in the sports betting world is a quite successful mentality.

Conversely, the 60 percent expectation for winning percentage, works better in a sport such as football or the NCAA March Madness tournament in which there is a select amount of games. For football it is likely to win 60 percent of the games if you bet the favorites in a 16 game season. Sportsbooks become affective in this school of gambling, as most offer highly favorable lines for smaller amounts of games.

For fans that enjoy watching baseball as we previously mentioned the units won mentality can allow you to make a profit in the long run. Here you accept that you may lose but overall know that you will come out with an above 500 win percentage. In football conversely if you lose seven games you can’t make a profit.