What Is a Betting Unit?
If you have read a betting record and seen someone up plus twelve units, you have met the unit. It is the standard way bettors talk about size and results without putting their actual bankroll on display. Here is what it means and how to set yours.
A unit is a percent of your bankroll
A unit is a fixed slice of your bankroll used as your standard bet size, most often one to two percent. If your bankroll is one thousand dollars and you use one percent units, a unit is ten dollars. Someone with a ten thousand dollar bankroll using the same rule bets a hundred dollars a unit. Same discipline, different dollar amount.
Why records are kept in units
Units let two bettors of very different sizes compare results on the same scale. A record of plus twenty units is meaningful whether the person risks ten dollars or a thousand per bet, and it keeps the focus on skill rather than on flashing large dollar figures. It also travels well: you can apply someone else's unit record to your own bankroll by scaling.
How to set your unit
Pick a bankroll you can afford to lose, choose a percent you are comfortable with, usually one to two percent, and keep the unit flat. Betting the same unit every time is the core of sound bankroll management, and it stops one bad night from doing lasting damage. When you follow an advisor, use your own unit size rather than copying their dollar amount.
Units on Betvisors
Advisor records on Betvisors are shown with the metrics that actually matter, including results in units and the odds each pick was posted at, scored by the platform so they cannot be edited after the fact. That lets you judge a record on a fair scale. See bankroll management, how records are verified, and how to find a good handicapper. 21+. Please play responsibly.