A record of 110-88 sounds good. Whether it made money depends entirely on the prices taken, and units are how you find out.
Odds format:
Two bettors can both be 55% and one is profitable while the other is not, because they took different prices. A record only means something once you attach the odds to it. This is the first thing to check when someone shows you a win percentage without a unit figure beside it.
A unit is one standard bet. Expressing results in units rather than dollars lets records be compared across bankrolls and keeps the discussion about performance rather than stake size. The convention is that a unit is a consistent percentage of bankroll, usually in the range of one to three percent.
ROI here is units won divided by units staked. It answers how much each dollar risked returned on average. Professional-level ROI in liquid markets is typically low single digits over large samples. A claimed 20% ROI over several hundred bets at standard prices should prompt questions rather than a subscription.
A push returns the stake and counts as neither a win nor a loss, but it was still a bet placed and it belongs in the denominator when you calculate yield. Records that quietly omit pushes flatter the win rate. The same applies to any record where the number of graded bets does not reconcile with the number published.
It assumes a single average price across every bet, which is a simplification. Real records contain a spread of odds, and a handful of large underdogs can move the units figure substantially. The honest version of a record is every bet listed with its own price, which is also the version worth trusting.
Low single digits sustained over a large sample is genuinely good in liquid markets. Double-digit ROI over hundreds of bets at standard prices is extraordinarily rare and worth examining closely.
Commonly one to three percent of bankroll. The point is consistency: varying stake size by confidence makes a record impossible to interpret and usually reflects emotion rather than edge.
Because you have been winning at short prices and losing at longer ones, or paying more vig than your edge covers. It is the most common way a respectable-looking record loses money.
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