What “units” mean, and why records are counted in them
A unit is a fixed amount risked on every pick. Counting results in units shows whether an approach actually made money, which a win-loss record alone can't tell you.
When a record says “+9.4 units,” it's answering a different question than “299-273.” The win-loss count tells you how often the picks won. Units tell you whether they made money, after accounting for the price of every pick.
One unit, every pick
A unit is just a fixed stake, the same on every pick. If your unit is $100, every pick risks $100. Counting in units instead of dollars lets anyone compare records regardless of how much each person actually puts down.
Why price matters
Not every win pays the same. At -110, a one-unit win returns about 0.91 units of profit. At +150, it returns 1.5. A loss costs one unit either way.
That's why a record can win more than half its picks and still be down, or win fewer than half and still be up. It depends on the prices.
How we count ours
Every pick counts as one unit risked, at the price stored when the pick locked before the game. No pick is resized after the fact, and nothing is left out. Wins, losses and pushes all count; a push returns the stake and counts zero.
We also show what that means at a flat $100 a pick, and the unit totals for recent windows, on the record page.
Read units over time
Units swing. Any approach has losing weeks and winning weeks, and short windows can look very different from the long run. The honest way to judge a record is the full history, logged before the games, with every result left in.
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