What Total Return means
Total return is the full amount paid out on a winning bet - your original stake plus your profit, combined into a single number. This is the actual dollar figure you'll see credited back to your sportsbook balance, and confusing it with "profit" is one of the most common sources of newer bettors overestimating how much a winning bet actually nets them.
Key points
- Total return is the full amount paid out on a winning bet - your original stake plus your profit, combined into a single number.
- This is the actual dollar figure you'll see credited back to your sportsbook balance, and confusing it with "profit" is one of the most common sources of newer bettors overestimating how much a winning bet actually nets them.
Example and context
In practice
Total return is the full amount paid out on a winning bet - your original stake plus your profit, combined into a single number.
Related glossary terms
These terms sit in the same part of the betting vocabulary and are useful to read next.
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