{"id":5700112,"date":"2025-02-27T11:18:17","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T11:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bethunter.io\/yield\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T09:15:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T09:15:29","slug":"yield","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bethunter.io\/en\/yield\/","title":{"rendered":"Yield"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Yield in sports betting<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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What is the betting yield? | What is considered a good yield?<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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If you’ve been betting on sports for a while, you’ve probably heard the term yield<\/strong> more than once. But could you define it precisely, calculate it and say what it’s for?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yield is the return<\/strong> on your bets: it measures, as a percentage, how much you’ve made (or lost) relative to the money you’ve staked. It’s one of the most widely used indicators for judging a betting method, because it puts bets of different sizes on the same footing.<\/p>\n

Backing a price is easy. Knowing exactly what return your last bet (or your last hundred) produced<\/strong> is harder. Let’s see what yield means in sports betting and how it’s calculated.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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What is the Yield in a bet?<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Let’s start with what it isn’t<\/strong>: many people confuse yield with net profit<\/strong>, that is, with how much you got back on top of your stake. Net profit is an amount in pounds or euros; yield is the ratio<\/strong> between that profit and the amount staked, expressed as a percentage.<\/p>\n

To calculate the yield of a bet, here’s a hypothetical example, just to show the maths: you stake \u20ac20 at odds of 1.20 and the bet wins. You get \u20ac24 back, so the net profit is \u20ac4. Divide 4 by the \u20ac20 staked and multiply by 100.<\/p>\n

It’s a very simple formula<\/strong> that gives a percentage: that number is the yield, the profit (or loss) relative to the money staked.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The yield formula<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yield (%) = net profit \u00f7 total staked \u00d7 100<\/strong><\/p>\n

Net profit = amount returned \u2212 amount staked. If it’s negative, the yield is negative too.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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In the example: 4 \u00f7 20 \u00d7 100 = 20%<\/strong>. If the same bet had lost, the net profit would have been \u2212\u20ac20 and the yield \u2212100%<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

That’s why the yield of a single bet tells you very little. It becomes useful when you calculate it across many bets together<\/strong>: add up the net profit of all of them, winners and losers, and divide it by the total staked. For example, 50 bets of \u20ac20 make \u20ac1,000 staked: with a final balance of +\u20ac30 the yield for the period is 3%; with a balance of \u2212\u20ac45, it’s \u22124.5%.<\/p>\n

That’s what knowing the yield of your bets is for: telling whether a method works beyond individual results, and spotting strategy mistakes early<\/strong>, before losses build up.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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As you’ve seen, yield can also be negative<\/strong>. If it stays that way over time, it’s a sign the strategy isn’t working as it should, often because bets are placed on gut feeling rather than numbers. That’s why it makes sense to choose bets with a mathematical criterion, as with surebets<\/strong> (every outcome of an event is covered at different bookmakers) and valuebets<\/strong> (you only bet when the odds are higher than the real probability justifies).<\/p>\n

In the video below you can see how BetOven works: the software that detects surebets and valuebets and places the bets on the accounts you connect, following the rules you set:<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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BetOven<\/strong> is AI-powered betting automation software for Windows: it compares live odds across several bookmakers, detects the price differences behind surebets and valuebets and places the bets automatically on your own accounts<\/strong>, using the filters you choose.<\/p>\n

It doesn’t work with tips or luck, but with a calculation: it only bets when the odds meet the conditions you’ve set. In the web dashboard you’ll find your history, balances and statistics per bookmaker, yield included<\/strong>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\nWhat is considered a good Yield?\n<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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A negative yield sustained over time means the method is losing money<\/strong>: in the medium term, the only way to keep going is to deposit new funds.<\/p>\n

Any yield that stays consistently above zero<\/strong> is a good sign, because it shows that, on average, the odds you took paid more than the events were worth. But there’s no threshold that applies to everyone: a good yield depends on the type of bet<\/strong>.<\/p>\n