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View Poll Results: How do you calculate ROI
ROI = (revenue – cost) / (cost) 41 65.08%
ROI = (revenue) / (cost) 18 28.57%
Alternate method 4 6.35%
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Old 01-22-2016, 10:55 PM   #16
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I was having what I thought was a pretty strange discussion with someone today. I then realized they live in an alternate universe from mine.

This is the right formula: ROI = (revenue – cost) / (cost)
This is the wrong formula: ROI = (revenue) / (cost)
No, I really don't think this is subjective.

e.g. a 15/1 odds horse pays $32.00.

The ROI for the investment is = ((32-2)/2) = 1500% (15:1)
The ROI for the investment is not (32/2) = 1600% (16:1)

I'll bet you use that to pick up chicks at Mensa conventions.
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Old 01-22-2016, 11:35 PM   #17
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First equation is "Profit on Investment". Second equation is "Return on Investment". That's the way I've always termed it.
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Old 01-23-2016, 12:22 AM   #18
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I'll bet you use that to pick up chicks at Mensa conventions.
I can't disclose my methods it might lower my ROI
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Old 01-23-2016, 12:41 AM   #19
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If your winning percentage at the track is 29%, and your average mutuel price is $9.20...what's your ROI?
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Old 01-23-2016, 03:02 AM   #20
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it makes a big difference.

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results after 34 races
11 wins in the straight win pool returned $23.10 .68 roi

11 win based on the exacta bets returned $30.40 .89 roi

the exacta return exceeded the win pool return in 9 0f the 11 races.

if, in the long term the win pool bets return a normal .83 roi, then the exacta pool roi could be in the area of 1.09 roi

.83/.68 x .89 = 1.09



this needs to be corrected to return-wins /cost,
(23.1-11)/34 = .355 roi
(30.4-11)/34 = .57 roi

(.83/.355) x .57= 1.33 roi
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Old 01-23-2016, 03:55 AM   #21
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If your winning percentage at the track is 29%, and your average mutuel price is $9.20...what's your ROI?
(.29*4.60(which is your return on every $1 bet))/1 equal 1.334 Thus you have a 33.4% roi(which basically states for every dollar you bet you made 33.4 cents).

or you can use (.29*9.20)/2 and of course you get the same answer.
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Old 01-23-2016, 04:45 AM   #22
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If your winning percentage at the track is 29%, and your average mutuel price is $9.20...what's your ROI?
$2 win ticket (assumption)
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((win rate*revenue)-cost))/(cost) = ((0.29*9.20)-2))/(2) = 0.334 = +33.4%
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I can't disclose my methods it might lower my ROI
Good comeback, Courtney
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Old 01-23-2016, 02:10 PM   #24
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ROI means "Return On Investment". If you bet $1000 then that is your "investment". If you are returned $1200, that is your "return". Your profit is $200 ($1200 -$1000 = $200)

ROI formula is Return/Investment ($1200/$1000 = 1.20 or a 20% profit on every dollar bet) (a 1.00 ROI is break even, no profit and no loss).

How much simpler could it be?
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Old 01-23-2016, 02:40 PM   #25
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ROI means "Return On Investment". If you bet $1000 then that is your "investment". If you are returned $1200, that is your "return". Your profit is $200 ($1200 -$1000 = $200)

ROI formula is Return/Investment ($1200/$1000 = 1.20 or a 20% profit on every dollar bet) (a 1.00 ROI is break even, no profit and no loss).

How much simpler could it be?
That pretty much sums it up.
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ROI means "Return On Investment". If you bet $1000 then that is your "investment". If you are returned $1200, that is your "return". Your profit is $200 ($1200 -$1000 = $200)

ROI formula is Return/Investment ($1200/$1000 = 1.20 or a 20% profit on every dollar bet) (a 1.00 ROI is break even, no profit and no loss).

How much simpler could it be?
Raybo, your formula is correct, but the word "total" should be put in front of "return" to read "total return" and in front of investment to read "total investment".

I realize that you implied that, but there seems to be a difficulty by some in understanding this simple concept.
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Raybo, your formula is correct, but the word "total" should be put in front of "return" to read "total return" and in front of investment to read "total investment".

I realize that you implied that, but there seems to be a difficulty by some in understanding this simple concept.
Well, when you bet $40 on a horse to win, isn't that your "total investment" in that particular wager? And for that wager, if you are returned $80, isn't that your "total return" for that wager? There is no need to add "total" to the formula, the investment amount is the investment amount, and the return amount is the return amount. Add all your individual investment amounts together, and add all your individual return amounts together, and then divide the return amounts by the investment amounts, those are your "totals".
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If one is talking about return on "initial" investment, then you're talking about something totally different. You would be talking about "growth" or "gain", of initial bankroll, not ROI.

I had that discussion way back in 2004, I think, after I turned a $400 bankroll into over a $7700 bankroll in 2 months time, without depositing any further amounts into the bankroll.
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Well, when you bet $40 on a horse to win, isn't that your "total investment" in that particular wager? And for that wager, if you are returned $80, isn't that your "total return" for that wager? There is no need to add "total" to the formula, the investment amount is the investment amount, and the return amount is the return amount. Add all your individual investment amounts together, and add all your individual return amounts together, and then divide the return amounts by the investment amounts, those are your "totals".
My suggestion wasn't as a correction, but to state common usage.
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Actually, common use is to say return and investment. No one say TROTI, they say ROI.
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