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Much to everyone’s disbelief, the Leicester City soccer team has been crowned the winner of the English Premier League Monday.
The team’s chances last summer were small, to say the very least. Back then, William Hill, a British gambling group, put the odds of this Foxes of Leicester City, a fledgling team based two hours north of London, of winning at 5,000-to-1. Essentially, the team had a .0002 percent likelihood of being the best team in the league of 20. Except for the 25 individuals who wager a combined total of only $243 on the team through William Hill, no one anticipated this from Leicester City.
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Here is some perspective: William Hill once put the odds of Elvis being found alive and well at 2,000-to-1 and also an acknowledgment by the U.S. government that the first moon landing was faked at 500-to-1.
And a few more perspective, from ESPN:
Not merely did the Foxes have a 13-game winless run last season, they had been only six points out of being relegated to a lower degree of competition. Leicester City wasn’t even in the Premier League 2 years back. The club earned promotion to England’s top soccer league starting in the 2014-15 year for the first time in 10 years.
In the world of overused sports tropes, announcing a victory”one of the biggest upsets ever” is a sin that is common. But in this circumstance, this really is the biggest upset in modern sports history.

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