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Much to everyone’s disbelief, the Leicester City soccer club has been crowned the winner of the English Premier League Monday.
The team’s chances last summer were small, to say the least. Back then, William Hill, a British betting group, place the odds of the Foxes of Leicester City, a fledgling team based two hours north west of London, of winning at 5,000-to-1. Essentially, the group had a .0002 percent likelihood of becoming the best team in the league of 20. Except for the 25 individuals who wager a combined total of only $243 on the team during William Hill, no one anticipated this from Leicester City.
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Here’s some perspective: William Hill once place the chances 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 some more perspective, from ESPN:
Not merely did the Foxes have a 13-game winless run last year, but they were just six points out of being relegated to a lesser degree of competition. Leicester City was not even in the Premier League 2 years back. The club earned promotion to England’s top soccer league starting in the 2014-15 season for the first time in 10 decades.
In the world of overused sports tropes, declaring a success”among the greatest upsets ever” is a frequent sin. But in this case, this really is the largest upset in modern sports history.

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