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Much to everyone’s disbelief, the Leicester City soccer team was crowned the winner of the English Premier League Monday.
The group’s chances last summer were small, to say the very least. Back then, William Hill, a British gambling group, put the likelihood of this Foxes of Leicester City, a fledgling group based two hours north west of London, of winning at 5,000-to-1. Essentially, the group had a .0002 percent chance of being the best team in the league of 20. Except for the 25 people who bet a combined total of only $243 on the group through William Hill, nobody anticipated this from Leicester City.
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Here’s some perspective: William Hill after put the chances of Elvis being found alive and well at 2,000-to-1 and also an acknowledgment from the U.S. government that the first moon landing was faked at 500-to-1.
And a few more perspective, from ESPN:
Not only did the Foxes have a 13-game winless run last year, but they were just six points from being relegated to a lesser level of competition. Leicester City was not even at the Premier League 2 decades ago. The club earned marketing to England’s top soccer league beginning in the 2014-15 year for the first time in 10 years.
In the world of overused sports tropes, declaring a victory”one of the greatest upsets ever” is a frequent sin. But in this circumstance, this really is the biggest upset in modern sports history.

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