May
2nd
2016
A Remarkable Achievement · 9:38pm May 2nd, 2016
Leicester City Football Club have just won the Premier League. The odds of this at the start of the season were five thousand to one. To put that into perspective, the odds of the Loch Ness monster being confirmed unequivocally to exist are are five hundred to one. In other words, it was considered ten times more likely that someone would fish out Nessy. Elvis being discovered alive gets you odds of two thousand to one.
But they did it, and I send my warmest congratulations.
In more pony related news, I am currently writing a hefty essay on crossovers, in order to analyse why so many of them are terrible. I will publish it after it has been edited, in a few days.
I hope you are well, my good ladies and gentlemen.
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A British Gentleman · 197 views
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Elvis being alive is two and a half times more likely than Nessie existing? Who's setting these odds?
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Various bookies in Britain. See this article.
At that level of unlikeliness, the bookies basically just make up the figures. Elvis being alive or someone sticking Nessy in an aquarium are considered so improbable that it doesn't really matter. Which was the key point.
Still, looking some of these odds up is quite entertaining. I had a bit of fun with this one
Nice
Also, finally someone who actually means football when they talk about football...