Leicester City ‘Moneyball’: Did The Ultimate Underdogs Use Data To Pull Off Sports’ Greatest Upset?
June 16, 2016
LONDON — Leicester City’s victory in this year’s English Premier League soccer championship has been called the biggest upset in the history of team sports anywhere. At the start of the season in 2015, bookmakers in the U.K. were offering 5,000–1 odds against the team taking victory in the competition. How did they do it?