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Biggest Premier League win – 9–0 (v Southampton, 25 October 2019) [10] Biggest win in the second tier (Championship and predecessors) – 9–1 (v Walsall Town Swifts, 5 January 1895) and (v Gainsborough Trinity, 27 December 1909) [1] Biggest win in the third tier (League One and predecessors) – 4–0 (on three separate occasions) [11]
Statistical Football prediction is a method used in sports betting, to predict the outcome of football matches by means of statistical tools. The goal of statistical match prediction is to outperform the predictions of bookmakers [ citation needed ] [ dubious – discuss ] , who use them to set odds on the outcome of football matches.
During the season, Leicester participated in the Premier League for the second consecutive season, as well as the FA Cup and League Cup. In what was described as one of the greatest sporting stories of all time, [ 2 ] Leicester were confirmed as champions of the 2015–16 Premier League season on 2 May 2016, finishing top of England's highest ...
Leicester's first Football League game was a 4–3 defeat at Grimsby Town, with a first League win the following week, against Rotherham United at Filbert Street. The same season also saw the team's largest win to date, a 13–0 victory over Notts Olympic in an FA Cup qualifying game. [4]
The player with the most accurate predictions wins the top prize, or a share of it if more than one player has these predictions. In addition, there is a special £3,000,000 prize or share of it for correctly predicting the nine score draws (draws of 1–1 or higher) when these are the only score draws on the coupon. [ 1 ]
The long odds bookmakers had given Leicester at the start of the season led to them incurring losses of up to £25 million, with one punter winning over £100,000, having wagered £20 at the original 5,000–1 odds; [39] the largest payout was £200,000 to an anonymous bettor who wagered £100 on the team in October when the odds had gone down ...
In addition to the domestic league, they also competed in this season's editions of the FA Cup, the EFL Cup, the FA Community Shield, the UEFA Europa League, and the UEFA Europa Conference League. This was Leicester's first season since 2011–12, and first full season since 2010–11, to not feature former club captain Wes Morgan, who retired ...
A sportsbook may choose to buy in-play futures wagers at a price below the actual payout before a championship is decided if the potential payout is very high (and thus, damaging to the sportsbook due to the money that may be lost). The most recent example of this was when Leicester City pursued and went on to win the 2015/16 Premier League. [4]