Quote Originally Posted by Brin View Post
To get down to the last four, eight games took place.

The outcome was unbelievable as all eight games finished 6-2! Had you put a single pound coin bet on that
happening, the odds were a staggering 92 MILLION to 1.

Never been achieved before in all its history.

Do you know of any other amazing odds that were achieved in sport?
The 'odds' being quoted vary wildly from around 20,000/1 to somewhere into the millions. The likelihood of a bookie offering over 500,000/1 on any accumulator isn't high, many bookies cap out at that level to stop weird bets killing them.

The probability of it happening is different, and would seemingly be no higher than around 1.7m/1 (assuming the frame count of the losing player is anchored to chance). Freak set of results, news agencies trying to out-do each other on the numbers.

Botham's 500/1 comeback in 1981 and Douglas beating Tyson (reported at 42/1) stand out. My personal highlight was backing England to win the Ashes in 2005, in an acca with Somerset (Twenty20), Es*** (one day league, I think), and Hampshire to take the C&G... what I remember vividly was my Ladbrokes betslip at 1008/1. The fifth day of the final test was nervy, the weekend after was very messy.