Sentences with phrase «coin toss for»

Here are a few additional suggestions for free: overhaul the challenge system and replace it with Twitter polls, and exchange the coin toss for «Like to kickoff, Favorite to receive.»

You can play competitive with only 2 players, but definitely need to have a coin toss for the times where you and the other player cant agree on an answer.

this day of election should show some sort of coin toss for the first monday to carry on the day after for elections to begin in the us.

Joe Namath and Phil Simms were out at midfield for the coin toss for the Super Bowl and Namath was set...

If they start doing the foot race instead of coin toss for tiebreakers, Landry won't be useful at all

Not exact matches

Bank employees primed to think about their jobs fudged their coin - toss stats for cash, researchers found

If a coin toss is a metaphor for meeting different customers, outcomes of past coin tosses have no bearing on the outcome of the current toss.

The study, titled «Prospect Theory: An Analysis of Decision under Risk,» found that loss aversion «expresses the intuition that a loss of $ X is more aversive than a gain of $ X is attractive... for example, most respondents in a sample of undergraduates refused to stake $ 10 on the toss of a coin if they stood to win less than $ 30.»

The chance of the coin flipping either way is equivalent for both scenarios, yet people will go for the coin toss to save themselves from loss even though the coin flip could mean an even greater loss.

They hope that the coin tossing, selfie - taking throngs of tourists, as the frivolous Western public at large, will be given pause, if only briefly, to contemplate the surging pattern of mass murder of Christians purely for reasons of faith, largely by Islamists.

So let me get this straight, it's far fetched for us to NOT have been created by a God and that's illogical but you believe there's a heaven and hell, a mystical deity who watches over us yet fails to intervene in bloodshed that occurs daily in his name, this deity is all powerful but for some reason can't do anything more than a coin toss could and for some reason everything he can do is limited to exactly the same domain as nature (EX: God can never regenerate a missing limb)?

Bronco Nagurski, a hall of famer (which stands for official canonization), had the honor of tossing the coin at the center of the playing field to signify the start of the game.

To make matters worse, the Rams taunted Washington by putting the six players they acquired for RG3 as captains on the coin toss.

While online sportsbooks are offering the coin toss at even odds for Super Bowl XLVII, handicapping experts know that history suggests «tails» is almost guaranteed to come up.

Unable to locate a traditional silver dollar — they were apparently in short supply in North Carolina — Eisan, who played quarterback for a losing California team in the 1929 Rose Bowl, used the half - dollar for the coin toss.

Fans voted for heads or tails to win leading into the coin toss, and selecting the winning call netted them a free large pizza.

So, OU players did this for the coin toss:

Players from each team met at midfield for the overtime coin toss, among them Jets cornerback Buster Skrine and Patriots receiver Matthew Slater.

«Actually the funny thing,» Wilson mentioned afterward, «is I told [Darrell] Bevell on the sideline right when we won the coin toss, I'm going to hit Kearse for a touchdown on a check, and sure enough, we did.»

Sure, you can spend your time betting on who will win the coin toss, which side the coin will be, which color of Gatorade will be dumped on the winning coach and, of course, whether or not Jay - Z will join Beyonce for the halftime show.

And Wengers tossing a coin with the outcome......???? I still have faith that we will get a player and if paulista is worth the wait then I'm all for it..

The field at Edinburgh's Easter Road Stadium, which is being renovated, drops nearly two meters from one goal to the other; winners of the coin toss traditionally chose to attack downhill for the second half.

Earlier in the game, Kansas players refused to shake hands at the coin toss and were flagged for a late hit on Mayfield in the second quarter.

It's not clear if there will be additional captains for the coin toss each game, but Bolden and Kerridge will be the offensive and defensive captains for this season.

The coin toss, the MVP, the length of the National Anthem... you can bet on anything for the big game, including the actual game itself.

For the first time since 2008, tails was the winning side for the coin toss, kicking off a night of ridiculous prop bets during Super Bowl XLVIFor the first time since 2008, tails was the winning side for the coin toss, kicking off a night of ridiculous prop bets during Super Bowl XLVIfor the coin toss, kicking off a night of ridiculous prop bets during Super Bowl XLVIII.

Franklin had previously lost a coin toss with Davis to determine the higher playoff seed after the teams finished with identical 9 - 1 Delta Valley Conference records, but made the right call at midfield to set the stage for senior goalkeeper Marcela Young.

Alan Pardew's side reached the FA Cup final for the second time in their history have won a coin toss that was made on Wednesday in a bid to decide which side would be forced to wear their away kit for the showpiece event.

For example, you toss a coin, and then you use the first or the second system.

BY MARC MATURO There was no coin toss to decide who would receive the ball and which team would be defending what goal, and there was no penalty called despite a late start as a long line of patient fans waited for the first autograph session to start.

For example, several localities in USA have laws that, in case of an electoral tie, the winner is determined by a random choice (lots, or coin toss).

Sometimes it might just be easier and cheaper for them to toss a coin in the air and make their decisions based on that.

Yet Graham Allison, assistant secretary of defense in the first Clinton administration and now director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University, places the odds of a nuclear strike within the next decade at 51 — 49 — slightly worse than the toss of a coin.

Given the fifty - fifty odds of a coin toss, a subject would on average pocket $ 25 by gambling every time but end up with only $ 20 for consistently keeping the money.

Finally, in a separate test, each participant was asked whether or not they would take 140 specific coin toss gambles for varying amounts of money; for example, if the toss of a coin would determine your chance of winning $ 4 or losing $ 2, would you take the gamble?

For example, if one of your vegetables for the week is carrots, you could prep them in different ways: crudites for snacking, coins for steaming, grated to toss in salads, etFor example, if one of your vegetables for the week is carrots, you could prep them in different ways: crudites for snacking, coins for steaming, grated to toss in salads, etfor the week is carrots, you could prep them in different ways: crudites for snacking, coins for steaming, grated to toss in salads, etfor snacking, coins for steaming, grated to toss in salads, etfor steaming, grated to toss in salads, etc..

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For me, this category was one massive coin toss.

Moving into the West End are Beginning, David Eldridge's clever thirty - something romcom, at Ambassadors from 15 January; Robert Icke's production of Mary Stuart, which sees Juliet Stevenson and Lia Williams toss a coin for which role they'll play, at Duke of York's from 15 January, and Long Day's Journey into Night — a sell - out at Bristol Old Vic starring Lesley Manville and Jeremy Irons — at Wyndham's from 27 January.

-- Aaron Eckhart — Thank You For Smoking 2007 — What's the most you ever lost on a coin toss?

These slides can be used to show how tree diagrams are useful for providing a simplified representation of possible outcomes and the scenario of hurricanes hopefully makes a bit of a change from tossing coins and throwing dice!

The NFC's streak of 14 Super Bowl coin toss wins has come to an end... And they aren't likely to do it again for another 32,766 years.

Students toss two coins to determine the course of a female sea turtle that is heading for the nesting grounds.

Follow up with investigation of how you arrive at theoretical probability by generating a table of outcomes for the coin - tossing task.

If he and I were both editors vetting this content like you describe, it would be a coin toss as to which of us received the book for submission and the book's publication may or may not happen based solely on the literary tastes of the editor.

It is a coin toss (50 % -50 %) whether you could withdraw at the Calculated Rate for 30 years.

Bidders were also generous in the silent auction, and in the Heads or Tails for Shelter coin toss.

If you increase that initial withdrawal from your nest egg from 4 %, or $ 20,000, to 5 %, or $ 25,000, and adjust it annually for inflation, the success rate for a 30 - year retirement drops to just over 50 %, essentially a coin toss.

The way I would think about risk aversion is most people would not want to toss a coin for their entire net worth.

From 1962 to 2015, the «true» average excess return — which excludes the impact of valuations on the returns of stocks and adjusts for the return impact of interest rate movements on bonds — fell from 2.8 % to 0.8 % on a rolling 15 - year basis.10 The corresponding 15 - year win rate was halved from 82 % to 43 %, odds not even as good as a coin toss!