Sentences with phrase «expected points scored»

This means on average, there is more than a touchdown difference between the expected points scored for each team and what actually happens during the game.

With this in mind, we leveraged our Bracket Simulator «s power ratings and probabilities to project Kentucky's most likely championship game opponents and expected points scored in those games.

Not exact matches

God just told me Jeremy Lin is out, and now he is a huge Monta Ellis fan... so I expect Monta to score about 56 points tomorrow night.

With two of the league's top offenses set to face suspect defenses, we should probably expect a lot of points to score even with the unideal conditions.

That means if a regular Division I team played Virginia, you'd expect it to score 80 - some points per 100 possessions.

My point is you can't expect someone who hasn't scored in months to have the mental strength to score a crucial comeback penalty

With that in mind I think this makes it make it more likely that we come away with the three points and despite expecting Leicester to play a defensive game I still think we can score lots of goals.

Off course we can not just change everyone on the pitch (as Hafiz would have liked), but the fair point is that we need a goal machine sort of striker and we need him as soon as possible, bringing on Alexis Sanchez (who just came back from his extended leave) in the second half after Walcott, is itself a proof that Giroud can not score in such games where if expect our striker to score.

He fits our team very well, scores regularly and it's getting to the point where we «expect» him to score, which for ME is the mark of a great forward.

Arsenal can barely create a goal scoring opportunity against Mourinho's Chelsea, let alone actually beaten them, so I fully expect dropped points against them.

On Monday, I used an estimated version of my S&P + ratings — using points scored and allowed (the only data points available) to compare output to expected output based on opponent strength — to rank which programs were the best in each decade going back to the 1890s.

but I DO expect Damian Lillard to have at least one full blown DAMIAN LILLARD crazy ass game where he scores a scrillion points and takes a game no matter what else happens

IMMANUEL KEYS TO VICTORY: Junior Nate Kendricks (20.8 points per game) and senior Darrin Person, Jr. (20 ppg) have scored 57.7 percent of Immanuel's total points on the season and there's no reason to expect that to change when the stakes are the highest.

According to Fantasy Labs» plus / minus tool, the Giants have allowed quarterbacks to score 4.3 more DK points than expected, while the Vikings have limited quarterbacks to 4.4 less DK points than expected.

Since a +10 dog starts the game covering by 10 points, it's harder for the favorite to overcome and the spread in games where both teams are expected to score a combined 45 points or less.

Even if Kobe scores 40 points a game, L.A. will not be expected to win the Western Conference title, while the Heat became an East trifavorite (with the defending champion Detroit Pistons and the Indiana Pacers) the moment O'Neal's feet hit the South Beach sand.

This makes sense because the fewer points we expect to be scored, the less likely it is that a favorite will win in a blowout.

The starters, rounded out by small forward Andre Iguodala, were as brilliant as expected; their difference between points scored per 100 possessions and points allowed was 15.4, the highest net rating among the 29 lineups that logged 300 minutes.

If oddsmakers are expecting more points to be scored, players in those games should see an uptick in value.

Again the public expected a high - scoring game with 65 % of bettors taking the over on 198.5, however, once again the under hit as the teams combined for just 191 points.

I expect Alexis to come into the side with a point to prove, and have a feeling he will open the scoring, setting us well on our way to a comfortable win.

With scoring expected to be hard to come by, player point totals, including Dirk's 11.4 points per game, should suffer.

A lot of Arsenal fans did not expect us to get anything from today's away game against the Premier League leaders Man City, and that is how it turned out with De Bruyne, Aguero and Gabriel Jesus scoring to make it a comfortable 3 - 1 scoreline in the end, but that did not tell the whole story by any means and Arsene Wenger will surely point to a couple of key decisions that went the home side's way at crucial points of the game.

Curry (one first, two seconds, four thirds) Prodigious scoring was expected of Curry in coach Don Nelson's helter - skelter offense, and he has delivered: Curry leads all rookies with seven 30 - point games.

Honest question for Real Madrid people who hopefully won't be jerks in the comments: Are you at the point where you expect Ronaldo to score a brace in every Champions League game he plays?

However I do expect Liverpool to score at some point and I am going with a score draw in this one which will ultimately suite Liverpool going into the second leg in three weeks time at Anfield.

Chelsea have also scored in ten of their last 11 games against Burnley in all competitions as well and with the firepower that Chelsea are carrying at the moment, it is expected that they will collect three points on Sunday.

Teams favored at home after scoring less than 10 points in their previous game are expected to bounce back.

The closing total for this game was 54 points and everyone was expecting a shootout much like the game these same two teams had in 2015 in which 101 total points were scored.

Huddersfield boast a mean defence and they will be expected to keep the low scoring Ipswich off the scoresheet and drive for the three points.

Even the most optimistic of Interisti would not have expected a month where the Nerazzurri would concede zero goals and score 8, grabbing 7 out of 9 points that were on offer.

You might have been lovingly bottled - fed goal scoring opportunities by the dozen courtesy Steven Gerrard while you were at Liverpool, being as you were point - man for the Reds, but don't expect that in West London.

I expect a somewhat low scoring game, with yards and points being a struggle for both teams to pick up.

The Red Devils will be expected to collect a good three points in this one against the low - scoring Middlesbrough who are on a huge eight match winless streak away from home right now.

However, Griezmann has only scored three goals for the club for Atletico, with the club now already 10 points behind La Liga leaders Barcelona and on the brink of exiting the Champions League, and the 26 - year - old expected to leave at the end of the current campaign.

At that point it was expected Chelsea will just steamroll Bristol Rovers but the minnows made a game of it scoring two on either side of Michy Batshuayi's second goal.

If you have a 14 - point favorite in a game with a total of 42, you «expect» the score to be 28 - 14.

«To use an event as tragic as Sandy to try and score a few cheap political points is beyond reprehensible, and I expect more from my NYC colleagues, who quite frankly should know better,» Grimm said.

«To use an event as tragic as Sandy to try and score a few cheap political points is beyond reprehensible, and I expect more from my NYC colleagues, who quite frankly should know better,» said Grimm.

While their scores had not caught up with the other two groups by the midpoint of kindergarten (the final point of analysis for the study), Choi expects with more time DLLs with limited English skills would eventually match or even outperform English - only peers as they learn more English and become bilingual.

Nobody expects to read comments like this in an online dating profile so you'll score bonus points for standing out from the crowd.

Rating: 7/10 — better than average, and scoring points for the deftness of its characterisations, Cardboard Gangsters tells an overly familiar tale with verve and no small semblance of rugged style; some may find the Irish accents impenetrable at times, but the gist of the story (and individual scenes) shines through, making this easier to follow than expected, and shot through with moments of quiet power.

Unlike the Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm series which is more and more a mess of technical, balance and gameplay issues these days, Brave Soldiers delivers what is a nice, franchise - based fighting game, at first, i was expecting a simple fighting game with some button mashing, however, the game proved me wrong and i fell in love, the combo system, while easy, is a lot more deep than the one in the Naruto games, with all of the characters having two special attacks, two «burst attacks», a knock - away and a launcher respectively, a throw and an ultimate attack (called a «Big Bang Attack»), every character also has an universal dodge - action that sends them behind their enemies while spending one cosmo bar, making bar management that much precious and shielding you from a half - a-hour combo, unlike in the NUNS series, the fighting and the characters are nicely balanced, with every character being fun to play and viable at the same time, the game runs smoothly without frame - rate issues and the cell - shaded graphics, character models, arenas and effects alike are nice to the eye, battles are divided into rounds, with all the tiny nice stuff like character introductions and outros being intact (fun fact: the characters will even comment on their score after the battle), the game also features an awakening system, called the «Seventh Sense» awakening, unlike the NUNS awakening system which became severely unbalanced in the later game, every character simply gains a damage / defense boost, with the conditions being the same for all characters, eliminating situations when one character can use awakening at almost any point in the battle, or one awakening being drastically stronger than the other, the game has a story mode with three story arcs used to unlock characters, a collection mode, tournament modes, a survival mode, a series of special versus modes and online battle modes.

I was expecting a lot based on the really high rotten tomatoes score, at one point it was at 100 %.

• too much school time is given over to test prep — and the pressure to lift scores leads to cheating and other unsavory practices; • subjects and accomplishments that aren't tested — art, creativity, leadership, independent thinking, etc. — are getting squeezed if not discarded; • teachers are losing their freedom to practice their craft, to make classes interesting and stimulating, and to act like professionals; • the curricular homogenizing that generally follows from standardized tests and state (or national) standards represents an undesirable usurpation of school autonomy, teacher freedom, and local control by distant authorities; and • judging teachers and schools by pupil test scores is inaccurate and unfair, given the kids» different starting points and home circumstances, the variation in class sizes and school resources, and the many other services that schools and teachers are now expected to provide their students.

Students in the study said that they expected their SAT scores to go up by at least 100 points by taking the prep package — a bump from the 50th percentile to the 69th percentile — but they were willing to sacrifice that critical improvement to save face with their peers.

I had an experience with a student who had done very well on one of my units and then he went on to fourth year where we have two markers independently mark their thesis and I gave him a very high score initially and then I talked to the other marker who pointed out all these errors I hadn't noticed and I thought «well I gave him too high of a score because I expected him to do well!»

In this scenario, cut scores or target scores are generally established to reflect expected performance at different points in the school year.

Those making expected progress and exceeding expected progress is likely to meet national benchmarks for most groups... As a result of discussions in March, leaders have made changes to expectations for Key Stage 1 with increased average point score (APS) achievement set as an expectation for all pupils.

Studies so far tell us that we can expect the «better» teacher's students to score about 6 percentile points higher, on average, on a standardized achievement test than the students of the «worse» teacher.