Sentences with phrase «luck than skill»

We didn't actually get ice dams, but I think it was more due to luck than skill.

Poor Yoku does seem to get thrown around quite a bit in the game's opening, and the pinball - heavy sections can sometimes feel more reliant on luck than skill.

While you can line up one hit skill shots on enemy weak points, their random movement patterns, your awkward aiming speeds, and your even more awkward movement controls makes that more a feat of luck than skill.

The games great, but the combat is simple to the point of being frustrating at times; losing health for getting too close when you need to be almost too close to hit stuff feels like there is more luck than skill in not losing health.

The only real flaw with the idea is that slicing off three heads at once often feels more like luck than skill, unless you happen to be dancing around in the one - hit kill power mode..

That was a real relief as it took me a couple of tries to beat the last boss... And I feel like it was more luck than skill based...

Whether it's the nearly unavoidable Boos that swipe half of your ministars, or those endless Bowser Spaces near the end of Bowser Station, Mario Party 9 suffers from cheap events and traps that rely way too much on luck than skill.

Some bosses feel much more of a grind, with more predictable attack patterns and success becomes more due to luck than skill.

As for the pistol, it provides infinite ammo, which is handy because it's also frustratingly inaccurate, making strafing fights feel more like pot luck than skill.

A more cynical view of this frenetic fund birthing process is that mutual fund companies and ETF companies recognize that fund performance is much more a matter of luck than skill.

This game is more luck than skill, but students will know how successful they are at the skills being practiced based on feedback from their team members as they play.

Variety is most definitely the key word here, and though some of these challenges ultimately require more luck than skill — since the outcome is based solely around what gems you're given to work with — Quest mode is still an addictive, increasingly challenging mode that will likely take you more than a few hours to fully accomplish.

Picking up an object is needlessly complex, tricky jumps seem to require more luck than skill, the camera is craptacular, boss battles are tedious, the vehicle - based levels are a joke, and the actual fighting action is bland.

He chose the safe route of riding the hot hand in Keenum even when we all saw that the lasts 3 weeks it was definitely more luck than skill getting us wins.

More luck than skill imo.

Not exact matches

This is better than wishing her luck because suggesting that she has the skills needed to succeed provides a huge boost of confidence.

DraftKings and other daily fantasy sites, including FanDuel, are able to charge money to enter contests and skirt online gambling laws because they're considered games of skill rather than luck.

For instance, investors are known to attribute skill rather than luck to an analyst that picks a winning stock.

When you are considering consistent future performance, it is much easier for someone to replicate skill rather than luck.

In the speech, which was translated into the article, Buffett told a story that would remove any doubt that value investors outperformance should be attributed to skill rather than luck.

They're the skill that comes with a pitcher being better than the hitters on the other team; they're the luck that comes with baseballs never finding a hole, never dropping in that perfect spot.

Lady BABIP is more useful when it's compared to the individual's career BABIP than a general standard, because some players are just better hitters by virtue of their skill; BABIP is not just simply random luck.

He might have high TFL and sack numbers because he moonlighted as a pass rusher on occasion, and those interceptions and passes defensed may have had more to do with luck than with a specific skill.

But I don't credit magical birth preparations (I took no preparation other than standard OB care and showing up in labor), I credit dumb luck and my doctor's training and skill.

Luck may be a factor, but poker is more a game of skill than of chance.

Like the core series, guards typically follow the same pattern unless they're interrupted, making infiltration a matter of skill rather than luck.

In general, the game's faster and more responsive than Soul Calibur IV; ring - outs are less plentiful but still possible for skilled players, which means that battles are generally decided on skill instead of luck, based on my experiences.

Offering little more than two opponents facing off, each holding a rapier and possessing the same moveset — it was skill (and sometimes a bit of luck) that decided the winner.

For some people it might work, but I still believe whenever one pursues an active strategy, whether it is for 100 % of their money or for a 10 %, 20 % or 30 % satellite portion of their portfolio, the most likely reason for any outperformance is likely to be luck rather than skill.

It's only human nature to attribute good results to our own skill rather than luck.

Persistent success is strong evidence of skill rather than luck generating a given set of results.

Don't confuse luck with skill and work as if you need to be skillful rather than lucky.

For critics, though, this is a case of the blind leading the blind, with people being encouraged to follow «star traders» on the basis of a run of good luck rather than skill.

In the speech, which was translated into the article, Buffett told a story that would remove any doubt that value investors outperformance should be attributed to skill rather than luck.

«The study's conclusion: The probability that [Wiener's] Growth portfolio could have outperformed by such a wide margin because of luck rather than skill is only 13.4 %»

Despite this, it's difficult to see how we could have used investing skill to purchase at a better average cost than we did: sometimes luck plays a large role in investing results.

We know that, in most cases, active managers» performance can be attributed to luck rather than skill.

Of course, they're mostly mistaking luck for skill, and it will almost definitely end in tears... but as I've highlighted above, that's often cold comfort for more sensible investors who are busy trying to keep their portfolios anchored in terms of value & diversification, particularly when momentum - driven stocks / markets inevitably seem to last much much longer than you ever reasonably expected.

When a mutual fund manager has a statistically significant different performance than the fund's benchmark (i.e., a statistically significant positive or negative alpha), there are two possible explanations: skill or luck.

Because securities markets are generally efficient, superior performance is largely due to luck rather than skill and superior performance tends not to persist.

So even Samuelson deep down must have thought that some business owners (i.e. stock pickers) are better than others (skill was more important than luck).

This was achieved not through luck or amazing skill, but simply by living a lifestyle about 50 % less expensive than most of our peers and investing the surplus in very boring conservative Vanguard index funds and a rental house or two.

in real life, the larger the deviation from the norm, the larger the probability of it coming from luck rather than skills... This can be easily verified in stories of very prominent people in trading rapidly reverting to obscurity, like the heroes I used to watch in trading rooms.

The end result is that luck often feels like it has more impact on whether you clear levels than skill, which in a game of this style doesn't really fit.

It's by sheer luck that combat is won rather than by using any real skill as the game engine sends your cars spinning away at the mere sight of a stray tire in the road.

Can you use skill, speed, and more than a little luck to be the first one to cross the finish line?

The trash talking and the amount of skills it takes mixed in with some luck there is nothing in my mind that fits better than a bar with a pool table.

Another change comes in relation to Heroes, with each of these now unlocked through skill rather than the luck of a pickup find out in the battlefield.

It's arcadey but relies more on skill than luck (unlike Mario Kart).

According to the developer, Gwent is «based on skill rather than luck» and will require the clever mastery of strategy and deception if you want to defeat your opponents.