Sentences with phrase «numbers game last»

Amazon really took the cake for its silly numbers game last December when the company announced it had sold enough 8 GB iPods during the holiday season to play 422 years of continuous music.

«Amazon really took the cake for its silly numbers game last December [of 2009], when the company announced it had sold enough 8 gigabyte iPods during the holiday season to play 422 years of continuous music.

Not exact matches

Peter Warman, CEO of research firm Newzoo, says the number of hours gamers spent watching EA's FIFA 16 on Twitch in January increased by more than 80 % since last November, while the number of hours gamers watched NBA 2K16 videos on Twitch more than doubled in the same period.

Beginning Wednesday, which in Australia marks December 1's World AIDS Day, Apple will festoon 400 stores, a fourfold increase from last year, with (RED) signage, while expanding the number of products, games and apps whose purchases channel an undisclosed percentage of their sales price to the organization.

Overbooking flights is a legal and common airline practice; travelers cancel plans at the last minute, they show up late... it's a numbers game: The airline builds in a buffer of oversold seats to offset the number of people their statistical models predict will back out.

To put that last number into perspective, Crash the Super Bowl, a 2008 Doritos contest in the U.S. that awarded the creator of the best 30 - second chip ad US$ 1 million and showed the commercial during the big game this year, generated fewer submissions with a population 10 times the size.

The gaming developer last revealed user numbers more than two years ago, at which point 67 million people were playing the game on a monthly basis.

A large portion of its fans are China's female mobile phone gamers whose numbers have risen sharply over the last year to 367 million, according to the newest report from Jiguang.

Sure, we had to hurry through the last few musical numbers so people could get home in time to see the Alabama / Tennessee game.

The BFG probably played his best game of the year against Pool this last fixture but I still believe his days as 1st choice CB are numbered.

Yet it would be hard to fault Cowboys fans for wanting reassurance that the principles that produced last fall's eye - popping numbers — 44.2 points per game, Weeden's 4,277 passing yards, wideout Justin Blackmon's 20 TD catches — would remain intact.

The Belgian Number One striker Romelu Lukaku sat on the bench and watched his star studded team - mates fail to score for 75 minutes of last night's game against Finland, but he had to wait for the manager to put him on the pitch before he could score the equaliser himself!

Like last year if you see the number of tackles that he made per game, it was well above 3.

Speedy Hall of Fame center Keon was a brilliant all - around player whose modest numbers (3 goals, 8 points in 12 games) belied his defensive contribution to the last Cup - winning team from Toronto, which defeated the rival Montreal Canadiens in six games.

Team Goldin just like the Teams Ranked # 1 - 4 earned their spot in the Top 5 after doing a number on Teams in ELIMINATION GAMES last season..

If he can raise his blocks per game from last year's number of 3.7 into the 4.0 + range, he will definitely get some first place votes.

Interesting to note that Arsenal have already won as many games as they did last year and scored more goals... for all this talk of needing a striker if you look at the number of goals we have conceded that is where it has been lost!

Ospina has had a number of outings in big games in the Champions League and Europa League, and also played in the FA Cup final win over Chelsea last season in a big show of faith from Wenger.

Harden's assist percentage (the percentage of possessions that end with a Harden assist when Harden's in the game) was 19.3 last year, an incredibly high number for a shooting guard.

City have six points fewer than they did after 19 games last season — although they have lost the same number of games (two).

That's why the Wizards are miles ahead of where they were last year even though they've won the same number of playoff games.

I had the extra misfortune of attending last night's game with a large number of my co-workers who were all either Dodger fans or Dodger fans for the night, so I'll have to deal with that for a while.

In last year's Cincinnati preview, I said, «With the bounces that went against UC in 2015, the rough - draft talent that will show up in uniform in 2016, and the massive number of tossup games that the Bearcats will play this fall, this might be the biggest wildcard team in the country.»

Nebraska players are surrounded by reminders of their back - to - back titles (shirts, posters, stadium banners, bumper stickers), and highlights of their epic 62 - 24 thrashing of Florida in last January's Fiesta Bowl, which clinched national crown number two, ran incessantly on stadium scoreboards during timeouts in Saturday's game.

Antonio Valencia has played an astonishing number of games in defence over the last few years, with none of the options the club have bought since then able to show they are much of an upgrade.

Thanks to scientific management and the courage of those enlightened hunters who, for the sake of improving the herds, could last year bring themselves to shoot does, where legal, as well as bucks, the nation's No. 1 big - game animal, the deer, this year is coursing its nationwide range in healthier and bigger numbers than ever before.

In O'Leary's last two seasons in Atlanta, the defense held opponents to an average of 286 yards per game: in the two ensuing seasons, that number ballooned to 398.8.

Your guide to the guide: First Choice means this is a must - see game in that block; Last Button Option means you should have that «last» or «return» button on your remote ready to flick back during commercials; Know The (Channel) Numbers runs down games you'll want to find when Twitter tells you something nutty happened; Cover The Spread is a suggestion for how to feed yoursLast Button Option means you should have that «last» or «return» button on your remote ready to flick back during commercials; Know The (Channel) Numbers runs down games you'll want to find when Twitter tells you something nutty happened; Cover The Spread is a suggestion for how to feed yourslast» or «return» button on your remote ready to flick back during commercials; Know The (Channel) Numbers runs down games you'll want to find when Twitter tells you something nutty happened; Cover The Spread is a suggestion for how to feed yourself.

In the last seven games starting with Feb 9th vs. Orlando (I chose this because the game before it was the last time that Dario would ever play fewer minutes than Ersan), here is what his numbers look like:

Gameweek 31 has a number of huge games, with Liverpool potentially at last chance saloon when they head to the Emirates.

The 2014/15 Champions League is now four games old and a number of sides have already booked their place in the last - 16, whilst for others the challenge is still on.

Last year, I'll remind folks, we had only ONE bona - fide prime time game, a MNF affair against the Cowboys in Week 3 — which we lost, and rather lopsidedly at that, despite pretty much historically owning the» Boys the last number of yeLast year, I'll remind folks, we had only ONE bona - fide prime time game, a MNF affair against the Cowboys in Week 3 — which we lost, and rather lopsidedly at that, despite pretty much historically owning the» Boys the last number of yelast number of years.

Before the last play of the game, Johnson was still having a great day with 13 receptions for 225 yards, but Matt Schaub hit him for a 48 - yard score, bringing him to his historic numbers.

Gibbs should be sold if West Brom come in with 10 million and if we somehow get rid of Debuchy and sell Chambers and Lucas too plus the money for Szczesny we'll bag enough cash to buy a player or two who will improve the squad without doing major damage, because we had players with the numbers 1,2,3 and 10 either out of the club or playing less than 10 games last season.

Glad to see Wenger so animated over the last number of games, himself and Wilshere let their feelings be known.

Last season those numbers did drop to 14 and 19 but because of injury he played a lot fewer games and his goals per game ratio actually went up.

Ospina played second fiddle to Petr Cech last season and whilst he played a number of games in the cup competitions, his only real run in the Premier League came in Petr Cech's absence.

Last season we had a number of opportunities to get ahead in the league, close competitors dropping points and us playing a very winnable game, then we bottled it.

Even if Wenger was looking for a young talent lots of potential he should have signed Roma's young talent Alessio Romagnoli who had a good number of games last season with Roma and with strong performances to go with it.

I walk from the locker room for the last time still hearing hear Kills Crow reading the game numbers for McPherson players.

With both Michigan State and Duke losing games last week, we have a new number one... Villanova.

Say what you like admin.Even Diaby upon doing nothing for several seasons was able to secure a move to Marseille which to me is a top team.Was it not last season that before he went to Bournemouth teams like Juventus and AS Roma were interested in him?He just needs a league which is not physical for the mean time.I mean any time he gets a run of games he begins to hit top forn and just when things are looking up things go down again.This injury thing is a menace in our club.Look at the number of games Gnabry has played.But I will urge him to leave Arsenal because all he needs to do is to remain injury free.It's not rocket science.If Wilshere remains injury free for just one season he'll be great.It's just like the Van Persie case.A lot of people were frustrated with him and cllled him man of glass but I knew he just needed to be injury free for one season.To me he's a better player than Ramsey though Ramsey is on form.He also has the ability to surpass Cazorla and be Arsenal's number one.He's also Arsenall thrugh and through.Arsenal has to solve his injury problems because he's shown that when he gets a run of games he can do it.

It seems to me that a more important factor would be the number of games played (rather than when they were played): last season they played only four matches before the start of the Premier League season; this year it will be seven.

this window has just finished i am already thinking about who we will get for the january window we might try for khedira on a really low offer as he is free agent almost would help boost numbers in midfield in the new year as we will no doubt need to filling the numbers about then also i will hold my hands up and say i was wrong this morning for giving wenger stick and saying welbeck is rubbish i have been out in the cold light of day and had a chance to reevaluate the situation and realized that this could be a canny shrew transfer on wenger behalf actually if wenger can turn the clock back and work his magic on welbeck and get him scoring goals and improve his game then we could have a great underrated signing on our hands its wengers absolute trust in him that might be what makes him a great player as this is something that he never had at old mordor if anybody can make him a world beater wenger can he loves this little pet projects improving players against the odds welbeck has the skillset to be high class player upfornt he just needs to work very hard on his finishing i think once he gets a few goals under his belt he will settle in fine and he is a team player you could put him on the left against man city to shore up that side and he will put in a great shift without a complaint that could be his biggest asset to us or on the right whenever we need him there ithinkwenger might start himon the left against city to protect the left back against navas and i bet you if he does a great job we will take a shine to him quickly i am hopeing he will be one of those wenger gems that he finds and polishes up to a high finish i must admit i was annoyed as some other gunners were at not signing d / m and c / h but if wenger does win the league with this lot it will be his greatest win yet and what might play in to our hands is the unpredictable nature of the league in the last few seasons if we get on a good run at the right time we might be hard to stop look at city they should have never lost to stoke but the result is there in black and white for all to see and i think chelsea will hit the skids after a while to just because cesc and costa are doing well now thats there main threat but teams will work out how to stop them as the season goes on and chelsea will become predictable i think we might just do well this season after all

This game certainly fits those criteria after Arkansas» embarrassing loss last week and Alabama's status as the number one team in the country.

Despite involving two high - profile teams, this game currently ranks last in terms of number of bets, which may indicate that this line is «right on the money» and many bettors are staying away.

I was hoping that Giroud would of been rested in the last game and Theo given a chance, Giroud tends to go through dry periods after he has played a number of consecutive games... and it has happened again.

I think it's 22 goals in 20 games total, considering he has been scoring about one in two over the last number of years this could be a sign of him improving.

Let's see who'd be more electrifying, Let's see who'll make d right kinda changes and the number of subs in each team, Let's who'd read the game properly, Lets see who'd spend more time on the bench, Lets see who'd spend more time barking at players, Lets see who'd sub players first, Let's see who'd continue playing the same Line - up prior to their Last defeat........

Despite dropping his number one keeper for the last two games, the Arsenal boss has offered some encouragement to Wojciech Szczesny and even suggested that the Poland international could be back between the sticks for the trip north to fave Man City in the crucial Premier League clash on Sunday, as an ESPN report reveals.