Sentences with phrase «of fantasy points»

Guthrie had a ton of fantasy points that day — just not in the right direction.

Not exact matches

The bowl operates similarly to other fantasy football platforms: Users will select a team of nine players — who score points based on their real - life, in - game performances — and face off against teams assembled by other contestants across the country.

She pointed to the 2007 case of Humphrey vs. Viacom, when an attorney sued three fantasy sports web sites and lost.

Daily fantasy sports, where players draft a roster of football players to compete for points in a single - day worth of games, were acknowledged by Virginia lawmakers as a game of skill vs. pure chance, a key difference that allows sites to avoid a federal ban on online gambling.

Same can be said of the bible, which also includes some real historical figures (possibly) and more likely mix in fantasy characters in order to drive the point home, like angels, demons and the like.

Sorry honey, but you're living in a fantasy world (not that you weren't already I guess) but to claim that christians have always loved the jews is rewriting history to the point of fiction.

In Feast the point is that we can't handle the burden of making history if we are ourselves buried in it, unaware of the timeless dimension that we touch only in fantasy and festivity.»

Actually global heating (climate change) will make the point of whether these fantasy gods are whatever stupid people believe them to be a moot point in a few years as humans and all living things do a slow roast as temperatures climb higher and remain there for hundreds of years....

The latter see them as impressive fantasies or fictions, interesting from a purely immanent and human point of view.

The point of a fantasy is not to hand us tidy morals, but to provide us with growth by experience.

In the fantasy tale they might be any one of us — and that is precisely the point.

But try to let your experiences of abundance point you toward the this - even - more approach of divine love rather than the that - as - well - as - this approach that feeds our fantasies of somehow enjoying an expansive universality.

Returning to our theme of fantasy literature, it was Chesterton who pointed out that most fairy tales portray a world of delights which is, however, bounded by an unexplained moral injunction: Cinderella can go to the ball but must be back at midnight, Pandora has a magic box but must not open it, etc..

The thought of certain dinosaurs running into the wind in an attempt to take off and, after several million years, succeeding like the Wright brothers in flying a few yards, is a fantasy that sufficiently points up the absurdity of evolution.

So the fantasy of lavish, sit down meals that I spend hours preparing, sitting down in our nice clothes, and having long chats over wine about everything we love about the holiday season — well, at this point is more fantasy than reality.

Yes Xhaka, must be the first name, because he is the captain of my fantasy football team and earned many points in the last game

From Weeks 7 - 15, Walker scored double - digit fantasy points seven times out of eight.

Opta powered fantasy football game www.oulala.com have collated the data and the Gunners come out on top in all eight of the major criteria despite only leading the Reds by five points in the Premier League table.

we were awful for 60 mins and fortunate to be just one down and the good... we took a point from being decent for 30 mins all but securing third place... As for realism it's simple... There is no way a real arsenal fan could watch that performance and be confident that we will be challenging for title in 12 months time... So if that is what we want the realist fan asks what needs to change... and if we rule out the first best option... which as a realist I do... to get rid of wenger... then in our second best world it's a matter of where we need to strengthen... Sadly at the point realism breaks down because in the absence of first best option we are in the fantasy world of the cheese eating surrender monkey where 11 yr olds are zee future of zee club

Based on current form of all the teams you mention, 19 points from 21 is sheer fantasy.

This 12.5 point gap between our two sources indicates that Backstrom should be one of the best sleepers in fantasy hockey if he can maintain a respectable plus / minus, but what other players should be targeted?

While Yahoo fantasy experts believe Semin is over-the-hill (they project just 46.5 points in 2014 - 15), Bovada's over / under of 63.5 puts him on par with star players like Martin St. Louis, Patrick Marleau and David Krejci.

It's only a matter of time before Kyrie Irving becomes a tier 1 fantasy point guard.

He's going to have some terrifying moments hooking up with Jimmy G, and should have his best fantasy football season, but I won't be surprised if he's supplanted as the starting RB at some point over the course of the season

Wenger, undoubtedly, is injured by 9 devastating decisions that no one can convince me are all accidental — accounting for 6 - 11 points; lack of fair play in the transfer market; and a bunch of media - naive fans who confuse fantasy with reality thinking that Wigan's luck is the marker when playing a team many times your value.

Actually, Salah, firminho and Mane have won me a lot of points in fantasy league.

when he signed the likes of carzola, podolski, giroud, sanchez, welbeck, and ozil, no one saw it coming... my point is we have various fantasies of what signings we want, even if Wenger were to sign players based on what fans want, he would» nt be able to satisfy all of us.

He went for 80 - plus fantasy points in 16 of his 85 games during that season.

He hit value 67.7 percent of the time and had four tournaments in which he exceeded 100 fantasy points.

His average of 1.66 fantasy points per minute over the past month is the top mark on a slate filled with MVP - caliber talents, and his average of 37.3 minutes per game ranks second in the league.

Westbrook put up the best fantasy performance of the year in this late March game, going for 99.75 DraftKings points thanks to 57 points, 13 rebounds, 11 assists, and three steals in 42 minutes of action.

In NFL or NBA DFS, a poor game can lead to very few fantasy points, but this was one of the most negative games we've seen.

The Steelers have allowed the third-most fantasy points to opposing wide receivers, and Jones has been a model of consistency this season.

With a total of 38 and a line of +5.5, the Texans are implied to score just 16.25 points... maybe not a team you should target in daily fantasy.

so overall arsenal will always pick enough points, just enough to make top 4 and thats about it.so guys WENGER HAS TO MOVE UPSTAIRS.WE NEED A MANAGER WHO IS IN TUNE WITH MODERN FOOTBALL TO TAKE OVER.WENGER IS STILL LIVING IN HIS FANTASY OF OLD.FOOTBALL HAS LONG EVOLVED

He's played at least 36 minutes in five of his past six games and has averaged 1.32 fantasy points per minute this season.

The fantasy of placing square pegs in round holes and expecting a miraculous win or result, the defense for the first and second matches this season are a case in point.

I was on the Todd Gurley train last week — and he balled out for 180 yards and four touchdowns — but he could have inflated ownership this week because of his recent production, and the Titans have held opposing backfields to the fourth - fewest fantasy points with 21.4 DraftKings and 18.3 FanDuel PPG.

Maybe, just maybe, these physicians are trying to save women and children from this Luddite fantasy that the «good» old days of a century ago — when childbirth was the most dangerous time point in a woman's life — are something we should aspire to recreate.

We are not told the source and extent of this research, nor the facts gleaned therefrom, but she is on target when she points out that the advantages for Illinois residents are in the realm of fantasy.

It is the logical end point of every authoritarian fantasy playing out in Europe and America.

After 97 % of those surveyed by Siena indicate they desired real ethics reform measures be enacted we get Beagle bills, cat declawing legislation, Daily fantasy sports, the right to drink on Sunday morning and a lot of sorry excuses and finger pointing concerning ethics in government.

And that's because the other fantasy vividly entertained by Indian Point's opponents is that New York will become the home of enormous wind and solar projects.

De Blasio's argument focused on the need to build additional facilities — a point also raised by the president of the correction officers» union last week, who called Mark - Viverito's plan a «fantasy.»

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman last year filed suit against fantasy sports companies that offered for - pay games, pointing to the state's constitutional ban on games of chance.

George Osborne, the chancellor, called the pledge of a points - based system «fantasy politics» that would lead to a rise in net migration.

Mr. Crispin's fourth point was an observation that the idea of the cosmos had permeated the common culture, as evinced by the fact that even the Astronomer Royal had stopped saying traveling into space was foolish science fictional fantasy.

The book Behind Closed Doors offers fantasies from women's and men's points of view that can be read aloud.

Is there any point in pursuing this fantasy... I just can't get it out of my head.

As my profile name states... I'm just «curious» at this point;) What that means is that I have lots of fantasies and a HUGE temptation to be with other men, but I'm just not willing or...