Sentences with phrase «outcome of the football game»

If someone wanted to find out how what percentage of people in the U.S. believed that the outcome of a football game was divinely determined in the sense implied, the questions would have to have much better phrasing.

What you said is true, but don't forget that he does intervene in the outcomes of football games and the like, so give God a break.

He is too busy influencing the outcomes of football games and other sporting events for Tim Tebow.

Schemes, scouting and specific plays can have a much bigger impact on the outcome of a football game than in other sports.

As Paul Meehl (one of the founding fathers of the importance of quant models versus human judgements) wrote: There is no controversy in social science which shows such a large body of qualitatively diverse studies coming out so uniformly in the same direction as this one... predicting everything from the outcomes of football games to the diagnosis of liver disease and when you can hardly come up with a half a dozen studies showing even a weak tendencyin favour of the clinician, it is time to draw a practical conclusion.

Not exact matches

It's not the first time a late, broken play has changed the outcome of bets and fantasy matchups across the country — earlier in the season the Chiefs had a similar play on «Monday Night Football» against the Redskins, leaving bettors elated or furious depending on which side of the game they were on.

They're stupid because they believe a force outside the mind of man is responsible for the outcome of a damn football game.

In football and other sports there are other human factors such as the opposition, the referee, and teammates that play a role in the overall outcome of the game.

But I'm sure I speak for the entire brigade when I say that I was shocked and dismayed that a fine magazine such as yours would even suggest, as you did at the end of your preview of the U.S. Military Academy's football season (Sept. 9), that no one cares about the outcome of our traditional game.

Logically speaking, football is a «closed system» since the rules of the game and the related parameters imposed on events by the physical demarcations of the pitch seriously limit the range of possible interactions and outcomes.

According to an FBI affidavit McDougle, 22, accepted cash and gifts, including a car, from a Michigan gambler in exchange for helping to line up players who would affect the outcomes of Toledo football and basketball games.

There are five games that have two possible outcomes each giving us a total of 32 possible endings to the college football season.

Eddie Howe, the AFC Bournemouth manager has according to the privileged information leaked and currently threading in the football grapevine media has reportedly made an overture to Arsenal Le Prof soliciting for his cooperation to fix the outcome of the match to instruct the Gunners to play a draw game with the Cherries on Saturday.

Only a few impossible last - minute deeds by the Cowboys could have changed the outcome of Super Bowl X, and though they were dead game and scored one more touchdown they just were not quite a good enough football team to pull it off.

«The late games on Sunday and Monday Night Football were the worst possible outcomes... pretty much all teasers hit which means a long day of payouts for the accounting staffs.»

The Sports Analytics Machine (SAM), the super-computer used to predict the outcome of football matches reckons that the game will end in a 1 - 1 draw.

I fear for us on Sunday — of course, football is a crazy game, and we could very well get ourselves 3 points, but whatever the outcome on Sunday, win lose or draw, if you believe that our current team under Moyes is as good as the current Liverpool team under Rodgers, you're living in dreamland.

Their 0 - 0 draw with Preston in midweek extend their winless run in the league to eight games, with their only successful outcome during an otherwise dismal month of football being a 2 - 0 victory at Doncaster in the third round of the FA Cup.

But now the Leave campaign is having a go at weaponising the beautiful game — by offering football fans # 50m if they can correctly predict the outcome of every game in the upcoming European Championships.

When taking bets on a football game a bookmaker, will initially price the market in way in which they profit regardless of the outcome of the game.

But if Vegas were to set 3 to 1 odds on an upcoming football game because they expect «X» to be the decisive factor in the outcome — and the team still wins, but because of factor «Y» — is Vegas «correct»?