Sentences with phrase «replacement level»

On the other hand, if you're settling for below replacement level at a position and you're not a week into the regular season, you've already screwed up.

I'd definitely like to see at least an above replacement level vet PG brought in.

A 96 - loss team seems to be an optimistic scenario, considering they might be the closest team to replacement level in baseball.

The number of children per family is approaching replacement level, slightly more than two per family.

It doesn't achieve laptop - level replacement levels but it's an entertainment powerhouse for sure.

If he is lucky he will get to play in the majors posting below replacement level offense, for an embarrassing team, in a position he is not good at.

He's unlikely to above replacement level ever again.

Parental leave, currently unpaid, should be paid at a high wage replacement level.

As much as 95 % of future population growth beyond replacement level will be in the developing world.

And in low fertility countries family sizes will continue to remain below replacement levels.

Period fertility declined in much of the developed world to below - replacement levels in the late twentieth century.

It doesn't achieve laptop - level replacement levels but it's an entertainment powerhouse for sure.

But can anyone really think Parra or Desmond are anything but replacement level players at this point?

The authors analyze income replacement levels of 50 %, 70 % and 100 % at retirement and come to the sobering conclusion that «in a lower, more realistic real - return environment of 2.66 %, the saving effort necessary to achieve the same income replacement is quite higher than under more optimistic expectations.»

We need to stop having so many kids, ideally limiting our reproduction to «replacement level at most.»

Even in the Americas Catholic fertility has only recently dropped to near replacement levels.

The easiest way to calculate your income replacement level is to use the NPV (Net Present Value) function in Excel.

Such a reduction would bring birthrates in poor countries to replacement level by the turn of the century.

India's birth rate is now only slightly higher than the U.S. rate, with most advanced nations close to or below the natural replacement level of two children per household.

I take this to something of an extreme, as I voted for Miguel Cabrera, even though he's been roughly replacement level this year.

At that level, he's a valuable overall player for the Padres; his defense more than makes up for the admitted replacement level offensive performance.

Healy was replacement level over 600 PAs last year And nothing about that line was out - of - line with his profile as a hitter

From replacement level to building block, Bradley might finally be what the Sox thought he'd turn into.

These guys need the playing time, so NO, we don't ned to be adding more replacement level relievers.

i actually doubt the back - ups are league replacement level.

Everyone else lives in replacement level city.

Although not perfect — we would of course like a commitment to salary - replacement level pay for as much as possible of the leave — this would have been a forward - thinking system worthy of a Coalition aiming to make the UK the most family - friendly country in Europe.

Over the past 200,000 years, replacement - level fertility rates have ranged from 2.1 to 3.0 children per couple, he said, noting that global population remained remarkably stable until the beginning of the 19th century, when decreased mortality in newborns resulted in fertility rates exceeding replacement levels.

Another population expert, Fred Pearce, has more recently noted that birthrates are now below long - term replacement levels nearly everywhere, a trend he examined in his 2010 book, The Coming Population Crash and Our Planet's Surprising Future.

But «because of the youthfulness of the developing world — one - third of which is under 15 — even if the entire globe reaches replacement levels of births, the population will still grow by two - thirds before leveling off,» notes the article.

He's actually been replacement level player by fWAR and bWAR.

fertility will remain below replacement level in low fertility nations; 3.

Well, if fertility increased to replacement level of 2.1 (an increase of just under a half a child), which is not unreasonable given desired family size, the country's annual number of births would increase by nearly 30 percent, or approximately five million additional births.

His PER is down from two seasons ago, but he's still above replacement level.

In Mexico the fertility rate is under 3, approaching replacement level.»

The scientists didn't hesitate to identify rising human population as a principal driver, or to propose the solution: «It is also time to re-examine and change our individual behaviors, including limiting our own reproduction (ideally to replacement level at most)...»

But then once you hit a replacement level, things slow down.

The U.S. fertility rate sits just below the replacement level and is only that high because of the greater fertility of Hispanic immigrants.

The U.S. fertility rate in 2006 and 2007 was 2.10, which is precisely at replacement level and the highest since 1971.

Finally, if overpopulation is indicated by unemployment (not strictly speaking a demographic measure, but one that is sometimes used as such), it would seem that the United States experienced serious overpopulation during the Depression (when fertility fell below replacement levels), and was least overpopulated in the mid-1960s (the years directly following the postwar baby boom).

To achieve zero population growth in the twentieth century, even in the most developed countries, birthrates would have to fall well below replacement levels.

The average birthrate in industrial countries of 1.9 children per woman is below replacement level.

Of the 76 catchers the Mariners have used in the last two decades, 40 of them have been exactly at replacement level or worse.

The Cubs are going to be very interesting in a few years when their young guys are owed huge contracts and they don't have any replacement level players.

How much did your actual production on the court translate into percentage contribution to wins (Win Shares), the net value of points scored while you were on the floor (Box Plus Minus), and the value that your individual game added relative to a «replacement level» player (VORP)?

Last year, Kieff was a replacement level player, with a TS % worse than Wall despite being a big, and being one of the worst defensive PFs in the league, as the Wiz allowed opposing PFs to produce better than any team other than Portland last year.

Kieff has been a replacement level player since we acquired him.

I'll take Seth's word for it that he's only a low - end starter and not a replacement level player.