Sentences with phrase «smallest number of teams»

Since four is pretty much the smallest number of teams that can be in a playoff system, we're beginning to hear calls for expanding the new College Football Playoff to eight or even 16 teams, although Bill Hancock says it won't happen before 2026.

We have found since we started that a smaller number of teams works best for us in keeping that small town feel in a huge volleyball environment.

Not exact matches

According to a company spokesman, a small team of Googlers around the world verifies the edits, supplemented by a growing number of community editors.

Although Amazon's Alexa team is just a small fraction of the company's overall workforce of nearly 350,000 people, the number of people working on Alexa is more than several consumer companies combined.

Kelly Johnson's 14 rules about how to manage a disruptive project described how to remove a small innovative team from the politics, policies, procedures and processes a large company had built to support execution of its core business (and its military customers had developed to procure large numbers of standard aircraft.)

It's won the endorsement from the small number of patients who've tried it — but that's not the market that the Frog team needs to convince.

The team's goal should be to deliver a small number of high - quality designs, not to produce a large number of designs in the hope that one will «stick.»

Nevertheless, Williams did manage to finish a number of projects at Twitter: He migrated Twitter to a new data center and revamped its technology; moved headquarters as the company grew, landing in offices in downtown San Francisco; made six small acquisitions; and hired another 280 employees, including most of the current management team.

His small team, which is working on a game called The Long Dark (due next year), is comprised of industry veterans who have collectively worked at a number of the big studios in Canada, including Ubisoft Montreal, BioWare and Relic Entertainment.

In addition to this public challenge, the company hosts inter-office competitions, breaking their staff of 16 into small groups and tracking the number of employees who cycle to work, offering lunch, a beer or latte to the winning team at the end of the week.

Through Internet research and repeated cold calling, this small team has managed to double the number of projects the company is handling each month.

Constrained by time, lean LP teams may seek to reduce the number of commitments they have or allocate a larger share of available capital to a smaller number of funds

The majority of respondents in our survey work closely with a small number of colleagues in their marketing teams or act as the sole marketer at their company:

Throw in Berkshire's preference for companies with simple business models, strong management teams, powerful brands and healthy pricing power, and the number of tech companies that potentially meet its criteria really starts to look small.

Many will be recent start - ups, at a relatively early stage of organisational development, and compliance may just be one of a number of functions handled by a small team.

They included a small number of manufacturing staff, but mainly involved a 50 % reduction in head office and support teams, following a period of consultation, the organisation said.

«We met the Cellar Angels» team a number of years ago and were amazed by their knowledge of the industry, passion for helping small vineyards and charities and their ability to pick out amazing wines.

Play Cech in my the knockout stages and compensate Ospina with an equal number of games against the smaller teams in the EPL.

Given the small number of Everest expeditions and the intense competition for positions on each climbing team, my prospects seemed slim.

«It just shows that everybody has moved up and the number of clubs that can fight at the top is bigger this season and the difference between the teams is smaller.

I have seen quite a number of smaller teams with much less assembly cost give man city a run for their money.

the injuries: whether they're due to training, hard ground, our playing style, smaller more technical players, or the attitude of other teams & refs to us: its probably the NUMBER ONE thing we need to sort out.

Also English players cost a lot because every team has to have a certain number of English players The talent pool is small so the best British players cost money.

Second, because the number of teams to play for is smaller, it should hold that only the best players are on the teams and thus the court.

SMU will sell flip cards instead, those small cardboard things that carry the names and numbers of the players on each team and very little else.

Bearing in mind the number of points that Arsenal pick up against smaller teams, if we pick at least 4 points from each of the teams in the top 6 — then definitely we win the League.

Those numbers earned Lawton the team's MVP award and ignited a small spark of excitement heading into another bleak Minnesota summer.

Measurements are just numbers, but occasionally they can help an NFL team's personnel department or the small army of social media draft experts answer some questions about a player.

One week out from the first playoff rankings, what would the New Year's Six picture look like if the smallest number of unbeaten teams fell before bowl season?

There was an article a while back I believe that showed we were given yellow cards per smaller number of fouls committed than any other teams.

on this now being a game between fifth and sixth... It just shows that everybody has moved up and the number of clubs that can fight at the top is bigger this season and the difference between the teams is smaller.

A similar chant to the one directed at David Villa by fans of the Spanish national team and no small coincidence that both shared the number 7 shirt.

While only a limited number of helmets of Newcastle football players were fitted with Shockbox sensors for the 2012 season we filmed for «The Smartest Team,» the results, admittedly from a very small sample size, were very encouraging:

Ours is a people - centered, data - driven campaign that has built small, manageable neighborhood teams run by talented volunteers and supported by amazing field organizers who know the exact number of votes they need to win in their precincts.

Mr Corbyn's team do not want to being back wholesale shadow cabinet elections but are considering allowing a small number of shadow cabinet posts to be elected as a peace offering to their divided party.

The Labour leader will start formal discussions with colleagues today over a small number of changes to his senior team, dubbed the «revenge reshuffle».

Mishra's team focused on a neurotransmitter called brain natriuretic peptide (BNP), which is expressed in a small number of sensory nerve cells or neurons.

Despite the small pool, WAIS and other organizations produce a remarkable number of players for U.S. Major League Baseball teams.

The Stanford team found, however, that mitochondrial DNA levels were significantly elevated in plasma samples from a small number of HD patients.

The research team measured emissions from 377 gas actuated (pneumatic) controllers at natural gas production sites and a small number of oil production sites throughout the U.S.

Instead, the team proposes, soot and other particles in the ships» exhaust create large numbers of cloud droplets that are, on average, smaller than those forming around natural dust particles in the air elsewhere over the ocean.

A small 20,000 - square - foot office building would require 40 prototype collectors, or a smaller number of the double - size ones Muhs's team intends to build.

A multicenter team of researchers reports that a full genomic analysis of tumor samples from a small number of people who died of pancreatic cancer suggests that chemical changes to DNA that do not affect the DNA sequence itself yet control how it operates confer survival advantages on subsets of pancreatic cancer cells.

A spokesman for William Hill, one of the bookmakers used by the team, said betting is sometimes restricted «in a small number of cases».

A team at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom has discovered that the reclusive 15 - millimeter insect, which lays its eggs underground next to small animal corpses, uses a slime cocktail to manipulate the number and kinds of microbes its young are exposed to as they eat the provided meat.

By combining a number of tools and techniques, a team of researchers from the U.S., Italy and China was able to find a more complete picture of the glass transition phenomenon in polymers and to point out where the polymers differ from small molecular liquids.

Dr Siddharth Banka, Clinical Senior Lecturer at the Manchester Centre for Genomic Medicine, who led the study, explained: «Our team has identified that this new syndrome is caused by a small deletion on chromosome 6 that affects the function of hypothalamus, a region of the brain that plays a number of important roles in the body.»

The team also found that the flightless cormorants have an abnormally high number of genetic mutations affecting cilia — small, hair - like structures that protrude from cells and regulate everything from normal development to reproduction.

Bartfai says a number of high - tech firms in San Francisco have approached his team with an interest in developing a small, inductive device to be put in people's brains.

Pohl and his team have a come up with a smaller number by using a cousin of the electron, known as the muon.