Sentences with phrase «unfair games»

It's one of the most objectively unfair games ever.

If Gladwell's book will excite fans of growth stocks, than Michael Lewis» Moneyball, The Art of Winning an Unfair Game should give some confidence to value investors.

You know they say that baseball is an unfair game of inches.

Toronto FC should not keep quiet (which is my argument) and in the event that the officials continue this bad - streak of unfair game - deciding officiating.

For Black women, dating is very much like an unfair game of musical chairs.

«Moneyball» (screenplay by Aaron Sorkin and Steven Zaillian, based on the book «Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game» by Michael Lewis)

Clarke would've given this movie an unfair Game of Thrones association, and Knightley is just not a good actress, plus she doesn't fit into the setting as well (as seen in King Arthur).

Screenplay by Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin, story by Stan Chervin, based on the book Moneyball: The Art of Winning An Unfair Game by Michael Lewis.

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As Michael Lewis writes, that is «the art of winning an unfair game.»

If Gladwell's book will excite fans of growth stocks, than Michael Lewis» Moneyball, The Art of Winning an Unfair Game should give some confidence to value investors.

The thought first struck me when I read Andy McN's editorial about why it's unfair gamers think GI is being unfair to Nintendo, and began to hit me repeatedly with a stick when I hit page 26, a profile of Pokemon tournament champion Knight Silvayne, an 11 - year - old boy who looks like every «plays too much Nintendo» kid that's existed since 1988.

I think the line between a tough but fair game and an unfair game is an interesting subject.

There is a growing trend to bring the tools of data analysis into legal practice, and much of the media coverage references Michael Lewis» 2003 book Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game *, or perhaps the movie based on the book:

Jean - Francois Denis, a huge baseball fan, says his favourite book — Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis — is not just a book about baseball.

And firms, particularly in recent years following the popular success of Moneyball: the art of winning an unfair game, Michael Lewis's book on the use of sabermetrics in US Major League baseball, have tracked how successful (or otherwise) their graduate recruitment policies and practices have been in hiring the best performing associates and, indeed, future partners.

The movie was based on Michael Lewis's best - selling book: Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, which has since been applied to various professions to show how if you take data already available to you and apply it strategically, you can produce better results without spending more.

It will run with CHP tokens and will use Blockchain technology against rising unfair game.

Not exact matches

Saban, meanwhile, said that he felt it would be unfair to blame the players for leaving, suggesting that because of the college - football playoff, most bowl games have become little more than an exhibition game.

Since first debuting in Al Pacino's Any Given Sunday, «The Game of Inches» has grown in worldwide popularity thanks to the advent of 30 - second television commercials and an unfair narrative about Joe Buck, King of Bias and Prince of Nepotism.

The Portland Oregonian reported that United Methodist leaders abandoned an attempt to gather signatures for a referendum on video poker because the proposed initiative could have forced tribes to give up their lucrative video games, and the tribes claimed that this was unfair to Native Americans struggling for economic growth.

It is unfair to those with whom one plays to undertake the game in a distracted and divided frame of mind, for the spirit of the game is a consequence of the common dedication of the players to the pursuit at hand.

I thought to myself, «Either God is unfair or I don't get how his game is played; one way or another, this doesn't make any sense to me.»

Seeing the game afoot, some conservatives, far from being amused, went into a frenzy of strident and unfair criticism of Powell, threatening to bolt if he is on the Republican ticket.

I think it's a little unfair that we have to play our game on Monday night.

The Player V Player stats are unfair to certain match ups, as some have played more games than the other!

It is a little unfair though, he never really got a chance, even Campbell got over twenty games last season.

It's not only unfair, but mentally in a game like yesterday being one nil down just before half time was a major mental blow for Arsenal.

But still unfair to drop him after just one game.

to be honest i think it is unfair to judge a player on just one game also i read somewhere that morata would rather join either chelsea or man united because of his past relations with both manager, concerning his goals scoring ratio it has to be mentioned that the majority of his appearances came from the substitutes bench which makes it more difficult for any forwards to score regularly, we all know the benefits for a player to play week in week out.

So basically, the system is broken, it's all unfair, it's all stupid... and we're still going to watch the national title game.

And do people not think it is unfair what they have done to him, almost as though he has won credit having been sacked after 25 games?

Jeffery, Fuller, and now Long have faced unfair criticism from fans for playing their hearts out in a violent game.

A second unfair item with the Chargers Thursday game is that they have to play both games on the road, which means that they have one less prep day than the home teams.

With just nine games on the board, it seems quite unfair to already be suggesting that Di Matteo's job is under threat as there is still plenty of time for improvement and progress.

Yes David Bentley has improved greatly of late, and perhaps we could just offload Jamie O'Hara and Alan Hutton, but that being said when everyone is fit and well Bentley won't get a game and therefore it would in some ways be unfair to keep him just to warm the bench as that would not serve his career too well at this stage.

I'm not a Lacazette fanboy, but it's a little unfair to judge him on that game.

Not subbing right away to bring on fresh legs Not putting Gabriel on for Kos Putting on Ozil who never defends well Not telling his team to defend and ride out the game — nobody expected us to win 6 - 1 after the unfair penalty and red card — allowing 4 more goals was unacceptable and showed stupidity IMO.

The first decision was unfair and at the end of the day the decision was right because Koscielny scored but even me, 30 years in the job, I didn't know that before the game.

Slightly unfair — Ox has been putting in a shift for the last few games, and at least Walcott and Ramsey didn't disappear last night.

There's games where Steph is invisible and it doesn't matter because the rest of the team is so good I think the same can be said for Kyrie, although that dude is a gamer Chris Paul has a (possibly unfair) reputation as a playoff choker, overall his numbers are fine, but there's definitely been some late miscues that normally don't happen

A bit unfair on Jack, how can we tell if he can or can not as he never plays... Oh apart from the odd game where he gets himself injured again.

However, there have been plenty of reports showing that the lazy tag is unfair and Ozil gets through as much work as almost anyone during games.

I think people are being a bit unfair on Ox — his biggest problem is consistency and sometimes he is a true game changer.

As physical as this game is, as much work and preparation that goes into this, to force us to play games on four - day weeks, it's completely unfair and bullshit.

When you ask for a verdict after 3 league games you're only going to solicit biased praise or unfair criticism

The yearly so - called «rivalry» games are particularly unfair.

Few examples: Game where we were about to win against Barca away from home we received an unfair red card and a ruled out goal, ultimately knocking us out of the competition.

As reported by Sky Sports the former defender suggested that all the critics of Wenger and the way that Arsenal have faltered recently in the title race is hugely unfair and disrespectful and also that it comes from people that are not actually involved in the game from the inside, pointing out that all real football people have nothing but respect for the Frenchman.