How much did these advantages matter?
Andy Pettitte, who pitched Game 3, was scheduled to also work on full rest in Game 6, and Sabathia would have pitched on full rest in Game 7. As it happened, none of those perceived advantages mattered.
As more people connect to the Internet on high speed lines, however, and Google faces rich-text competition from the likes of Microsoft's Bing search engine, those advantages matter less.
That the knowledge economy has an "inherent tendency" toward geographic agglomeration, as Moretti puts it, makes all of this more challenging, because "initial advantages matter, and the future depends heavily on the past".
Polls show that voters trust Republicans over Democrats on this subject by a huge margin, an advantage that matters greatly when the country is preoccupied by foreign policy.
Home advantage certainly matters.
His larger brain is the only advantage that matters".
Its strengths were the party's brand advantage on matters such as the NHS and fairness; its impressive ground game in key seats; and an electoral map that favoured Labour.
Still, each country looks for any advantage, no matter how tiny.
