Kirk Cousins is a perfectly serviceable NFL back-up, and performed well in relief last year, but he is not an equivalent player to RGIII.
Sure, a total no brainer, though it's tough to see Glu or an equivalent player in the F2P market incorporating side-missions revolving around paternity disputes.
Cricket captains function as the equivalent of player-managers in baseball, with some of the duties of a team general manager thrown in.
In a good year on the men's tour, a player ranked twentieth in the world may earn two hundred thousand dollars in prize money and spend fifty thousand in expenses — around a fifth of what an equivalent singles player makes.
It's a shame the set doesn't go back two more decades, when synthesizers and sequencers (the electronic equivalents of player-piano rolls) had already escaped ivy towers and recording studios to provide swoops, drones, blips and pulsations for various pop projects.
"I just didn't want to have the same MP3 player as everybody else, and felt that there had to be equivalent or better players out there," Mr. Roosevelt, an 18-year-old native of Chappaqua, N.Y., said recently from his freshman dorm room at the University of Maryland.
Indeed, the calls are the political equivalent of tennis players shaking hands at the net after a tough match.
Everton, by contrast, must foot an annual interest bill of close to £4.5m – equivalent to two players earning £43,000 a week.
In a way, if you must compare the debt-ceiling and N.F.L. messes, the voters are the equivalent of the players and owners, and the politicians are the fans.
Devices like the Galaxy Camera and Xperia Play (and to a certain extent Google Glass) may appear in some ways to be an attempt at a totally refocused mobile device, but let's be honest: they are grotesque frankengadgets, the modern equivalent of CD-MP3 players, combining the drawbacks of two device classes in one handy package.
