The basic idea is to combine all aspects of the player's value - hitting, fielding, pitching and the ability to play more difficult positions - and wrap it all up into a single number that indicates how many more wins the player contributed than a replacement player (someone readily available for next to nothing from Class AAA or a major league bench).
College basketball teams tend to do better in a tournament when they play more difficult teams beforehand.
People have a good knowledge of electronic music, they're interested to go see different kinds of things, and they are open when some DJs play more difficult stuff.
But the course played more difficult than we expected it to, and the scores were higher.
The road a player faces in a tournament can vary drastically if he or she just misses being in a higher seeding echelon, as lower echelons are subject to playing more difficult opponents earlier in the tournament.
Perhaps other teams have played more difficult schedules, but it is hard to imagine a more thorough, all-around beating than the one the Jaguars administered to one of those tested teams Saturday.
The opposition of a full orchestra, playing relatively simple parts, to a few soli, playing more difficult, even virtuosic parts, made it possible to entrust the full-orchestra parts to relative novices in the court entourage, often to servants who could play in addition to their other duties.
Some felt that by virtue of being in the Southeastern Conference, college football's perceived powerhouse, Alabama was favored over O.S.U., which toils in the Big 12 — never mind the fact that, according to the computers, the Cowboys had actually played more difficult opponents.
Some felt that by virtue of being in the Southeastern Conference, college football's perceived powerhouse, Alabama was favored over O.S.U., which toils in the Big 12 never mind the fact that, according to the computers, the Cowboys had actually played more difficult opponents.
When playing more difficult things, such as fast rhythmic patterns to "solos" or just going up and down a scale, you may want to refer to hammer-ons or pull-offs.
Then there is the fact that professional bowlers play on more difficult lane conditions.
