Analyzing Games Mugs

"Thursday-Morning Quarterback"

"The Net National Product rose slightly last month."

Scottish Football Fan - "...and please Lord, let the result be against the run of play."

"You're going to have to submit to peer review eventually, Bradshaw!"

Reading my Critics

'Now that's the Group of Death.'

"I think someone's trying to play games with us."

'According to this book, the casino has a slight edge in this game.'

"I hope I get rock and you get scissors, or I get scissors and you get paper, or I get paper and you get rock."

United Football Club: In, Out, VAR.

'Unbelievable, these guys brought a ringer.'

Six Thinking Hats

"Next time be more careful where you put the decimal point!"

'Herb will provide one of his concise interpretations of the quarterly sales charts.'

"It evened out, for every free kick they got, we had one against us."

'Play post office? -- I don't like violent games.'

"Well I didn't see the incident myself.."

Experience-Productivity Ratio / Age-Salary Ratio.

The commentators want to run the officials...

A book reviewer reads between the margins.

"...but this is the stuff of dreams Mr Whitley! Dreams."

Basketball Tourney. Ernie, you're crushing everybody in the office basketball pool! You've picked the winner of every game so far! It's amazing because you don't know a thing about basketball. For you, picking the winner of every tournament game is like correctly guessing a coin flip sixty seven times in a row! No, I have a system! It seems everybody has an opinion about the tourney so I listened to what my investment advisor thought about the teams. And with his record of picking winners

Profit slump

Rest in Peace Instant Replay

Micro and Macro Department,

"Remember, data doesn't tell the whole story."

Political Analysis

'We're in a hurry.'

"These guys stink. They're the worst team I've ever seen! What a bunch of losers!"

'Typical phallic egocentrism!'

'Please disregard the previous message about the imminent collapse of the global economy'

'When the music stops, sit down in the nearest chair. Whoever doesn't get a chair is redundant.'

'Maybe it's me, but I have a feeling we're being used as pawns.'

'Our sabermetrics guy has confirmed that last year's team that went 60-102 was bad.'

"How do you know he was offsides? How do you know anything? Isn’t it possible this is all a dream?!"