What is a match?
By Hunter Allen A “match” is an elusive term used by riders, and coaches within the bike racing world. When you burn a match, you have done a hard effort. It’s an effort that in which you had to dig deep, or you had to really push yourself. Any bike racer knows what it feels like to have burned a match, but until now, no one has really tried to quantify a match. Why do you need to know what a match is? Well, you as a rider, start out the day with a full set of matches in your matchbook, but every time you go hard, do an attack, have to hammer over a hill, you burn one of your matches. All of us have different size matchbooks, but nobody has an infinite number, so it’s important to burn your -matches- at the right time during a race or in training. Otherwise you are left with an empty matchbook and then your chances of performing well have been drastically reduced. Burn all your matches before the end of the race and it’s doubtful you will win.
A match shows you how well your job matches up with a candidate’s skills & preferences. itzbig takes into consideration not only what you need in terms of job requirements but also the candidate’s interests. We display a match signal which provides you with a convenient method for seeing how well your job meets the candidate’s interests – for example, you could get an Okay match or a Great match.
A match is a donor or cord blood unit with specific HLA markers that are the same as yours. Research has found that a small number of HLA markers are most important to transplant outcomes. These are the markers transplant doctors look at when they match donors with patients. The best available donor or cord blood unit may match you at all or at most of the HLA markers your doctor looks at. Many patients who receive an unrelated donor transplant have a partially matched donor or cord blood unit. A well-matched donor or cord blood unit is important for your transplant, but it is only one of the things that can affect your outcome. For cord blood transplants, the number of blood-forming cells in the cord blood unit is important. Your disease, the stage of your disease, your age and general health can all affect how well you will do. Doctors will consider all these things when making decisions about a transplant.
At the end of your game (unless your operator has disabled it), you will be given a chance to randomly win a free game. If the selected digits match the last 2 digits of your score, you get it. Note, though, that on modern games, you do not have a 1:10 chance of getting a game. The percentage of matches awarded is operator settable, and often defaults to 7%. Supposedly Gottlieb machines default to a paltry 1%! And Data East uses a newbie-catcher trick: When the game matches, it plays some sounds, some animations, and gives you the credit after about 3-5 seconds. If you hit start before then (because you still have credits left), you won’t get your match credit! Back when scores didn’t have dummy 0’s (or 2 or 3 or 6… 🙂 ), matches were only on the last digit of your score… On No Fear, Williams has introduced an entirely new matching mechanism. They may or may not keep using something similar.
By Hunter Allen A “match” is an elusive term used by riders, and coaches within the bike racing world. When you burn a match, you have done a hard effort. It’s an effort that in which you had to dig deep, or you had to really push yourself. Any bike racer knows what it feels like to have burned a match, but until now, no one has really tried to quantify a match. Why do you need to know what a match is? Well, you as a rider, start out the day with a full set of matches in your matchbook, but every time you go hard, do an attack, have to hammer over a hill, you burn one of your matches. All of us have different size matchbooks, but nobody has an infinite number, so it’s important to burn your -matches- at the right time during a race or in training. Otherwise you are left with an empty matchbook and then your chances of performing well have been drastically reduced. Burn all your matches before the end of the race and it’s doubtful you will win.
