Do we really want cable to be bound by the same numbers game as broadcast?
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Both SuperEnalotto and Lotto, the original numbers game, are also now run by private firms.
Critics said the target was only achieved by forcing NHS managers to play the numbers game.
Morality and ethics and what you think is right and wrong aside, this is a numbers game.
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Four years ago, Lotto, an old-fashioned numbers game and the Italians' favourite punt, was still run on paper.
Mr Larson summarised the numbers game that a hunt for ETs necessarily entails.
Criminologists John Eterno and Eli Silverman argue in their book "The Crime Numbers Game" that crime statistics are manipulated.
"Soccer is the original hotbed of analytics, " Prof Chris Anderson, of Cornell University, and author of The Numbers Game, said.
Some are going to say that these tactics work, and I know that they do because it all becomes a numbers game.
Sinn Fein's Francie Molloy accused Mr Pearson of playing a "dangerous numbers game" with the future of the people of the province.
Some of this is simply a numbers game: there are fewer women at senior levels and therefore fewer potential advocates and mentors.
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And this is a numbers game about probability versus resources when you are dealing with millions of passengers to be processed each year.
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"It's a numbers game, " says David Baltimore, a Nobel laureate and codiscoverer of an enzyme that helps HIV replicate, who heads the California Institute of Technology.
Feeling underappreciated is, in large measure, a numbers game: If you limit your exposure to negative inputs, positive ones become over-represented in the total number you receive.
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It is also now thinking of banning the gambling halls which play host to the "numbers game", a Brazilian form of street bingo based on animal names which is hugely lucrative for those who run it.
Until there is a real way to quantify the emotional bond bloggers have to their audience, evaluating them through the current means available is just a hollow fix, and worse, a numbers game that is easily manipulated.
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Since most digital advertising is a total numbers game, it might take a while for agencies and their clients to realize what portion of their Like-spend is going to acquire fans and attendent search results of dubious value.
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Carlos Ramos or "Carlinhos the Waterfall" - the man from whom Mr Diniz is accused of taking money for favours while head of the Rio de Janeiro state lottery - is thought to be a kingpin of the Rio numbers game.
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It's hard to see the Hume solution - joint referenda on both sides of the border on a deal, institutions at Stormont with safeguards for the minority, an acceptance of the principle of consent, and a promise of future referenda if the numbers game changes - being bettered.
While the idea of reporting on CSR initiatives and housing all the reports on one online portal has the dual promise of benchmarking progress by providing transparent and comparative data, as well as spurring competitive participation, making the exercise mandatory simply pushes reluctant conglomerates into a numbers game.
And as these multiple accounts and methods of synchronization were proliferating on the technology front, some of us were proliferating little ones on the home front, who would one day grow up to want their own email addresses, phone numbers, game center accounts and ways of managing their own stuff.
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Evans is the first NBA player to reach both those numbers in a game this season.
Griffin continued to pile up video game numbers, but not enough to compensate for the Bears' leaky defense.
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