That's especially true in football, a team game where the parts need to fit together.
Dyer, who left Chesterfield in the summer, scored a goal in a reserve-team game against the Minstermen for Bradford.
The 33-year-old Italian striker was an August transfer deadline-day signing but left in October, without playing a first-team game.
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Since the NFL is truly a team game, you need a number of great players at a multitude of positions.
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The 32-year-old signed a two-year deal with the Alex in June but has yet to play a first-team game this season.
"This is a team game and we have a lot of guys who can score, " said Siva, who finished with seven points.
The younger Evans has played in recent friendlies but has yet to feature in a competitive first-team game for the Old Trafford club.
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"Football is a team game, I wouldn't be here without the help and support and commitment of everybody I've played with, " he said.
He joined Liverpool in 2005 but failed to make a first-team game for the Premier League side not helped by an injury-hit first season.
"The A team game gave us the opportunity to give experience to some players at this level and also in particular positions, " said O'Sullivan.
Jones is unlikely to start in the game against Northampton Saints on Boxing day, after only one A-team game and appearing as a replacement in the home tie with Connacht.
"I think baseball is such a team game that it's an easy way for guys to express their personalities, " said Sal Fasano, a former backup catcher whose burly 'stache was inspired by old samurai movies that he watched as kid.
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William McRaven, who heads the military's special operations command, and asked for a small team to game out the options.
Dissatisfied with the way stealth games in the past lacked precision, and came down too often to a sort of elaborate guessing game, the team focused on building a game that presented every piece of information necessary to the player to make his or her choice about how to proceed.
Sure, the Pac-12 game is a mismatch thanks to sanctions against USC that put an undermanned UCLA team in the game.
West Point's basketball team lost only one game that year and the tennis team was undefeated.
One suggestion that wouldn't disrupt the flow of the game: Each team could request one replay per game.
Holloway, who has threatened to quit if Blackpool are given a similar punishment to Wolves, had tried to differentiate between the two cases by arguing that he picked a team to win the game, whereas McCarthy had accepted his team were unlikely to win.
So the team would work for 4-6 months, put the game out, then the team would study what players were doing in their game.
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The size of the team working on the game is now close to the size of the team working on World of Warcraft (more than 140 employees), a sign that project development is in full swing.
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The team tweaked the game and its characters until they found themselves playing it nonstop.
But Ryan got the ball back and led his team to the game-winning field goal.
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Mets manager Terry Collins said the 27-year-old Hefner has kept the team in the game in his starts.
Hamels, the 2008 World Series MVP, hasn't thrown a pitch with his team leading the game since April 7.
Current rules allow for two challenges for each team during a game.
We handle the expense side from team guarantees to game officials, marketing budgets to staff expenses and all overhead.
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The home team won every game in that series until New York took Game 7 in a dominating 5-0 decision.
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