Introduction

When it comes to the term regression, you likely understand it by its typical definition. It's a return to a previous and less advanced state condition or way of behaving. Many assume that regression means getting worse at something as the definition states. But when a fantasy football analyst like myself is talking regression, we're really just referring to regression to the mean. If one sample of a random variable is extreme, the next sampling of the same random variable is likely to be closer to its mean or its average.