A look at regression to the mean, outperforming your underlying numbers, and good old-fashioned lucky breaks.
One thing you will hear repeatedly leading up to the Green Bay Packers’ game this weekend against the Minnesota Vikings is that the Vikings are frauds. But what does it mean to be a fraud in the first place? Is this some analytical gobbledygook that can be ignored? Is it even a bad thing for the Vikings? And does it mean the Packers are going to...