regression

Perhaps, then, the story about big cities softening up on Trump reflects not the salience of place and an attention to local governance, but a decline of those things, and a regression of the metropolitan voter toward the national mean.

The Dodgers, however, are hopeful Ohtani won’t endure any such regression, and that the impact of his labrum surgery will only be minimal.

Some regression is to be expected, of course.

Will Smith’s statistical regression has illustrated his struggles to hone in on his best swing — one the Dodgers are hoping has started to reappear in recent weeks.

For the purposes of the playoff odds simulation, we are calculating a value of SRS using each team’s previous 100 games, adding in 50 games of .500 ball for regression to the mean.