Adrian Nelson - The Sports Quotient
There are a few basic concepts that everyone who takes Econ 101 generally walks away with, and these concepts can be applied nearly everywhere — even sports! One is the business cycle. In the most basic sense the business cycle is characterized by the old adage of “what goes up must come down.”
The economy goes through periods of growth and decline, and NFL teams are really no different. The NFL has long been called a league of parity. Success is easier to replicate than in a sport like baseball and teams go from worst to first and first to worst seemingly every year.