As humans, we are often quick to dismiss the role of luck in recent events. It’s much easier for us to attach the after-the-fact explanations to why something happened than to it is acknowledge that the world we live in is random and, in many cases, unpredictable.
No one wants to attribute recent success to luck, and members of the football community are no anomaly. But that doesn’t change the fact that luck is a huge contributing factor when it comes to the success of NFL franchises.
Looking at teams that stood out as outliers in luck-driven categories in 2019 — both on the low and high end — could give us an idea of the teams that could be in store for regression in 2020.