[legulere]

In sports in a game the better team will win and the worse team will lose. In economy the better company will win and the worse company will also win, just a little bit less.

[knowtheworld]

The difference is a sports team has at most 30 team members but a company can have 1000+ engineers, which makes everything tangled together

[Exmoor]

Or the better team lose by a lot, but catch up slightly over time to the worse team because the worse team was better 20 years ago.