In November, I wrote an article that took a closer look at Jimmy Howard’s performance to that point of the season.

For this article, I wanted to follow up on some of the things I wrote about in that article as well as exploring more about what High Danger Chances Against can tell us about Detroit’s performance this year.

Clarifying Terms

While this article will involve advanced stats, I want to make it relatively easy to follow for those who don’t know too much about that area of analysis. Different sites have different ways of evaluating scoring chances, although they all have the same basic idea.