The big problem with the ‘high danger chances’ stat is not how it's calculated, but the actual name. It's misleading. Call it ‘home plate chances’ and take it for what it's worth. Calling them ‘high danger’ fools the casual sports fan and the innumerate sportswriter into thinking the stat means more than it does.
By the way, I absolutely do not believe that the skill of the shooter should be taken into account in deciding whether a chance is dangerous or not. That should be a separate statistic, tracked for each skater in the game. Ovechkin scores more goals than anybody, not because his chances are more dangerous in themselves, but because he's better at converting them than anyone else. He has the Midas touch: every puck he touches turns into goals. That doesn't reflect on the skill, or lack thereof, of the players defending against him, which is one of the main things you want to measure when you count scoring chances against.
If you try to measure too many factors with one number, you end up measuring none of them.
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