One of the many reasons analysts gave the 2022 Detroit Lions a good chance to make a significant jump this year was a look at their schedule.
Going by last year’s record, Detroit had the fifth-easiest schedule, with their opponents averaging a winning percentage of .467. However, we knew that was a pretty lazy way to analyze a team’s strength of schedule, because of the year-to-year parity in the league. Still, several other metrics pointed to the Lions getting a bunch of favors from the schedule makers. They get the second-most rest in between games as compared to their opponents, and going by Vegas’ projected win total, the Lions still had the fifth-easiest schedule.