To be fair, the Drupal date module isn't just "the simplest helper module."

Off the top of my head, those 14k lines of code also include:

• a system-wide API for other modules to reuse - the most important part
• a few administrative UI variants
• hooks into several common extensions including
  • Context
  • Views
  • Feeds
  • Migrate
  • Tokens
  • ... and I'm probably forgetting several others
• tests for each
• Markups and styles for front-end
• hooks to override any of the above
• administrative options to override most of the above without a single line of code

It's not quite the same thing as a WP plugin that lets you add Date fields to posts.

I disagree.

We are actually big clothed apes.

Speak for yourself.

The reason this works particularly well in baseball, basketball and hockey is the schedule. You have 162 games a year in MLB, for example. In the NBA and NHL, it's 82 games. That's a relatively substantial sample - each game only accounts for roughly 0.6 or 1.2% of the season record.

The NFL, on the other hand, has a 16 game season. A team having a particularly good or bad game carries 10 times the weight it does in baseball (just going off the percentage of the season's games). Also, unlike baseball, football's playoffs are single-elimination.

The reason analytics aren't as directly relevant to football is exactly the reason that I enjoy it immensely.

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Legend for our friends abroad:
MLB = Major League Baseball
NHL = National Hockey League
NBA = National Basketball Association
NFL = National Football** League

** - yes, we're talking about American football, rather than the game known internationally as the game in which you kick a ball with your foot.

... the probability of an Earth encounter on April 13, 2036, for Apophis has dropped from one-in-45,000 to about four-in-a million, NASA stated.

Can we keep our units/ratios consistent?

... the probability of an Earth encounter on April 13, 2036, for Apophis has dropped from one-in-45,000 to about one-in-250,000, NASA stated.

When you're regurgitating statistics that are generally considered good news - such as the decreased chance of global catastrophe - doesn't it seem reasonable to make those statistics intelligible?