[Jon Stratis]

Nope. When you reverse it like this, you don't average all of the first game hints - you average the last ones. So last year it was the first, the three years prior the third, prior to that the third, etc - whichever ones were closest to kickoff.

That results in averages of 14.8 (12/21) days before kickoff for the last game hint, 23.25 (12/12) days before for the second to last game hint, and 28 (12/8) days for the third to last game hint.

That would seem to indicate that, on average, we're past the point of having 3 game hints this year, and quickly approaching the point of only getting 1 game hint this year!