When we truly understand baseball, we understand ourselves. Or so preaches Bill James, father of sabermetrics; author of more than a dozen books on baseball statistics and research; and member of the Time Magazine 100 most influential people in the world (2006).
In a recent post on his site Bill James Online, the statistician guru crunches the numbers on the Donald Trump phenomenon. Because when trying to make sense of Trump’s rise in the Republican polls, what we need is not emotional reactionaries, but mathematical fact.
James, on if Trump can become President (via Politico):
“I don’t think that Trump can win, frankly, because I don’t think there are enough morons to elect him.