George William James is an American baseball writer, historian, and statistician whose work has been widely influential. Since 1977, James has written more than two dozen books devoted to baseball history and statistics. His approach, which he termed sabermetrics in reference to the Society for American Baseball Research , scientifically analyzes and studies baseball, often through the use of statistical data, in an attempt to determine why teams win and lose.
In 2006, Time named him in the Time 100 as one of the most influential people in the world. He was most recently a senior advisor on Baseball Operations for the Boston Red Sox. Wikipedia
The Mind of Bill James, 2006, p. 191
1985 Baseball Abstract
“Standardization leads to rigidity, and rigidity causes things to break.”
Quoted in [Gray, Scott, The Mind of Bill James: How a Complete Outsider Changed Baseball, 2006, Doubleday, New York, ISBN 0-385-51464-6, 191]
