You're right, especially people like me, who didn't know him before .. This is from F6 second article he posted -
Before creating statistical models for elections, Mr. Silver was a baseball sabermetrician who built a highly effective system for projecting how players would perform in the future. For a time he was a managing partner of Baseball Prospectus.
At public events recently, he has expressed interest in covering sports more frequently, so the ESPN deal is a logical next step.
Mr. Silver’s three-year contract with The Times is set to expire in late August and his departure will most likely be interpreted as a blow to the company, which has promoted Mr. Silver and his brand of poll-based projections.
He gained such prominence in 2012 that President Obama joked that Mr. Silver had accurately predicted which turkeys the president would pardon that Thanksgiving. “Nate Silver completely nailed it,” he said. “The guy’s amazing.”
Speculation about the future of Mr. Silver and FiveThirtyEight heated up shortly after last November’s election, and he was wooed by no small number of other news organizations. Jill Abramson, the newspaper’s executive editor, and Mark Thompson, the chief executive of The New York Times Company, said earlier this year that they would try hard to sign Mr. Silver to a new contract.
NBC News and its cable news channel MSNBC was another interested party.
In an e-mail several weeks ago, Mr. Silver said negotiations were continuing with The Times “and I’m still trying to make a decision.” He informed The Times on Friday of his plan to leave.
He occasionally hinted in interviews and public appearances that his relationship with The Times had moments of tension. But it was mutually beneficial. The news organization gained Web traffic and prestige by hosting his work, and he received a salary, a wider audience and editorial support.
The same will most likely be true at ESPN.
.............Goodness do you remember how the wingnuts hated him for being right all the time? .. .LOLOL and in the meantime they were listening to disappearing act " skewered polls" ... from the creepy bum clinton hired and now or used to work for fox ... until 'he disappeared from twitter on election night' .. .. LOLOL because all his polls were wrong ... and Once again! ... ;) .. .Nate was RIGHT! .........so no one knew where he was for a couple of days .... . .oh what is that guys name .. he's a toe sucker ... .. and just an all around general scum of the earth type ... you just have to wonder what clinton was doing with him ..... were they both sucking toes? ... .. just kidding, sort of, AND god knows there ARE worse things than sucking toes, ..... .but you do have to wonder sometimes .... ;)
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