If successful Mike Bloomberg will have effectively abolished the early state primary calendar, and negated the roles of Iowa, NH, NV, SC. He is testing the proposition that you can do the opposite of retail politics and win, if you have enough billions.
Trump also eschewed many of the formalities of early-state politicking. But he still devoted major resources to those states and campaigned in them extensively. Bloomberg thinks he can run a national operation from his Manhattan HQ and just ignore them.
In order for Bloomberg's strategy to be successful, it would be optimal for there to be no clear "front-runner" after the first four contests. So don't put it past him to use the massive "data analytics" tools at his disposal to engineer that (chaotic) outcome.
Presumably it would be ideal for Bloomberg if a different candidate won each of the first four contests (already a possibility). Bloomberg could "optimize" for that outcome by indirectly boosting candidates in certain states and attacking them in others.
