Game score Game score Game Score is a metric devised by Bill James to determine the strength of a pitcher in any particular baseball game. To determine a starting pitcher's game score: The maximum possible game score in a nine-inning game while allowing no baserunners is 114, possible only if a pitcher goes nine innings while striking out every batter he faces and facing three batters per inning. The pitcher receives 50 to begin with, and loses no points because there are no hits, walks, or runs of any kind. He receives 27 points for the 27 outs, and 10 points for
Variations of golf Arnold Palmer, who made quite a few "Arnies" in his time. Wolf is a classic golf betting game for groups of four. It is played mostly as 2-on-2 teams that change each hole, with each player scoring separately. A predetermined driving order is set by arbitrary means (birthdays, alphabetical order, drawing tees, etc…) and is kept throughout the round. The starting player rotates each hole (and thus the Wolf rotates because the wolf always tees off last). If the order for hole 1 is ABCD, then player D is the Wolf for hole 1. The order for hole #2 would