Names for the number 0 in English no authoritative evidence that there has ever been any such word in Scots in the first place. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first use of the word "love" in English to mean "zero" was to define how a game was to be played, rather than the score in the game itself. Gambling games could be played for stakes (money) or "for love (of the game)", i.e. for zero stakes. The first such recorded usage quoted in the OED was in 1678. The shift in meaning from "zero stakes" to "zero score" is not an enormous conceptual leap, and
Game score base of 40 points to starting pitchers' game scores (instead of 50); equalizing the penalty for giving up a walk with that of giving up a hit; and introducing home runs given up into the equation. The new 2.0 formula is: Tango subsequently published his new formula on April 11, 2016 on FanGraphs.com, a well-known and respected baseball analysis and statistics website, which at the same time also began including the new measure on their game log pages for individual pitchers for whom the building block data are available. Game score Game Score is a metric devised by Bill James