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Wednesday 4 July 2007

Darts - Q: What's Cook-ing? A: Colin is Cook-ing!




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Surprisingly after all the rain yesterday the evening was dry! So no players arrived soaked like last week! The mighty ‘P’ did its random stuff and spat the teams out as Peter and Colin V Ian and Steve. We settled down for a fairly fast paced 6 games, the final score was 5 – 1 to Peter and Colin, the order of wins was PC 13456 / 2 IS.

Performance: Ian was just a tad off his normal game but still racking up bulls and semis, Steve and Pete played consistently useful darts. Young Mr Cook had a superb evening playing above his normal level thus earning a well deserved MOTM. Colin we want to see that every week now!

There were some close games but thankfully for Colin and I we just had the edge. As far as I can remember all games started on bulls (as now seems to have become standard) and so finished on low numbers 10’, 12’s and 13’s. There was also a fair smattering of trebles not to mention 5’s and 6's of a kind from both Steve and Colin.

Chart Changes:

No changes on the cumulative chart, which I have to say is a shame for Colin; after a good evening I was expecting him to jump up from last position. Maybe next time!

Doubles chart, Dave retains first spot, I have climbed back to second (half a % behind Dave) and Ian takes 3rd place.

Future changes to chart system:

Ian has maintained for some time that the doubles chart is a more accurate representation of our personal performance than the current mixture of doubles, singles & H2H2H.

I had a look to see what % of games played were doubles as opposed to all types. Last year; June to December 75% of games played were doubles. So far this year 95% of all games played have been doubles. The difference in the %s is made up mostly by H2H2H games (2 this year, 16 last). This is probably due to the fact we have a slightly larger pool of folks this year so are less likely to be a man short and we haven’t had any ‘no shows’, triggering H2H2H matches.

Although I have been happy that all results good or bad for any type of game affect our ratings one thing has been nagging at me; singles matches have nearly always been me against another player. This just seems a little out of step, so I am going to go with Ian on this one.

For next season (Jan) assuming we are still firing on all cylinders I will be promoting the ‘doubles’ results to the main graphics chart and the ‘all games played’ will only be a weekly bar-chart. I don’t think it is practical to do it before then as I would have to rebuild the chart about 40 times, starting with fresh data would be much better.

Finally (hears sighs of relief), I had to make a quick local rule last night, but it’s open to negotiation. Colin had a dart bounce out during the ‘middle for diddle’ and I said he should take it again. This is in line with BDO (British Darts Organisation) tiebreaker and ADO (US) game start rules. Albeit for BDO they are talking about X01 games and we are playing Mickey Mouse (nearer to US Cr**ket).

BDO “If a dart rebounds from the board, or falls out of the board during a throw, then the players shall throw a further dart, or darts, until one remains in the board”.

ADO “The dart must remain the in the board in order to count. Additional throws may be made, until the player’s dart remains in the board. Should the 2nd thrower dislodge the dart of the 1st, a re-throw will be made with the 2nd thrower now throwing first”.

We can either decide on re-throws or if it falls out or you knock another players dart out it's tough luck! Please cast your vote on the Poll on the right hand side of the screen (just above fixtures).

Cheers

Peter X

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