Highest possible 3 dart average?

i got 171.875 but may not have thought it through properly

i agree with the original post, player loses match though

167

By putting forward spin or 'carry' on the darts, I can usually do 190 or so.

It is, and a very difficult one to work out.

I think it's a straightforward arithmetical question.

Brilliant question and the correct answer is given in the opening post.

You have to lose the match anywhere between 10-1 to 10-9.
In the leg(s) you win you have to hit a 9 darter producing a 167 avererage for 3 darts.
In the legs that you lose, your opponent has to hit 9 darters (when going first), and you would have to hit two 180's each time.

Simple maths gives 172.532

Simple question Pokermonster, do you work for GCHQ, and if so, are you recruiting

Is this 180s and 9 darters the whole way through for both players, with you throwing 2nd in the 1st leg?

Stupid fools?

According to wiki, Currently over 105 professional nine-darters have achieved nine-dart finishes, both televised and untelevised whatever that means! Meanwhile, 107 official maximum breaks have been achieved in professional competition.

I'd assume that the untelevised 180s ones are in proper competitions that are not televised.

Also that reads 105 people for darts (With tens or hundreds of 180s each for the pros) vs 107 147s in snooker.

Certainly a nine dart finish is easier to visualise and I imagine that messes up our thinking.

The most important consideration when comparing the two achievements is how far the technical limits of both games have been stretched.

In snooker, it has been possible for several decades to earn a living at the game, and a decent living if one is among the top players. In darts, it has only been relatively recently that serious money has been available and a decent tournament calendar organised to encourage the amateur to concentrate full-time on achieving his dreams.

As such, the general standard of darts is improving at an exponential rate, making nine-dart finishes much more common nowadays and much more likely in the future. I expect this argument to take on Flat Earth proportions within the next decade i.e it will become obvious which achievement is the more meritorious and it will be thought quaint that people once believed in the greater difficulty of the nine-dart finish.

I could spend the rest of my life playing snooker but would never get a 147 break. The game doesn't suit me, which is why I took up darts.

Technicality is just a subjective component, which you could argue both ways.  Just because the technique is apparently more difficult to master doesn't make a 147 easier than running the 100m in less than ten seconds.  For instance everyone learns to run from a young age.  Everyone masters the basic technique through regular practice and out of the billions of people who run only a handful can run under 10 seconds.  Most people barely or never play snooker.  They never master the technique because they don't play it enough.  If they did there would be no comparison and this would be a flat earth argument.

The basic technique in darts is throwing which is similar to running.  Everyone throws from a young age so most of the technique is already programmed into us.  Snooker would be like archery, a totally foreign technique that you learn from the very beginning.  The same argument that applies with running applies to darts.

If you took a young child at a very young age, with money and resources at your disposal that were no object, I suspect it would be much easier to train them up to be a champion golfer, or a champion snooker player than a champion darts player.

nature=brain damage, nurture=brain damage.

Wow, Ali was that good at 9!

Yeah Kenny, and a lovely kid as well. Very gracious in victory. I've obviously followed his career closely, and I still think he has the game to be World Champion, but the poor bloke's had just about every bit of bad-luck going health-wise. I just hope he can have a few untroubled years and achieve what he is capable of.

I played in the local pub B team at the age of 15. I was not very good, but one of the better players in that team. It was good to get around a lot of local pubs at that age.

My dad's place in the Friday night darts team at the George (Cheshunt) was taken by Bobby George. In truth my dad was making up the numbers for a good local team.
One of my dad's good fishing mates was Dennis Ovens who got into darts late but made/makes a no. of tv appearances.

My brother played Leighton Rees in an exhibition at the Hotpoles in Enfield ca. 30 years ago. He put up a decent showing but lost. My brother & my mum went to see Jocky Wilson play an exhibition at Ryes in Hoddesdon. It chucked it down and very few made it down there. My brother played lots of games against him & ended up chalking for much of the night. Jocky Wilson came down in a big camper van. (Gyppo!)