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Highest possible 3 dart average?
Highest possible 3 dart average?
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Try throwing a dart with your left hand. Not such an apparently easy technique then.
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Yeah SJ, I used to play a lot of pub darts, great nights out. Never played any pros at darts, I wouldn't be in their League or even near it, but you still see some fantastic players. I know from my own experiences at snooker that is rarely pure ability that determines who makes it at games like these, where performance levels can vary wildly between practise and matchplay due to nerves and such.
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Hence several beers required to steady the nerves
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Talking of left handed activities, I once participated in a left handed throwing comp with some mates throwing a golf ball off the 1st level of a driving range
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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.
maybe a stupid question as i dont play darts, but If your dart opponent is sh!t you could be hitting 180s for ever why is it assumed opponent hits 9 dart finish aswell? |
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The question is about the theoretical maximum three-dart average brendan.
You must hit two 180s in every leg you lose, and your opponent must have a nine-darter, thus denying you the chance to lower your average by finishing, or not finishing. |
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so not finishing by hitting repeated 180s lowers the average?
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Ok, so your opponet throws first in the first leg and throws a nine-darter while you throw two 180s. So you have thrown two 180s in that leg, and then you throw two 180s and finish on 141 for a nine-darter in the second leg.
So it's 1-1, you have had five throws, and hit four maximums and a 141. If the game continues in this vein, the maximum average is achievable, but only if your opponent throws first in the first leg and wins the match with you winning an odd number of legs. I think that's right, but pokermonster - statistician, cue sports historian and arcane sports question specialist - is really the man to confirm this. |
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I agree with Clydebank that golf and snooker are not as difficult to reach a high standard as some people think. Naturally, there will be some exceptionally talented players in both games who have an extra special ingredient that no amount of practise could replicate. However, the key thing is that few people ever pick up a golf club or a snooker cue and even if you do have a talent for the game its very difficult to have access to the facilities to put in the amount of practise needed.
So, the top players in both snooker and golf come from a very very small pool of participants. |
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ok cheers, guess i am asking even after going bust can the player carry on throwing? I know nobody would in a real game, but this is hypothetical so I am I looking for offician rules
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Lets say a 10 year shows the same amount of talent at darts, snooker and golf. There are major barriers to being able to put in the same amount of practise hours in snooker and golf. With darts he can just put a board up on his bedroom door.
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More fitness, skill, and technique required in darts than snooker, as you're constantly walking up and down for hrs on end, and have to use your brain in a split second.
Golfers take forever to hit a stationary ball - what's the delay? Just hit it. Snooker players bend down and hit a ball. How hard can it be to practice the same shot over and over again?  All three have one thing in common - Mental strength is a must. P.S. 147 is easier than a 9 darter - Bigger pockets |
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CLYDEBANK29
03 Nov 14 16:01 Try throwing a dart with your left hand. Not such an apparently easy technique then. Piece of cake. |
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DartsnBooze
03 Nov 14 18:49 More fitness, skill, and technique required in darts than snooker, as you're constantly walking up and down for hrs on end, and have to use your brain in a split second. The weight gained by beer, and playing 3 nights a week, did my left knee in. |
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180 shirley, hit a 180 on your first throw then concede the match
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Good evening, gentlemen.
Jed described the (albeit highly unlikely) scenario perfectly in his post just above. It's interesting to note that a very unfortunate player could theoretically lose ten-zip and still achieve a three-dart average of just over 172. 172.149 to be precise. Another darts brainteaser posted shortly. |