There's a cool site for anyone who's interested.

www.crowsdarts.com

It has several articles about outs, practice games, tips, schedules, and other stuff.

Danny

Great web site. I got this tip off that site that I thought I would share it.

Point Mongering: There is absolutely nothing illegal about scoring points. There has been quite a bit of whining in the darts newsgroup about people pounding points when they weren't needed. If you don't like it when it happens to you then you have one of three choices: close the number they are scoring on, start pounding back on a number they have open or put up your darts and find something else to do. Whining about it and getting angry will NOT help you win the game and will most likely annoy the people around you.

Thanks again. I will post others periodically.

It's always good to know that some people out there have more time than I do.

Tips take from the cool web site. I hope this is helpful. Dusty please don't take offence to last part of this tip.

Score keeping Tricks
Keeping score is probably the most hated part of steel-tip darts and is one of the main reasons soft-tip darts has really taken off (at least that's my opinion). If you don't believe me, yell out at your next dart tournament that you need a score keeper. Then count the number of people that get up to go to the rest room, or to the bar to get another beer, hoping that someone will agree to do it before they get back.

Many people seem to have a very difficult time subtracting a throwers score. There is a trick you can use that might help. Let's say 77 is scored and the thrower currently has a score of 413. Instead of trying to subtract 77, subtract 80 instead and then add 3 to the result. It's easier to quickly subtract 80, getting 333, then adding back the 3 points leaving 336. You could even do it the other way, subtract 70 then subtract 7 more from that result. Just a thought!

Another thing you should do is announce the score of your throw. If you and the scorekeeper come up with a different amount, at least one of them is wrong. Somebody watching the match, especially your partner if you're playing doubles, may correct you if you're wrong.

This is something else that requires practice. I'm the first to admit that I don't have a whole lot of patience because the math is done within about .3 seconds in my head, but it's also because I have played it out in my head several times. After you've scored several times, you notice tendancies of players and where they tend to throw. Once you start seeing this, you tend to start doing the math in your head as they throw, then you have it done when they're done throwing.

Dan - you are rain man - sometimes it seems like you have them added before the darts hit the baord. You are my dart math idol!!

Ill just say if you want to tell me what you scored find Danny to it for you or do it yourself..lol..And if one of us is wrong got sit back down and figure out your mistake..lol...no offense taken

What did Dusty just say? Starting to think scoring is not his biggest weakness.