Checkouts...

That’s the way to do it! As Bobby George says “trebles for show and doubles for dough!” Finishing games is what it all about! It’s great when you can score high but if you can’t finish you are not going to win! Many people when first starting to play find it difficult to remember combination checkouts. Some combinations are better than others purely because if you miss the first shot you may still be inline for an easy single then double to finish. Example: 77 can be finished by hitting treble 15, double 16, one of the nicest doubles on the board. But what if you hit a single 15? That leaves you with 62 , - Single 12 Bull? , Treble 10 double 16? Both are not easy to hit. But what if you decided to go for 77 a different way? Treble 19, double 10? And you missed treble 19 but hit the single? Then this still leaves you a shot at single 18 then double 20. This seems a better route and there are many shots similar to this. There are also a number of ways to finish and below just give you one way, but not necessary the best when you have three darts for a two dart finish. The Checkout sheets I have produced will help new players and players that find it hard to remember out shots. The checkout sheets are FREE to download and use. So why not place one up near your board or club so it helps you or others improve their game!

Checkout Charts for the basic 01 game... (T = Treble) , (D = Double) All Charts are designed to fit A4. They are available in .PDF and Microsoft Word format. Click on the language version you want and save this to your computer. A4 English A4 Nederlandse A4 Español A4 Deutsch A4 Français A4 Italiano A4 Portuguese   A4 English A4 Nederlandse A4 Español A4 Deutsch A4 Français A4 Italiano A4 Portuguese   New ‘MS Excel’ dart scorer and checkout indicator.... A new addition to the Darts501.com site a ‘MS Excel’ spreadsheet dart scorer and checkout indicator. There are a number of very good computer programs that allow you to play against the computer, keep tack of averages and prompt your out shots etc but how many are FREE! I was sent an e-mail from Matt Mellor and he had a basic idea of using a MS Excel spreadsheet lookup table to help him with his checkouts. He thought the spreadsheet would be a good addition to the Darts501.com site. So with a bit of revision and reworking I have developed Matt’s idea into a user friendly program. You don’t need to know how Excel works but you will need it installed on you PC. Full instructions how to use the program are on the spreadsheet. To view a larger picture of the program click here or on the picture.   Download the program to you PC click the above icon (zip file). To run this program you will need MS Excel '97 or later. When opening the spreadsheet Enable Macros v1.3 UPADTED JULY 07 NOW WITH ADDITIONAL GAMES Dart Averages... The dart average gives an indication of a dart thrower's darting ability. The higher the average normally indicates the better player. It is quite easy to calculate dart averages; basically you just divide the score hit by the number of darts thrown. Over a match that has several legs the average is calculate over the entire match not by a single leg. I have shown a printable example of how to calculate a single leg of 501 but if you lose the game what is your average? This is easy to work out just divide the total score obtained by the darts thrown e.g. 400 scored in 15 darts = 26.67 per dart or 80.01 per throw.  If you are calculating a match that is over several legs then the calculation is the same. Just total the number of points scored by the number of darts thrown. An example of  a three leg match, each leg 501 Leg One: Player 'A' wins in 18 darts, Player 'B' scores 401 with 15 darts. Leg Two: Player' A 'loses, scores 469 with 21 darts, player 'B' wins in 22 darts Leg Three: Player 'A' wins in 17 darts, player 'B' scores 424 in 16 darts. Match averages: Player 'A' scored a total of 1,471 with 56 darts their average per dart = 26.27 Player 'B' scored a total of 1,326 with 53 darts their average per dart = 25.02 Shots at double are some times shown as an average statistic and this is worked out in the same way.   All Charts are designed to fit A4. They are available in .PDF and Microsoft Word format. Click on the language version you want and save this to your computer. English Version Nederlandse Versie Versión española Deutsche Version Version française Versione di Italiano Versão Portuguese English Version Nederlandse Versie Versión española Deutsche Version Version française Versione di Italiano Versão Portuguese   Top of the page