How to make the most popular Darts score 24 and not 26 #
There’s a new design of Dartboard being tested this week at the World Championships
In a standard dartboard, low numbers are placed next to high ones, so as to penalize players who miss their targets. That’s why the 20, for example, is next to the 1 and the 5… Now David Percy, Professor of Mathematics at Salford University, has added to the debate by designing a dartboard that adds two more constraints:
The numbers go odd-even-odd-even all the way round the board.
Similar clusters are spread around the board as evenly as possible.David says the new dartboard will make most difference at the end of a game, when the rules are that a player must finish on a double.
More likely it will demote 26 from three darts (5+20+1, the top three numbers on the current board) which is currently the most popular bad score, to 24 (3+20+1), killing running averages across the UK in pub tournaments.
