Tuesday, August 16, 2005

Tricks for Kicks


I had a terrific practice day yesterday. Okay maybe it wasn't terrific but it had a few good points. I used my new program to generate a list of random practice games with random dart sets and I ended up with at least two sets of Bulls practice. I call that "20 Bulls" since all I do is throw at the bull till I hit 20 of them and then move on to the next practice game. I finished both of those practice games in style: with Hat Tricks. The first game was with the 25 gram Crossfires that you see in the first pic. The second was with the 25 gram Great Whites that you see in the second pic. Click on the photos for closeups. Note that both tricks are 4-counts.

One thing I have noticed so far about the perl script I am using is that, even though it is technically random, it seems to favor a handful of dart sets. I am thinking about re-writing it so that it will use a set and then remove it from the array until the array is empty and then start over. That way it will cycle through all of the darts randomly. However, within a few weeks I hope to actually have my new darts from Canada, as well as be on a league team, so I will likely just use the f switch all the time for practice. That way I am sure to always be using the new darts.

2 comments:

Tommo said...

It might be interesting to somehow put those darts into a league table so you could see which ones you are throwing the best scores with.

Zeeple said...

Yes. I throw them all equally well ;)

Equally something anyway. Over the course of several years I have been able to determine that I do better toward 24 gram as well as toward front loaded darts.

You are right though, it would be neat to see a spreadsheet.