Cricket Scorer Bugs Fixed

I fixed the bugs reported by Zeeple... and created a new blog just for the software...

ecricket.blogspot.com

New Grip

Worked on dart throw last night… tried to work out wiggle in flight… and darts pointing in to the left… figured out it was my thumb placement… took me about 20 minutes of experimenting to find a grip that both worked and didn’t make my hand tierd… or that I could consistently recreate… so after 30 minutes I started really throwing to try to see if I should stick with the new grip (is it viable for league… or should I wait until this session is over to change). I threw for 10 minutes before my kids got home… and I was really grouping my darts… I threw 3 hat tricks in that time… in about 8 turns at bulls… In one stretch I hit hat trick… (3 single bulls)… followed by another 3 dart turn (double and a single) with all two of the darts touching but one just outside the bull ring… then another hat trick… all three darts touching in a horizontal line just to the right of the double bull… I figured out a bunch of my double ones are caused by the back end of my dart swinging around the tip from right to left… hence fiying past center and sticking in pointing to the right… and pulling the dart a ½ inch to the right from where I let it go. It was all luck of the draw… how far did the dart rotate or swing back… and occasionally I would throw a normal dart (straight…no tail swing)… So the new throw seams to allow better groupings…

Bad news… I tried to throw again after I put my kids to bed and my elbow started popping… I experienced that one time before and it was when I threw and got warmed up… then took a hour off and tried to throw again… so hopefully it will be better tonight… BTW… doing curls with a dumbbell seamed to help stop the popping (originally) so I did some of those last night also…

Dart Practice

IMHO there are two types of practice... 1. trying to work on throw... 2. Practicing acuracy. Type one doesn't need to be fun... you don't do it all the time, just when you think something is wrong with your stroke. IE. darts sticking in the board pointing to the right. The second type of practice needs to be fun and measurable. This is how you track if you are getting better.

I currently trow cricket practicle press... measure marks per turn. I like this game... I also throw 20 turns at 20's to measure a 3 dart average. I need a game to play that works on doubles.

The problem is that I am not very good... and around the world gets boring. I think 25 sound like fun but I don't think I could complete... I think I am going to make up my own game. You get 6 dart (2 turns)... you throw at the double 1... then move to double 2... if you miss with all 6 subtract 1 from your score... if you hit add the number of times you hit to your score. Go in the following order.

16, 8, 4, 2, 1, 20, 10, 5, 12, 6, 3, 18, 9, 14, 7, B, 19, 17, 15, 13, 11

The big one
16,8,4,2,1
Ok
20,10,5
12,6,3
halfers
18,9
14,7
Non-doublers
B
19
17
15
13
11

I think a new game I will play for cricket practice is... try to throw 20-15 in six darts. Everytime you miss go back to the start (20). But I will play it backwards to get more practice on 16's. Well I think these games will focus more on improvement. The key is I need to practice...

Weekend update

The first person to successfully play a game over the internet reported back all went well! Thank you Zeeple!

After spending some time reading his site... I realized I was reading back before my elbow problems... but back to the point... I love all the darts he had... and well I just had to go get a new set on Friday. I love my fixed point cheepo predators... but I am having such a problem with them sticking in pointing to the right and that 2 bounce outs on a double bull winner (cricket) and the doulbe 5 winner (team 601) made me interested in movable point darts. I tried a bunch they had... and finally tried a set I think are ugly but I was sure were the right dart. I warmed up with them for a bit and the felt good. My groupings were good and they were not sticking in the board pointing to the right (well just barely but not so noticable). Then I threw at the 20's ... hit a tun... then bulls and hit a hat trick... ok I have to buy these darts... nothing spectacular after that... unless you count 26... 20... trip 1, trip 1... all three darts touching the trip 20 wire... lol... So I purchased them and threw with them after I took my kids to the circus. I threw well... nothing spectacular... I don't think I scored any more or less with them... but I definitly am able to group my darts better with these darts. I think the more narrow shaft helps... Old darts 22 grams... new ones 20 grams. Well here they are... I wish they would have had the black ones... it was either blue or purple...

CricketScorer Update

- Fixed bug for client unable to put in full ip address.

Moved to new blog

Finished V 1.0 of Cricket scorer

it scores cricket and you can play a remote game with a friend... picks up where dartpro leaves off... cricket...

moved download to new blog...

Dart whoopin' update

Well he didn't play the same way at league... ???


But he did bring his consistent 75% game... which was good... He played 75%-80% normally and 60%-70% under pressure... I played 50%-65% normal... and 85%-95% under pressure... put us together and we were a good team... which Ryan did... So I did enough to keep us close and then hit the big shots when we needed them... Keith played consistent and kept us in the games so I could hit the closing shot... (note: my % thing is % of ability... so my 50% probably isn't equal to Keith's 50%... It's my measure of how close to the best you can throw you were playing... it's hard to thow 90's all the time... )


Played Friday nite with Steve and Jason. Played ok... played against some ringers and got spanked... we were in the games just needed a dart or two more...

Dart whoopin'

My brother gave me a serious whoopin' at darts 501 dido last nite. Wow. I thew so/so but he threw lights out. Even if I was throwing my normal 90% game (I was about 60% last nite) I would have still last 2/3. 80's, 100's... doubled out on his first try 3 out of 7 games. I won one out of 7... or was it 9? After we finished I threw a couple rounds of cricket and was throwing as good as the nite before when we took $$ of those guys at my watering hole. I have layed a number of dart whoopin's on him I guess I was due... lately we have been splitting and he has been throwing more consistent than me... he was due for a day he was on and I was so/so... WOW what a whoopin... wasn't even close!!!!!!! I was just telling Ryan yesterday that I needed a good whoopin' to make me practice harder. Well there you have it.


I only have one thing left to say... PLEASE... PLEASE... bring that game to league tonight Keith!

Darts... beer... $$$

I met Roberto at my favorite Monday nite hangout... and we ended up playing darts with a couple of guys who after a few games asked if we wanted to play for money. We said ok... we won 4 in a row and they quit playing for money. Their better player drank to much and got sloppy... the other guy wanted to play me and I destroyed him 3 games in a row. I threw fairly well and hit a bunch of tripples... I haven't hit tripples like that since before my elbow went bunk. I hit trip 17, three games in a row... and 2x in one of them. I even hit trip 17, trip 19, and wired out trip 16 in one turn... I had 3 bull turns and a turn where I hit trip 16, trip 15 and single bull... That being said I did have a game where I was 100 points up and had everything but bulls and 15's closed and the other guy only had 18's closed... and it took me 6 turns to close 15's?????????? But promptly killed bulls in one turn? Go figure.

Anyways... I was light on cash so Roberto was covering me so our wins in darts covered my beer and some of his... :-)

Darts... league team games

I have been having trouble getting started at league. I start slow and have had a hard time getting into a rithm. I think I need to do less just warming up and more focused practice like I do at home. I will try this next week and see

Darts... Intense practice

Ok I had an intense 35 minute practice session last nite after work. I threw mostly 20's and bulls... just working on mechanics... I was going so fast that I broke a sweat. My elbow was poping just a bit... i kinda expected that as it was a bit sore after work... I leaned my arm on my desk way too much... I have mixed feelings about my practice session. I didn't throw that good but I learned that I really need to focus on a point for throwing each dart. I was just aiming in the fat 20 and trying to keep my arm straight and I was getting sloppy.

I also learned it is very very very important for me to remember to square the dart to the board! I have a habit of pointing the dart a little to the left... So although I didn't throw well I identified some things to improve on. oh and in my practice session I did hit 2 140's so that was cool. And I worked on hitting 3 fat ones and was doing ok at it... 1/3 time I hit 3 fat ones... but around 1/5 time I would blank all 3... what is up with that? I'll bet I need to pay attention to where I set my feet. The last time I worked on that it helped a tun...

Black Hat!!!

I was throwing with members of my team on friday and between games I threw a set at the bulls and plugged all 3 in the double bull... I was pumped... never did that before (in the presence of onlookers)... My buddy called it a hat trick. It turns out a hat trick is all three darts in the bull in a turn but all three in the double bull is called a black hat. See Dart Definitions

I threw fairly well. The good thing is that I think my elbow is healed... no pop... no pain... even while warming up.