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Precision

Darts

The pub sport with a real measured statistic behind it.

Estimated 501 ability20–1102–8 playersBoardNeeds real-match testing

How a game is set up

Formats, length and resource

Formats

  • 501 straight-in double-out
  • First to 3 legs

Typical length

30 / 45 / 60 minutes

Resource booked

Board

Scoring

legs — e.g. 3-1 legs

Equipment

  • Steel-tip darts
  • Bristle board
  • Board marker

Typical venues

  • Bar
  • Pub
  • Social club

Physical layer

Venue's own infrastructure — Venue's own board and oche; Meet Your Match supplies the board marker.

How skill is estimated

Estimated 501 ability

Range

20 – 110

Method

An outcome-based estimate expressed in approximate three-dart-average units, always labelled as an estimate.

What we capture

Leg totals and winner; one entry, opponent confirms. A recorded average is a separate statistic.

How it updates

Outcome only — no score-margin modifier, because that would add another uncalibrated parameter.

First games

Supply a recent 501 average with its source and date, or skip; a supplied seed is treated as noisy.

Placement question

What is your recent 501 double-out three-dart average, if you know it? — a number with source and date, or skip.

Honesty about the number

What this rating is, and what it isn't

Where no universal amateur scale exists, MeetYourMatch says so rather than inventing one.

Benchmark

The three-dart average — a measured statistic, not an outcome

An average is measured from darts thrown and cannot be inferred from leg results. Meet Your Match shows an estimate in those units and says so.

Open decisions

Whether an estimate in average units can be shown at all without measured darts thrown.

Status: Needs real-match testing.

Handicap: Start score

Manual start scores shown before play, keeping the standard double-out finish.

Manual start scores. A proportional 501-ratio formula was tested and is not launch-ready — finishing on a double has fixed difficulty.

What it costs to play

Illustrative MeetYourMatch service fee for Darts: £3.60 per player, against a planned average of £4.50 per player per game.

The MeetYourMatch service fee covers matchmaking and booking coordination. Each player pays their own. The approved assumption is an average of £4.50 per player per game; actual per-game and per-city rates are still to be set, and the amounts shown here are illustrative demo prices. Anything the venue charges — table or court time, any minimum spend — is separate from this fee.

Illustrative price · not final

Where it could be played

Example venues for Darts

Example venue profiles · not live listings

Soho Cue Club

Pool hall & bar · Soho

Eight certified pool tables, two full-size snooker tables and a proper oche downstairs.

Hackney Wick Sportshub

Sports centre · Hackney Wick

Six tournament tables, two pickleball courts and a rooftop padel deck.

Strike Stratford

Games & entertainment · Stratford

Ten pool tables, two snooker tables and eight oches with league nights all week.

How venues & hosts fit in
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