How to Run a Darts League: Schedules, Match Formats and Handicaps
Set up a darts league, choose the games and legs for each night, add spot points or a round limit, and let players score on the darts board.
The names and results shown are made up (the Maple Street Pool League is a demo organization).
A darts league works like any LeagueOrbit league: a league has sessions, and each session has divisions with teams. This guide covers what is different for darts.
Add a darts league
- Switch the Sport switch to Darts.
- Open Leagues, and add a league. Its first division is added with it.
- If you list it in Find leagues & tournaments, choose its game: 501, 301, Cricket or Other.
- Add teams and players in Rosters, and publish a schedule.
A league stays in the sport it was made in, and everything about it (players, messages, dues and money) shows only in Darts.
Choose the darts match format
Open the division's Darts match format (match sheets) and set:
- Players a side and the Lineup.
- Games of the night: each game's style (singles or doubles), the darts game (501, 301, 701 or a Cricket game), and the legs to win. Use Add a game for each one.
- Scoring: a point per game won, or a point per leg won, and an optional Bonus for winning the night.
- Handicap: none, or Spot points. With spot points, in 301, 501 and 701 the player with more points per dart on earlier darts nights starts on the full score and the other starts lower, never below the lowest start score you choose. Cricket stays even.
- Round limit (01 games): none, or 10 to 30 rounds. When nobody has checked out after the last round, the lowest remaining score wins the leg; a tie plays one more round at a time.
Choose Save format. Matches already played keep the format they were played under.
Score a league match
- On the match sheet, players set their lineups as usual.
- On a game, choose Score on the darts board. The board opens with both sides, the legs to win, any spot-point starts and the round limit.
- Each leg is saved to the sheet as it finishes. Choose Back to the match sheet to confirm the result.
The sheet checks every leg against the game's rules, works out the winners and the team score, and both sides confirm.
Standings and statistics
Standings follow your points and tie-break rules. Every leg scored on the board counts toward each player's 3-dart average, points per dart, marks per round and darts rating: see Darts PPD, MPR and 3-Dart Average Explained.