Welcome to my guide on how to be a Scorekeeper for dS Tours !
1st of all, you will need a notepad and a calculator ! (And patience to read/understand all of this lol)
How do you score a dS Tour?
- Each player participating in the Tour will keep track of their own score in individual games with the "/me" function in the chat menu.
- The Scorekeeper will write down the final score of each player at the end of each game.
- It really helps the Scorekeeper when players throw their last worm if they add "FS" for "Final Score" to their score, for example "/me 69 FS".
- The Scorekeeper will add up the final scores for each player, each map, to get their Overall Score, and we have a winner !
It is VERY IMPORTANT to realise when hosting/scorekeeping dS Tours that different Darts maps have different point systems, some of which range from 1-2-3-4-5 to 100-150-200-250-350.
For example, if we were to pick any 5 maps at random, we could end up with the following maps/point systems:
(Bank it!) - 1/2/3/4/5
(Good Vs Evil) - 1/2/3/4/5
(Blueman) - 6/3/9/3/10/20/10/5/15/5/10
(Graffiti) - 7/10/15/20
(Twilight Twin) - 100/150/200/250/350
Let's say for example there were 3 players in the above Tour, Player A wins the 1st 4 maps with a top score of 24/27/54/95, Player B wins the 5th map with a score of 1000, while the other 2 only got 100/200, it isn't fair Player A plays better on average throughout a whole Tour, and then loses because of 1 map with a very high point system.
To tackle this problem and balance out the point system so we can use any map we want to and keep it all fair, we invented Multipliers & Dividers !
Multipliers: To balance out scoring for maps you can use "x2" "x3" "x5" "x10" "x20" "x25" "x50" or "x100" points - Just add up each worm as normal, at the end of the round use the multiplier on your final score, adding "x2" "x3" "x5" "x10" "x20" "x25" "x50" or "x100" to the map name.
Dividers: To balance out scoring for maps you can use "1/2" "1/3" "1/5" "1/10" "1/20" "1/25" "1/50" or "1/100" points - Just add up each worm as normal, at the end of the round use the divider on your final score, adding "1/2" "1/3" "1/5" "1/10" "1/20" "1/25" "1/50" or "1/100" to the map name.
The 1st map can generally be whatever you want the points to be using the Multipliers & Dividers, but i've found that a final score between 100-500 for the 1st game creates the best chances for comebacks and a balanced point system, this can lead to a more exciting/tense Tour, sometimes even with 1st place leading by 150+ after the 1st game.
For many of the 1st dSTs played, I was a bit weird with scoring, but now I have a pretty solid pattern, I try to make sure the top score of each individual game is between 200-500, I NEVER go above 500, that is my limit.
I have a threshold of +125 / -125 points from the 1st maps top score, this means if the top score on the 1st map is 200, I will not let the top score of any other map go above 325 or below 75.
I pick the Multiplier or Divider that is closest to the threshold.
For example, below is a dS Tour with 5 maps, the 1st maps top score is 260, no other maps top score will exceed 385 points, or fall below 135, this means the top scoring player in the 1st map sets the standard for the rest of the Tour, and it's simply tough luck if other players can't keep up(practise makes perfect!), but that does not mean someone can't make a great comeback and win !
Player A - 260/210/140/230/250 = 1090
Player B - 50/130/250/270/300 = 1000
Player C - 90/140/320/320/230 = 1100
1st map high score = 260
High score + threshold = 385
High score - threshold = 135
The point I am trying to make should be obvious in the above example, look at the scores for the 1st 2 games, Player A is 240 points ahead of 2nd place after the 1st 2 games, yet Player C still wins ! Player B still more than likely had a tense/enjoyable time fighting back ! It has happened many times already in dS Tours !
Alot of people might think after the 1st game to keep the points low so Player A doesn't get further ahead, they are wrong ! If you do this then the others don't have a good chance to fight back !
Here is an example of what one of my scoring sheets kinda looks like in a 3 player Tour:
| | | | | | | |
| | | | | | |
| Komito | 225 | 440 | 400 | 220 | 400 | 1685 |
| Alien | 330 | 340 | 270 | 260 | 450 | 1650 |
| Delta9 | 350 | 150 | 85 | 230 | 350 | 1165 |
| Trippin | Wings of | Graffiti | GvE | Blueman | |
| "x5" | Beauty | | "x10" | Remix | |
| | "x10" | | | "x2" | |
That pretty much sums up all there is to know about being a Scorekeeper for dS Tours, I am not saying this is the best way to do it, it's just the fairest way i've found so far, so I may edit this in future.
Please feel free to ask anything you want to know about Hosting/Scorekeeping dS Tours !
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