A leaderboard for your darts ladder

Running a darts ladder at the pub or the club? Custom Elo Games keeps the standings current on its own, so the ladder does not depend on whoever remembers to update the board.

The problem

Whiteboards get wiped. Chalk marks get argued about. And casual ladders usually fizzle out not because people lose interest, but because updating the board falls to one person who eventually has a busy month, after which nobody trusts the standings enough to bother.

What you get instead

• Log a match from a phone in seconds, right after it finishes.
• Ladder standings update immediately, so people can see where they sit before they leave.
• Ratings reward beating stronger players rather than simply playing the most, which keeps occasional players in contention.
• An admin can make the Game public, so anyone with its address can read the leaderboard without an account. Useful for a club noticeboard.

Free, and quick to start

• Free to use, with no card and no trial to run out.
• A Game takes about a minute to set up: name it, add names, log a result.
• Ratings are worked out with the published Elo formula — you can check any change yourself on the Elo calculator.

Want the reasoning behind the ratings? What Is Elo Rating? — Where Elo came from, how the maths works, and why it beats counting wins.