9 Dart Finish in Pool

[kano]

If you hang out in bars long enough you will learn to play pool or darts or both.

So I'm starting to learn how to play darts now, pool is still king in my book. While practicing darts last night a buddy and I started arguing which is harder pool or darts. I was for pool and he was for darts. I've played pool for a lot longer than he has. He's been playing darts longer than I have. Our conversation naturally strayed into learning how to master a game or sport in general. He has played minor league baseball and was a champion wrestler at Michigan U so he knows a lot about utilizing natural talent, muscle memory, concentration and practicing. Although pool is probably the only thing I'm really good at, I try to approach this argument with an open mind and not be too biased.

So I posed the question to him, what would be the equivalent of a 9 dart finish in pool?

13 9ball Break and Runs?

10 8ball Break and Runs?

400 ball run in 14.1?

A perfect .1000 in Accu Stats?

other? (pls. describe)

I am assuming a lot of you in the AZB community probably play both. Probably for a lot longer than I have.

If you could weigh in I think it would be interesting . . . .

thanks!

 

[memikey]

A very similar discussion has taken place at least 10 times in the last 6 years or so in the Uk as regards the relative difficulties of shooting a snooker max of 147 against a 9 dart finish.

The community splits almost 50/50 on opinion every time

As regards your question my rough choice of existing pool equivalent, assuming players of equal ability relative to their pool/dart player peers, would be a straight pool ball run in the region of 250/300 balls.

If you wanted to get fancy and invent something different I suppose you could come up with something like throwing 9 balls on the pool table in a reasonable assortment of open and tight positions and then selecting a pattern to pot them in rotation and marking the table with the 9 numbered circles in which you must stop the white when potting them, allowing only a circle of say 2 3/4'' diameter in which to park the white each time following the pot. Any part of the cue ball protruding outside the circle on any shot and the attempt fails

 

[Dartman]

A 9 dart 501 game and an 8 dart cricket game are perfection for a "single game" and very rarely done. Pro darts and pool, as I'm sure you know, typically revolve around a match and not a single game.
I'd think a 150 ball run in 14.1 to be perfection for a single game. Runouts in 8 or 9 ball are fairly common but I don't think X number of runout games would be equal to 1 perfect dart game. Just my 2c.