The league will be operated by its Director and captains. The NCDO’s only role will be to collect
dues, distribute necessary funds to Director at season end and rule a team
ineligible for play based on non-payment of dues. A Director’s term will be one season from beginning to end. A director will be voted in by NCCDL
captains. Responsibilities of the
Director will include scheduling for upcoming season, receiving scoresheets and
maintaining league statistics, producing a newsletter with standings and a
players list prior to each match date (individual statistics required a minimum
of 4 times during the year, no later than mid-season), producing a financial
report at season end, updating rules and regulations as voted by captains (3/4
vote changes a rule) for next season, and ruling on any problems/protests. Director’s responsibilities must be met to
qualify for payment by the NCDO.
Scheduling
Dates will be chosen so as not to interfere with local, state and
nearby national tournaments based on the ADO calendar. If there is a reschedule agreed to by both
teams, they must make up their match before the next scheduled match. In the case of a captain wanting to change a
match date, that captain should contact the opposing captain as soon as
possible with the request and some other usable dates. No team may be forced to reschedule, but if
a match rescheduling is agreed upon, the teams must notify the Director prior
to the regularly scheduled date or the new date, whichever is earlier. If no agreement on a rescheduling date can
be met between captains, the league Director will make the decision on the
rescheduled date.
Based on the number of teams
in a given season, teams may be divided into geographic divisions; teams will
play either a single- or double-round-robin schedule, chosen to provide a
sufficient number of matches without increasing the number to more than one
match per month.
Seasons
& Standings
A season for NCCDL will run from January through December. Standings will reflect wins & losses,
and total points won from matches.
Throughout the season, ties in win/loss record will be decided by the
following tiebreakers: total season points, head-to-head W/L record,
head-to-head season points.
End of Season Tournament for NCCDL
State Championship
The winner of the season-ending tournament will be crowned NC State
Champion for that year, will be allowed to keep the North Carolina Cup until
the tournament the following year, and will host the tournament the following
year. Seeding for the tournament will
be based on the final regular season standings for that season. The final eight teams in the tournament will
play a single-elimination tournament on one weekend with the following match
starting times: quarterfinals – 12:00 noon Saturday, semifinals – 5:00 p.m.
Saturday, finals – 1:00 p.m. Sunday. In
multi-divisional seasons, tournament seedings will be placed such that if all
better seeds advance in their matches, all tournament matches will be
inter-divisional.
Player
Eligibility
Any person who has not already played for another NCCDL team in the
current season is eligible to play for any given team. Any player can change teams between
seasons. Players may not change teams
once they have thrown a dart in a given season. To be eligible for play in the post-season tournament, a player
must be listed and present for at least one set in at least half of his/her
team’s matches. A team receiving a
forfeit win receives a one-match-played reduction in minimum for tournament
eligibility. A team can carry as many
players as they want, and substitute from section to section in any fashion
they choose.
Match Play
The visiting captain should call the home captain several days prior to
the scheduled match date to confirm that both teams will be present. Regular season matches are played at 2:00
p.m. on Saturdays. Teams will blind
list and play the games in the order called, on at least four boards, with
remaining matches to be played on the first available boards. All sets will be contested in a best
two-of-three format (with the exception of 1001 tiebreaker games). If a team does not have 6 players by 2:30 p.m.,
the match is a forfeit. Match format
will have 5 sections: 8 sets of singles
301 (1 point each), 8 sets of singles cricket (1 pt.), 4 sets of doubles 501 (2
pts.), 4 sets of doubles cricket (2 pts.), and 2 sets of 4-player 701 (3 pts.),
for a total of 38 points in a match. If
the score is tied at the end of regulation play, one game of 8-player 1001 will
be played for the match victory – winner of the tiebreaker should circle their
score to indicate victory, as the 1001 game does not carry a match point
value. Should a team have less than 8
players but not less than 6, the match can still be played – the shorthanded
team simply doesn’t fill out every slot in each section. In singles, blank slots are automatic
forfeits of those points. In doubles, if
a team has 7 players, one of its players will be listed alone, throwing one turn
for every two by the opponents. If a
team has 6 players, it is the team’s choice of listing 3 full doubles pairs or
2 full doubles pairs and 2 one-man teams.
A win in doubles, no matter how many players played, is worth two
points. The same combinations and logic
apply to the four-player sets. Should a
team be unable to field the required 6 players, the forfeiting team receives 0
points and no match played toward eligibility, while the winning team receives
the match forfeit value of points (the higher of: a) the winning team's
average winning score from the previous year, or b) the league wide average
winning score from the previous year) and a one-match-played reduction in minimum for tournament
eligibility. The winning team is
responsible for mailing a copy of the scoresheet to the League Director. Scoresheets mailed with a postmark more than
one week after the date of the match will cause the winning team to lose all of
its points from that match. Also, if
the losing team doesn’t have a copy of the scoresheet, in the case that the
winning team loses theirs, the losing team will lose its points from that match
as well. A team that forfeits a quarter
of its matches in a given season will be removed from the schedule, and all of
its remaining matches will be scored as forfeit losses.
Awards
Tournament winners will take home the NC State Cup for the 12 months
until the next tournament. In addition,
the individual players of the winning team will also receive trophies/plaques
(limit of 12 trophies for players).
Trophies/plaques will also be awarded for the High In (301 only) and
High Out (league-wide), and High Singles Win Percentage (for each
division). To be eligible for singles
win %-age awards, a player must play at least 60% of the team’s possible
singles sets (match forfeits by opposing teams are not included in the team’s
number possible), and must also play at least two “road/away” matches, to
ensure that the award is not given to someone who is only dedicated enough to
play home matches. Certificates will be
awarded for all throws of Ton-70 and above, 9-Marks, and 6-Bulls.
Team Fees and Team Eligibility
Each season, in addition to the sponsoring league’s fees to the NCDO,
each team will be required to pay a fee (to be set at the captains’ meetings
the previous season) sufficient to support administrative costs (copying,
postage, awards, etc.). Fees are to be
paid to the NCDO Secretary prior to the scheduling of matches for any given
year (effectively January 1).
A team will be eligible for
play when its dues have been paid to the NCDO.
The NCDO can deem any team ineligible for season play based on
non-payment of dues. When that team
does pay dues, they will be re-instated for season play in the next
season. If dues are paid late during a
season, that team must wait until the next season. Also, new teams to the NCCDL must be in the NCDO for a full year
before being eligible, after which the current NCCDL captains will vote on the
addition of that new team to the league.
A team that forfeits a
quarter of its matches in a given season will be removed from the schedule and
must petition the captains at the next captains’ meeting for reinstatement for
any subsequent years of play in the NCDL.