Christopher Kempf
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Statistical analyst for @OfficialPDC and @DartsOrakel. I'm a musician, I draw, I make maps. Enquiries welcome. [email protected]
Massachusetts, USA
Joined April 2014
Luke Littler has played 468 consecutive legs of televised darts without leaving a bogey number.
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Callan Rydz is the only player in PDC World Championship history to have. - recorded a higher average than his opponent.- hit more 180s than his opponent.- won more legs than his opponent.- had a higher doubles % than his opponent. and to have lost by two sets.
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World Champions' best doubles in their final wins (min. 10 atts):.'๐ฎ๐ฑ ๐๐ถ๐๐๐น๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐๐ญ๐ฌ - ๐ด๐ฒ%.'24 Humphries D8 - 60%.'23 Smith D20 - 50%.'22 Wright D20 - 56%.'21 Price D20 - 73%.'20 Wright D20 - 56%.'19 MvG D16 - 41%.'18 Cross D16 - 64%.'17 MvG D16 - 40%.
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Luke Littler is responsible for 7% of all the 142 checkouts that have ever been completed in a PDC World Championship.
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The rarest three-dart score in darts is 155. It is only ever scored as a checkout - and it's a rare one to attempt.
@ochepedia What's the rarest score in Darts? I would guess 168.
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Phil Taylor had match darts in 126 World Championship matches and won 124 of them. The two that he lost were 25 years apart.
What is your favourite random stat? @ochepedia.
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Dobey is the third player in World Championship history, and the first in 14 years, to score 180 to leave 2.
182 left, throws a 180. Chris Dobey, man of the people.
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Players with at least two 105+ averages in a single World Championship:. Phil Taylor.Michael van Gerwen.Gary Anderson.Luke Littler.Callan Rydz.
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Joe Cullen is the only player in the history of the PDC World Championship to have missed match darts in four losses:. 2018: missed 4 vs Jermaine Wattimena.2021: missed 2 vs Michael van Gerwen.2024: missed 2 vs Luke Humphries.2025: missed 1 vs Gerwyn Price.
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Career averages in televised deciding legs:. Gary Anderson: 94.39.Michael van Gerwen: 103.93.William Borland: 167.00.
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When Luke Littler has attempted three darts at treble 20 thus far in the WC, he has scored 180 38% of the time.
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Luke Humphries' 103.67 average is the highest ever recorded in a match of 45+ legs.
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One of a very few people with a career undefeated record against Luke Humphries is a player named:
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Littler successfully completed all 18 of the 18 checkouts under 70 which he attempted in the final. MvG completed only 10 of 17.
@ochepedia what was Littler's doubles percentage in terms of visits to the board in the final? Surely it's ridiculously high.
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For those looking for a direct Littler-MvG comparison, I found results for a TV tournament appearance by MvG when he was almost exactly the same age that Littler is now. (They both played van Barneveld!)
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The distribution of the nearly 800,000 darts thrown at the dartboard over the past two years of PDC stage events. I've done my best to group them in a way that reflects the importance of the targets at which they were thrown. Happy New Year to all!
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It happened to Jeffrey de Zwaan in 2015:
@ochepedia Has anyone ever been on a 9 darter where the 9th dart at the double has gone into the wrong double. E.g aiming at D12 for the 9 darter but getting the D5 or D9?.
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When Stephen Bunting reached his first PDC WC semifinal in 2021, he was the youngest of the last four players in the tournament. Four years later he is the oldest.
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Littler in the tournament: 91%.Littler in the 2024 season: 83%.PDC average: 75%.
@ochepedia How often does Littler check out 40 with 3 darts in hand? Discussion in the pub thinking it might well be above 80%?.
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Honorable mention for Rob Cross in 2018 who hit 6/6 100% of double 18s.
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On the Pro Tour, there is one score of 155 for every 40,000 visits.
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Adrian Lewis lost four legs in that match because he didn't hit a 9-darter. That's just evil.
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The progression of fewest darts needed to win a WC set:.42 - 1981 Cliff Lazarenko.37 - 1984 John Lowe.36 - 1987 John Lowe.35 - 2002 Phil Taylor.34 - 2016 Gary Anderson.33 - 2021 Gerwyn Price.32 - 2025 Luke Littler.
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Michael van Gerwen earns ยฃ483.87 for each of the 620 darts he threw in the World Championship final. His earnings tonight will likely keep him on top of the world rankings until 2021.
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If the Premier League lineup were to be determined only by a statistical measure of effectiveness at winning legs in 2024-season televised events (TV-OChE), the players would be:. 65.1 Littler.62.0 Rydz.61.3 Humphries.58.2 MvG.57.5 Anderson.57.2 Bunting.57.0 van Veen.56.3 Cross.
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Phil Taylor never had two consecutive 10-darters in a World Championship. Neither did MvG or Anderson or Barney, nor anyone else. Florian Hempel stands alone.
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It's the first time a 4-0 lead in sets has ever been overcome, in any format, in any World Championship.
Has a 4-0 lead ever led to a loss in a first to 5 sets?.
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Gary Anderson's last 250-or-so darts at treble 20. A good look at how Gary often uses the first dart, which is often low, as a "marker". There is of course some margin of error with the dart placements on the graphic, but I've tried to be as accurate as I can.
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Paul Lim has just set a personal, national and continental record TV average (102.29), beating the reigning World Champion. He is 64 years old. LEGEND.
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The odds of witnessing a 9-darter attempt and a 12-darter 170 finish in the same leg (as we did on Thursday night) are about 98,000:1. We shouldn't expect to see it again in the Premier League until the year 2133.
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Give me Ryan Joyce on double 8. 300+ attempts on stage across seven years of PDC darts, 52% accuracy.
A player and a double of your choice. One dart at it to save your life. Who are you taking?. For me, Jeffrey de Graaf at D18.
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Nathan Aspinall is the fastest player ever to reach the top 16 after winning a tour card at Q School, having done so in 406 days.
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Luke Humphries was born in February 1995. This evening, for the first time in his life, neither MvG nor Phil Taylor will be the reigning champion of any recurring TV event.
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The only players to have reached a WC final with a higher tournament average (through the SF) than Luke Littler's 101.82:. Phil Taylor.Michael van Gerwen.Gary Anderson.
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MvG has earned ยฃ102.88 for each of his darts thrown in the Premier League over the past 3 months.
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Compare to MvG, who left 3 bogeys in the space of 4 legs against Brendan Dolan in the WC third round.
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Ever wanted to see every dart thrown in a darts match, all at once? Now you can. Here are the 702 thrown between Dave Chisnall and Jeffrey de Zwaan, with detail of T20 and T19. Merry Christmas to all my darts friends and colleagues around the world.
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Players hitting a majority of their doubles in winning at least 2 WC matches:. 2012.2013.2014.2015.2016 Michael van Gerwen.2017 Ian White, Jelle Klaasen.2018 Phil Taylor, Vincent van der Voort.2019.2020 Fallon Sherrock.
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2024: ๐๐๐น๐น๐ฒ๐ป ๐ฎ to defeat Humphries.2020: ๐ ๐ฎ๐น๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐บ ๐ญ to defeat Wright.2018: ๐ฆ๐บ๐ถ๐๐ต ๐ฎ, ๐๐ฎ๐ป ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐ฒ๐ป ๐ฒ to defeat Cross.2012: ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฒ ๐ญ to defeat Lewis.2007: ๐๐น๐ผ๐๐ฑ ๐ฐ to defeat Van Barneveld.
@ochepedia On a similar tact with this, do you happen to know how many world champions have faced match dart(s) on their way to winning the title?.
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James Wade hit his 9-darter today while his opponent, Robert Collins, was waiting on a score of 49. That is the lowest finish on record denied a player because of an opponent's 9-darter.
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I can find no evidence of a 170 checkout response to an opponent's 170 in any other PDC match.
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Two years ago, Rob Cross played darts in a pub to qualify for the UK Open as an amateur. He is now the World Champion, and one of the greatest credits imaginable to a great game.
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Ritchie Edhouse's nine-darter today was accomplished via the route 174-174-153. Over the previous 120,000 PDC legs, no one had even **๐ข๐ต๐ต๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ** a 153 checkout for a perfect leg.
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15 minutes ago, Wright was 5-4 behind in sets and 2-0 behind in legs, averaging a little over 95. He then won 9 of the next 10 legs, and averaged 113.93 in those legs.
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MvG has played six deciding legs in televised finals in his career, and has won all six.
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The combined total of career professional matches played by each year's WC semifinalists against Phil Taylor:. 2019 - 136.2020 - 99.2021 - 104.2022 - 182.2023 - 77.2024 - 1.
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The odds of 170 finishes in two consecutive televised legs are about 80,000:1. We would expect to witness such an event about once every 10 years.
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Kyle Anderson moved to the other side of the planet, started a family and helped provide for them by playing darts at the highest level. That's a lot to achieve in 33 years - imagine what he would have done if he had a few more.
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From 2017 to present, the most accurate player on each segment of the dartboard (where at least two players have 50+ attempts at that segment in stage events):
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Highest per-dart earners of ranking income on the 2018 European Tour:.ยฃ34.52 - MvG. ยฃ14.40 - Mensur Suljoviฤ.ยฃ13.27 - Ian White.ยฃ13.22 - Jonny Clayton.ยฃ12.82 - Gerwyn Price.ยฃ11.35 - Max Hopp.ยฃ10.58 - Peter Wright.ยฃ10.49 - Michael Smith.ยฃ10.29 - Simon Whitlock.
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Hello all, I'm sorry to report that I was hospitalized last week and it's taken a while to get back to normal with the darts statistics. My brain is pretty messed up, but thanks to the patience and kind wishes of so many people I'm working on making a full recovery. -Chris.
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Rob Cross has now accumulated more ranking money (ยฃ937,250) than any World #2 in history, and more than any player in history apart from MvG or Phil Taylor.
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Gary Anderson has lost to the eventual World Champion seven times. 2005 - van Barneveld (BDO).2011 - Lewis.2014 - MvG.2017 - MvG.2019 - MvG.2021 - Price.2022 - Wright.
@ochepedia Who has been beaten the most times by the actual winner of the World Championship whilst playing in the World Championship over the years? Has anyone been beaten by the winner in each one of the last few world championships?.
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A complete ranking of the difficulty of every checkout from 2 to 170, from more than 100,000 legs played on PDC tours since the beginning of the year.
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Glen Durrant is 15-1 in legs in situations in which his opponent had already secured a draw.
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Most scores of 171-177 recorded in the past 6 months:. 139 - Michael van Gerwen.74 - Gerwyn Price.72 - Krzysztof Ratajski.58 - Ryan Searle.54 - Keegan Brown.52 - Jamie Hughes.45 - Jeffrey de Zwaan.44 - Rob Cross.44 - Michael Smith.
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Simon Whitlock is the first player other than Taylor or MvG to average 100+ in a best-of-5 match at the World Grand Prix.
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My new analysis of more than half a million checkout attempts *๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ผ๐ฝ๐ฝ๐ผ๐ป๐ฒ๐ป๐ ๐ถ๐ ๐ผ๐ป ๐ฎ ๐ณ๐ถ๐ป๐ถ๐๐ต* from the past two years suggests that the hardest checkout is. ๐ญ๐ฏ๐ต
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Players who have whitewashed MvG at the World Championship:. Phil Taylor 2009 0-4.Dave Chisnall 2021 0-5.
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All of the 39,000+ darts thrown in the 2018 World Championship, grouped roughly by whether they were aimed at treble, single, double or bullseye. This is not 100% accurate (e.g. a few darts are not in the correct part of the bed), but it's close.
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To give you an idea of how many 180s that Petersen/de Sousa match had. I can only find 6 matches out of โ35,000 played in the past 5 years that had a higher rate of 180s hit per leg. And none of those were in double-start!.
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In February 2017, all seven ranking TV titles in the PDC were held by Michael van Gerwen. Now, for the first time ever, all seven are held by different people.
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Out of 1,253 legs played in this year's tournament, there has only been one 10-darter (Kurz). That leg was one of the 13 in which a player began with at least 6 perfect darts. The only player with two such 9-dart attempts is Fallon Sherrock.
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91+ average over 22 legs in a World Championship. there's nothing else in the history of women's darts to compare with that performance.
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9-darter in the QF, then a SF exhibition, then wins the best final ever. Not much more that Gary could have given us in this tournament.
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Wright's 110.37 is the highest average ever recorded against MvG in a televised ranking event.
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Farewell and thank you, Pokerface - Vi kommer att sakna dig
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Paul Lim threw more 180s in the past five days (16) than he did in his previous 25 years of WC matches. 10-darter, 9-darter missed on the double. This man is a legend, and a joy to watch.
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I think it's the most telling statistic of the final. Double % with the third dart of a visit:. 61.1% - Wright (11/18).25.0% - MvG (5/20).
Itโs all about timing. Thatโll never change and thereโs no stat for it.
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A few examples of players winning a non-tiebreak set with 3 100+ finishes:. 161, 160, 123 - Kurz 2020.139, 124, 121 - MvG 2014.167, 110, 104 - Osborne 2009.150, 121, 104 - Wade 2010.136, 121, 114 - A. Smith 2011.126, 104, 100 - Dolan 2018.
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A brutal sequence of set-winning legs from THE POWER:.12-dart break.13-dart break.14-dart hold .13-dart break.13-dart hold .15-dart break (119 finish).15-dart hold.11-dart hold.14-dart hold.15-dart break (99 finish).15-dart hold (106 finish).
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At his current rate, Littler will have earned as much from World Championships by age 22 as Phil Taylor did in his entire career, even after adjusting for inflation.
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Danny Baggish's 90.93 tournament average is the highest for any player from the United States in any World Championship, BDO or PDC, from 1978 to the present.
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Of the 8 quarterfinalists, the most accurate player on each segment of the dartboard (sample size permitting) since 2017.
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The honeymoon is over. ยฃ385,000 will drop off of Rob Cross' Order of Merit total as a result of his loss, by far the largest one-time drop in the history of the ranking system.
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Recent World Championship finals in legs:. 2013 - Taylor 27-23 van Gerwen.2014 - van Gerwen 25-19 Wright.2015 - Anderson 26-27 Taylor.2016 - Anderson 26-19 Lewis.2017 - van Gerwen 27-17 Anderson.2018 - Cross 21-10 Taylor.2019 - van Gerwen 25-19 Smith.
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Since his only WC nine-darter on 30 December 2012, Michael van Gerwen has unsuccessfully attempted a 3-dart finish for a perfect leg 29 times.
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That's ridiculous, no one would ever attempt D12 in their second vis-
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Fallon Sherrock will earn a minimum of ยฃ25,000 for reaching the 3rd round of the PDC World Championship, which is more than the winner of the BDO Women's World Championship will earn in January.
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I'd love to see a variant of 501 played in which the number ring is rotated to a random position around the board after every leg. T20/D20 would be as likely to be located where 3, 9, 13 etc. are now as anywhere else. players would really need to know every segment of the board.
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Gary Anderson now holds the two highest set averages in PDC World Championship history:.132.61 (2016 vs Klaasen, 1st set).131.93 (2018 vs Smith, 2nd set).
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Intriguingly, one player born per decade:.1960 Taylor.1970 Anderson.1989 van Gerwen.1998 Rydz.2007 Littler.
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The results of my yearly attempt to plot out the general distribution of every dart thrown in the PDC World Championship. It's close, but 100% accuracy is by no means guaranteed!
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Treble 6 is the most infrequently hit segment of all. Treble 9, slightly more common, is the rarest intended target. The two segments are hit once for every (approx.) 15,000 darts thrown.
@ochepedia Whatโs the least hit segment on the board, double, triple etc. thinking maybe T6 as no functional use (would just hit single 18) and not near any high usage areas that may stray into it.
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Gary Blades finished 206th on the Q School Order of Merit last year. Jason Lowe had never placed higher than 86th. Harald Leitinger had not even played Q School before today. there is no telling who will win a tour card.
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English sportswriters: "A leg that will stand the test of time. a triumphant moment for the sport. ".American sportswriters: "Why aren't they throwing for the bull?".
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From the 2023 Pro Tour:
@ochepedia Has anyone ever come to the oche on a finish and left the oche not on a finish.
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The players who have completed a 147 finish on TV for a perfect leg:. Phil Taylor.Michael van Gerwen.Darius Labanauskas.
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Before the tournament, Seigo Asada was on an 87.5 average for the year. Nico Kurz, 86.8. Fallon Sherrock, 78.2! . I'm always impressed with players who surpass themselves on the biggest stage in the world.
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The top 64 players in terms of their 3-dart average (100 legs minimum), in all matches combined, since 14 December 2017. First in a series of periodical, comprehensive rankings for all PDC players.
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It takes some pretty heavy artillery to knock Gary Anderson out of a World Championship. And sometimes even that doesn't suffice:. 2013 - Barney.2014 - MvG.2015 - WORLD CHAMPION.2016 - WORLD CHAMPION.2017 - MvG.2018 - Taylor.2019 - MvG.
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Last night there were 24 180s and 81 140s thrown in 74 legs of darts. Tonight there were 45 180s and 103 140s thrown. in 73 legs of darts.
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Michael van Gerwen set a World Matchplay record last night by successfully setting up a double from a score of 181-220 five times:. 183 - T20 T20 T13 - 24.196 - T20 T20 T20 - 16.208 - T20 T20 T16 - 40.210 - T20 T20 T18 - 36.217 - T20 T20 T19 - 40.
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My annual attempt to visualize every dart thrown on stage in the PDC, from 2017 to the present:
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