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📊 Highest averages ever in the Last 64 of the World Championship:
1. van Gerwen, 108.98 (2021)
2. van Barneveld, 108.31 (2013)
3. Bunting, 107.28 (2024)
💥 Gary Anderson is eleven 180s from being the 1st to hit 500 at Alexandra Palace. Whenever he does, courtesy of
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Adrian Lewis still holds the tournament record for most 180s at the Matchplay (56) and the Grand Slam (52).
Only Taylor and van Gerwen have more 9-darters in history, and only Eric Bristow became a double World Champion at a younger age.
🙏 Thanks & good luck, Jackpot 🎰 ♥️
📊 Aged 58, Steve Beaton recorded his highest ever average on stage yesterday, only 7 months after recording his highest ever average as a professional.
📊 Michael van Gerwen has scored, on average, 32.76 points per dart thrown in the PDC in 2022.
💰 Michael van Gerwen has earned, on average, £40.03 per dart thrown in the PDC in 2022. 🟩
📊 Phil Taylor's first 4 years at the PDC European Championship.
Matches played: 20
Matches won: 20
100+ averages: 19
105+ averages: 13
Match darts faced: 0
Legs played: 267
Legs won: 188 (70%)
Highest tournament average: 111.54
Lowest tournament average: 104.29
Immortal ⚡️
📊 In the last 6 months Nathan Aspinall has been in the top 8 in the world for 3-dart average, 180s per leg, percentage of legs won in 12 darts or less and percentage or legs won in 15 darts or less. Our very best wishes to Nathan on his recovery 🐍 💕
💥 Finishing on three tops and breaking the 180 record - that's worthy of a giveaway!
🇵🇹 3 sets of The Special One's all-in-one stems/ flights to be won...
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📊 In his first match Luke Humphries threw 129 darts at either Treble 20 or Treble 19. 126 of them hit the Treble or Single, with only 3 of them straying into other numbers. The straightest vertical throwing display in the tournament so far 🧊
🐂 Michael Smith has thrown more 180s in the PDC at this stage of the year than anybody else in history at the same stage of any previous year for which we have 180 records. 😲
📊 Players with the highest yearly TV average for the past 15 years:
⚡️ Phil Taylor, 2006 - 2013
🟢 Michael van Gerwen, 2013 - 2020
🏴 Jonny Clayton, 2021
📊 Steve Beaton's career in professional darts spans 30 years. His highest two official averages in that time (118.19, 110.41), have been recorded in the last 5 weeks. 😲
📊 At the 2022 World Championships, Michael Smith broke the record for the most 180s ever thrown in the event.
At the 2022 UK Open, Michael Smith broke the record for the most 180s ever thrown in the event.
Two TV ranking events in 2022, two world records for 180s. 👏
📊 The most 180s ever thrown on TV in a calendar year is 403 by MvG in 2017 🟩
At this stage of the year he had 115.
At the same stage in 2024:
☢️ Luke Littler has 132
❄️ Luke Humphries has 151
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🦘 Kyle Anderson was one of only 14 players in history to have 5 or more 9-darters in senior PDC competition. The 3rd of those was in Barnsley on this day, 6 years ago ♥️
📊 In Rob Cross's first season as a professional he averaged over 100 across all of the ranked major events combined, hit more 180s in those events than any other player, reached two finals, three semi-finals and won the World Championship.
The greatest debut season on record ⚡️
🟩 Since winning his first World Championship, these are the averages it has taken to beat MvG at Alexandra Palace -
102.20 (Anderson)
100.44 (van Barneveld)
100.97 (Cross)
102.79 (Wright)
107.34 (Chisnall)
100.87 (Smith)
📊 Highest winning averages in the 2023 Premier League with one week of the group phase to go:
🧊 Price 115.97
🧊 Price 114.96
🧊 Price 111.33
🧊 Price 110.35
🐂 Smith 110.05
🐂 Smith 109.42
🧊 Price 108.08
🐂 Smith 107.82
🚅 Over his last 50 attempts at finishes between 101 and 120 since October, Stephen Bunting has been taking them out at a rate of 1 in every 3 😲
Let's Go Bunting Mental.
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◼️⬜️ Chris Dobey is only the 7th player in World Championship history to throw 3 averages over 100 in 3 matches in a row, in the same tournament 👏
The previous 6: Taylor, MvG, Lewis, Anderson, Wright. van Barneveld.
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📊 Over the last 2 years Nathan Aspinall has been the most reliable player in world darts at finishing 1-dart outshots. He has finished 81% of over 1,000 situations in which he has come to the board on an even number between 2 and 40.
🎯 Until last night the most bullseye finishes on record by a player in a single Matchplay tournament was 6 by Mensur Suljovic in 2018.
Jonny Clayton hit his 5th, 6th and 7th against Ryan Searle.
He's only had 8 attempts at it! 🤯
📊 John Henderson averaged 93.72 in the last 4 months of 2022 - the highest of any Q School participant with matches in our database over that period 🏴
🏴 Gary Anderson returns to the Palace tonight, where he has never failed to hit at least one 180 in every match he has played.
He has averaged 9 180s per match played and 5 180s per first round match played 🏴
📊 In 18 of the 19 Premier League campaigns since 2005, either Taylor or van Gerwen have finished with the highest tournament average 👑
Who is the outlier?
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❄️ Luke Humphries' 108.74 is the 2nd highest winning average ever in the semi final of a World Championship.
🚀 Luke Littler's 106.05 is the 5th.
What a final we have 🔥
📊 At the peak of his powers, for 18 months between the middle of 2017 and the end of 2018, Kyle Anderson was the most prolific maximum hitter on the planet, throwing more per leg played than anybody else in the sport ❤️
📊 Gary Anderson's 111.17 set a new record for the highest losing average in a televised match of best-of-19 legs or longer.
⚡️ Stupid tournaments produce stupid things 🫢
🤯 Daryl Gurney's record at taking out 2-dart finishes in the tournament so far:
Odd Numbers 3-39 = 2/2
41-60 = 4/4
61-80 = 6/6
81-90 = 0/1 ☹️
91-100 = 3/3
🦸 This is not a joke.
📊 The 2020/21 season was the best of Gerwyn Price's career so far, winning the World Cup, World Grand Prix and World Championship all behind closed doors.
🤔 Do crowds have an impact on performance? 👇
📊 Peter Wright joined Phil Taylor and Michael van Gerwen as players to have won at least one PDC ranking title each year, for twelve consecutive years 👏 🐍
📊 Averages in ranking tournaments for the whole of 2023 - the top 6 heading into the World Championship 👀
🏴 Anderson 98.99
🧊 Price 98.81
❄️ Humphries 98.63
🟩 MvG 97.65
🇳🇱 van Veen 96.56
🏰 Ross Smith 96.53
📊 Michael Smith's 27 180s in Zwolle is the most ever thrown by a player in a single Euro Tour event, surpassing the record of 26 set by Devon Petersen in 2020.
It is also the third ranking event in 2022 for which he has broken the record for 180s 💥
📊 Across Q School, Challenge Tour and WDF events in the last 12 months, Cameron Menzies has played 14 deciding legs in matches at a combined average of 107.61 - the highest of any player in our database to have played more than 10 deciders in that period.