PDC Players Championship 2018

[Ginge]

Here is the draw for the Players Championship Final in Minehead next month.

How many of these players have not yet made the world champs and thus might have to go from Somerset to Milton Keynes the next day to qualify??

There arent going to be many in the top 64 of the one year list who wont have made it to the Worlds. Cant be arsed checking but I would wager it is four or less.

[PreciesJJ]

Here is the draw for the Players Championship Final in Minehead next month.

How many of these players have not yet made the world champs and thus might have to go from Somerset to Milton Keynes the next day to qualify??

There arent going to be many in the top 64 of the one year list who wont have made it to the Worlds. Cant be arsed checking but I would wager it is four or less.

7 actually: Scott Taylor, Adam Hunt, Madars Razma, Mark Webster, Matthew Edgar, Andrew Gilding and Stephen Burton

[Ginge]

Blimey. Stand corrected then.

In any case they would have to make it to the Last 8 in Minehead for it to be any kind of an issue.

[DavidB]

Here is the draw for the Players Championship Final in Minehead next month.

How many of these players have not yet made the world champs and thus might have to go from Somerset to Milton Keynes the next day to qualify??

There arent going to be many in the top 64 of the one year list who wont have made it to the Worlds. Cant be arsed checking but I would wager it is four or less.

7 actually: Scott Taylor, Adam Hunt, Madars Razma, Mark Webster, Matthew Edgar, Andrew Gilding and Stephen Burton

Many thanks!

[ssjsa]

KRZYSZTOF RATAJSKI joined an exclusive club of ProTour weekend double-event winners with his Players Championship victories last weekend.

Ratajski secured back-to-back titles with wins over Chris Dobey and Adrian Lewis in the finals of Players Championships 21 and 22 respectively in Barnsley, and has now joined an illustrious list of 12 players to have achieved the feat.

Adrian Lewis, then aged just 20, became the first player to win two titles in a weekend in 2005 and was quickly followed by 16-time World Champion Phil Taylor in the same year.

Taylor's prolific form on the ProTour saw him record an incredible 13 double-weekend triumphs from 2005 to 2012, while two-time World Champion Gary Anderson has also done it twice.

World number one Michael van Gerwen took it a step further in 2016 by completing a sensational mid-week treble, and Ratajski's achievement last weekend meant four players achieved a double-win in a year for the first time since 2009.

ProTour Weekend Double-Winners
2005
Adrian Lewis - Players Championship (Scotland), UK Open Scottish Regional Final
Phil Taylor - Players Championship (Holland) x2
 
2006
Phil Taylor - Players Championship (Wales), UK Open Welsh Regional Final
 
2007
Phil Taylor - Players Championship (Holland) x2
 
2008
Phil Taylor - Players Championship 5, 6
Phil Taylor - Players Championship 7, UK Open Midlands Regional Final
Phil Taylor - Players Championship 18, 19
 
2009
Phil Taylor - Players Championship 2, 3
Phil Taylor - Players Championship 4, 5
Robert Thornton - Players Championship 6, UK Open Scottish Regional Final
Phil Taylor - Players Championship 8, UK Open Southern Regional Final
Phil Taylor - Players Championship 10, 11
 
2010
Mervyn King - Players Championship 3, UK Open Q1
Phil Taylor - Players Championship 7, UK Open Q3
Wes Newton - Players Championship 32, 33
 
2011
Gary Anderson - Players Championship 13, 14
Phil Taylor - Players Championship 29, 30
 
2012
Phil Taylor - UK Open Q3, Q4
Raymond van Barneveld - UK Open Q5, Q6
Dave Chisnall - Players Championship 1, 2
 
2013
Michael van Gerwen - UK Open Q1, Q2
Jamie Caven - Players Championship 3, 4
 
2014
Robert Thornton - Players Championship 7, 8
 
2015
Michael van Gerwen - UK Open Q2, Q3
Adrian Lewis - Players Championship 3, 5 (Lewis won two events on the same three-day weekend)
 
2016
Michael van Gerwen - UK Open Q5, Q6
Michael van Gerwen - Players Championship 14, 15, 16 (midweek treble-header)
 
2017
Peter Wright - UK Open Q1 and Q3 (Wright won two events on the same three-day weekend)
 
2018
Michael van Gerwen - UK Open Q1, Q2
Michael van Gerwen - Players Championship 1, 2
Gary Anderson - Players Championship 3, 4
Krzysztof Ratajski - Players Championship 21, 22

[Bram_1900]

That treble of MvG will never be repeated

[Deleted User]

That treble of MvG will never be repeated

Kell supree!

[Bram_1900]

That treble of MvG will never be repeated

Kell supree!

oh boy, not that incorrect MvG-fan-twit again

[Deleted User]

That treble of MvG will never be repeated

Kell supree!

oh boy, not that incorrect MvG-fan-twit again

Gaydrian used to love the PDC but his efforts at fitting in mean he posts to the contrary now.

[Zapp Brannigan]

Just looking at some Players Championship stats on darts connect

only 1 of the 22 Players Championships this season had a total average for the day of under 90

Players Championship 18 was lowest with an average of 89.2
Highest was Players Championship 2 and 19 which had a Average of 91.9

Average for the whole Players Championship this year was 90.8

Best Average - MVG - 100.56 for the year (42 Matches)
Worst Average - Colin Osborne -72.77 (Only played 1 game)
Worst Average playing minimum of 10 games - Ross Twell - 79.95 (27 Matches)

5 Players ended the season with an Average of under 80 - Osborne, Mark Frost, Stuart Kellet, Harry Ward and Ross Twell
79 Players ended the season with an Average of over 90

Most 180s - Adrian Lewis 231
Only 3 players played a game without hitting a 180 - Osborne, Kellet and Mathew Dennant

37 Players managed a 170 Checkout
Only 5 players didnt manage a ton plus checkout - Barrie Bates, Ronnie Baxter, Sven Groen, Kellet and Osborne

Most matches played - Lewis with 85 (won 63, lost 22)
17 Players played less than 10 games

Best win % - MVG 91% (42 played, 38 won)
Worst Win % - Sven Groen 0% (16played, 16 lost) - In the 2 Years Groen has had a tour card hes only won money in 3 out of 44 Players Championships.

Total of 157 players took part this year, dont know how up or down that was with entry fees scrapped. Dont think a single event had all 128 tour card holders with no reserves taking part.

[Little Lonely Garry]

Highest was Players Championship 2 and 19 which had a Average of 21.9

a Typo ^

[Zapp Brannigan]

Highest was Players Championship 2 and 19 which had a Average of 21.9

a Typo ^

Changed it

[Ginge]

Cross is out 5-6 , after being 5-4 up he threw shite in legs 10 and 11.

Just seen the result and thought perhaps Cross had a few dodgy legs, I don't rate Woodhouse at all

Bump.

[Black Velvet]

Ha! His knowledge of darts is in line with his ability, at least.

[Tommy T-Rex]

Ha! His knowledge of darts is in line with his ability, at least.

Doesn't rate Luke Woodhouse yet rates himself, absolute dime bar he is!

[Black Velvet]

We'll all be proven wrong at Q-School...

[ILAD]

We'll all be proven wrong at Q-School...

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