PDC World Championship- 13th December 2019- 1st January 2020 Alexandra Palace- London

[ssjsa]

Price rattled. Snakebite throwing away that 2nd leg in the second set might be the catalyst Gerwyn needs to get a foothold in this match.

[SRW]

Taylor winning finals was fun Wright rolling over to mvg for 1500th time is not.

[ChrisW]

Price fishing for a fine again.

[robot]

This could explode this one.
Price excessively aggressive in Wrights face.

[SRW]

Pricey back in this

[DavidB]

Nothing could be worse than a wright v mvg final come on pricey!!

Wrong. Taylor v Anyone would be a billion times worse.

Must have missed Taylor’s name in the draw this year, oh dear

[DavidB]

89 average in a world champ semi-final...

[trotter01]

Price fishing for a fine again.

To be fair Wright started it by running to him and tapping him after the first set... All pretty harmless.. Back to the good old prime Bristow days... Good stuff

[robot]

Would love to see a Price v MVG final, especially if it went set by set, toe to toe - could kick off nicely.

[SRW]

Wright folds under pressure pricey bullies him a bit he will beat binky.

[Westernbulldog]

This tourney needs something to get it going after woeful quarter finals and Gezzy losing his shit would be perfect

[Gruntface]

Some proper needle here. May end up seeing someone get chinned up there.

[robot]

Wright crumbling at the mo.

[ChrisW]

Wright crumbling at the mo.

2-2 and he is 10 points higher averages throughout so far.
40% v 30% on the finishing.
Far from over.

[SRW]

Level game wright looks like he wants to punch pricey

[robot]

Weird game.
Momentum swinging.
15 180’s already

[O C]

Great game to watch. Much harder work for them in this semifinal than previous matches.

[SRW]

Congrats mvg on title 4 on wednesday

[ssjsa]

The PDC's statistical analyst Christopher Kempf takes a look at the likelihood of the record for the most 180s to be hit during the William Hill World Championship being broken. 

Ahead of the semi-finals, 83 more maximums are needed to surpass last year's record of 880, and it will be a close call for the last four to produce that many in the space of only three matches - especially if any players record a handsome victory.

The record is statistically projected to be more likely to be broken if Peter Wright, who has recorded more than one maximum for every three legs thrown, meets Nathan Aspinall in the final.

The 2019 UK Open Champion's 35 180s in 112 legs works out to the second-highest rate per leg.

So why can we not expect Michael van Gerwen or Gerwyn Price to be of more help in breaking the record?

The pair's readiness to switch to treble 19 lowers their rates of hitting 180s, even (and perhaps especially) when they are playing well.

Everything depends on the length of the matches - a 50-leg thriller is of course more likely to produce more 180s than a 25-leg blowout.

With 110 to 120 legs likely, on average, to be played on the final two days of the tournament, the players will need to surpass both their 2019 and their World Championship tournament rates to date to rack up 83 or more 180s out of the three remaining matches.

William Hill World Championship 
180s per semi-finalist
Peter Wright - 41  (0.34 per leg)
Nathan Aspinall - 35  (0.31)
Michael van Gerwen - 24  (0.29)
Gerwyn Price - 21  (0.24)

[ssjsa]

The PDC's statistical analyst Christopher Kempf takes a look at the likelihood of the record for the most 180s to be hit during the William Hill World Championship being broken. 

Ahead of the semi-finals, 83 more maximums are needed to surpass last year's record of 880, and it will be a close call for the last four to produce that many in the space of only three matches - especially if any players record a handsome victory.

The record is statistically projected to be more likely to be broken if Peter Wright, who has recorded more than one maximum for every three legs thrown, meets Nathan Aspinall in the final.

The 2019 UK Open Champion's 35 180s in 112 legs works out to the second-highest rate per leg.

So why can we not expect Michael van Gerwen or Gerwyn Price to be of more help in breaking the record?

The pair's readiness to switch to treble 19 lowers their rates of hitting 180s, even (and perhaps especially) when they are playing well.

Everything depends on the length of the matches - a 50-leg thriller is of course more likely to produce more 180s than a 25-leg blowout.

With 110 to 120 legs likely, on average, to be played on the final two days of the tournament, the players will need to surpass both their 2019 and their World Championship tournament rates to date to rack up 83 or more 180s out of the three remaining matches.

William Hill World Championship 
180s per semi-finalist
Peter Wright - 41  (0.34 per leg)
Nathan Aspinall - 35  (0.31)
Michael van Gerwen - 24  (0.29)
Gerwyn Price - 21  (0.24)