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Christopher Kempf

2 months

Pleased to announce that I'll be debuting an "Ask Ochepedia" feature for the PDC - if you have a statistical question about darts that has always troubled you, ask it here and you might soon see the answer on the @OfficialPDC website.

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Christopher Kempf

@ochepedia

5 months

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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Christopher Kempf

@ochepedia

1 year

Phil Taylor had match darts in 126 World Championship matches and won 124 of them. The two that he lost were 25 years apart.

Jannik

@Jannik_Pflur

1 year

What is your favourite random stat? @ochepedia

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Christopher Kempf

@ochepedia

2 years

Career averages in televised deciding legs: Gary Anderson: 94.39 Michael van Gerwen: 103.93 William Borland: 167.00

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Christopher Kempf

@ochepedia

5 months

Luke Humphries' 103.67 average is the highest ever recorded in a match of 45+ legs.

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Christopher Kempf

@ochepedia

5 months

One of a very few people with a career undefeated record against Luke Humphries is a player named:

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Christopher Kempf

@ochepedia

5 months

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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Christopher Kempf

@ochepedia

4 years

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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6 years

Rob Cross won his first £250 as a tour card holder on February 3, 2017. He has now added £296,000 to that total in the past 11 months, and will be ranked #8 or #9 in the world on January 2, 2018.

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Christopher Kempf

@ochepedia

5 years

Adrian Lewis lost four legs in that match because he didn't hit a 9-darter. That's just evil.

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@ochepedia

5 years

Michael van Gerwen earns £483.87 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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Christopher Kempf

@ochepedia

5 months

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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Christopher Kempf

@ochepedia

5 months

It's the first time a 4-0 lead in sets has ever been overcome, in any format, in any World Championship.

David John Schlichting

@dazi180turtle

5 months

Has a 4-0 lead ever led to a loss in a first to 5 sets?

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Christopher Kempf

@ochepedia

6 years

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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@ochepedia

6 years

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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@ochepedia

6 years

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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@ochepedia

5 months

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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Christopher Kempf

@ochepedia

5 years

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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@ochepedia

2 years

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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Christopher Kempf

@ochepedia

6 years

MvG has earned £102.88 for each of his darts thrown in the Premier League over the past 3 months.

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@ochepedia

4 years

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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Christopher Kempf

@ochepedia

4 years

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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Christopher Kempf

@ochepedia

4 years

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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6 years

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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Christopher Kempf

@ochepedia

5 years

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 **𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘵𝘦𝘥** a 153 checkout for a perfect leg.

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Christopher Kempf

@ochepedia

2 years

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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@ochepedia

2 years

MvG has played six deciding legs in televised finals in his career, and has won all six.

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Christopher Kempf

@ochepedia

5 months

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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@ochepedia

5 years

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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@ochepedia

3 years

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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@ochepedia

3 years

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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@ochepedia

6 years

Highest per-dart earners of ranking income on the 2018 European Tour: £34.52 - MvG ... ... £14.40 - Mensur Suljović £13.27 - Ian White £13.22 - Jonny Clayton £12.82 - Gerwyn Price £11.35 - Max Hopp £10.58 - Peter Wright £10.49 - Michael Smith £10.29 - Simon Whitlock

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Christopher Kempf

@ochepedia

5 years

Rob Cross has now accumulated more ranking money (£937,250) than any World #2 in history, and more than any player in history apart from MvG or Phil Taylor.

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Christopher Kempf

@ochepedia

5 years

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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Christopher Kempf

@ochepedia

5 years

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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@ochepedia

4 years

Glen Durrant is 15-1 in legs in situations in which his opponent had already secured a draw.

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Christopher Kempf

@ochepedia

3 years

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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Christopher Kempf

@ochepedia

4 years

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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Christopher Kempf

@ochepedia

5 years

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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4 years

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@ochepedia

3 years

Players who have whitewashed MvG at the World Championship: Phil Taylor 2009 0-4 Dave Chisnall 2021 0-5

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Christopher Kempf

@ochepedia

4 years

My new analysis of more than half a million checkout attempts *𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗮 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗵* from the past two years suggests that the hardest checkout is... 𝟭𝟯𝟵

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@ochepedia

6 years

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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Christopher Kempf

@ochepedia

4 years

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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Christopher Kempf

@ochepedia

4 years

To give you an idea of how many 180s that Petersen/de Sousa match had... I can only find 6 matches out of ≈35,000 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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@ochepedia

3 years

Wright's 110.37 is the highest average ever recorded against MvG in a televised ranking event.

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Christopher Kempf

@ochepedia

4 years

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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Christopher Kempf

@ochepedia

6 years

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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Christopher Kempf

@ochepedia

5 years

Farewell and thank you, Pokerface - Vi kommer att sakna dig

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Christopher Kempf

@ochepedia

3 years

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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Christopher Kempf

@ochepedia

6 years

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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@ochepedia

4 years

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)

WAYNE MARDLE

@Wayne501Mardle

4 years

It’s all about timing. That’ll never change and there’s no stat for it.

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@ochepedia

6 years

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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@ochepedia

3 years

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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Christopher Kempf

@ochepedia

2 years

Of the 8 quarterfinalists, the most accurate player on each segment of the dartboard (sample size permitting) since 2017.

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@ochepedia

5 years

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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@ochepedia

4 years

The honeymoon is over. £385,000 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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@ochepedia

4 years

That's ridiculous, no one would ever attempt D12 in their second vis-

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@ochepedia

4 years

Fallon Sherrock will earn a minimum of £25,000 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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Christopher Kempf

@ochepedia

4 years

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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Christopher Kempf

@ochepedia

5 years

Some of the players starting 2019 on their highest-ever world ranking: #19 Steve West #20 John Henderson #26 Jamie Lewis #33 Dimitri Van den Bergh #34 Nathan Aspinall #45 William O'Connor #46 Danny Noppert #48 Toni Alcinas #50 Ryan Searle #51 Ryan Joyce #57 Luke Humphries

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@ochepedia

6 years

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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@ochepedia

1 year

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?"

Around the Horn

@AroundtheHorn

1 year

Before the Horn, a scoring system that puzzles even @TonyReali , darts! 🎯

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@ochepedia

4 years

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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Christopher Kempf

@ochepedia

5 years

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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Christopher Kempf

@ochepedia

2 years

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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@ochepedia

4 years

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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Christopher Kempf

@ochepedia

6 years

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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Christopher Kempf

@ochepedia

2 years

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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@ochepedia

4 years

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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Christopher Kempf

@ochepedia

3 years

My annual attempt to visualize every dart thrown on stage in the PDC, from 2017 to the present:

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@ochepedia

6 years

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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@ochepedia

5 years

Income from first 4 PC events of their first years as a PDC Tour Card holder: Stephen Bunting (2014) - £2,250 Rob Cross (2017) - £12,000 Corey Cadby (2018) - £6,500 Glen Durrant (2019) - £16,000

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@ochepedia

1 year

MvG has now had 24 (appropriate!) consecutive unsuccessful 9-dart finish attempts in a World Championship.

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@ochepedia

3 years

This is probably the most astonishing top-10 list of any double - James Wade has a licence to kill on the bull!

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Christopher Kempf

@ochepedia

5 years

One of these 7 players will be a World Championship semifinalist in a week's time: Brendan Dolan Benito van de Pas Nathan Aspinall Kyle Anderson Toni Alcinas Steve West Devon Petersen

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Christopher Kempf

@ochepedia

1 year

Only twice: Phil Taylor 2013 and Dirk van Duijvenbode 2023, both against MvG.

Olos

@Olosmilionos

1 year

How many times, someone has finished 350 in 6 darts in the World Championship? @ochepedia

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@ochepedia

5 years

When MvG finds out about Wright's 123.53 average...

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@ochepedia

6 years

Visual analysis of Cross' and Taylor's darts at double 16. Phil has been so accurate, and has missed inside so seldom, that you could fit the majority of his darts at D16 into an area barely larger than your thumbnail.

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@ochepedia

2 years

Florian Hempel's 75% accuracy on doubles last night is the highest such percentage ever seen on TV from a German player in a winning performance.

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@ochepedia

4 years

José de Sousa is the first Grand Slam champion who did not win his round-robin group.

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3 years

The bottom half of the World Championship bracket is now guaranteed to produce a player who has never before appeared in a (PDC) WC final.

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@ochepedia

5 years

Just realized that Krzysztof Ratajski now has more PDC titles to his name than does Daryl Gurney.

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@ochepedia

4 years

In this year's Premier League, Michael Smith has been more likely to throw a 180 in a given leg (37%) than to hit a double in a single attempt (35%).

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@ochepedia

2 years

Rob Cross is the first person to win a deciding set in a (PDC) World Championship match with a 170 finish. There have now been 22 161+ finishes to win any World Championship match ( @Raybar180 is responsible for 4 of them)

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1 year

Not just the leg, but the entire 2nd set has a decent claim to being the best in WC history - it had the highest-ever combined average in a set. Here are the top 10:

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4 years

99.9% of men (including myself) can reflect on Fallon Sherrock's performance and think, "I wish I could play like that".

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@ochepedia

4 years

2020 is the first PDC World Championship in which no player from either Stoke-on-Trent or St Helens reached the quarterfinal.

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5 years

Because @Rod_Studd wanted a heatmap for Royden Lam's darts in his match against Danny Noppert, I am pleased to present:

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5 years

Daryl Gurney missed all 17 bullseye checkouts that he attempted in this year's PL.

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4 years

Nathan Aspinall is the first person to have defeated Gary Anderson at the PDC World Championship without having first reached a WC final.

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5 years

What they would have averaged in the final in normal 501: 105.72 Michael van Gerwen 101.62 Dave Chisnall

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@ochepedia

3 years

Every dart thrown at D20 in the tournament from Price and Anderson, two of the pros who are both most accurate and most dependent on checkouts on that double.

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6 years

113.38 is the highest TV average of Raymond van Barneveld's 30+ year career in professional darts.

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2 years

The match isn't even halfway over yet, and it's already in the top 1% of TV matches all-time for total scores of 180...

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2 years

Two teenaged players have averaged 100+ on TV: Michael van Gerwen (2006-07) Keane Barry (2022)

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@ochepedia

2 years

I have devised a statistic which measures a player's performance in one number on a 0-100 scale, where a player's score is the expected % of matches that player would win on the Pro Tour with that performance. It is 40% more accurate than averages at predicting match outcomes.

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3 years

Danny Noppert won the first leg of his match vs Peter Wright in the first round. The second leg of that match was the only one of the 105 played by Wright this week in which he was trailing his opponent.

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5 years

@OfficialPDC @AmazingDart @WilliamHill Just noticed Michael Smith waving off the crowd as they start to boo MvG's match darts. What a great sportsman he is.

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