Fantasy World Matchplay (At least 770 USD/700 Euro/600 GBP in prizes!)

Starting on Saturday, July 17, at the Winter Gardens in Blackpool, the most important darting title after the World Championship will be fought for: the World Matchplay. This features a total of 800,000 pounds in the prize fund including 200,000 for the winner.

For this 30th edition it is difficult to point out a top favorite. Of course world champion Michael Smith, Gerwyn Price and Michael van Gerwen are top contenders, but the differences at the top are currently minimal. So we can expect many exciting matches and it is extra fun to put together a team in the Fantasy World Matchplay 2023.

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The Fantasy World Matchplay starts on Saturday 15 July 2023 at 20:15.

You have a budget of 115 million euro to buy 8 darts players of which you think are going to win the most points in the Fantasy World Matchplay.

The darts players can win points for your team in a few different ways. A darts player can get points if he wins a match. You can also win points for the different statistics like the total legs won, the leg difference, the total of 100+, 140+, 180's, checkout percentage and averages.

Each match within a category, from the first round to the final, counts equally. Please check "Points" for more details.

An example: Michael van Gerwen plays against Peter Wright and win this match with 12-7 in legs. Van Gerwen will receive 100 points for winning the match and 12 x 5 = 60 points for the legs won. Also he gets 5 times 10 points = 50 points for the leg difference. 210 points in total. For the rest of the statistics he will score 23 100+ scores (23 points), 14 140+ scores (28 points), 9 180's (36 points), 5 100+ checkouts (50 points), an average of 107.8 (30 points) and a checkout percentage of 56% (20 points). Van Gerwen will score 187 points for the statistics. His total score for your team will be 210 + 187 points = 397 points.

The game will cost $7,70/€7.00/£5.99 per team and will start with a guaranteed amount of $770/€700/£600 in prizes. The first prize will be $138/€124/£105 (20 GC prizes).

1 Gerwen, Michael van 30

2 Price, Gerwyn 29.5

3 Smith, Michael 26.7

4 Wright, Peter 23.1

5 Clayton, Jonny 20.6

6 Aspinall, Nathan 18.2

7 Bergh, Dimitri Van den 18

8 Humphries, Luke 17.9

9 Cross, Rob 16.3

10 Duijvenbode, Dirk van 15.8

11 Rock, Josh 15.1

12 Noppert, Danny 12.5

13 Chisnall, Dave 12.4

14 Anderson, Gary 11.7

15 Searle, Ryan 10

16 Cullen, Joe 9.9

17 Dobey, Chris 9.2

18 Wade, James 9.1

19 Barneveld, Raymond van 8.8

20 Schindler, Martin 8.6

21 Smith, Ross 8

22 Ratajski, Krzysztof 7.5

23 Heta, Damon 7.2

24 Clemens, Gabriel 6.1

25 Gilding, Andrew 5.9

26 Gurney, Daryl 5.8

27 Huybrechts, Kim 5

28 Bunting, Stephen 4.5

29 De Sousa, Jose 4.3

30 Decker, Mike De 4.2

31 Beaton, Steve 3.7

32 Dolan, Brendan 3.5