PDC Form Guide: Luke Littler leads 'alternative ranking' with World No.1 Luke Humphries down in third
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A new PDC Form Guide has been released. For this alternative world ranking, only the last 200 played legs of each PDC Tour Card holder are taken into account.
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In the official world rankings, he is still second to Luke Humphries, but in the PDC Form Guide, Luke Littler is first. The 18-year-old Englishman is the only one to record a 100+ average during his last 200 legs played. Littler clocked in at an average of 100.97 and 42.54% on his doubles.
Second place went to Stephen Bunting. 'The Bullet', already winner of a Euro Tour, a Players Championship and two World Series of Darts tournaments this year, achieved an average of 99.48 during his last 200 legs played and a doubles percentage of 42.36%. On the official world rankings, Bunting currently ranks fourth.
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Completing the top three is current world number one Humphries. During his last 200 legs played, 'Cool Hand Luke' achieved an average of 98.90 and a doubles percentage of 40.55%. Humphries won the Premier League Darts at the end of May and starts next weekend's World Matchplay as the defending champion.
Josh Rock sits in fourth place. He has an average of 98.56. He has a doubling stat of more than Luke Humphries with only the average seeing him worse off. He has hit 87 171-180 scores over the last 200 legs compared to 72 from Humphries and also dwarfs him when it comes to 99, 101+ checkouts with 12 compared to five.
He has also hit the most aside from the ninth placed player in the top 10 in regards to 171-180 scores. Gary Anderson follows on to round out the top five sitting on a 98.15 average and the best checkout rate of all apart from Gian van Veen with 45.91%.
Van Veen is in sixth with 48.81%. He is one of two Dutchman in the top 10. The other being Dirk van Duijvenbode who ironically also has the most 171-180 scores so like Van Veen leads in a metric. Jonny Clayton, Gerwyn Price and Nathan Aspinall are also in the top 10.
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The alternative PDC ranking is good to gauge the form going into a tournament like the World Matchplay as for many of these names, they have either won titles are on the cusp of success as of late.
PDC Stats Analyst @ochepedia assesses the top ten stars - based on their last 200 legs played - ahead of the 2025 Betfred World Matchplay.
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