Race to Players Championship Finals after PDC Winter Series Day Three

The penultimate day of PDC Winter Series action begins later on Friday with the cut-off for the Players Championship Finals set to take place in Coventry at the end of November also coming up.

Gerwyn Price at the moment is currently top seed for the event but can be caught due to 'The Iceman' seemingly taking at least Friday off the Winter Series after his victory on Day Three.

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Peter Wright can catch him but needs at least a run to a Final over the course of the two days or two good runs and Price not attending either day for 'Snakebite' to end up top seed.

Michael van Gerwen will return on Friday and he sits third with £58,250 ahead of Nathan Aspinall and James Wade who round out the top five.

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Good seasons for Jose de Sousa (9th), Damon Heta (13th) and Devon Petersen (18th) in particular will see them seeded fairly highly. Gary Anderson currently sits 24th and despite not playing this week is seemingly safe due to the top 64 qualifying.

Currently the last qualifiers include Scott Mitchell, Boris Krcmar, Niels Zonneveld, Scott Waites and Conan Whitehead who sit in positions 60-64th.

But with Mitchell even, he is only on £8,500 and other players above only sit on £9,000 which means especially for Gavin Carlin, Ryan Meikle and players who themselves are currently on £8,000, a chance could present itself with an opening win on Day Four.

Currently those sitting outside qualification include Darius Labanauskas who will hope to replicate his run on Day Three to get himself secure, Jelle Klaasen and those wanting to keep their Tour Cards including Matthew Edgar, Robert Thornton and Benito van de Pas need potential runs to help save them.

But even so due to the truncated season on the Players Championship series with two days to go, the field could change around completely in terms of seeding and players going in and out.

Players Championship Order of Merit after 21/23 tournaments

* Prize money in units of one thousand. Source: Dartsrankings.com

1 Gerwyn Price 68.75

2 Peter Wright 65

3 Michael van Gerwen 58.25

4 Nathan Aspinall 43.5

5 James Wade 40.25

6 Ian White 38.25

7 Krzysztof Ratajski 36.75

8 Michael Smith 35

9 Jose de Sousa 30.5

10 Danny Noppert 28.25

11 Brendan Dolan 26.75

12 Glen Durrant 25.75

13 Damon Heta 24.5

14 Ryan Searle 23.25

15 Joe Cullen 23

16 Mensur Suljovic 22.25

17 Jermaine Wattimena 21.5

18 Devon Petersen 21.5

19 Stephen Bunting 20.5

20 Rob Cross 20.25

21 Daryl Gurney 19.75

22 Dave Chisnall 19.5

23 Vincent van der Voort 19.25

24 Gary Anderson 19

25 Ryan Joyce 18.5

26 Gabriel Clemens 18.25

27 Madars Razma 17.5

28 Ross Smith 16.75

29 Dirk van Duijvenbode 15.5

30 Simon Whitlock 15.5

31 Jamie Hughes 15.5

32 Jeff Smith 14.5

33 Ricky Evans 14.5

34 Jonny Clayton 13.75

35 Mickey Mansell 13.25

36 Chris Dobey 13

37 Martijn Kleermaker 12.75

38 William O'Connor 11.75

39 Keegan Brown 11.75

40 Mervyn King 11.5

41 Jason Lowe 11.5

42 Luke Humphries 11.25

43 Adrian Lewis 11

44 Derk Telnekes 11

45 Jeffrey de Zwaan 10.75

46 Dimitri Van den Bergh 10.5

47 Maik Kuivenhoven 10.5

48 Steve Beaton 10.5

49 William Borland 10

50 Kim Huybrechts 10

51 Callan Rydz 9.5

52 Wayne Jones 9.5

53 Luke Woodhouse 9.25

54 John Henderson 9.25

55 Ryan Murray 9

56 Andy Boulton 9

57 Mike De Decker 9

58 Steve Lennon 9

59 Darren Webster 9

60 Scott Mitchell 8.5

61 Boris Krcmar 8.5

62 Niels Zonneveld 8.5

63 Scott Waites 8.5

64 Conan Whitehead 8.25

65 Gavin Carlin 8

66 Ryan Meikle 8

67 Rowby-John Rodriguez 8

68 Christian Bunse 8

69 Karel Sedlacek 8

70 Darius Labanauskas 7.75

71 Adam Hunt 7.5

72 Josh Payne 7.5

73 Kai Fan Leung 7.5

74 Benito van de Pas 7.5

75 Jelle Klaasen 7.25

76 Scott Baker 7.25

77 Justin Pipe 7

78 Matthew Edgar 7

Nick Kenny 7

80 Martin Schindler 6.75

81 Jan Dekker 6.5

82 Robert Thornton 6.5

83 Steve Brown 6.5

84 James Wilson 6.5

85 Robert Collins 6.5

86 Kirk Shepherd 6.5

87 Matt Clark 6.25

88 Ted Evetts 6

89 Ron Meulenkamp 6

90 Lisa Ashton 6

91 Krzysztof Kciuk 5.75

92 Jesus Noguera 5.75

93 Andy Hamilton 5.5

94 Peter Jacques 5.5

95 Alan Tabern 5.5

96 Joe Murnan 5.5

97 Bradley Brooks 5

98 Max Hopp 5

99 John Michael 5

100 Richard North 5

101 Andrew Gilding 5

102 Carl Wilkinson 4.5

103 Reece Robinson 4.5

104 Steve West 4.5

105 Ciaran Teehan 4.5

106 Simon Stevenson 4.5

107 Geert Nentjes 4.5

108 Gary Blades 4.5

109 Scott Taylor 4

110 Toni Alcinas 4

111 Vincent van der Meer 4

112 Keane Barry 3.5

113 Mark McGeeney 3.5

114 Jitse Van der Wal 3

115 Matthew Dennant 3

116 Daniel Larsson 3

117 Adrian Gray 3

118 Harald Leitinger 3

119 Martin Atkins (Wigan) 3

120 Eddie Lovely 3

121 Wesley Harms 3

122 Jim Williams 2.5

123 David Pallett 2.5

124 Arjan Konterman 2.5

125 Harry Ward 2.5

126 Jamie Lewis 2.5

127 Aaron Beeney 2

128 Yordi Meeuwisse 2

129 Marko Kantele 2

130 Jonathan Worsley 2

131 Mike van Duivenbode 2

132 Darren Penhall 2

133 Ritchie Edhouse 1.5

134 Brian Raman 1.5

135 Cristo Reyes 1.5

136 Kevin Doets 1

137 Steffen Siepmann 1

138 Graham Usher 1

139 Carl Hamilton 1

140 Dom Taylor 1

141 Adam Huckvale 1

142 Barrie Bates 1

143 David Evans 0.5

144 Justin Hood 0.5

145 Maikel Verberk 0.5

146 Nathan Derry 0.5

147 Cameron Menzies 0.5

148 Nathan Rafferty 0.5

149 James Hubbard 0.5

150 Connor Scutt 0.5

151 Diogo Portela 0.5

152 Kyle Anderson 0.5

153 Michael Barnard 0.5