2024 Darting Predictions

[TheMalteseDart]

As we always do every year, let’s make fools of ourselves by being wildly wrong about our predictions

Who’s going to win tour cards at Q School? Who’s going to win the big titles? Who’s going to flop?

[TheMalteseDart]

Q School:

Darryl Pilgrim, Dom Taylor, Hendo, Boulton, all win cards at Q School UK. In terms of players who lost it this year Scutt, Waites, Killington get straight back. The likes of Murnan , Evetts and James Wilson all fail to get one back

In EU Tricole will job out of getting a card again but Klaasen will get back on the tour this time. Kist will get through easily as well.

Pro Tour stuff:

MVG has his most dominant year for a while, picking up 4 TV Titles. The Masters, Grand Slam, Matchplay and the European Championship

Chizzy picks up his first tv ranking title

Van den Bergh will pick up his form and make a final in something.

Cross wins the UK Open

Clayton, Van Duijvenbode slide down the rankings

Humphries will still be there or there abouts but won't be as succesful as 2023

This will be the last year we see Van der Voort on the tour, and Suljovic will also drop off and we won't see him for a while but it wont be forever. However White and King will manage to keep on going

Doets form in the World Championship will give him the confidence to kick on this year, not saying he will win anything but he will show he's a very good prospect and will qualify for a couple of the big ones.

Littler will have a positive first year on tour, and will make a final of a tv event, however won't win one. He will win a couple of pro tours though and make the final of 2 euro tours

Scutt will still be better than Raman

[thegentle]

I am 8 hours ahead of most of you, 祝大家新年快乐！
Will do a proper tour card winner list when the entries are released, likewise when the tour cards have been allocated I'll do a full Worlds qualification list based on this year's criteria

MvG to be the big dog and win 3 Premier titles, Michael Smith and Rob Cross 2, Dobey (a ranking one for him this time), Cross, Humphries and Price to win the rest, with England winning the World Cup for the first time without Taylor

Littler, Rock, Dimi, Ross Smith and Scott Williams to reach a final of a Premier event, Littler to win a World Series title having missed out on Prem selection (he'll also win 2 ProTours and a Euro Tour)

I was going to suggest Littler gets into the top 32, but if he starts off on a hundred grand with nothing to defend, that's not much of a prediction! Top 16 for him (he may be there in 3 days!), same as Rock, Scott Williams to enter the top 24. They will be joined in the top 32 by Pietreczko (obviously), Joyce and Gian can Veen. Doets will end up not too far away, Hempel to rise up the ranks, Rowby-John and Soutar won't rise as they're defending a lot, but they will maintain their current spots in the rankings. Bunting to flatter to deceive again, being 'on form' for much of the year, but winning fuck all and being in about the same spot in the rankings. Noppert, Clayton, Dirk and Wade to fall fairly sharply in the rankings, Kuivenhoven, de Zwaan, Burton, Klose and Sedlacek to keep their cards, King, Gawlas, Vinny, Slevin and Edhouse to lose theirs, staying loyal to Mensur, he keeps his unless he stops turning up to events. Whitlock and White will be threatened, though they won't fall through the trap door quite yet

[shenmue]

Wadey wins a major and gets back into the top 10.

Obesehead has a disastrous year, slides down the rankings and has a mental health breakdown and misses the start of the following year.

Littler becomes a top 10 player, winning a major and numerous floor and euro events, by the time of the next world championship he is over 20 stone.

Clown, barney and ando all slide down the rankings, at least two announce their retirement at the end of the season.

Humps becomes world number one, wins multiple more majors including the 2024 world championship, beating bollywood in the final.

MVG wins another pl but has another disappointing year in the major ranking events, blames the operations to his jaw and sex addiction on his disappointing 2nd half of the season.

Pricey's wins the world series of darts finals but again struggles in tv ranking majors.

[sennafan24]

My predictions are mostly based on gut feeling rather than sound logic:

MVG wins the 2024 PDC Worlds.

Baetens wins his tour card and qualifies for the 2025 PDC Worlds via the Pro Tour OOM.

Price's form remains similar to what it's been over the past few months.

Wright's decline accelerates.

[Ross, Bob]

My predictions are mostly based on gut feeling rather than sound logic:

MVG wins the 2024 PDC Worlds.

Baetens wins his tour card and qualifies for the 2025 PDC Worlds via the Pro Tour OOM.

Price's form remains similar to what it's been over the past few months.

Wright's decline accelerates.

Thoughts about headshaker?

[sennafan24]

My predictions are mostly based on gut feeling rather than sound logic:

MVG wins the 2024 PDC Worlds.

Baetens wins his tour card and qualifies for the 2025 PDC Worlds via the Pro Tour OOM.

Price's form remains similar to what it's been over the past few months.

Wright's decline accelerates.

Thoughts about headshaker?

I'll predict he'll have a similar year to 2023.

Remains around the border of the top 32 in the OOM, perhaps 1 or 2 strong runs on TV, but no TV titles.

[daveboygreen]

Luke Littler to end the year (after the next years world championship) in the top 32 of the PDC o.o.m.

Barney to make it to at least the quarter final of a televised major and it being enough for him to carry on for another year.

A player currently in the top 32 o.o.m to announce retirement.

A new name winning one of the majors.

A player being assaulted or injured during a walk on in a PDC event.

Johnny Clayton or Peter Wright to miss out on the Premier League or refuse their invitation.

Stephen Bunting to make it into a major final.

At least 6 new/first time tour card holders coming from Q-School.

[DeepFriedRat]

- Humphries to become World Number One before next year's Worlds

- The top 8 by next year's Worlds will be Humphries, MVG, Smith, Aspinall, Price, Cross, Dobey and Chizzy in that order.

- MVG to win the PL, Humphries defend the Grand Slam and Dobey to win the WGP as his first ranking major.

- Rock, Bunting and Wade to be in the top 16

- Anderson will be just outside the top 16, after a good year on the Euro Tour.

- Wright and Noppert fall but remain in the top 16

- Clayton to be more solid after a reality check of no Premier League. Will stay in the top 10 and have good runs in the Butlins events. If he is to nosedive down the rankings, it will be in 2025 when the Matchplay RU money gets struck off.

- Van Duijvenbode, Ross Smith and De Sousa to drop like a brick down the rankings.

- Barney to miss the Matchplay but make everything else. He will win a floor event and sit in the 25-30th dead zone in the OOM.

- Joyce, Scott Williams, Pikachu and Littler to all make the top 32. They will replace De Sousa, Rydz, Razma and Huybrechts. Van Veen will be just outside after a Rock-esque stall year.

- Woodlouse, Jimbob, Veenstra and Doets to all continue their progression. Capybara, Mansell and Krcmar will significantly improve and make several tv events.

- Whitlock and Matt Campbell will have stinkers of years, putting their cards under pressure in 2025.

- Vincent Van der Voort will retire after he loses his tour card.

- The following players will also lose their tour cards- King, Suljovic, Yozza, Soutar, Edhouse, Meikle, Gawlas, Lee Evans, De Zwaan, Kuivenhoven and Keegan Brown.

- Martin Lukeman will hang on just about. Zonneveld will also survive but all others from Q School 2023 will be fucked.

Q-SCHOOL

Europe

- Baetens will win his card and get into the top 64 within one year. Biakecki will also win his automatically.

- Vandenbogaerde, Rusty Jane and Labanauskas will win their cards back.

- Szaganski, Van Dongen, Raman and everyone else in Europe will fail to get theirs back.

- Plaisier, Klaasen and Alex will all win cards. Harrysson will win one if he turns up, as will Niko Springer, if he tries.

- Tricole and Landman will choke yet again (hope I'm wrong). Kist will agonisingly miss out due to injury but do well on the CT. Horvat will also bomb.

UK

- Pilgrim wins one automatically with ease.

- Lennon, Scutt, Killington and Brooks will all win their card back and that's it from the recent losers.

- Crabtree, Boulton, Dom Taylor, Big H and Borland will all win cards. Gary Stone will win one if he shows up.

- Jarred Cole will finally win his card.

- Mitchell, Hurrell, Whitehead, Hendo, Hamilton, Vindaloo and all of the classic Modus jobbers to flop.

[The Thorn]

Why are people rimming Littler

No chance he wins a major let's be honest

He has to qualify for them in the first place

[thegentle]

Why are people rimming Littler

No chance he wins a major let's be honest

He has to qualify for them in the first place

Qualifying for them won't be a problem, if your boy Bunting can do it, Littler will do it too! Absolutely no reason he can't challenge for titles if he shows this form, he'll have at least 8 opportunities to win a Premier title

[daveboygreen]

Oh dear, Thorn behaving like an utter prick yet again.

[tungsten tossers]

Think Merv will struggle to hold on to his card
As will Mensur and Vinnie

Dobey will break into the top 10 OOM
The majors will be spread around with no player really dominating

Baetens will win a tour card

GVV will make the top 32 and potentially top 25

Krusty will drop out the the top 10

Jose will drop out of the top 32

Littler will make top 40 if he reaches the SF and starts the year in the top 64
He will reach top 64 if he starts from scratch

Can see many different ET and PC winners as the big guns sit out a fair few and give them a miss

[thegentle]

Think Merv will struggle to hold on to his card
As will Mensur and Vinnie

Dobey will break into the top 10 OOM
The majors will be spread around with no player really dominating

Baetens will win a tour card

GVV will make the top 32 and potentially top 25

Krusty will drop out the the top 10

Jose will drop out of the top 32

Littler will make top 40 if he reaches the SF and starts the year in the top 64
He will reach top 64 if he starts from scratch

Can see many different ET and PC winners as the big guns sit out a fair few and give them a miss

If he loses in the semis he begins next season on £102.5k, only £26k behind Barry currently in 40th lol, no chance that's his limit next season

[Greipel]

Kovács missing out tour card by 2 points on the OoM.

A lesser known Czech will win tour card but won't do fuck all on the tour (Sedlak, Masek, Sebesta etc).

Merv retires.

Dragutin Horvat bottles q-school again.

Van Veen continues his rise.

I will finally break the 60 barrier in a minimum first to four double out match.

[sennafan24]

Why are people rimming Littler

No chance he wins a major let's be honest

He has to qualify for them in the first place

Perhaps because he's a 16 year old who has just made the QF stage at Ally Pally? And also averaged over 105 in two of his games?

Nobody in this thread has predicted he will win a major either.

Who would you prefer be hyped in this thread? Mitchell? Schlichting? Kovács?

[The Thorn]

Why are people rimming Littler

No chance he wins a major let's be honest

He has to qualify for them in the first place

Perhaps because he's a 16 year old who has made the QF stage at Ally Pally? And also averaged over 105 in two of his games?

Nobody has predicted he will win a major either.

Who would you prefer be hyped in this thread? Mitchell? Schlichting? Kovács?

Shenmue predicted him to win a major. Others predicted he would get to major finals and win a TV event

[The Thorn]

2024 Darting Predictions

Scott Mitchell to miss out on a tour card. He will be in the top 16-20 range on the Challenge Tour.

David Schlichting to get to a Modus final night again. He will not get close to winning a tour card however. On the Development Tour he will be ranked in the top 32.

Patrik Kovács to win a tour card. His best result will be a last 16 in a Players Championship event and he will qualify for a Euro Tour event.

[sennafan24]

Why are people rimming Littler

No chance he wins a major let's be honest

He has to qualify for them in the first place

Perhaps because he's a 16 year old who has made the QF stage at Ally Pally? And also averaged over 105 in two of his games?

Nobody has predicted he will win a major either.

Who would you prefer be hyped in this thread? Mitchell? Schlichting? Kovács?

Shenmue predicted him to win a major. Others predicted he would get to major finals and win a TV event

Okay, so 1 poster.

Gentle specified a World Series event, which are not majors. Others specified he would make a TV final, not win one.

Will he achieve any of these things? Perhaps not, but they are not an unreasonable prediction given the form he's shown at Ally Pally.

Players have been hyped up for a lot less. Usually by yourself.

[The Thorn]

Why are people rimming Littler

No chance he wins a major let's be honest

He has to qualify for them in the first place

Perhaps because he's a 16 year old who has made the QF stage at Ally Pally? And also averaged over 105 in two of his games?

Nobody has predicted he will win a major either.

Who would you prefer be hyped in this thread? Mitchell? Schlichting? Kovács?

Shenmue predicted him to win a major. Others predicted he would get to major finals and win a TV event

Okay, so 1 poster.

Gentle specified a World Series event, which are not majors. Others specified he would make a TV final, not win one.

Will he achieve any of these things? Perhaps not, but they are not an unreasonable prediction given the form he's shown at Ally Pally.

Players have been hyped up for a lot less. Usually by yourself.

It's also not unreasonable to predict that he will not reach a TV final. As I have predicted and I'm sticking to it.