2024 Darting Predictions

[daveboygreen]

I am not 100% sure who all is going unfortunately. I know Jules will be in Europe. I assume Lauby I'm the UK.

I would have thought Lauby would stay in the UK and play Q-School here given he is playing and entered in a load of ADC events.

You never know....You might see one or 2 of us from here there too Alex.

[Cooking with Sanchez]

[daveboygreen]

Well you certainly won't be there shithead.

[sennafan24]

I'll be at the UK Q School.

Good luck.

[Emulsfier]

I'll be at the UK Q School.

Smash them up boss.

[Rogg]

I'll be at the UK Q School.

Smash them up boss.

+1. Great news this.

[oche balboa]

Good luck Sabrina

[oche balboa]

I won't be making any predictions on players until after Q School. IMO 2024 season starts from there

[thegentle]

I am not 100% sure who all is going unfortunately. I know Jules will be in Europe. I assume Lauby I'm the UK.

I thought I had heard on here that Jules wasn't going to go, glad to hear he is giving it another try. Good luck to all you Yankee doodle dandies!

[thegentle]

Good luck Sabrina

Hi Randall

[Emulsfier]

Good luck Sabrina

[oche balboa]

Someone gets it. Now i wont use it again

[daveboygreen]

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

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. (Yep)

Stephen Bunting to make it into a major final.

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

[Greipel]

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?

Good call mate.

[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 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?

Good call mate.

+1

[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 van 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

Worlds predictions:

1 Luke Humphries
2 Michael van Gerwen
3 Michael Smith
4 Rob Cross
5 Gerwyn Price
6 Nathan Aspinall
7 Chris Dobey
8 Dave Chisnall
9 Damon Heta
10 Peter Wright
11 Jonny Clayton
12 Andrew Gilding
13 Joe Cullen
14 Stephen Bunting
15 Dimitri Van den Bergh
16 Luke Littler
17 Josh Rock
18 Gary Anderson
19 Gabriel Clemens
20 James Wade
21 Danny Noppert
22 Ross Smith
23 Dirk van Duijvenbode
24 Ryan Searle
25 Krzysztof Ratajski
26 Brendan Dolan
27 Martin Schindler
28 Scott Williams
29 Daryl Gurney
30 Ricardo Pietreczko
31 Raymond van Barneveld
32 Gian van Veen

ProTour
Ryan Joyce
Luke Woodhouse
Richard Veenstra
Mike De Decker
Jim Williams
Willie O'Connor
Andy Baetens
Kevin Doets
Radek Szagański
Mario Vandenbogaerde
Jose de Sousa
Kim Huybrechts
Chris Landman
James Hurrell
Dom Taylor
Martin Lukeman
Madars Razma
Callan Rydz
Jules van Dongen
Ian White
Ricky Evans
Alan Soutar
Matt Campbell
Rowby-John Rodriguez
Mensur Suljovic
Steve Beaton
Boris Krcmar
Florian Hempel
Jeffrey de Graaf
Jeffrey de Zwaan
Maik Kuivenhoven
Keane Barry

PDPA
Stephen Burton
Daniel Klose
Simon Whitlock

Challenge Tour
Connor Scutt
Andy Boulton

Development Tour
Wessel Nijman
Sebastian Białecki

DPA
Raymond Smith
DPNZ
Ben Robb
Oceanic Masters
Haupai Puha

Nordic/Baltic
Benjamin Drue Reus
Darius Labanauskas

Women's
Beau Greaves (Matchplay)
Fallon Sherrock
Lisa Ashton

Asia
Alexis Toylo
Paolo Nebrida
Leung Man Lok
Goto Tomoya
Lourence Ilagan
Paul Lim (Asian Championship)
Haruki Muramatsu (best Japanese player in the Asian Championship)
China Premier League
Zong Xiaochen
India
Nitin Kumar

CDC
Alex Spellman
Stowe Buntz
David Cameron

Africa
Devon Petersen

CLDC
Jesus Salate

NextGen
Dragutin Horvat

West Europe
Wesley Plaisier

East Europe
Karel Sedláček

[The Crow]

Cross wins a major

Gilding makes 3 TV ranking quarter finals or better

Luke Littler wins the premier league

Ross Smith wins a Euro Tour

MvG wins the European Championship and Player Championship finals

Wales retain the World Cup of Darts

Mongolia qualify for the WCOD

Wesley Plaisier wins Lakeside

At least 2 more players get bans for irregular betting patterns/match fixing.

[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.

Not too good

[thegentle]

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.

Not too good

Think the mid carders will be relieved that Boulton, Scutt, Pilgrim and Kist didn't make it. They'll be among the favourites on the Challenge Tour, but as Boulton knows only too well, you have to be really consistent on that tour to be able to play the entire ProTour

[oche balboa]

Now i will make predictions

PDC

- MVG will win the Premier League but no other TV title (Not including the World Series stuff)
- Humphries will have an excellent season but will suffer a 1st round exit at the World Matchplay
- Littler will not win a pro tour but will qualify for the Matchplay and WGP. He will do well in all but not reach a final(of a major) but will do enough to reach the top 16
- Price will do nothing apart from win a few pro tours
- Baetens will have a good first year where he will get to the Worlds and 3 other TV tournaments (One of which he will have a deep run)
- The Euro Tour criteria will make the Euro Tour stale of which Porter will tell everyone they are a keyboard warrior
- Gian Van Veen will have a fine season with a deep run in the UK Open
- Gilding will not make a good defence of his UK Open title, Will be stuck on an outer board and largely forgotten as he loses to a rileys qualifier in the last 64
- Wales will again win the World Cup of Darts
- Peter Wright will slip down the rankings further as fathertime will catch up
- Steve Beaton will have a good final year on tour
- A former PDC Tourcard holder will go to jail
- Ian White, Mervyn King, Ryan Meikle, Mensur Suljovic, Mickey Mansall, Madars Razma, Jermaine Wattimena & Luke Woodhouse will have poor years resulting loss of Tourcards for a few of them
- Jose De Sousa will drop out the Top 32
- Fallon vs Beau will finally happen on TV and Fallon will beat her in the Matchplay final
- Porter will continue to move the sport towards an elite tour

WDF

- Plaisier will be World Number 1, Matt Edgar into the top 10. May of the TC dropouts will play in more of these events. World Title will be won by one of them (Connor Scutt?)
- World Masters will be played in October and it will be decently attended with over 250-350 entries.There will be a shock winner from Netherlands
- World Championship will have a better sellout rate then 2023, Again WDF will fail to get on TV (early stage) but improve the Social Media and World Championship output with help from Matt Edgar & other youtubers.
- More tournaments will be created in new countries
- Beau Greaves will again win the World Title

World Seniors

- Phil Taylor will not pick up any titles in his final year, However he will play Martin Adams in Blackpool
- Leonard Gates will not dominate as much as 2023.
- Mark Dudbridge will win one of the TV titles. Darren Webster will get to the final of another as well
- A 5th TV event will be created in Netherlands