2024 World Matchplay

[thegentle]

Littler already on £15k just behind this lot, might be in a position to put his feet up in certain events after all

[shenmue]

It's littler or wadey this year I feel it in my bones.

[oche balboa]

World Matchplay race

OOM

1 Luke Humphries 1343.25
2 Michael van Gerwen 1008.5
3 Michael Smith 982.25
4 Nathan Aspinall 577
5 Gerwyn Price 570.75
6 Rob Cross 514.75
7 Peter Wright 460.5
8 Dave Chisnall 440.5
9 Jonny Clayton 435
10 Damon Heta 403.25
11 Joe Cullen 388.5
12 Chris Dobey 370.5
13 Danny Noppert 370
14 Dirk van Duijvenbode 363.25
15 Dimitri Van den Bergh 360.25
16 Ross Smith 355.25
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17 Stephen Bunting 335.75
18 Andrew Gilding 323.25
19 James Wade 312.75
20 Ryan Searle 306.5


Pro tour

1 Gary Anderson 67.5
2 Ryan Searle 63.5
3 Ricardo Pietreczko 62
4 Gian van Veen 53
5 Ryan Joyce 53
6 Stephen Bunting 49.75
7 Krzysztof Ratajski 43
8 Josh Rock 40.75
9 Daryl Gurney 40
10 Andrew Gilding 37.75
11 James Wade 37.5
12 Jose de Sousa 34.5
13 Brendan Dolan 32.75
14 Callan Rydz 32.75
15 Luke Woodhouse 31.75
16 Raymond van Barneveld 30.75
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17 Kevin Doets 29.5
18 Martin Schindler 29.25
19 Gabriel Clemens 28.5
20 Mike De Decker 27
21 Cameron Menzies 25
22 Jim Williams 24.5
23 Martin Lukeman 23.5
24 Ritchie Edhouse 21.25
25 Scott Williams 21
26 Luke Littler 20.75
27 Richard Veenstra 19.5
28 Ricky Evans 19.25
29 Niels Zonneveld 19
30 Daniel Klose 17.75

[DeepFriedRat]

World Matchplay race

OOM

1 Luke Humphries 1343.25
2 Michael van Gerwen 1008.5
3 Michael Smith 982.25
4 Nathan Aspinall 577
5 Gerwyn Price 570.75
6 Rob Cross 514.75
7 Peter Wright 460.5
8 Dave Chisnall 440.5
9 Jonny Clayton 435
10 Damon Heta 403.25
11 Joe Cullen 388.5
12 Chris Dobey 370.5
13 Danny Noppert 370
14 Dirk van Duijvenbode 363.25
15 Dimitri Van den Bergh 360.25
16 Ross Smith 355.25
=============================================
17 Stephen Bunting 335.75
18 Andrew Gilding 323.25
19 James Wade 312.75
20 Ryan Searle 306.5


Pro tour

1 Gary Anderson 67.5
2 Ryan Searle 63.5
3 Ricardo Pietreczko 62
4 Gian van Veen 53
5 Ryan Joyce 53
6 Stephen Bunting 49.75
7 Krzysztof Ratajski 43
8 Josh Rock 40.75
9 Daryl Gurney 40
10 Andrew Gilding 37.75
11 James Wade 37.5
12 Jose de Sousa 34.5
13 Brendan Dolan 32.75
14 Callan Rydz 32.75
15 Luke Woodhouse 31.75
16 Raymond van Barneveld 30.75
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17 Kevin Doets 29.5
18 Martin Schindler 29.25
19 Gabriel Clemens 28.5
20 Mike De Decker 27
21 Cameron Menzies 25
22 Jim Williams 24.5
23 Martin Lukeman 23.5
24 Ritchie Edhouse 21.25
25 Scott Williams 21
26 Luke Littler 20.75
27 Richard Veenstra 19.5
28 Ricky Evans 19.25
29 Niels Zonneveld 19
30 Daniel Klose 17.75

The change of the Euro Tour rules will decimate the prospects of both Clemens and Uter.

Honestly can see both dropping out of the Sky majors very soon

[The Thorn]

Bit of a shame that. Strength in depth is steadily improving in German darts but they still don't have their hero.

[thegentle]

World Matchplay race

OOM

1 Luke Humphries 1343.25
2 Michael van Gerwen 1008.5
3 Michael Smith 982.25
4 Nathan Aspinall 577
5 Gerwyn Price 570.75
6 Rob Cross 514.75
7 Peter Wright 460.5
8 Dave Chisnall 440.5
9 Jonny Clayton 435
10 Damon Heta 403.25
11 Joe Cullen 388.5
12 Chris Dobey 370.5
13 Danny Noppert 370
14 Dirk van Duijvenbode 363.25
15 Dimitri Van den Bergh 360.25
16 Ross Smith 355.25
=============================================
17 Stephen Bunting 335.75
18 Andrew Gilding 323.25
19 James Wade 312.75
20 Ryan Searle 306.5


Pro tour

1 Gary Anderson 67.5
2 Ryan Searle 63.5
3 Ricardo Pietreczko 62
4 Gian van Veen 53
5 Ryan Joyce 53
6 Stephen Bunting 49.75
7 Krzysztof Ratajski 43
8 Josh Rock 40.75
9 Daryl Gurney 40
10 Andrew Gilding 37.75
11 James Wade 37.5
12 Jose de Sousa 34.5
13 Brendan Dolan 32.75
14 Callan Rydz 32.75
15 Luke Woodhouse 31.75
16 Raymond van Barneveld 30.75
=============================================
17 Kevin Doets 29.5
18 Martin Schindler 29.25
19 Gabriel Clemens 28.5
20 Mike De Decker 27
21 Cameron Menzies 25
22 Jim Williams 24.5
23 Martin Lukeman 23.5
24 Ritchie Edhouse 21.25
25 Scott Williams 21
26 Luke Littler 20.75
27 Richard Veenstra 19.5
28 Ricky Evans 19.25
29 Niels Zonneveld 19
30 Daniel Klose 17.75

The change of the Euro Tour rules will decimate the prospects of both Clemens and Uter.

Honestly can see both dropping out of the Sky majors very soon

Tbf how damaging is the new system to them? Weren't they seeded for most of last season? In any case, I suppose one of the upsides to the new rules is that it doesn't give anyone a leg up based on nationality, even if it does give the top 32 a leg up

[thegentle]

Would still expect to see those two make a lot of Euro Tour events as they'll be seeded in the rump qualifiers

[DeepFriedRat]

World Matchplay race

OOM

1 Luke Humphries 1343.25
2 Michael van Gerwen 1008.5
3 Michael Smith 982.25
4 Nathan Aspinall 577
5 Gerwyn Price 570.75
6 Rob Cross 514.75
7 Peter Wright 460.5
8 Dave Chisnall 440.5
9 Jonny Clayton 435
10 Damon Heta 403.25
11 Joe Cullen 388.5
12 Chris Dobey 370.5
13 Danny Noppert 370
14 Dirk van Duijvenbode 363.25
15 Dimitri Van den Bergh 360.25
16 Ross Smith 355.25
=============================================
17 Stephen Bunting 335.75
18 Andrew Gilding 323.25
19 James Wade 312.75
20 Ryan Searle 306.5


Pro tour

1 Gary Anderson 67.5
2 Ryan Searle 63.5
3 Ricardo Pietreczko 62
4 Gian van Veen 53
5 Ryan Joyce 53
6 Stephen Bunting 49.75
7 Krzysztof Ratajski 43
8 Josh Rock 40.75
9 Daryl Gurney 40
10 Andrew Gilding 37.75
11 James Wade 37.5
12 Jose de Sousa 34.5
13 Brendan Dolan 32.75
14 Callan Rydz 32.75
15 Luke Woodhouse 31.75
16 Raymond van Barneveld 30.75
=============================================
17 Kevin Doets 29.5
18 Martin Schindler 29.25
19 Gabriel Clemens 28.5
20 Mike De Decker 27
21 Cameron Menzies 25
22 Jim Williams 24.5
23 Martin Lukeman 23.5
24 Ritchie Edhouse 21.25
25 Scott Williams 21
26 Luke Littler 20.75
27 Richard Veenstra 19.5
28 Ricky Evans 19.25
29 Niels Zonneveld 19
30 Daniel Klose 17.75

The change of the Euro Tour rules will decimate the prospects of both Clemens and Uter.

Honestly can see both dropping out of the Sky majors very soon

Tbf how damaging is the new system to them? Weren't they seeded for most of last season? In any case, I suppose one of the upsides to the new rules is that it doesn't give anyone a leg up based on nationality, even if it does give the top 32 a leg up

- Clemens was given blanket invites to all German Euro Tours last year. Win one game, get 2.5k, which he was very good at.

- Schindler was seeded last year, however he isn't be now. If this year had last year's rules, he'd get the Host Nation invite this year alongside Clemens.

- No more freebies means they have to earn their place thus harder work to get back in the Matchplay places.

- Projections currently have the two in the following positions in qualification cut-offs

- ET5/6- Schindler- 10th, Clemens- 16th (just but shitting himself in case De Decker or Rydz make ET3/4 tomorrow, which would have a knock on effect for every event below this)

- ET7/8- Schindler- 12th, Clemens- 16th

- ET9/10- Schindler- 17th, Clemens- 18th

- ET11/12- Schindler- 16th, Clemens- 18th

- ET13- Clemens- 16th, Schindler- 17th

Long story short, both are cutting it really fine for automatic qualifications from ET7/8 onwards.

That said, they're very lucky that the second half of the year is very top heavy on non-German venues, meaning Clemens would've needed to go to the qualifier anyway. Schindler is worse affected imo, as automatically getting 2.5k earlier in the year would've done him better to get back in the seedings for later events.

Long long story short, both are a bit fucked imo.

[thegentle]

World Matchplay race

OOM

1 Luke Humphries 1343.25
2 Michael van Gerwen 1008.5
3 Michael Smith 982.25
4 Nathan Aspinall 577
5 Gerwyn Price 570.75
6 Rob Cross 514.75
7 Peter Wright 460.5
8 Dave Chisnall 440.5
9 Jonny Clayton 435
10 Damon Heta 403.25
11 Joe Cullen 388.5
12 Chris Dobey 370.5
13 Danny Noppert 370
14 Dirk van Duijvenbode 363.25
15 Dimitri Van den Bergh 360.25
16 Ross Smith 355.25
=============================================
17 Stephen Bunting 335.75
18 Andrew Gilding 323.25
19 James Wade 312.75
20 Ryan Searle 306.5


Pro tour

1 Gary Anderson 67.5
2 Ryan Searle 63.5
3 Ricardo Pietreczko 62
4 Gian van Veen 53
5 Ryan Joyce 53
6 Stephen Bunting 49.75
7 Krzysztof Ratajski 43
8 Josh Rock 40.75
9 Daryl Gurney 40
10 Andrew Gilding 37.75
11 James Wade 37.5
12 Jose de Sousa 34.5
13 Brendan Dolan 32.75
14 Callan Rydz 32.75
15 Luke Woodhouse 31.75
16 Raymond van Barneveld 30.75
=============================================
17 Kevin Doets 29.5
18 Martin Schindler 29.25
19 Gabriel Clemens 28.5
20 Mike De Decker 27
21 Cameron Menzies 25
22 Jim Williams 24.5
23 Martin Lukeman 23.5
24 Ritchie Edhouse 21.25
25 Scott Williams 21
26 Luke Littler 20.75
27 Richard Veenstra 19.5
28 Ricky Evans 19.25
29 Niels Zonneveld 19
30 Daniel Klose 17.75

The change of the Euro Tour rules will decimate the prospects of both Clemens and Uter.

Honestly can see both dropping out of the Sky majors very soon

Tbf how damaging is the new system to them? Weren't they seeded for most of last season? In any case, I suppose one of the upsides to the new rules is that it doesn't give anyone a leg up based on nationality, even if it does give the top 32 a leg up

- Clemens was given blanket invites to all German Euro Tours last year. Win one game, get 2.5k, which he was very good at.

- Schindler was seeded last year, however he isn't be now. If this year had last year's rules, he'd get the Host Nation invite this year alongside Clemens.

- No more freebies means they have to earn their place thus harder work to get back in the Matchplay places.

- Projections currently have the two in the following positions in qualification cut-offs

- ET5/6- Schindler- 10th, Clemens- 16th (just but shitting himself in case De Decker or Rydz make ET3/4 tomorrow, which would have a knock on effect for every event below this)

- ET7/8- Schindler- 12th, Clemens- 16th

- ET9/10- Schindler- 17th, Clemens- 18th

- ET11/12- Schindler- 16th, Clemens- 18th

- ET13- Clemens- 16th, Schindler- 17th

Long story short, both are cutting it really fine for automatic qualifications from ET7/8 onwards.

That said, they're very lucky that the second half of the year is very top heavy on non-German venues, meaning Clemens would've needed to go to the qualifier anyway. Schindler is worse affected imo, as automatically getting 2.5k earlier in the year would've done him better to get back in the seedings for later events.

Long long story short, both are a bit fucked imo.

Being seeded is probably a net benefit, but it's not the be all and end all considering you can still end up out of pocket (at least in terms of the OoM), and considering those just outside the seeds would fancy themselves to qualify and earn a guaranteed £1.25k. It's a straight bunfight now for both of them, it's gonna be close between those lot on the fringes (I'd expect Littler to make it comfortably in the end, which won't help!)

[Foggs3355]

Even tho lost early today still good start for littler

[Randall]

Even tho lost early today still good start for littler

Someone needs to tell him he isn't required to play every event

[thegentle]

Even tho lost early today still good start for littler

Someone needs to tell him he isn't required to play every event

Would be a bit presumptuous of him to start pulling out of events before he's even qualified for this, qualify for Blackpool and then put your feet up

[Randall]

Even tho lost early today still good start for littler

Someone needs to tell him he isn't required to play every event

Would be a bit presumptuous of him to start pulling out of events before he's even qualified for this, qualify for Blackpool and then put your feet up

Nothing wrong with staggering his entries
All the travel to all the events is going to take a toll

[Rogg]

Showing minimum money at the cut-off date (July 7th). https://www.pdc.tv/news/2024/03/11/race ... lowing-et1

[DeepFriedRat]

Something which I don't think has been mentioned...

Dirk van Duijvenbode is in serious danger of missing this.

- Smudger is only 1.5k behind him on the Main OOM
- Bunting is only 5k behind him on the Main OOM

If both overtake him, Bunting becomes a seed and DVD moves to the ProTour list.

DVD is currently 7k outside the spots on the ProTour list.

The only thing that will save him will be the Euro Tour. He'll absolutely be at every one of those until Blackpool and win 3 or 4 opening round games before then will make him safe.

But even having the conversation that DVD will possibly miss majors is indicative of how far he's fallen in less than a year.

[The Thorn]

DVD is a decent player be a shame to see him miss out

Although I don't like him

I'm trying to be nicer, see?

[Jimmi]

World Matchplay race

OOM

1 Luke Humphries 1343.25
2 Michael van Gerwen 1008.5
3 Michael Smith 982.25
4 Nathan Aspinall 577
5 Gerwyn Price 570.75
6 Rob Cross 514.75
7 Peter Wright 460.5
8 Dave Chisnall 440.5
9 Jonny Clayton 435
10 Damon Heta 403.25
11 Joe Cullen 388.5
12 Chris Dobey 370.5
13 Danny Noppert 370
14 Dirk van Duijvenbode 363.25
15 Dimitri Van den Bergh 360.25
16 Ross Smith 355.25
=============================================
17 Stephen Bunting 335.75
18 Andrew Gilding 323.25
19 James Wade 312.75
20 Ryan Searle 306.5


Pro tour

1 Gary Anderson 67.5
2 Ryan Searle 63.5
3 Ricardo Pietreczko 62
4 Gian van Veen 53
5 Ryan Joyce 53
6 Stephen Bunting 49.75
7 Krzysztof Ratajski 43
8 Josh Rock 40.75
9 Daryl Gurney 40
10 Andrew Gilding 37.75
11 James Wade 37.5
12 Jose de Sousa 34.5
13 Brendan Dolan 32.75
14 Callan Rydz 32.75
15 Luke Woodhouse 31.75
16 Raymond van Barneveld 30.75
=============================================
17 Kevin Doets 29.5
18 Martin Schindler 29.25
19 Gabriel Clemens 28.5
20 Mike De Decker 27
21 Cameron Menzies 25
22 Jim Williams 24.5
23 Martin Lukeman 23.5
24 Ritchie Edhouse 21.25
25 Scott Williams 21
26 Luke Littler 20.75
27 Richard Veenstra 19.5
28 Ricky Evans 19.25
29 Niels Zonneveld 19
30 Daniel Klose 17.75

The change of the Euro Tour rules will decimate the prospects of Clemens

Honestly can see both dropping out of the Sky majors very soon

He won’t be missed

[The Thorn]

World Matchplay race

OOM

1 Luke Humphries 1343.25
2 Michael van Gerwen 1008.5
3 Michael Smith 982.25
4 Nathan Aspinall 577
5 Gerwyn Price 570.75
6 Rob Cross 514.75
7 Peter Wright 460.5
8 Dave Chisnall 440.5
9 Jonny Clayton 435
10 Damon Heta 403.25
11 Joe Cullen 388.5
12 Chris Dobey 370.5
13 Danny Noppert 370
14 Dirk van Duijvenbode 363.25
15 Dimitri Van den Bergh 360.25
16 Ross Smith 355.25
=============================================
17 Stephen Bunting 335.75
18 Andrew Gilding 323.25
19 James Wade 312.75
20 Ryan Searle 306.5


Pro tour

1 Gary Anderson 67.5
2 Ryan Searle 63.5
3 Ricardo Pietreczko 62
4 Gian van Veen 53
5 Ryan Joyce 53
6 Stephen Bunting 49.75
7 Krzysztof Ratajski 43
8 Josh Rock 40.75
9 Daryl Gurney 40
10 Andrew Gilding 37.75
11 James Wade 37.5
12 Jose de Sousa 34.5
13 Brendan Dolan 32.75
14 Callan Rydz 32.75
15 Luke Woodhouse 31.75
16 Raymond van Barneveld 30.75
=============================================
17 Kevin Doets 29.5
18 Martin Schindler 29.25
19 Gabriel Clemens 28.5
20 Mike De Decker 27
21 Cameron Menzies 25
22 Jim Williams 24.5
23 Martin Lukeman 23.5
24 Ritchie Edhouse 21.25
25 Scott Williams 21
26 Luke Littler 20.75
27 Richard Veenstra 19.5
28 Ricky Evans 19.25
29 Niels Zonneveld 19
30 Daniel Klose 17.75

The change of the Euro Tour rules will decimate the prospects of Clemens

Honestly can see both dropping out of the Sky majors very soon

He won’t be missed

-1

Very talented player Gabe

[Cooking with Sanchez]

World Matchplay race

OOM

1 Luke Humphries 1343.25
2 Michael van Gerwen 1008.5
3 Michael Smith 982.25
4 Nathan Aspinall 577
5 Gerwyn Price 570.75
6 Rob Cross 514.75
7 Peter Wright 460.5
8 Dave Chisnall 440.5
9 Jonny Clayton 435
10 Damon Heta 403.25
11 Joe Cullen 388.5
12 Chris Dobey 370.5
13 Danny Noppert 370
14 Dirk van Duijvenbode 363.25
15 Dimitri Van den Bergh 360.25
16 Ross Smith 355.25
=============================================
17 Stephen Bunting 335.75
18 Andrew Gilding 323.25
19 James Wade 312.75
20 Ryan Searle 306.5


Pro tour

1 Gary Anderson 67.5
2 Ryan Searle 63.5
3 Ricardo Pietreczko 62
4 Gian van Veen 53
5 Ryan Joyce 53
6 Stephen Bunting 49.75
7 Krzysztof Ratajski 43
8 Josh Rock 40.75
9 Daryl Gurney 40
10 Andrew Gilding 37.75
11 James Wade 37.5
12 Jose de Sousa 34.5
13 Brendan Dolan 32.75
14 Callan Rydz 32.75
15 Luke Woodhouse 31.75
16 Raymond van Barneveld 30.75
=============================================
17 Kevin Doets 29.5
18 Martin Schindler 29.25
19 Gabriel Clemens 28.5
20 Mike De Decker 27
21 Cameron Menzies 25
22 Jim Williams 24.5
23 Martin Lukeman 23.5
24 Ritchie Edhouse 21.25
25 Scott Williams 21
26 Luke Littler 20.75
27 Richard Veenstra 19.5
28 Ricky Evans 19.25
29 Niels Zonneveld 19
30 Daniel Klose 17.75

The change of the Euro Tour rules will decimate the prospects of Clemens

Honestly can see both dropping out of the Sky majors very soon

He won’t be missed

+1

[The Thorn]

We need more than 1 good German player. Pikachu is not there yet and he's a prick. Others show promise but they are way off. We still have to trust Schindi and Gaga until their worthy successor emerges