PDC Stats Analyst Christopher Kempf lists the top 30 players over their last 100 legs played...
Gary Anderson, who last won a PDC title before the pandemic, unexpectedly vaulted ahead of his Premier League rivals to finish the week as the player with the #1 average over his last 100 legs played - but Players Championship 5 winner Damon Heta claimed the top spot in terms of OChE.
This reflects his stronger PC6 performance and his higher efficiency in translating high scores into legs won (Heta won an astounding 63% of his last 100 legs in 15 darts or fewer, versus Anderson's 59%).
If the pair can replicate those performances, they can expect to win two-thirds of all the legs they play on the Pro Tour.
Despite replacing most of the legs which comprised his 100 last week with results from new matches, Heta is still the runaway leader of the PDC in terms of doubles accuracy.
Over the weekend he hit a majority of his doubles in the majority of his matches, and beat the PDC stage average doubles rate in 9 out of 10 matches.
Exploding onto the scene with one of the best weekends of his career was Andrew Gilding, whose last 100 legs were indicative of an elite player's prowess - quite a surprise from a player who only briefly broke into the top 32 nearly a decade ago.
Over his last 100 legs, Gilding's 98.10 average surpasses that of the last two World Champions.
Gilding's incredible leap of 18.78 OChE points - one of the largest seen week-to-week since tracking began earlier this year - makes him the most improved player for the week, and an unexpectedly dangerous force in darts.
After multiple tough losses to start his Players Championship career, 20-year-old Josh Rock is now establishing himself as one of the elite young players in professional darts.
Rock currently holds the 8th highest average and 11th highest OChE rating, after a first professional quarterfinal appearance and two lopsided defeats of Dave Chisnall.
From his PC6 victory, Jim Williams actually saw his average decline relative to last week, but all his victories on Sunday gave a near four-point boost to his OChE rating, making him the 13th most efficient player in the PDC at translating his averages into legs won.
To illustrate that neither a huge total of 180s nor a high doubles percentage is a guarantee of success - consider the statistics of two players, Chris Dobey and Berry van Peer.
Dobey's blockbuster treble output racked up 46 visits of 171-180 - second-best in the PDC - but when coupled with one of the PDC's lowest doubles accuracy rates (below 30%), he won him just £2,000 for the weekend, and no qualification to European Tour events.
On the other hand, Van Peer is hitting 45% of his doubles, third highest in the PDC - but his 57th-highest average means that he is not getting enough opportunities to demonstrate his finishing prowess.
Neither doubles nor trebles are strictly for show or for dough; the critical thing is a balance between the two.
Next week the 100-leg slate will be rubbed clean for many players, with two more Players Championships on the calendar and more opportunities for players to claim titles in a wide-open field, and boost their stats in the process.
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