PDC Stats Analyst Christopher Kempf assesses the top ten PDC stars - based on their last 200 legs played - ahead of this week's Players Championship double-header in Rosmalen.
#1 Averages - Luke Littler
#1 OChE - Luke Littler
#1 Doubles - Gian van Veen
#1 171-180 - Luke Littler
#1 99, 101+ Checkout - Jonny Clayton
Of the top ten form players in the PDC, six were under the age of 30 at the start of the year.
These members of this new generation of players that have come of age since the retirement of Phil Taylor have already won two World Championships and nine ranking televised events.
Now that Michael van Gerwen's era of dominance appears to have come to an end, two young Dutchmen look ready to take the reins.
Gian van Veen and Wessel Nijman have recorded averages higher than 95 over their last 200 legs consistently for the past six months, and Van Veen is the number one finisher in the PDC, having hit nearly 50% of his doubles.
Both players reached the last 16 of the first two Players Championships of 2025, and only three other players did so.
Thanks to his qualification for the European Darts Trophy, Callan Rydz now has a higher leg-winning efficiency than five of the eight Premier League players.
Josh Rock, meanwhile, has reached his highest average of the past 12 months, and both players are nearer than any other Premier League player to equalling the impressive total of 92 180s registered by Luke Littler, who of course remains #1 in the Form Guide.
However, losses on the ProTour last week have brought Littler's statistics back down to earth slightly.
Elsewhere, an impressive run to the final of Players Championship 1, featuring victories against both Luke Littler and Luke Humphries, has made Joe Cullen the most improved player of February.
His performances in his most recent 200 legs caused him to jump nearly 50 places in the ranking of 128 Tour Card Holders, and relative to January, Cullen is averaging 5.7 points more and winning 12% more legs.
His probability of winning 55% of legs against average ProTour opponents augurs well for future Players Championship events.
Furthermore, having won 58% of his legs against the #1 and #2 Order of Merit players, coupled with his streak of five consecutive deciding-leg victories on the floor, this should give The Rockstar' even more confidence.
Cullen's performance in February has been such a departure from his earlier form that if he were to continue to improve at the same rate, by the end of March he would be the PDC's #1 form player.
Of the Q School class of 2025, only one first-time Tour Card Holder finds himself in the top 64 of the Form Guide: Darryl Pilgrim.
This Challenge Tour champion wasted no time in making his mark on the floor by reaching the quarter-final of his first Players Championship as a Tour Card Holder.
His 91.73 average ranks him 55th among his peers; his Tour Card will be secured if he can also translate his top-half averages, OChE and doubles accuracy into top-half Order of Merit income.
The only other Q School victor of 2025 ranked above him is Czechia's Karel Sedlacek- currently playing at a pace which will win him 52% of ProTour legs.
Nevertheless, in a qualification final for the first European Tour event of 2025, Pilgrim - courtesy of his highest Pro Tour average this year (103.50) - beat Sedlacek with a 12-dart deciding leg.
His higher Form Guide ranking will thus be a poor consolation for missing out on a trip to Belgium, but it suggests he may not be so unlucky in a future qualification fight.
*OChE (Ordinal Checkout Efficiency) explained:
OChE is a metric designed to evaluate the efficiency at which players convert their averages into legs won.
The statistic is the % of legs a player would expect to win on the ProTour, calculated from a weighted average of 4,5, 6 & 7 visit checkout rates.
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