Premier League champ Humphries retains top spot on the Form Guide

PDC Stats Analyst Christopher Kempf assesses the top ten PDC stars - based on their last 200 legs played - following last week's BetMGM Premier League Play-Offs and the European Darts Open in Leverkusen.

#1 Averages - Luke Humphries
#1 OChE - Luke Littler
#1 Doubles - Luke Littler
#1 171-180 - Josh Rock & Dirk van Duijvenbode
#1 99, 101+ Checkout - Steve Lennon, Luke Woodhouse & Dirk van Duijvenbode

Luke Humphries and Luke Littler have claimed every title of great significance thus far in 2025, and their positions in the Form Guide reflect the dominance the two have attained against PDC veteran players. 

Humphries' triumph in the Premier League leaves him at #1 in averages with an impressive 101.77, a figure unsurpassed by any player other than the rival with whom he shares a name, and his highest of 2025. 

Of his last 200 legs played, Humphries has won 83 in 15 darts or less, for an astonishing checkout rate of 55% relative to all his 15-darter attempts. 

Yet Humphries has not yet reclaimed the undisputed top spot in the rankings: Littler remains ahead, by a tiny margin, in OChE rating, and the teenager has recaptured the title of best finisher in the PDC. 

The difference between these two players at the moment is such that Littler would win 1 additional leg against ProTour players for every 1000 played, but both Lukes continue to distance themselves on form from all other PDC professionals.

He may have fallen in the semi-finals of the Premier League last week, but Nathan Aspinall has proven himself to be on the ascent after claiming his second European Tour title of 2025 in Leverkusen. 

No player has had a bigger increase in averages or checkout efficiency relative to mid-May, and for a player averaging just over 95, Aspinall punches above his weight when it comes to 12-dart legs (he checks out that quickly 10% of the time). 

For Aspinall, the European Darts Open title was accompanied by an unexpected flurry of 180s; the Stockport native has hit a personal high-water mark of 70 for 2025. 

Aspinall has bested five of the PDC's strongest non-Premier League players, but emerged from his Premier League campaign with only a solitary win against the two eventual finalists.

If Aspinall is to continue on his upward trajectory, he will need to urgently remedy that losing record.

Six years have passed since Daryl Gurney last won a PDC title, and a deciding-leg defeat to Stephen Bunting ended his hopes this past weekend.

However, Gurney put in one of his strongest performances to date on the European Tour in a 6-2, 107 average demolition of Gian van Veen in Saturday's second round. 

Accordingly, Gurney has broken the top 30 in the Form Guide on an increase of 2.71 in OChE rating relative to May; his is now the 16th highest doubles percentage in the PDC. 

Meanwhile, only a week has elapsed since victory for Jonny Clayton in Rosmalen, and his second consecutive strong showing on a continental stage has given him impressive stats relative to his 9th highest average. 

His 45% doubles accuracy and 17 ton-plus checkouts surpass the figures attained by the newly crowned Premier League champion Humphries. 

Stephen Bunting has had a successful year after his profile-raising semi-final finish at the World Championship, with victories on both the European Tour and the World Series.

Nevertheless, his eighth place finish in the Premier League was an anti-climactic outcome to his recent increases in income and improvements on form. 

The culprit behind Bunting's underperformance appears to be his finishing: his 33% accuracy on doubles, 104th best in the PDC, is a glaring anomaly amongst the world-class proficiency of his elite colleagues. 

With only four 99 and 101+ finishes in 200 legs, Bunting has struggled of late to close out as many legs as his scoring ought to allow. 

Bunting may be the world number four, but he will remain nearer to the bottom of the Order of Merit table than to world number one Humphries unless his finishing improves.

*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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