PDC Stats Analyst Christopher Kempf assesses the top ten PDC stars - based on their last 200 legs played - following last weekend's World Series of Darts Finals in Amsterdam.
#1 Averages - Stephen Bunting
#1 OChE - Stephen Bunting
#1 Doubles - Daryl Gurney
#1 171-180 - Luke Littler
#1 99, 101+ Checkout - Dirk van Duijvenbode
After nearly ten months of total Littler dominance on the Form Guide, the #1 spot belongs to Stephen Bunting, whose last 200 legs include a Players Championship 25 triumph in which the Liverpudlian averaged 103.
Bunting failed to follow on from that success in Prague or Amsterdam, but his floor exploits nonetheless leave him as the highest-averaging, most scoring-efficient player in the PDC over 200 legs, with a 102 average, 92 maxima and a 66.25 OChE rating.
2025 has been a memorable year for Bunting - the current world number four - who endured a five-year spell without a PDC title from 2016 to 2021 and struggled to break into the top 16.
Now that Bunting has claimed top spot on the Form Guide for the first time, he is well prepared to take on the four ranking TV events of the autumn - a win or a deep run in one or two of which could see Bunting ranked inside the top three for the 2025/26 World Championship.
None of the usual suspects at the top of the Form Guide made much progress in absolute terms this month: Littler, Bunting, Gerwyn Price and Josh Rock all experienced declines in their OChE rating over the past two weeks.
That allowed Michael van Gerwen to make a huge comeback as the most-improved player in the PDC thanks to his World Series Finals title.
Van Gerwen's 200-leg average is now 97.74 - and this is likely to increase even further in the coming weeks as the earliest legs in that 200-leg period drop out of consideration.
Each of his five matches en route to the title exceeded that mark, with his most impressive being a 106 average and a 10-5 demolition of world number one Luke Humphries.
Moreover, while MvG's rank of 74th in doubles accuracy leaves room for improvement, the Dutchman is now ranked fourth in the PDC for his output of 180s (82), which has surpassed Dirk van Duijvenbode and Gerwyn Price.
Even a 102 average from Luke Littler was not enough to stop Van Gerwen, and a return by MvG to the form of his glory days could spell disaster for others contending for the year's remaining titles.
Daryl Gurney has not won a singles title since 2019, but at the Flanders Darts Trophy he came closer to that goal than at any point in 2025, thanks to performances which have given him the highest doubles percentage in the PDC.
In his first four matches of that tournament before he fell 7-1 to eventual champion Luke Littler, Gurney needed a total of only 40 darts to win 24 legs.
Over his last 200 legs, Gurney has hit an estimated 45.5% of his doubles, just surpassing Gian van Veen for the #1 spot.
This clinical checkout percentage has given him an OChE rating of 55.37, well above the 54% leg-win rate against PDC ProTour opponents his average of 94.77 would suggest.
However, when his fellow countryman Josh Rock turns in 91 maxima in 200 legs, Gurney will need more than 52 to remain competitive in the long run.
2025 has been a breakout year for Dom Taylor, a Bristol man in the second year of his Tour Card who has always been in the shadow of a much more famous darts player surnamed Taylor.
Nevertheless, Taylor is on the cusp of retaining his Tour Card, and has reached heights of form well beyond those which a world ranking of 67 might indicate.
His last 200 legs have featured 19 ton-plus finishes and the 7th highest doubles percentage in the PDC.
These are world class figures, and Taylor's game is only missing the power-scoring necessary to put him in the top echelons of the game, but on form, Taylor ranks ahead of decorated veterans Peter Wright and Michael Smith.
*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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