PDC Premier League of Darts

[square_ball]

Seeding based on those player championship events. The likes of Littler and Humphries barely played any of them so that's why they're not seeded.

[Truthsayer]

No touching Littler. It's not like Price or Humphries are playing badly, he's just different level. Near cert for the Worlds.
Beau up next in the youth final. Has to win to have any claim to a league place... 🎯

[Munchie]

Go on Beau

[Munchie]

So had Litter beaten Beau could he have potentially played back to back finals in one night?

[Munchie]

Like her walk on.

[Truthsayer]

It's getting boring. No-one can touch Littler. Hard to see anyone beat him in the World Championship.

[SaffronSports]

So had Litter beaten Beau could he have potentially played back to back finals in one night?

Remember them talking about this when he was at the youths. Think he could have had 3 matches in one session. Semi, youths final then final

[square_ball]

It's getting boring. No-one can touch Littler. Hard to see anyone beat him in the World Championship.

That's gonna be the problem now. He is that good no one is close to his level not even Humphries. I love watching him but it will be a bit of a problem for World Darts/Matchroom if he continues to blow everyone away with no competition over the next year or two.

[statto]

It's getting boring. No-one can touch Littler. Hard to see anyone beat him in the World Championship.

That's gonna be the problem now. He is that good no one is close to his level not even Humphries. I love watching him but it will be a bit of a problem for World Darts/Matchroom if he continues to blow everyone away with no competition over the next year or two.

MVG was playing darts on a different planet for a period as well. With Darts becoming more popular year on year, I don't expect Littler to have it his own way for say the next 10 years though he is a level above at the momemt.  As good as Taylor was he benefited from the fact that Darts was probably know as a pintman sport during his era of success, where as people can make a really good career out of it for themselves, saw Rock's earnings for the year over the weekend was over £350k and he wasn't even in the premier league. 

[thewobbler]

It's getting boring. No-one can touch Littler. Hard to see anyone beat him in the World Championship.

That's gonna be the problem now. He is that good no one is close to his level not even Humphries. I love watching him but it will be a bit of a problem for World Darts/Matchroom if he continues to blow everyone away with no competition over the next year or two.

MVG was playing darts on a different planet for a period as well. With Darts becoming more popular year on year, I don't expect Littler to have it his own way for say the next 10 years though he is a level above at the momemt.  As good as Taylor was he benefited from the fact that Darts was probably know as a pintman sport during his era of success, where as people can make a really good career out of it for themselves, saw Rock's earnings for the year over the weekend was over £350k and he wasn't even in the premier league. 

Not sure about this take.

Whether it was a "pintman" sport or not during the time, the top dozen or more were full time professionals, yet none of them could compete with Taylor unless Phil had a bad day. And even then they didn't beat him most of the time. His below-par average of high 90s was still enough most of the time.

That's the same situation which is unfolding now. A below par day for Littler is an average of 102 or 103. There's almost nobody can throw to that level over a longer format match. Humphries, MVG and Price have it in them, but they don't have the ability to go to 108-109 levels needed when Littler gets going.

Nor should they. Darts wasn't meant to be this easy.

Littler will ruin the game by being too good at at. It's not his fault. But it is wild boring knowing the outcome of any sporting contest before it begins.

[Munchie]

Don't know about that, Littler is going to become the Ronnie of darts and pick and choose his tournaments, he's already said he will think about giving Players championship a miss next year if he wins, as he did, this may be to his detriment, some great talent coming through.

[Truthsayer]

It's happened before in sports with a player or team dominating for years and it does get tedious. Steve Davis, Kerry golden years, the Dubs, Kilkenny... no-one is closing the gap to Littler. He is now winning comfortably. His finishing ensures that. Just a whole other level. I'd be very surprised if he doesn't win the World easy enough.

[Munchie]

But the quality - bull 21 bull to finish it's fantastic to watch.

[thewobbler]

But the quality - bull 21 bull to finish it's fantastic to watch.

I'd compare this to playing Texas Hold 'Em.

When you first start playing regularly, you find yourself astounded by the number of "impossible" beats on the river card.

The it becomes normal.

Then it becomes boring.

Littler is somewhere between the latter  two stages already.

[square_ball]

There are good young players coming through but they will be replacing that older cohort of players as they come to the end of the line. The standard is very high now across the top 32 but none are on the level of Littler. The only person that will beat Littler will be himself getting distracted from things outside of darts.

Feel free to quote us all this time 6 weeks when Humphries or Price win the world championships