Darts world rankings

Darts World Rankings is a system designed to determine a list of the best darts players in the world based on their performances in tournaments. However, in 1993, a group of former world champions and other high-profile players separated from the British Darts Organisation, meaning there are now two major governing bodies.

Each organization has its own players, and each has its own ranking system. The ranking systems are used to arrange tournament seedings, which are so arranged, that the number one player in the world will not face the number two player until the final of a tournament, providing they both reach that final

PDC World Rankings[]

The Professional Darts Corporation's Ranking is based on the amount of prize money won in ranking tournaments over the past two years.

PDC Order of Merit as of 12 September 2021.^[1]

Rank	Change	Player	Earnings
1		Gerwyn Price	£1,318,000
2		Peter Wright	£1,122,750
3		Michael van Gerwen	£964,500
4		James Wade	£454,750
5		Dimitri Van den Bergh	£449,750
6		Gary Anderson	£429,250
7		Dave Chisnall	£371,250
8	1	Michael Smith	£365,000
9	1	José de Sousa	£364,500
10		Nathan Aspinall	£344,000
11		Krzysztof Ratajski	£320,500
12		Rob Cross	£320,250
13	1	Jonny Clayton	£272,750
14	1	Joe Cullen	£272,500
15	1	Daryl Gurney	£263,750
16	1	Glen Durrant	£258,000
17	1	Ian White	£249,250
18		Stephen Bunting	£244,750
19		Simon Whitlock	£226,750
20		Mervyn King	£224,500
21		Dirk van Duijvenbode	£217,000
22	1	Danny Noppert	£204,000
23	1	Chris Dobey	£195,000
24	1	Gabriel Clemens	£190,500
25	1	Devon Petersen	£190,000
26	1	Luke Humphries	£189,500
27	5	Mensur Suljović	£182,250
28		Brendan Dolan	£177,250
29		Vincent van der Voort	£171,250
30	4	Ryan Searle	£158,250
30	2	Jeffrey de Zwaan	£158,250
32	1	Adrian Lewis	£157,750

WDF World Rankings[]

The rankings are based on a cumulative points system, calculated on a rolling one-year basis. When a tournament is played, the previous year's results are removed from the rankings and the new tournament scores are used. This list is used to determine seeds for some of the WDF Opens. The World Darts Federation ranking system is designed to provide a measure of the global activities of darts players in every WDF recognized darts event. It used to be very similar to the BDO system but was revised in January 2007 to include categories by country and by events, and the distribution of ranking points reflect the levels of prize money on offer and the numbers of entries in a tournament. Players gain points in six levels of categorized events and prize money and at the end of the season the leading players receive monetary bonus rewards from the WDF.^[2]

Current points distribution[]

Points are currently awarded as follows:^[3]

Current Rankings[] WDF Men's World Rankings as of 13 December 2020.[4] Rank Change Player Points 1 3  Wayne Warren 347 2 1  Ross Montgomery 291 3 1  Jim Williams 287 4 5  Brian Raman 193 5 2  Paul Hogan 155 6 10  Chris Landman 154 7 2   142 8 5  Martin Adams 133 9 11  Steve Hine 120 10 7  Thibault Tricole 111 11 15  David Cameron 101 12 4  David Evans 100 13 6  Nick Fullwell 99 13 15  Neil Duff 99 13 7  Nick Kenny 99 16 14  Chris Lim 96 17 16  Rory Hansen 90 17 16  Matt Campbell 90 19 19  Keifer Durham 84 20 5  Richard Veenstra 82 20 7  Dave Parletti 82 WDF Women's World Rankings as of 13 December 2020.[5] Rank Change Player Points 1 1  Deta Hedman 398 2 3  Anca Zijlstra 317 3 2  Aileen de Graaf 304 4 2  Beau Greaves 292 5 2  Fallon Sherrock 291 6 2  Maria O'Brien 240 6 3  Lorraine Winstanley 240 8 6  Anastasia Dobromyslova 170 9 6  Kirsty Hutchinson 166 10  Amanda Harwood 159 11 7  Tori Kewish 135 12 3  Laura Turner 120 13 8  Darlene Van Sleeuwen 118 14 8  Marjolein Noijens 116 15 11  Paula Jacklin 112 16 10  Suzanne Smith 104 17 10  Patricia Farrell 101 18 10  Roz Bulmer 100 19 7  Priscilla Steenbergen 90 19 6  Margaret Sutton 90 19 13  Carole Herriott 90 19 13  Paula Murphy 90 Previous World Number Ones (Men's, WDF)[] The following is a list of players who ended the year ranked number one in the WDF.[6] 1976 Alan Evans 1977 John Lowe 1978 Leighton Rees 1979 John Lowe 1980 Eric Bristow 1981 Eric Bristow 1982 Jocky Wilson 1983 Eric Bristow 1984 Eric Bristow 1985 Eric Bristow 1986 John Lowe 1987 Bob Anderson 1988 John Lowe 1989 Bob Anderson 1990 Eric Bristow 1991 Phil Taylor 1992 Rod Harrington 1993 Leo Laurens 1994 Steve Beaton 1995 Richie Burnett 1996 Martin Adams 1997 Martin Adams 1998 Ronnie Baxter 1999 Raymond van Barneveld 2000 Raymond van Barneveld 2001 Mervyn King 2002 John Walton 2003 Martin Adams 2004 Raymond van Barneveld 2005 Raymond van Barneveld 2006 Martin Adams 2007 Gary Anderson 2008 Scott Waites 2009 Tony O'Shea 2010 Martin Adams[7] 2011 Scott Waites[8] 2012 Stephen Bunting[9] 2013 James Wilson[10] 2014 Alan Norris[11] 2015 Darius Labanauskas[12] 2016 Darius Labanauskas [13] 2017 Scott Mitchell[14] BDO Rankings[] The BDO Invitational Table relates only to registered playing members of the BDO, who comply with BDO and World Darts Federation (WDF) eligibility rules, including terms and conditions of the 1997 Tomlin Order. The BDO awards points depending on a player's performances within each of its events and other BDO-recognised qualifying events. Forty-nine points are awarded to the champion of each of its three Major Events - The Lakeside World Professional Championship, The Bavaria World Darts Trophy and the Winmau World Masters and A+ events. Lower points are awarded for each round of the tournament reached. Other events are placed into Category A, B, C, and D based on the prize pool and number of payouts, with points for placings slowly decreasing.[15] Only the best 12 placings are added for a player's ranking. Current points distribution[] Points are currently awarded as follows: Tournament category W F SF QF R16 R32 R64 R128 BDO Major tournaments 49 42 35 28 21 14 7 4 BDO Category A+ tournaments 49 42 35 28 21 14 7 4 BDO Category A tournaments 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 BDO Category B tournaments 24 20 16 12 8 4 BDO Category C tournaments 18 15 12 9 6 BDO Category D tournaments 14 12 10 8 6 Final Rankings[] Following a cease in tournaments due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the BDO stopped publishing rankings on 18 March 2020. The BDO having entered liquidation in September of that year, what follows are the final published rankings by the organisation. Final BDO Men's World Rankings as of 18 March 2020.[16] Rank Player Points 1  Jim Williams 381 2  Wesley Harms 357 3  Wayne Warren 329 4  Nick Kenny 307 5   306 6  Richard Veenstra 261 7  Dave Parletti 259 8  Martijn Kleermaker 253 9  David Evans 250 10  Mario Vandenbogaerde 247 11  Simon Stainton 230 12  Paul Hogan 223 13  Ryan Hogarth 213 14  Andy Hamilton 210 15  Dennie Olde Kalter 205 16  Thibault Tricole 202 17  Chris Landman 201 18  Martin Adams 198 18  Willem Mandigers 198 20  Ross Montgomery 197 BDO Women's World Rankings as of 18 March 2020.[17] Rank Player Points 1  Lisa Ashton 431 2  Beau Greaves 415 3  Fallon Sherrock 406 4  Anastasia Dobromyslova 359 5  Lorraine Winstanley 348 6  Aileen de Graaf 336 7  Mikuru Suzuki 329 8  Deta Hedman 321 9  Laura Turner 307 10  Maria O'Brien 274 11  Paula Jacklin 263 12  Corrine Hammond 255 13  Kirsty Hutchinson 249 14  Casey Gallagher 239 15  Tori Kewish 238 16  Vicky Pruim 232 17  Sharon Prins 217 18  Margaret Sutton 210 19  Priscilla Steenbergen 200 20   179 Notes and references[] ^ "PDC Order of Merit". PDC. 12 September 2021. Retrieved 12 September 2021. ^ "WDF World Rankings Systems: 2013 Monetary Awards". WDF. 4 January 2014. Retrieved 12 January 2014. ^ WDF https://www.dartswdf.com/calendar/wdf-tournament-categories-points-allocations/. Retrieved 22 October 2020. Missing or empty |title= (help) ^ "WDF Men's Rankings Table". WDF. 13 December 2020. Retrieved 13 December 2020. ^ "WDF Women's Rankings Table". WDF. 13 December 2020. Retrieved 13 December 2020. ^ WDF Roll of Honour (previous world number ones) Archived 10 July 2010 at the Wayback Machine ^ "WDF Monetary Awards: Wolfie & Deta top the 2010 rankings : World Darts Federation". Dartswdf.com. 22 December 2010. Retrieved 24 December 2015. ^ "WDF Monetary Awards: Scott & Deta Top The 2011 Rankings : World Darts Federation". Dartswdf.com. 22 December 2011. Retrieved 24 December 2015. ^ "WDF Awards 2012 : World Darts Federation". Dartswdf.com. 10 January 2013. Retrieved 24 December 2015. ^ "WDF World Rankings Systems: 2013 Monetary Awards : World Darts Federation". Dartswdf.com. 4 January 2014. Retrieved 24 December 2015. ^ "WDF World Rankings Systems: 2014 Monetary Awards : World Darts Federation". Dartswdf.com. 7 January 2015. Retrieved 24 December 2015. ^ "WDF World Rankings Systems: 2015 Monetary Awards". Dartswdf.com. 13 December 2015. Retrieved 3 January 2018. ^ "WDF World Rankings Systems 2016 – Monetary Awards". Dartswdf.com. 17 December 2016. Retrieved 3 January 2018. ^ "WDF World Rankings Systems 2017 – Monetary Awards". Dartswdf.com. 24 December 2016. Retrieved 3 January 2018. ^ "Handbook and BDO documentation: Section J - Invitation Tables Men's 2013/14" (PDF). BDO. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 January 2014. Retrieved 12 January 2014. ^ "BDO Men's Rankings Table". BDO. 18 March 2020. Retrieved 18 March 2020. ^ "BDO Women's Rankings Table". BDO. 18 March 2020. Retrieved 18 March 2020. External links[] Tables : World Darts Federation https://web.archive.org/web/20160125183750/http://www.bdodarts.com/images/bdo-content/rules/gd/BDO_Invitation_Rules.pdf