Darts world rankings

Darts world rankings are a system which should determine a list of the best dart players in the world based on their performances in tournaments. However, after a group of former world champions and other high-profile players separated from the British Darts Organisation in 1993 - there are now two major governing bodies.

Each organisation has its own players, and each has its own ranking system. The ranking systems are used to arrange tournament seedings, which will mean that the number one player in the world should not face the number two player in the world until the final of a tournament (providing they reach that far).

PDC World Rankings

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

BDO / WDF 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 player's performances within each of its events. Twenty-seven points are awarded to the champion of each its three Grand Slam Events - The Lakeside World Professional Championship, The Bavaria World Darts Trophy and the Winmau World Masters. Lower points are awarded for each round of the tournament reached. Other events are placed into Category A, B and C based on the prize-pool and number of payouts, with points for placings slowly decreasing.^[1] Only the best 10 placings are added for the players ranking.

The World Darts Federation also have a ranking system designed to provide a measure of the global activities of darts players in every WDF recognised 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.

The BDO Invitational rankings sees the points wiped after the seedings for the World Championship are decided, whereas the WDF rankings are based on the last 12 months performance. Therefore the WDF World Rankings give a better reflection on BDO player rankings.

BDO

WDF

The leading players at the end of the year receive monetary rewards from the WDF.^[2]

Men Rank Player Points 75 James Wilson 1024 2 Scott Waites 908 3 James Wilson 705 4 Wesley Harms 654 5 Martin Atkins 602 6 Klein Padrigon 551 7 Madars Razma 544 8 Geert De Vos 516 9 Glen Durrant 495 10 Jan Dekker 475 11 Robbie Green 462 12 Tony O'Shea 461 13 Tony Eccles 445 14 Jim Williams 445 15 Ross Montgomery 404 16 Martin Adams 393 Updated 22 August 2013 The WDF Rankings are done on a rolling one year basis. When a tournament is played, the previous years results are removed from the rankings. This list is used to determine seeds for some of the WDF Opens.

Women Top 8 Rankings as of 8 February 2012[3] Rank Player Points 1 Deta Hedman 1698 2 Anastasia Dobromyslova 1166 3 Lorraine Farlam 1106 4 Irina Armstrong 1069 5 Julie Gore 836 6 Cindy Pardy 794 7 Trina Gulliver 668 8 Aileen de Graaf 652

Previous World Number Ones (Men's, WDF)

The following is a list of players who ended the year ranked number one in the WDF.^[4]

Notes and references

External links

• Tables : World Darts Federation
• Current PDC World Rankings - Order Of Merit
• How BDO Rankings are calculated