That was the tournament that was

Those of you that saw my X posts straight after the semi finals would have seen me in disbelief at the lines for the final. Littler being available at 4/6? Really? Normally, be it either some combination of expected public money, lack of belief that the opponent can get close, or both, he's unbackable. He was 1/10 against Noppert for crying out loud (not that I thought Noppert had more than a 10% chance anyway, bue we still can't bet Littler obviously). So when I see that sort of line, and the projections have, regardless of data size, Humphries below 30% and averaging out at 25%, it becomes a case of how much money I can get on it, with the last time I've seen this sort of thing being right before Littler became world champion, and we all saw what happened there. Still, not complaining. The top two being Luke means there's not wholesale changes to the FRH rankings:

1 Luke Littler

2 Luke Humphries

3 Michael van Gerwen (UP 2)

4 Gian van Veen (UP 2)

5 Stephen Bunting (DOWN 2)

6 Jonny Clayton (DOWN 2)

7 Danny Noppert (UP 1)

8 James Wade (DOWN 1)

9 Gerwyn Price (UP 1)

10 Josh Rock (DOWN 1)

11 Chris Dobey

12 Ross Smith

13 Damon Heta

14 Martin Schindler (UP 1)

15 Nathan Aspinall (DOWN 1)

16 Jermaine Wattimena (UP 1)

17 Mike de Decker (DOWN 1)

18 Gary Anderson

19 Wessel Nijman (NEW)

20 Ryan Searle (DOWN 1)

Menzies slides out and also falls behind Luke Woodhouse who's one spot away from the top 20 for what I assume would be the first time. Michael Smith is very close to being back in the top 32, Ricky Evans is safely back in the top 50, with Lukas Wenig threatening that spot as well. Should be noted that positions 3 through 8 are all separated by less than 10,000 points, and this does not include first round money for the PC Finals, so van Gerwen will see a significant ranking drop prior to the worlds in all likelthood.

Some huge names got into the worlds this weekend. Baetens finally made it, Gawlas and Kciuk return (might even be Krzysztof's debut, not sure), Critso Reyes is back from nowhere which is great to see, and Boris Krcmar is another fantastic addition.

I'll get projections for Minehead out later this week, may only be the day before, bur before then I've got a new stupid tournament format I want to suggest, so I'll get that up.