ET9 round one

So now we head to Slovenia, where Pratnemer didn't read the rules, and didn't enter his home nation qualifier, made it anyway, so we've got five home players in the draw. 71, 77, 73, 77, 76, 85, 77, 68, 79, 72, 69, 71, 72, 67, 72, 76, 62, 72. That's the averages from the players in the HNQ that actually made it. Of course there's going to be some level of drag factor but holy shit this could be even worse than those early Hungary Euro Tours in terms of quality, I'd bet the farm on under 10 legs won by the qualifiers, and if they got five that'd be a pretty huge achievement, no combination of who they could play would be remotely easy given the PDC riggage of the draws, but Cross, Menzies, Chisnall and Zonneveld is pretty tough regardless. At least in terms of other randoms, we know Kelemen but he has insufficient data throughout, while Engstrom only has long data, so we've got ten games to have a look at in full.

Hood/Pratnemer - 79/78/74/77

Sedlacek/Thorpe - 62/58/59/60

Gilding/King - 56/59/59/58

Doets/Bates - 71/70/69/70

O'Connor/de Graaf - 48/50/51/50

Joyce/Engstrom - 66

van Duijvenbode/Razma - 76/70/72/73

Huybrechts/Barry - 65/66/63/65

Gurney/Long - 78/63/66/69

Springer/Sykes - 44/47/45/45

Ratajski/Reyes - 58/60/53/57

Some notes. Thorpe does seem legitimately that close, as does Gilding. Long being that big a dog on that short sample seems odd but the numbers say he is just that bad. Sykes has a pretty significant consistency issue, but at the same time, Springer's is as well and the overall numbers are close to identical. Then you have Ratajski/Reyes, which is equal parts fun and disgusting for a first round match. Also big props for when you host a Euro Tour in a country for the first time, and put their best player (and you can stick an ever in that sentence as well) on first in the afternoon. Seriously, the PDC need to get fucked at times.