Thursday, 27 August 2026

Oh god, we're back already?

For whatever reason, I didn't think we were diving straight back onto the Euro Tour after the down under portion of the World Series. Nice job by Brody Klinge there looking the best he has done, and good work by Jermaine Wattimena and Luke Humphries picking up titles this week, Littler actually showing up and probably earning ten grand less than he thought he would have, but hey, it's a tough circuit. Anyway, we're back and we're at Hungary. Anyway - August 21. James Wade - bizarre interview about how people need to stop whining about the tournament schedule. August 27. James Wade - withdraws from event after draw was made. Binking a World Series got to him I guess.

Anyway, we do have sixteen games to look at, although as we have no data (or limited data) on all the non-TCH qualifiers, it's down to ten. Might have been more if they'd draw each other but the PDC is very much at we can't have nice things stage so we'll just go with these. As always, these run short-medium-long-composite in terms of data sets:

Cross/Greaves - 63/56/54/58
Edhouse/Scutt - 59/57/51/56
Springer/Kuivenhoven - 71/64/61/65
O'Connor/Price - 72/78/77/76
Schindler/Barry - 61/55/56/57
Ratajski/Rydz - 38/49/48/45
Heta/Hurrell - 77/65/61/68
Joyce/Reyes - 43/41/41/42
Cullen/Leek - 75/76/73/75
Menzies/Sykes - 55/50/53/53

Of these, I'm kind of surprised at the Ratajski line, but there is a bit of a significant consistency thing going on there. Hurrell I don't know what happened why he walked from his Pro Tour game this week, but he is at least here, other than that it's kind of where I'd have thought these would all be to some extent. Maybe Springer looking the best in short form given how well Kuivenhoven has been playing is a bit odd but the general numbers overall don't seem crazy.

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