🎯 Darts has grown from a British pub pastime into one of the fastest-growing sports on television, run at the professional level by the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC). See below for the latest darts predictions from the Algorithm.
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The professional season is built around a handful of major tournaments. The showpiece is the World Darts Championship, played over Christmas and New Year at London’s Alexandra Palace, where the winner lifts the Sid Waddell Trophy. Alongside it sit the Premier League – a weekly Thursday-night league phase that runs through the spring – plus the World Matchplay, the World Grand Prix and the Grand Slam of Darts. The leading players are ranked on the PDC Order of Merit, a rolling two-year prize-money table that decides seedings and qualification. Matches are played in the 501 format: players start on 501 and race to reduce their score to exactly zero, finishing on a double. The maximum score with three darts is 180, and the rarest feat in the game is the nine-dart finish – a perfect leg.
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Organised darts grew up in British working men’s clubs and pubs, and the game’s first governing body, the British Darts Organisation (BDO), was formed in 1973. The inaugural BDO World Championship in 1978 was won by Leighton Rees, and through the 1980s the sport produced its first television stars in Eric Bristow and Jocky Wilson.
The modern game was born out of a split. In 1993, sixteen of the world’s leading players – among them Phil Taylor, Eric Bristow and Dennis Priestley – broke away from the BDO to form the World Darts Council, later renamed the PDC. The first PDC World Championship followed in 1994, won by Priestley. The two organisations ran rival world titles for more than two decades until the BDO folded after 2020, leaving the PDC crown as the sport’s undisputed world championship.
The PDC era has been defined by extraordinary dominance. Phil “The Power” Taylor won sixteen world titles before retiring in 2018, and Michael van Gerwen carried the sport through the 2010s with three of his own. More recently, Luke Littler has driven the biggest boom in darts history — winning the world title in 2025 at just seventeen, then defending it in 2026 — while Luke Humphries, the 2024 champion, has pushed him every step of the way. The result is record television audiences and a sport reaching a bigger global audience than ever. See below for the latest darts predictions, along with football, rugby and baseball elsewhere on the site.
