Unified World Darts Rankings
How The UWDR System Works
The DartsMad.com Unified World Darts Rankings system is the first of its kind. Using a balanced points system it combines PDC and BDO events to create a truly unified ranking table. The UWDR design ensures that all players, whichever organisation they play in, have the same number of points available to them.
Selected officially ranked tournaments from the PDC & BDO organisations are taken into account, with ranking points awarded to players based on their finishing position. Ranking points are accumulated over a rolling 24 month period with points weighted to give an emphasis to recent performances. Each players total is made up of all their weighted results over the rolling 24 month period.
Tournaments have been grouped into Gold-Silver-Bronze categories and the points allocations have been balanced to ensure that PDC & BDO players have an equal number of events and points to play for. There is a qualifying criterion for each tournament whereby a player must reach a certain round to receive any points. The exception to this is any tournament with a round robin group stage, where players are awarded points for each game won, rather than finishing position.
Gold events are the two World Championships, World Matchplay, World Masters & Grand Slam of Darts
Silver events are PDC & BDO majors not listed as Gold, and BDO Cat A tournaments
Bronze events are all PDC Pro Tour and BDO Cat B & C tournaments
Certain tournaments, where wildcards or regional qualifiers are included, have a minimum average that must be scored for a player to receive any points. This ensures an acceptable standard and that points are not awarded cheaply.
The rankings will be updated monthly on the first Monday of each month.
Tournament Name |
Min Avg |
Qualifier |
Win |
Runner Up |
SF |
QF |
L16 |
L32 |
L64 |
Group Stage |
| PDC World Champ** | 80 |
Last 64 | 160 |
96 |
64 |
32 |
16 |
8 |
4 |
0 |
| Lakeside | 0 |
Last 32 | 160 |
96 |
64 |
32 |
16 |
8 |
0 |
0 |
| World Matchplay | 0 |
Last 32 | 120 |
72 |
48 |
24 |
12 |
6 |
0 |
0 |
| World Masters | 0 |
Last 64 | 120 |
72 |
48 |
24 |
12 |
6 |
3 |
0 |
| Grand Slam Of Darts* | 0 |
Last 16 | 48 |
0 |
24 |
24 |
12 |
0 |
0 |
4 |
| World GP** | 70 |
Last 32 | 120 |
72 |
48 |
24 |
12 |
6 |
0 |
0 |
| UK Open | 0 |
Last 32 | 120 |
72 |
48 |
24 |
12 |
6 |
0 |
0 |
| European Championship & Las Vegas Desert Classic** | 80 |
Last 32 | 120 |
72 |
48 |
24 |
12 |
6 |
0 |
0 |
| German Championship | 0 |
Last 32 | 90 |
54 |
36 |
18 |
9 |
4.5 |
0 |
0 |
| US Open | 0 |
Last 32 | 90 |
54 |
36 |
18 |
9 |
4.5 |
0 |
0 |
| Players Championship Finals | 0 |
Last 32 | 120 |
72 |
48 |
24 |
12 |
6 |
0 |
0 |
| Zuiderduin Masters* | 0 |
QF | 48 |
0 |
24 |
24 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
12 |
| World Cup | 0 |
Last 32 | 120 |
72 |
48 |
24 |
12 |
6 |
0 |
0 |
| Europe Cup | 0 |
Last 32 | 120 |
72 |
48 |
24 |
12 |
6 |
0 |
0 |
| BDO Cat A | 0 |
Last 32 | 90 |
54 |
36 |
18 |
9 |
4.5 |
0 |
0 |
| PDC Pro Tour (Europe) | 0 |
Last 16 | 20 |
12 |
8 |
4 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| PDC Pro Tour (Worldwide) | 0 |
Last 16 | 15 |
9 |
6 |
3 |
1.5 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| BDO Cat B | 0 |
Last 16 | 60 |
36 |
24 |
12 |
6 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| BDO Cat C | 0 |
Last 16 | 45 |
27 |
18 |
9 |
4.5 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
* Tournaments with a round robin group stage award points for games won.
** Players must achieve a minimum average in their first game to receive any points
Average Bonuses
All Gold events carry additional bonuses for achieving an average score in a match as per the following table:
| Tournament | Round | 105 |
100 |
95 |
90 |
| PDC World Championship | Final | 64 |
48 |
32 |
16 |
| PDC World Championship | Semi Final | 32 |
24 |
16 |
8 |
| PDC World Championship | Quarter Final | 32 |
24 |
16 |
8 |
| PDC World Championship | Last 16 | 32 |
24 |
16 |
8 |
| Lakeside | Final | 64 |
48 |
32 |
16 |
| Lakeside | Semi Final | 32 |
24 |
16 |
8 |
| Lakeside | Quarter Final | 32 |
24 |
16 |
8 |
| Lakeside | Last 16 | 32 |
24 |
16 |
8 |
| World Matchplay | Final | 48 |
36 |
24 |
12 |
| World Matchplay | Semi Final | 24 |
18 |
12 |
6 |
| World Matchplay | Quarter Final | 24 |
18 |
12 |
6 |
| World Matchplay | Last 16 | 24 |
18 |
12 |
6 |
| World Masters | Final | 48 |
36 |
24 |
12 |
| World Masters | Semi Final | 24 |
18 |
12 |
6 |
| World Masters | Quarter Final | 24 |
18 |
12 |
6 |
| World Masters | Last 16 | 24 |
18 |
12 |
6 |
| Grand Slam of Darts | Final | 48 |
36 |
24 |
12 |
| Grand Slam of Darts | Semi Final | 24 |
18 |
12 |
6 |
| Grand Slam of Darts | Quarter Final | 24 |
18 |
12 |
6 |
| Grand Slam of Darts | Last 16 | 24 |
18 |
12 |
6 |
Vision
We believe the sport of darts would benefit from a truly unified ranking system that is fair and equal to all players of all codes. We hope that this will be a small step in unifying darts and moving to one truly Unified World Darts Ranking. At the very least it should provide for plenty of discussion on the forums!
Acknowledgments
A big thanks has to go to Gareth Davies who has helped enormously with the system - the testing, the endless tweaking and the hard work of developing a simple, easy to understand and effective UWDR system. Without Gareth's enthusiasm this project would never have got off the ground.
