Danny Noppert never seems to get the recognition he deserves for his 180 prowess but at 0.30 per leg, it’s an excellent attribute of his. Take his last match for example where he was comprehensively beaten 10-3 by Luke Littler in the Players Championship Finals, he still managed to hit 6 in that match against the Nuke.

Now he’s played Joyce twice this season and across the 2 matches he’s hit them at an even better rate. Notching up 9 maximums in 20 legs of darts, this equates to 0.45 per leg, perhaps playing against Joyce, who plays at a similar pace, really suits Danny.

Both those matches this year were close, they have a win apiece at 6-4 each which suggests this match should be in for the long haul. With 4 to 5 sets in prospect, our target of 5 or more 180’s should be readily achievable by Noppie. The evidence certainly points that way.

Crowd favourite RVB is back in action on Saturday night against Nick Kenny and you must fancy Barney to hit the most 180’s in the match.

Kenny played on Thursday night and registered 3 maximums but he wasn’t knocking them in with any regularity and you’d think he’d need to up that here.

His 180 per leg ratio of 0.22 per leg for the season is slightly lower than that of RVB at 0.24 per leg and with all the experience Raymond possesses on that big Ally Pally stage the gulf could be wider.

In his opening match last year Van Barneveld won the maximum count 4-1 vs Radek Szaganski and even in his loss to Luke Littler in Round 4, the 180 count was close. Littler winning 9-6 in that respect. Buoyed by a raucous Saturday night this darting legend can utilise that and fill the lipstick more often in this match.

A terrific game to end proceedings on Saturday night and one that’s tough to call in all aspects so it’s probably wise to focus on an individual’s performance and take Heta to hit over 4.5 180’s in the match.

Heta’s stats have always been up there in terms of maxi’s, and he boasts an excellent 0.31 per leg rate for the season, hitting 455 throughout 2024.

When it clicks for Damo, it makes it look easy. During last year’s World Championship, the Aussie hit 27 in 66 legs of darts, which is a ratio of 0.41 per leg. In those matches, he hit 7 in his opener against Martin Lukeman, 7 in his defeat to Scott Williams and a massive 13 in his match sandwiched in the middle where he beat Berry Van Peer.

To aid this selection further Scutt should be banging them in with regularity too. This should spur Heta on and if they do bounce off each other both players should hit a plethora of 180’s.