What has been a really good week of Icons of Darts brought to us by the Modus Darts team ends on Saturday when the second pool of players take to their home oches for the third and last time for the week.
This pool has been dominated by one man and just like last week all eyes will be on a former Lakeside champion to see if he can complete the clean sweep of group successes. This is the most competitive bunch we’ve seen so far so we should be in for another decent day of darts.
The Format
Each day from Monday to Saturday six players will battle it out for a daily title. There are two pools of players, one which plays on Monday, Wednesday and Friday and the other which toe the oche on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Each day the six players will play each other once over the best of nine legs with two points for a win. The daily winner is the player with the most points. If players are level on points it is determined on leg difference and then the record between the two. The entire event can be watched on various bookmaker websites, dartshop.tv or the Modus YouTube channel.
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Friday Recap
I said it would be one of the biggest shocks we would have seen in the Modus leagues if one of the main three didn’t win on Friday and that was exactly what we got, as Fallon Sherrock put that ridiculous online abuse behind her to win four of her five matches and top the table on leg difference from Boris Koltsov. Those two were well clear of the rest with David Evans, Scott Marsh and Martin Adams ending their week with a couple of wins. There was one win for Dave Parletti to round off his first week in the event.
It wasn’t such a good day for us betting wise. We thought that Sherrock might struggle after the abuse she received, but like a true professional she let her darts do the talking right from the start of the day, which meant that she was far too good for Scott Marsh, when we wanted the soft tip expert to come out on top in that match. That put a halt to a bit of form that we were beginning to build up.
Saturday Line Up
Scott Mitchell is the man who is going for a clean sweep of group wins on Saturday. Indeed he isn’t just looking for three out of three in the groups, he could yet sweep the whole board and win 15 out of 15 matches as he has won all 10 he has played so far. When you consider the quality and competitiveness of some in this group that is insane. On both days to date Paul Nicholson has followed him home the closest. He will be in the field looking to go one better than he has done all week.
Mark Webster has won a group title on a Saturday before and he’ll be looking to do that again here. His finishing needs to be up to scratch if that is going to happen. Andy Jenkins has twice got off to a wonderful start in the group but has faded fast so he’ll be hoping to see it out better here. Stephen Burton shouldn’t be written off but it is asking a lot for John Brown to go from one win all week to winning the group on Saturday.
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Outright Betting
I feel like I should be taking Scott Mitchell on at around the 5/4 mark but it isn’t as easy to do as it sounds. We’re not talking about a player who has just won a couple of groups this week. He has won every match he has played and if that wasn’t enough he has only been taken to a deciding leg once in that time too. It is still a huge ask to continue to dominate but we might have to accept that given how dominant he has been that it is possible.
If I was going to take Mitchell on I would do it with Paul Nicholson but at 11/2 he is probably only fairly priced it has to be said, and I’m not sure he has enough of an edge on everyone else as I would like. It might be a day that Andy Jenkins and Mark Webster come good but they are too short for me. I may well regret not taking Mitchell on but at the same time I can’t find anyone I’m comfortable at doing it with so I’ll sit the group out again.
Match Betting
I will take Paul Nicholson in the match betting though. I’ve taken him to beat Mark Webster all week and twice he has done it successfully in their two meetings. I’m still not getting why Webster remains a favourite to win this match. It isn’t like he’s been unlucky against Nicholson or got close to him because he hasn’t. He lost 5-2 on Tuesday and 5-1 on Thursday. What is more worrying for Webster is that cumulatively Nicholson hasn’t even checked out at 25% in those matches.
The first match of the week their averages were similar but Nicholson missed a boat load of doubles in that game, but ‘The Asset’ had nine points on his Welsh opponent on Thursday, where again he wasn’t exactly crisp on his doubles. You would think there is going to be a match where Nico pins the doubles bang on and based on the week so far, if that is here it is hard to see how Webster wins. To be honest it is hard to see that anyway, as their record both this week and in the past suggests. Nicholson should not be the outsider here but I’ll happily snap up the even money.
Tips
Back P.Nicholson to beat M.Webster for a 3/10 stake at 2.00 with William Hill
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