The Modus Online Live League moves into its third day of the opening week on Wednesday with the six players toeing the oche in the custom built studio beginning to get up to speed and ready to deliver some decent darts while we are all confined in lockdown.
The quality has been up and down over the first couple of days. That is understandable as players adjust to the new format and the different conditions and things like that. We should expect the quality to rise now.
The Format
We don’t know the full extent of the format yet. What we do know is that six players will toe the oche each day and play each other over the best of seven legs and go towards a league table. There is talk on the bigger darts forums that there will be a final of some sort each week but information for this event is a little light in forthcoming at the minute so we’ll have to play it by ear so to speak. The other thing we know is this event can be streamed with the major bookmaker sites or on the Online Darts YouTube channel.
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— MODUS Sports (@ModusDarts180) March 16, 2021
Tuesday Recap
It was a second successive winning day for Arron Monk. After going through the card on Monday he followed that up with four more wins on Tuesday, his sole defeat coming to Martin Adams in his last game when he had already sewn up the daily title. Adams was one of three players who all recorded three wins on the day with Justin Smith and Jarred Cole also achieving that fate. Andy Jenkins added two wins to his total for the week but it was a bit of a day to forget for Richard North who couldn’t win a single match and only won three legs all day.
It was another bad day for us betting wise as Andy Jenkins chose the wrong time to deliver a pathetic performance. We wanted him to beat Justin Smith and even though the Welsh youngster could only average 75.3 he still had too much for Jenkins in a 4-2 win in one of the poorer quality matches we’ll hopefully see in this competition. It leaves us with work to do for Wednesday and the remainder of the week.
Wednesday Fixtures
Martin Adams v Andy Jenkins
Arron Monk v Martin Adams
Andy Jenkins v Arron Monk
Jarred Cole v Martin Adams
Justin Smith v Andy Jenkins
Richard North v Arron Monk
Martin Adams v Justin Smith
Andy Jenkins v Richard North
Arron Monk v Jarred Cole
Richard North v Martin Adams
Jarred Cole v Andy Jenkins
Justin Smith v Arron Monk
Jarred Cole v Richard North
Justin Smith v Jarred Cole
Richard North v Justin Smith
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Group Betting
We’re getting more of a grasp on what the groups entail and a little bit more is coming to light about what winning them means with regards to the rest of the week. The problem we now have with this group is that two men are clear standouts in it and it might be that the match between Martin Adams and Arron Monk is what settles the outcome of the group. Bookmakers are all over that though and there isn’t a huge amount of value to be had so I’ll my powder dry as far as the group betting is concerned.
Match Betting
I will go with one in the match betting department though where I think the 10/11 on Arron Monk covering a 1.5 leg handicap in his match against Jarred Cole looks like a good thing. I say that for a few reasons. Clearly Monk is the better player of the two. It might be that neither have their tour card at present but Monk is a former World Youth champion which is levels above anything Cole has done in the game to date, as much as I quite like Cole as a player.
The other reason I like Monk here is because he has covered this line against Cole on both their meetings this week and Cole has averaged over 90 on both occasions. He has only averaged over 90 in one of his other eight matches so he seems to raise his game to take on Monk but it still hasn’t done him any good. Eventually you think he will move closer to his mean average against Monk and that doesn’t look like being enough. Monk has eight average over 90 in 10 matches this week so we can assume he’ll be around or above 90 for the average. Given that he throws first in this match that level should be enough to win this no worse than 4-2.
Tips
Back A.Monk (-1.5 legs) to beat J.Cole for a 3/10 stake at 1.91 with BetVictor
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