Gary Anderson
Gerwyn Price
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The verdict
Gary Anderson leads 4 of 4 categories. Our all-time ranking places Gary Anderson at #6 and Gerwyn Price at #11.
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The case for Gary Anderson
The purest thrower of his generation and the man who ended Phil Taylor's last realistic title bid. Anderson won back-to-back PDC world championships in 2015, beating Taylor 7-6 in a final decided in the last leg, and 2016, beating Adrian Lewis 7-5. He reached six world finals in all, including two BDO finals in 2010 and 2011 before switching codes, and lost the 2017 and 2021 finals to Michael van Gerwen and Gerwyn Price respectively. He also won the 2011 Premier League among more than ten televised majors. His throw is famously effortless — a short, fast release that other professionals openly envy — and at his best he is capable of scoring bursts nobody can live with, including a run of 180s in the 2015 and 2016 championships that remade the tournament's records. Chronic back trouble and an unconcealed distaste for the travelling circuit have limited his output rather than his ability.
The case for Gerwyn Price
The first Welsh world champion and the most physically imposing presence the sport has known. A former professional rugby union and rugby league hooker who played for Cross Keys and Glasgow Warriors, Price took up darts full time in his late twenties and won the 2021 World Championship by beating Gary Anderson 7-3, becoming world number one in the process — the first Welshman to hold the ranking. He won three consecutive Grand Slam of Darts titles in 2018, 2019 and 2020, the 2020 World Grand Prix and the 2020 World Cup of Darts alongside Jonny Clayton, part of more than eight televised majors. His aggression and roaring celebrations made him the pantomime villain of the Alexandra Palace crowd, and he embraced it, at one point wearing ear defenders on stage. Beneath the theatre is a genuinely elite scorer whose transition from a contact-sport career remains unmatched in darts.