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Gary Anderson
Gary Anderson won back-to-back PDC World Darts Championship titles in 2015 and 2016, defeating Phil Taylor in the 2015 final in what turned out to be one of the last major finals of Taylor's storied career, effectively marking a generational handover at the top of the sport. Anderson's relaxed, understated on-stage demeanor contrasted with the more theatrical personas of some rivals, and his consistency across major PDC events throughout the mid-2010s made him one of the very few players who could regularly beat both Phil Taylor and Michael van Gerwen during their overlapping primes. His 2017 World Championship final loss to van Gerwen, in a high-scoring, closely contested match widely regarded as one of the best finals in the tournament's history, cemented Anderson's reputation as a genuine championship-level threat even in defeat, given the quality of darts both players produced. Anderson's Scottish nationality and his back-to-back titles gave Scotland a level of darts prominence it had rarely enjoyed since Jocky Wilson's era decades earlier, and his sustained run near the top of the world rankings throughout the 2010s places him firmly among the sport's modern-era greats.
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Michael van Gerwen
Michael van Gerwen, nicknamed "Mighty Mike," has held the world number one ranking for more weeks than any other player in the PDC's ranking history, a level of sustained dominance across an entire era of deep competitive depth that's distinguished his career from earlier eras when fewer elite players competed at the top level simultaneously. Van Gerwen won the PDC World Championship in 2014, 2017, and 2019, and his combination of an unusually fast throwing rhythm with remarkably consistent scoring accuracy made him the player other top professionals most frequently cited as the toughest possible opponent throughout the 2010s. His three-dart average, a key statistical measure of scoring efficiency in darts, has remained among the highest ever recorded across a full season rather than just isolated matches, reflecting a level of week-to-week consistency that's arguably rarer than a single standout tournament performance. Van Gerwen's rise coincided with darts' continued commercial growth in the Netherlands specifically, where the sport has built a passionate following comparable to its traditional English base, and his dominance is credited with helping establish the Netherlands as a genuine second national power center for professional darts.
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