Luke Humphries is leading the way in the Premier League table following 2 weeks of action but he has not been overly prolific when it comes to hitting 180s.

While a combined total of 15 maximums across his 6 matches thus far is not to be sniffed at, ‘Cool Hand’ has only managed to win the 180 battle on 1 occasion. Dig a little deeper and it can be seen that Humphries failed to land more than 2 maximums in each of his 3 matches in week 1, while he hit 3 180s in 2 of his 3 outings last week.

With that in mind, Stephen Bunting warrants support with a +0.5 start in the 180 handicap when he goes head-to-head with Humphries in Dublin this week. While ‘The Bullet’ has suffered an early exit in each of the opening 2 weeks of this year’s Premier League, he has managed to land a couple of 180s in each of those respective defeats. If the St Helens star can continue in that vein on Thursday night, then he could keep ‘Cool Hand’ at bay as far as the 180 count is concerned.

As tends to be the case in any match that he goes into, Luke Littler looks well placed to hit the most 180s when he takes on Gerwyn Price on Thursday night. ‘The Nuke’ has already crashed in a notable 17 maximums across his opening 4 appearances in this year’s Premier League. A sizeable 11 of those 180s arrived across his 3 outings last week, including 5 when pulling off an epic comeback to edge out Rob Cross in the Glasgow curtain-raiser. The other 6 maximums that the teenage sensation has scored in this year’s Premier League came against Michael van Gerwen on night 1.

While Price is also a dab-hand when it comes to delivering 180s, he has failed to hit more maximums than his opponent in each of his 3 Premier League appearances this year. In fact, ‘The Iceman’ has hit 3 180s or fewer in each of his opening 3 outings this season, and a repeat here is unlikely to be enough to ‘outmax’ serial 180-hitter Littler.

Michael van Gerwen has been hitting 180s for fun across the opening 2 weeks of this year’s Premier League, making him an appealing prospect to rack up the most maximums in his clash with Chris Dobey.

With an impressive return of 17 maximums over the opening 2 weeks of the season, the ‘Green Machine’ sits joint top of the 2025 Premier League’s 180 leaderboard. The Dutchman won the 180 battle against both Stephen Bunting and Luke Littler last week, not to mention he hit more maximums when losing to Luke Humphries at the semi-final stage on night 1.

Having unfurled no fewer than 56 maximums on his way to last month’s World Darts Championship final, van Gerwen appears to have carried his heavy-scoring momentum into this year’s Premier League.

MVG hit 8 maximums to Dobey’s 5 when the pair met at the Ally Pally at the start of last month, and the Dutch destroyer also tallied more 180s than ‘Hollywood’ in 2 of their 3 Premier League meetings back in 2023. While Dobey is no slouch himself when it comes to filling up the treble 20 bed, the 180 value lies with van Gerwen here.