2025 Night 15 Premier League Darts Preview

We head north to Aberdeen for this week’s instalment of PL Darts. James Punt is on the job, check out his 2025 Night 15 Premier League Darts preview below.

Night 14 Reflections

Night 14 was another exercise in PL frustration. Profit or loss depended on Chris Doby beating Bunting on the handicap. At 5-2 up it looked very likely, but he missed a dart to win 6-3 and Bunting won the next two legs to make it a -0.90 point loss and a running tally of -2.82 points. There is just two more nights to go before the playoffs, praise the Lord, and it would be nice to land a few positive results before then.

Night 15 comes from Aberdeen and for the first time in a long time, there is no Scottish player for the crowd to get behind. Instead they will have to decide who to hate. They have been a noisy and quite nasty bunch in the past.

Villain

Gerwyn Price might get some abuse as a traditional villain, and still not forgotten, or forgiven for beating Lord Gary of Anderson in the final of the 2018 Grand Slam of Darts. Luke Littler has made the mistake of goading certain crowds and if he makes some careless remark about Scotland’s football abilities, that would be enough to make him chief villain of the night.

The league is all but over. Littler, Humphries and Price are all through to the playoffs. Bunting is officially eliminated and in reality, the only important match is the opener between Michael van Gerwen and Nathan Aspinall, who sit in fourth and fifth place respectively, separated by just one point.

Michael van Gerwen vs. Nathan Aspinall

The match of the night. It is not an absolute decider but it is a crunch match. Michael van Gerwen is in poor form. He has been for quite some time but it may be getting worse.

He was the only PL player to go to the Players Championships earlier this week and, once again, he lost in the first round. That means he has lost his last four matches in a row. He looks nervous, his throw is getting worse and with a seasonal win rate of just 52%, his confidence is low.

Nathan Aspinall took the week off to prepare for this big match. I do not know what he did to prepare but it will need to have been successful to turn his form around. The Asp has lost seven of his last ten matches and his form is all over the place.

While MVG is generally scoring well and losing, The Asp is showing no consistency and it is impossible to predict what you are going to get.

Both players are in poor form, not at all confident and desperate to win this match. Their H2H record is 20-10 to MVG, but in this year’s PL it is 3-1 to Aspinall. MVG is the 1.67 favourite, Aspinall 2.30.

This match is likely to be ugly. Avoid it like the plague. No bet.

2025 Night 15 Premier League Darts Tip: No Bet

Gerwyn Price vs. Stephen Bunting

This little more than an exhibition match. Bunting has been eliminated, Price has qualified. There is positional prizemoney to consider, but I doubt either player will be that bothered.

These two have only met twice in this year’s PL and it is one win each. Overall their H2H record is 13-8 to Price. Bunting has lost seven of his last ten matches but is playing a lot better than that sounds.

Price has won six of his last ten matches but he was poor on his doubles last week and that seems to be his problem, not taking the big chances.

Both of their PL matches this year have been over 9.5 legs, as have their last six best of eleven leg matches. Both are heavy scorers and both should be able to hold throw and win legs.

2025 Night 15 Premier League Darts Tip: 1 point over 9.5 legs @ 1.91 generally available

Chris Dobey vs. Rob Cross

Both players have a mathematical chance of making the playoffs, but not a realistic chance. Effectively, they are playing for sixth and seventh place. There is £5k in prizemoney between the two places, but it is not ranking money and motivation will be hard to find here.

Dobey has lost his last four matches and five of his last ten. Cross has lost four of his last five matches and seven of his last ten. He has started to play some poor darts with three sub 90 averages in his last five.

Both players have had a lot of unders matches in the PL lately. Eleven of Dobey’s last thirteen have been under 9.5 legs, and for Cross, seven of his last ten. In something of a dead rubber, with motivation low, there may be the tendency for the player that goes behind to throw in towel early on.

Another angle is that three of their last four best of eleven leg matches have ended 6-4 to Dobey. Cross would likely need to up his game on what he has been showing recently, but Dobey is hardly in killer form either.

2025 Night 15 Premier League Darts Tip: 0.5 point Chris Dobey to win 6-4 @ 7.00 generally available

Luke Littler vs. Luke Humphries

Matches between these two should be a big event, a final of something. But this will be their seventh match in 2025 and all in the PL. It is 3-3 and they played each other in last week’s final with Humphries winning 6-5.

Littler is the 1.62 favourite, Humphries 2.43. Of their six matches so far in 2025, five have been over 9.5 legs. The only one that wasn’t was a 6-1 win for Littler in a match where Humphries was 10% on the doubles, and that doesn’t happen very often.

Over 9.5 legs is odds against, which is surprising.

2025 Night 15 Premier League Darts Tip: 1 point over 9.5 legs @ 2.10 with Betfair

-JamesPunt