World ranking (PDC Order of Merit) is prize-money-based and can diverge
from current skill — e.g. Kevin Doets (1818 Elo) was ranked 35th while
Joe Cullen (1667 Elo) held the 32nd seed. Seeding the weaker player and
leaving the stronger one unseeded contradicts the Elo-based match model.
Seeding by Elo descending ensures the 32 strongest players (by the same
metric used to compute match probabilities) get protected bracket positions.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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