After completing 41 of the scheduled 42 fixtures the title in the Winmau Thursday Night Champions League is going down to the wire as Mick Baker, champion for the past two seasons and Sam Guest are tied on 226 points and have exactly the same average. On paper Baker has the easier of the two games as his remaining game is against ninth in the table Chris Fox while Guest will take on Chris Williams who is currently fourth but could mathematically take third place as he has two games in hand on Louis Burley who is currently third but has completed his programme and with 221 points is ten ahead of Williams, however Williams has the opportunity of adding a maximum of 14 points with his games in hand. So the questions remaining are can Baker make a hat trick of wins and can Williams steal third place?

P W L F A Pts
Mick Baker 41 37 4 226 61 226
Sam Guest 41 37 4 226 61 226
Louis Burley 42 35 7 221 73 221
Chris Williams 40 33 7 211 69 211
Chris Manoila 40 32 8 191 89 191
Paul Boddison 42 27 15 190 104 190
Adam Quinton 40 27 13 186 94 186
Mark Bayliss 40 23 17 167 113 167
Chris Fox 39 23 16 158 115 158
Devinder Singh 38 23 15 157 109 157
Martin East 39 21 18 149 124 149
Craig Capewell 39 22 17 144 129 144
Sam Aitkens 38 20 19 134 139 134
Liam Baker 38 18 20 130 136 130
Rob Harris 36 10 26 107 145 107
Rob Montana 42 14 28 106 188 106
Baz Pearce 36 11 25 90 162 90
Shane Watters 39 4 35 73 200 73
Charlie Burley 39 5 34 58 215 58
Lisa Maiden 39 4 35 52 221 52
John Porter 42 3 39 32 262 32
John Edwards 37 4 33 32 227 32

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2017-06-14