[OC] Durchschnittliche Punktzahl im Finale der Darts-Weltmeisterschaft

The PDC World Darts Championship takes place once a year since it was founded in 1994. Darts has become much more professional since then – which you can also see by looking at the played averages (average score per 3 thrown darts) in final matches. Phil Taylor dominated the sport by winning 14 World Championships until the early 2010s. At this point a lot of competitive new players have entered the stage and increased the quality of the sport even further. Who knows – in the future, the dart wonderkid Luke Littler might even break Taylor’s average record of 110.94 in the final 2009 against Raymond van Barneveld .

The data comes from [this](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDC_World_Darts_Championship) Wikipedia article. I created the graphic with R and its ggplot2 package.

Can somebody explain what happened in the years where the runner-up’s average was higher than the champion’s?