Best male & female dancer - Statistically

isis333

17-10-2010

Which male and female celebrities are considered to be the champion of champions of SCD?

Which winners (or runners up) have received the highest overall marks?

Who do you think (regardless of statistics) are the best ever male & female dancer?

-Sid-

17-10-2010

I'm not sure points wise but my personal choices would be:

Best female - Rachel Stevens.

Amongst the men it's very difficult. I want to say Ramps but I suspect Colin might have been a better all rounder.

Tangerine_82

17-10-2010

I think Alesha has the highest score percentage but I'm not sure she still holds the record for the amount of 10s, given the overscoring of Rachel and Lisa and of course the extra judge last year.

For me personally, the best all-round female was Alesha. In fact, the best all-round celebrity. For the men, my personal favourite dancer was I think Ricky Whittle but I didn't connect to him as a personality in the way I did with Alesha. Tom Chambers was also very good but again, didn't really connect to him.

My list of top females in order:

Alesha Dixon
Jill Halfpenny
Kara Tointon (so far anyway)
Pamela Stevenson (again, so far)
Emma Bunton
Lisa Snowdon

Top males in order:

Ricky Whittle
Tom Chambers
Scott Maslen (so far)
Matt Di Angelo
Mark Ramprakash

westlifefan123

17-10-2010

Best male - Austin Healey because he was a true all rounder and he had both the technique and the performance to make me adore him!!!!
Best female - Jill Halfpenny - I loved the fact that she became so consistent on the show and her Jive is just out of this world!!

These are just my own opinions by the way from Hayley

Bonnie96

17-10-2010

I can only speak for series' 6 & 7 statistically:

Series 6

Code:

Latin

Rachel/Vincent 279/320 87.19%
Austin/Erin    204/240 85.00%
Tom/Camilla    304/360 84.44%
Lisa/Brendan   258/320 80.63%

Ballroom

Lisa/Brendan   299/320 93.44%
Rachel/Vincent 294/320 91.88%
Tom/Camilla    248/280 88.57%
Austin/Erin    210/240 87.50%

Overall

Rachel/Vincent 573/640 89.53%
Lisa/Brendan   557/640 87.03%
Tom/Camilla    552/640 86.25%
Austin/Erin    414/480 86.25%

Series 7

Code:

Latin

Ricky/Natalie  242/280 86.43%
Ali/Brian      194/240 80.92%
Zoe/James      124/160 77.50%
Jade/Ian       121/160 75.63%

Ballroom

Ricky/Natalie  295/320 92.19%
Ali/Brian      247/280 88.43%
Zoe/James       96/120 80.00%
Jade/Ian       126/160 78.75%

Charleston/Rock'n'Roll/Lindy Hop

Chris/Ola      180/200 89.80%
Ricky/Natalie  143/160 89.25%
Ali/Brian       70/80  88.25%
Laila/Anton     31/40  77.50%

Overall

Ricky/Natalie  680/760 89.47%
Ali/Brian      512/600 85.40%
Zoe/James      220/280 78.57%
Chris/Ola      587/760 77.21%

Personal preferences:
From series 6 - Austin and Tom, no question.
From series 7 - for dancing, Jade and for all round entertainment, Chris.

Smokeychan1

18-10-2010

Ooh that's interesting bonnie. I wonder who is sitting in that diamond "4th place overall" at the moment.

ilovesooty

18-10-2010

Just my opinion: not statistical:

Male: Ramps (but Darren Gough I had a soft spot for)

Female: Jill - beyond any doubt.

Kyle123

18-10-2010

I think Alesha is genuinely the closest thing to a perfect contestant Strictly is ever going to get. Of all the very best technical dancers, she pretty much is the only one to have an equally strong and likeable personality. (Even though people have turned against her these days)

I think there are some contestants who have been just as strong dancers as Alesha - perhaps even stronger, but they lack the complete package. (Im thinking Rachel, Ricky etc)

Bonnie96

18-10-2010

Originally Posted by Smokeychan1:
“Ooh that's interesting bonnie. I wonder who is sitting in that diamond "4th place overall" at the moment.”

For this series?

STATS

Code:

                        Total   Average
Pamela & James	        {98}	[32.7]
Scott & Natalie	        {95}	[31.7]
Kara & Artem =	        {93}	[31.0]
Matt & Aliona =	        {93}	[31.0]
Jimi & Flavia	        {81}	[27.0]

tabithakitten

18-10-2010

Statistically overall:

1. Alesha Dixon 91.25%
2. Ricky Whittle 90.1%
3. Rachel Stevens 89.5%
4. Zoe Ball 87.3 %
5. Lisa Snowdon 87%
6= Tom Chambers/Austin Healey 86.25%
8. Ali Bastian 85.6%
9. Emma Bunton 85%
10. Jill Halfpenny 84.3%
11. Colin Jackson 84.2%
12. Mark Ramprakash 83.75%
13= Natasha Kaplinsky/Kelly Brook 82.5%
15. Gethin Jones 82.3%
16. Matt Di Angelo 82.2%
17. Denise Lewis 81.6%
18. Louisa Lytton 79.1%
19= Darren Gough/Chris Hollins 78.1%
21. Matt Dawson 72.8%

missfrankiecat

18-10-2010

Originally Posted by tabithakitten:
“Statistically overall:

1. Alesha Dixon 91.25%
2. Ricky Whittle 90.1%
3. Rachel Stevens 89.5%
4. Zoe Ball 87.3 %
5. Lisa Snowdon 87%
6= Tom Chambers/Austin Healey 86.25%
8. Ali Bastian 85.6%
9. Emma Bunton 85%
10. Jill Halfpenny 84.3%
11. Colin Jackson 84.2%
12. Mark Ramprakash 83.75%
13= Natasha Kaplinsky/Kelly Brook 82.5%
15. Gethin Jones 82.3%
16. Matt Di Angelo 82.2%
17. Denise Lewis 81.6%
18. Louisa Lytton 79.1%
19= Darren Gough/Chris Hollins 78.1%
21. Matt Dawson 72.8%”

The problem is that the stats are based on the judges marks - and they mark inconsistently from series to series as well as having individual agendas in each series. No one could rationally argue for eg that Jill Halfpenny is the 10th worst technical dancer of that lot when she is plainly a much better dancer than say Lisa Snowden (and, I would argue all those above her save possibly Rachel Stevens).

katie_p

18-10-2010

It's interesting that Zoe Ball manages to get all the way up to fourth, given there were four series of mark inflation following her series.

TylerTango

18-10-2010

Originally Posted by tabithakitten:
“Statistically overall:

1. Alesha Dixon 91.25%
2. Ricky Whittle 90.1%
3. Rachel Stevens 89.5%
4. Zoe Ball 87.3 %
5. Lisa Snowdon 87%
6= Tom Chambers/Austin Healey 86.25%
8. Ali Bastian 85.6%
9. Emma Bunton 85%
10. Jill Halfpenny 84.3%
11. Colin Jackson 84.2%
12. Mark Ramprakash 83.75%
13= Natasha Kaplinsky/Kelly Brook 82.5%
15. Gethin Jones 82.3%
16. Matt Di Angelo 82.2%
17. Denise Lewis 81.6%
18. Louisa Lytton 79.1%
19= Darren Gough/Chris Hollins 78.1%
21. Matt Dawson 72.8%”

Where did you get 90.1% from?

, though to be fair it seems about right...

Rachel and Vincent hold the record for most 10's.
Lisa and Brendan hold the record for most 40's.

I'm not sure who has the highest overall score... but I know Rachel's top three, maybe top 2.

Personally, dancewise, my list would be:

1. Rachel Stevens
2. Alesha Dixon/Jill Halfpenny/Ricky Whittle
3. Mark Ramprakash
4. Louisa Lytton/Emma Button/Zoe Ball/Colin Jackson
5. Lisa Snowdon/Kelly Brook (Well, from what we saw...)

Loueez

18-10-2010

Originally Posted by Kyle123:
“I think Alesha is genuinely the closest thing to a perfect contestant Strictly is ever going to get. Of all the very best technical dancers, she pretty much is the only one to have an equally strong and likeable personality. (Even though people have turned against her these days)

I think there are some contestants who have been just as strong dancers as Alesha - perhaps even stronger, but they lack the complete package. (Im thinking Rachel, Ricky etc)”

Totally agree.

I would add that for me (and my lack of any technical knowledge) Jill was the best Latin dancer and Rachel was the best Ballroom dancer the show has seen, but Alesha was the best performer.

Gill P

18-10-2010

I don't know how it can be worked out because the general public vote for who they like regardless of whether they can dance. The judges' votes are also suspect.

However, I was glad that Gethin came above Matt DA!

Richwood

18-10-2010

Intereting Stats, but they don't tell the whole story.

My personal preferences (In order)

Best Dancers ever

Women

1. Jill Halfpenny
2. Zoe Ball
3. Alesha Dixon
4. Rachel Stevens
5. Louisa Lytton
6. Denise Lewis
7. Kelly Brook
8. Ali Bastian
9. Natasha Kaplinski
10. Gabby Logan

Men

1. Colin Jackson
2. Ricky Whittle
3. Tom Chambers
3. Mark Ramprakash
5. Austin Healey

Pamela Stephenson and Kara Tointon will probably join the elite troops. Matt Baker and Scott Maslen may join them.