Been doing a lot of stat crunching (I have no life) and I thought it might be of interest to people to see some stats on the dances coming up tomorrow. If people like the idea, I'll happily do it before every show.

The scores are only for the regular series and do not include Christmas or Sports Relief Specials. For the sake of my typing fingers I've only listed the celebs.

The number with the hyphen is the series and week. For example 4-2 is series four week two. F stands for final.

Finally, these are my own stats so if you see any errors please let me know.

Quickstep

Number of times danced : 39

Average Score : 29.44

Dancers closest to average

Julian Clary 2-F
James Martin 3-2
Will Thorp 3-2
Gabby Logan 3-2 (all scored 29).

Top Male Scores

Colin Jackson 39 3-F
Colin Jackson 36 3-2
Matt Dawson 36 4-F
Matt Di Angelo 35 5-F

Top Female Scores

Denise Lewis 38 2-F
Alesha Dixon 38 5-11
Natasha Kaplinski 36 1-F
Zoe Ball 36 3-6

Lowest Scores

Diarmuid Gavin 12 2-2
Kate Garraway 15 5-2
Dennis Taylor 18 3-2
David Dickinson 21 1-2
Bill Turnbull 23 3-2
Chris Parker 23 1-2


Rumba

Number of times danced : 36

Average Score : 25.00

Dancers closest to average :

Claire Sweeney 1-2
Patsy Palmer 3-2 (both 26)

Top Male Scores

Colin Jackson 36 3-F
Colin Jackson 36 3-8
Matt Di Angelo 33 5-9
Gethin Jones 31 5-7

Top Female Scores

Emma Bunton 34 5-2
Kelly Brook 33 5-2
Jill Halfpenny 32 2-2
Denise Lewis 32 2-2
Zoe Ball 32 3-2

Lowest Scores

Fiona Phillips 13 3-2
Georgina Bouzova 14 4-2
Esther Rantzen 16 2-2
Chris Parker 16 1-7
Bill Turnbull 17 3-6
Gloria Hunniford 17 3-2


Let me know if these interest anyone.

Oh absolutely.....I love stats......thanks for doing this.....

It interests me! So the rumba has only been chosen for the final once, and never for a female contestant? I'm only saying that on the basis that the final scores are usually amongst the highest. Can't say I'm complaining; I'd count it as my least favourite dance.

Thank you for that Quizmike its really interesting .

Great thread, but OH MY GOD, I can't believe Bunton's is the highest scoring female Rumba! Kelly's was far superior!

Correct

Hi QM,

I'm so bad at these things that I'm scared of questioning the stats but ...

Are you sure about Emma Bunton's rumba? I thought that she was series 4! Didn't she compete against Louisa rather than Alesha and Kelly?

Fantastic thread, I'd love to see the stats before each show if you do have time

I wonder if Emma just managed to be the top female Rumba because she did hers later in her series than the others in that list- I'm pretty sure she did Quickstep in week two?

I also thought she did hers later in the series but I'm sure that the Stat King will be back soon to confirm one way or another.

I thought Emma was overmarked and definitely prefer K&B's rumba but I often disagree with the judges.
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The info about Emma is not correct. She wasn't in series 5, so that makes me doubt, how accurate the Rumba details are, also although it was week 2 of Strictly, it was Kelly's first dance as the boy & girl celebs were split, for the first 2 weeks

Thanks Quizmike. This is interesting. I look forward to seeing other dances.

Being a bit geek-like about my numbers I'm pretty sure the others are correct

As I recall Emma performed her Rumba in series four, week ten.

Excellent! We have a Stat Queen as well!!!

I can't compare to QM I'm afraid! I think I just loved series four so much that I can remember huge chunks of it in a slightly worrying way...

That's really interesting QM thanks.

Thanks for the feedback...obviously Emma was in series four. Typo time!

Emma did indeed do the Quickstep in week two of series four (I know ). She scored 33 which is the 15th best score at the QS. However as the QS was traditionally danced first in week two, Emma has the second best week two QS. Colin Jackson got 36 in 3-2.

Emma's Rumba stats should read 4-10

Professional dancers stats for this weeks dances...

Quickstep

Darren 31.66 (3 dances)
Matt 31.5 (2 dances)
Vincent 26 (2 dances)
Brain - No previous dance

Rumba

Ian 28 (3 dances)
Brendan 22.5 (4 dances)
James 14 (1 dance)

Cherie just went to the top of the girls leader board but Tess forgot Colin when she said it was the highest score.

James' average has jumped after tonight!

Here's the stats for this weeks dances...

American Smooth

Number of times danced : 20

Average Score : 32.05

Highest Score (Men)

Gethin Jones 38 5-10
Colin Jackson 37 3-8
Matt Di Angelo 34 5-F
Matt Di Angelo 34 5-4


Highest Score (Ladies)

Zoe Ball 36 3-8
Emma Bunton 34 3-8
Kelly Brook 34 5-4
Alesha Dixon 33 5-4

Lowest Scores

John Barnes 22 5-4
Dominic Littlewood 26 5-4
Carole Smillie 27 4-6
James Martin 28 3-8
Kenny Logan 30 5-8

Professional Averages

Ian 36 (1 dance)
Brendan 33 (2 dances)
Camilla 33 (2 dances)
Lilia 30.66 (3 dances)
Ola 30 (1 dance)
James - Not yet danced


Samba

Number of times danced : 40

Average Score : 28.50

Highest Scores (Men)

Mark Ramprakash 36 4-F
Mark Ramprakash 36 4-9
Colin Jackson 32 3-5
Matt Dawson 32 4-10

Highest Scores (Ladies)

Zoe Ball 38 3-F
Natasha Kaplinsky 37 1-5
Emma Bunton 36 4-6
Alesha Dixon 36 5-9

Note : Ten of the top twelve samba dances have been performed by female celebs!

Lowest Scores

Chris Parker 15 1-5
Kate Garraway 16 5-4
Kenny Logan 18 5-4
Peter Schmeichel 19 4-6
James Martin 20 3-8

Note : Eight of the worst ten sambas have been been performed by male celebrities!!

Professional Averages

Matt 35 (2 dances)
Vincent 32 (1 dance)
Erin 24 (5 dances)
Hayley, Kristina and Brian - Yet to dance

In case you're wondering, Erin has danced the samba with Colin Jackson, Julian Clary (twice), Martin Offiah and Peter Schmeichel.

In conclusion, the lowest score this week should be a samba danced by a bloke and the highest should be a smooth danced by a man or a samba danced by a woman.

As always, let me know if you spot any errors/typos

What I found most interesting about these stats is that the scores in previous series are much higher than I expected relative to last year.

Love the stats, please keep'm coming.

Correction

Matt Di Angelo scored 36 in both of his Smooths and not 34 (bad copy and paste). This does not affect any of the averages.