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Did You Know? Six Fab-u-lous Facts from the Strictly 2022 Final!
18 December 2022We hope you’ve enjoyed sharing the exhilarating 13-week 2022 Strictly journey here with us at strictlydb.com – for us, it’s been a brilliant starting series for our labour-of-love project and we look forward to many more to come, so a big thank you to all our users. We couldn’t leave this Series without highlighting some of the most significant moments from last night’s fantastic Final – so here are 6 fabulous facts worthy of note.
Champions Leaderboard – Who has been the best Strictly Come Dancing Champion to date?
17 December 2022Who is the greatest Strictly Come Dancing Champion of all time? We took a look at the data and created a Champions Leaderboard to see if it would reveal the answer…
Which Strictly Come Dancing routines are the REAL danger dances?
10 December 2022We’ve all heard about the ‘curse of the Rumba’ or the ‘challenge of the Cha Cha Cha’ but are these really the dances that spell danger for couples? We’ve analysed the data to find out… one dance definitely tops the danger list but it might not be the one you expect…
Dancing Queen: The Best Female Pros on Strictly
27 November 2022We crunch the numbers to find out which Female Pro (or Pros) has the greatest number of perfect scores, as well as high scores, and so deserves to be crowned Strictly’s very own Dancing Queen.
Do Strictly Scores get a Blackpool Boost?
17 November 2022It’s Blackpool Week and we’re all looking forward to a sensational return. But does dancing at the iconic Tower Ballroom put an extra spring in the steps of our couples? Do they perform better in the home of ballroom than a BBC studio? We took a look at the numbers to find out…
Never Judge a Judge by their Paddle – Analysing the Scoring Behaviour of the Strictly Judges
12 November 2022I think we all know the lowest scoring judge (!) but what else do the numbers tell us about scoring behaviour?
Bublé and Ballroom: A Match Made in Strictly Heaven?
4 November 2022Michael Bublé is the second most popular artist in terms of musical selection on Strictly Come Dancing. But how do Bublé backed dances score when compared with the rest? We take a look in this blog…
Can past Strictly Halloween dance stats foretell the future?
28 October 2022The answer is ‘Probably not’ but for a little bit of fiendish fun, we’ve checked how past performances of this week’s Halloween dances have scored with the judges in previous spooky specials.
StrictlyDB’s ‘Halloween Hall of Fame’
25 October 2022Saturday night brings the twelfth Halloween Week Special to the Strictly ballroom. In preparation, join with us in celebrating past frightening favourites with our Halloween Hall of Fame.
Could we see the one thousandth ten on the BBC 100 show?
19 October 2022We were sent a brilliant message this week by fellow “Strictly Statistician” James. He pointed out that after last Saturday’s show, the perfect 10 paddle had been awarded 992 times. This means we’re only eight away from seeing the 1000th being awarded!