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…
Things can only get better… (and they did!)
31 October 2022After Tony and Katya quickstepped to an improved score by 12 points on Saturday, it’s true that everyone loves to see a Strictly partnership who improve on their score from the previous week, but which dances have seen the largest weekly improvements in the history of the show?
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!
The ones where Craig gave a 10 (and other judges didn’t!)
18 October 2022It’s hard to believe that there have been occasions when a dance was given a 10 by Craig but NOT by one of the other judges. Well it’s happened – and more than once….
How to filter on individual judge score
15 October 2022Ever wanted to know how many ones Craig has given? How about “never too early tens” from Shirley? Well now you can find out with our latest filter on StrictlyDB – the ‘Judges individual score’. This blog shows you how it works…
After Richie and Giovanni’s early exit from the competition last weekend, we thought it would be fun to look over the stats to see which Professional Male dancer overall has had the most Strictly success to date.
Tyler and Diane’s Charleston topped the Judges’ scores last night but looking at the data perhaps this isn’t too surprising – Charleston is the second highest scoring dance in Strictly history topped only by Final Week Showdances!
All time ‘Movie Week Leaderboard’ – Can you guess the best?
5 October 2022Can you guess which dance has seen the most Movie Week success to date? It’s Movie Week – so in anticipation of some fab dances this Saturday we’ve collected the highest scoring movie themed performances Strictly has seen into our own Movie dance leaderboard.