PureDWTS Predictions: Professional Dancers

One of the most important aspects to the success of a celebrity on Dancing with the Stars is whom they are paired up with for their professional dance partner. The professional dance partners play an important role in that week after week, dance after dance they are the ones who have to continuously make sure that their celebrity shines in the best way possible. All while teaching them new techniques, steps, and smoothing out any flaws.

What I did is that in every season of Dancing with the Stars I have reset the placements on a normalized scale between 1 through 10. Then I averaged out the placements of each individual professional dancer over the number of seasons they have been on the show.

Below are the professional dancers that are on Season 16 of Dancing with the Stars with their placement in accordance to the other professional dancers on the current season as well as all the previous seasons that particular professional dancer has been on the show.

UPDATE: Granted since we have three new pros this time around (Gleb, Sharna, Lindsay)… they won’t be listed due to lack of data.

PROFESSIONAL DANCER No. of SEASONS SEASONS ON SHOW PLACEMENT
Derek Hough 11 5 – 11, 13 – 16 1st
Cheryl Burke 15 2 – 16 2nd
Mark Ballas 12 5 – 16 3rd
Kym Johnson 13 3 – 9, 11 – 16 5th
Karina Smirnoff 13 3 – 9, 11 – 16 6th
Tristan MacManus 4 13 – 16 8th
Tony Dovolani 15 2 – 16 11th
Valentin Chmerkovskiy 4 13 – 16 13th

Granted just showing the above just isn’t enough information, so what I will also provide is all the past placements broken down by each professional dancer (alphabetical by first name) so you could see how they have placed in the previous seasons out of how many couples.

SEASON CELEBRITY PARTNER NUMBER OF COUPLES PLACEMENT
CHERYL BURKE
Season 2 Drew Lachey 10 1st
Season 3 Emmitt Smith 11 1st
Season 4 Ian Ziering 11 4th
Season 5 Wayne Newton 12 10th
Season 6 Cristian de la Fuente 12 3rd
Season 7 Maurice Greence 13 5th
Season 8 Gilles Marini 13 2nd
Season 9 Tom DeLay 16 13th
Season 10 Chad Ochocinco 11 4th
Season 11 Rick Fox 12 6th
Season 12 Chris Jericho 11 7th
Season 13 Rob Kardashian 12 3rd
Season 14 William Levy 12 2nd
DEREK HOUGH
Season 5 Jennie Garth 12 4th
Season 6 Shannon Elizabeth 12 6th
Season 7 Brooke Burke 13 1st
Season 8 Lil Kim 13 5th
Season 9 Joanna Krupa 16 4th
Season 10 Nicole Scherzinger 11 1st
Season 11 Jennifer Grey 12 1st
Season 13 Ricki Lake 12 3rd
Season 14 Maria Menounos 12 4th
KARINA SMIRNOFF
Season 3 Mario Lopez 11 2nd
Season 4 Billy Ray Cyrus 11 5th
Season 5 Floyd Mayweather Jr 12 9th
Season 6 Mario 12 5th
Season 7 Rocco DiSpirito 13 9th
Season 8 Steve Wozniak 13 10th
Season 9 Aaron Carter 16 5th
Season 11 Mike Sorrentino 12 9th
Season 12 Ralph Macchio 11 4th
Season 13 JR Martinez 12 1st
Season 14 Gavin DeGraw 12 9th
KYM JOHNSON
Season 3 Jerry Springer 11 5th
Season 4 Joey Fatone 11 2nd
Season 5 Mark Cuban 12 8th
Season 6 Penn Jillette 12 12th
Season 7 Warren Sapp 13 2nd
Season 8 David Alan Grier 13 9th
Season 9 Donny Osmond 16 1st
Season 11 David Hasselhoff 12 12th
Season 12 Hines Ward 11 1st
Season 13 David Arquette 12 6th
Season 14 Jaleel White 12 7th
MARK BALLAS
Season 5 Sabrina Bryan 12 7th
Season 6 Kristi Yamaguchi 12 1st
Season 7 Kim Kardashian 13 11th
Season 8 Shawn Johnson 13 1st
Season 9 Melissa Joan Hart 16 9th
Season 10 Shannen Doherty 11 11th
Season 11 Bristol Palin 12 3rd
Season 12 Chelsea Kane 11 3rd
Season 13 Kristin Cavallari 12 10th
Season 14 Katherine Jenkins 12 2nd
TONY DOVOLANI
Season 2 Stacy Keibler 10 3rd
Season 3 Sara Evans 11 6th
Season 4 Leeza Gibbons 11 9th
Season 5 Jane Seymour 11 6th
Season 6 Marissa Jaret Winokur 12 4th
Season 7 Susan Lucci 13 6th
Season 8 Melissa Rycroft 13 3rd
Season 9 Kathy Ireland 16 14h
Season 10 Kate Gosselin 11 8th
Season 11 Audrina Patridge 12 7th
Season 12 Wendy Williams 11 10th
Season 13 Chynna Phillips 12 9th
Season 14 Martina Navratilova 12 12th
TRISTAN MACMANUS
Season 13 Nancy Grace 12 5th
Season 14 Gladys Knight 12 8th
VALENTIN CHMERKOVSKIY
Season 13 Elisabetta Vanalis 12 11th
Season 14 Sherri Shepherd 12 10th