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 |