‘So You Think You Can Dance’ Season 14 Week 9 Betting Odds

–This is the 14th season for Fox TVs ‘So You Think You Can Dance’.

–Season 14 premiered on Monday, June 12 at 8 PM Eastern with live shows beginning on August 7.

–Vanessa Hudgens will join Nigel Lythgoe and Mary Murphy as judges.

At one point, ‘So You Think You Can Dance’ was one of the serious powerhouses of reality television. That was before the digital revolution transformed network TV forever and both the reality show genre and ‘SYTYCD’ has had trouble adjusting. A better way of putting it–the digital revolution has completely obliterated the entertainment world in which the shows originally premiered. At the height of its popularity, ‘SYTYCD’ brought in 10 million viewers a week. Now it’s somewhere in the mid two million viewership and is experiencing the same problem it did last year–viewership has declined every week since the premiere and didn’t rebound at all with the first live show. The ratings and viewership have also shown no improvement whatsoever over last season. The ‘party line’ was that everyone hated the format of last year’s show featuring children between the ages of 8 and 13. That’s likely true but the bad news is that the viewers that the obnoxious brats ran off haven’t returned.

‘SYTYCD’ was life or death to return for another season and there’s no guarantee that they’ll get another reprieve to come back next year. In today’s broadcast landscape there’s nothing that is ‘a lock’ to aggregate a large mainstream audience. Most networks are happy to get a few million viewers in the same place at the same time every week and that’s precisely what reality TV delivers. Plus it’s a relatively cheap genre to produce making it all the more appealing. ‘SYTYCD’ averaged 2.94 million viewers per week in 2016 and are bringing in an average of 2.58 million this year. Fox executives obviously are demanding bigger numbers but among the major TV networks they might be the most delusional about the reality of the broadcast industry circa 2017. The problem for ‘SYTYCD’ is that while their network might be unrealistic about their potential popularity in the new digital landscape that won’t do anything to keep the show on the air. This is really a ‘make or break’ year for ‘SYTYCD’ but if their numbers continue to decline week after week their fate might be apparent long before the season ends.

Week 9 is the second live show of the season and the first on which we’re posting odds. Week 8 was a ‘reveal’ of the 10 finalists and the judges will start sending them home during Week 9. ‘So You Think You Can Dance’ Season 14 Week 9 will air on Monday, August 14 at 8 PM Eastern:

‘SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE’ (SYTYCD) SEASON 14 BETTING ODDS

TO WIN ‘SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE’ SEASON 14

Dassy Lee: +225
Taylor Sieve: +350
Lex Ishimoto: +350
Kaylee Millis: +750
Koine Iwasaki: +900
Mark Villaver: +900
Sydney Tormey: +1500
Kiki Nyemchek: +1500
Robert Green: +3500
Logan Hernandez: +3500

‘SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE’ (SYTYCD) SEASON 14 EPISODE 9 BETTING ODDS

TO BE ELIMINATED IN EPISODE 9

Sydney Tormey: +150
Kaylee Millis: +500
Dassy Lee: +750
Robert Green: +900
Kiki Nyemchek: +1150
Logan Hernandez: +1150
No One Eliminated: +1150
Taylor Sieve: +1500
Lex Ishimoto: +1500
Koine Iwasaki: +1500
Mark Villaver: +2500

TO BE IN THE BOTTOM BUT SAFE IN EPISODE 9

Kaylee Millis: +250
Dassy Lee: +425
Robert Green: +700
Sydney Tormey: +700
Logan Hernandez: +950
Taylor Sieve: +950
No One Safe: +1250
Mark Villaver: +1250
Kiki Nyemchek: +1500
Lex Ishimoto: +1500
Koine Iwasaki: +1500

WILL JUDGE VANESSA HUDGENS GIVE A STANDING OVATION?

Yes: -750
No: +600

WILL JUDGE MARY MURPHY GIVE A STANDING OVATION?

Yes: -1500
No: +750

WILL JUDGE NIGEL LYTHGOE GIVE A STANDING OVATION?

Yes: -210
No: +180

WILL VANESSA HUDGINS SAY ‘SHINE’ OR ‘SHINING’ AT ANY POINT DURING EPISODE 9?

Yes: -170
No: +150

WILL JUDGE MARY MURPHY SCREAM AT ANY POINT DURING EPISODE 9?

Yes: -210
No: +180

WILL JUDGE MARY MURPHY USE THE WORD ‘TAMALE’ AT ANY POINT DURING EPISODE 9?

Yes: -180
No: +150

WILL ANY JUDGE CRY ON CAMERA DURING A PERFORMANCE?

Yes: +210
No: -250

WILL ANY JUDGE CRITICIZE A DANCER’S COSTUME DURING EPISODE 9?

Yes: -180
No: +150

WILL IT BE MENTIONED THAT KAYLEE MILLIS TRIED OUT FOR DWTS UNDER THE NAME ‘IMPAVIDO’?

Yes: +130
No: -150

WILL ANY DANCER SAY ‘I’M TIRED’ AFTER THEIR PERFORMANCE?

Yes: -350
No: +300

WILL A DANCER SAY ‘DANCING IS MY LIFE’ AT ANY POINT DURING EPISODE 9?

Yes: -150
No: +130

WILL A DANCER SAY ‘THIS MEANS EVERYTHING TO ME’ AT ANY POINT DURING EPISODE 9?

Yes: -150
No: +130

WILL A DANCER FALL DRAMATICALLY TO THE FLOOR (INTENTIONALLY OR UNINTENTIONALLY) AT ANY POINT DURING EPISODE 9?

Yes: -130
No: +110

TV RATINGS FOR SEASON 14 EPISODE 9 OF ‘SYTYCD’?

0.7: -250
Not 0.7: +210

TV SHARE FOR SEASON 14 EPISODE 9 OF ‘SYTYCD’?

3: -250
Not 3: +210

VIEWERSHIP FOR SEASON 14 EPISODE 9 OF ‘SYTYCD’?

Over 2.55 million: +150
Under 2.55 million: -180

VIEWERSHIP FOR SEASON 14 EPISODE 9 OF ‘SYTYCD’ WILL BE HIGHER THAN WEEK 8 (2.57 million)?

Yes: +150
No: -180

About the Author: Jim Murphy

For more than 25 years, Jim Murphy has written extensively on sports betting as well as handicapping theory and practice. Jim Murphy has been quoted in media from the Wall Street Journal to REASON Magazine. Murphy worked as a radio and podcasting host broadcasting to an international audience that depended on his expertise and advice. Murphy is an odds making consultant for sports and 'non-sport novelty bets' focused on the entertainment business, politics, technology, financial markets and more.