Eesti 151 Posted December 31, 2020 In DDP 2020 I think I am going to finish 14th. My best is 12th from DDP 2016. So in order to improve, I think I spent 6-8 hours per day during the last 4 days, to make my team finally top 10 worthy. Oldest guy in my team is 78. So it will be my youngest team ever with average age of 58,75 years! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
En Passant 3,740 Posted December 31, 2020 2 minutes ago, Eesti said: I think I spent 6-8 hours per day during the last 4 days, I think I spent 6-8 minutes per day during the last 1 days. But it's my first entry and I'll have a yardstick for next year. Might have helped had I read the points scoring system. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
maryportfuncity 10,639 Posted December 31, 2020 14 minutes ago, Eesti said: In DDP 2020 I think I am going to finish 14th. My best is 12th from DDP 2016. So in order to improve, I think I spent 6-8 hours per day during the last 4 days, to make my team finally top 10 worthy. Oldest guy in my team is 78. So it will be my youngest team ever with average age of 58,75 years! Aye, but I commented yesterday that when my working life was manic at the back end of 2018 I picked the team that finished 4th in 2019, a year later with plenty time I picked a team that's hanging on just inside the top 50. Gone for a conservative selection of likely carkers but also generally steady rather than high scorers this time. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lard Bazaar 3,799 Posted December 31, 2020 2 hours ago, maryportfuncity said: I'll pack up and go home, then It’s for the best - save yourself the heartache and humiliation of being trounced by my selection of surefire stiffs! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Joey Russ 7,220 Posted December 31, 2020 Day in the Death is officially in. Admittedly my mental health has not been that great for the past few months and I don't think I'm on top form right now, so I would probably just be happy with a top ten finish, but it is what is. Good luck everyone. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,025 Posted December 31, 2020 Now I know folk will be busy with the final entries, so this is probably a muse rather than a question. I wonder how many picks have been rejected under the new non-FBBI regime? Bound to still be some submitting the usual cases without a care in the world... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gooseberry Crumble 5,337 Posted December 31, 2020 4 minutes ago, YoungWillz said: Now I know folk will be busy with the final entries, so this is probably a muse rather than a question. I wonder how many picks have been rejected under the new non-FBBI regime? Bound to still be some submitting the usual cases without a care in the world... I am glad to say not a single one of my picks was rejected for the DDP! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,436 Posted December 31, 2020 12 minutes ago, YoungWillz said: Now I know folk will be busy with the final entries, so this is probably a muse rather than a question. I wonder how many picks have been rejected under the new non-FBBI regime? Bound to still be some submitting the usual cases without a care in the world... A few but I'll know better the other side of Hogmanay. So far its been more the difficult right on the line cases that have come up, like one of those sent in by that nefarious Gooseberry Crumble! (That pick was allowed under the famous unwritten rule "if the person is getting a Netflix documentary made about them they are probably notable" for the record. ) Time will tell if the scaret letter is needed... 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Grim Up North 3,725 Posted December 31, 2020 391 teams entered up to right this second and all inputted into the master spreadsheet. There were 370 to 3:30pm in 2019 with a further 114 by midnight so looking like it will be a similar number (just depressed myself - thought I was doing quite well until I realised how many teams are entered in the last 8 and a half hours! Thanks to everyone who has managed to use the spreadsheet - it's been a big help. 477 unmatched celebrities still to wade through but I'll do that once I've got all the teams in. So still plenty of work to do but it's progressing well. Happy New Year everyone! 4 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,025 Posted December 31, 2020 6 minutes ago, Grim Up North said: 391 teams entered up to right this second and all inputted into the master spreadsheet. There were 370 to 3:30pm in 2019 with a further 114 by midnight so looking like it will be a similar number (just depressed myself - thought I was doing quite well until I realised how many teams are entered in the last 8 and a half hours! Thanks to everyone who has managed to use the spreadsheet - it's been a big help. 477 unmatched celebrities still to wade through but I'll do that once I've got all the teams in. So still plenty of work to do but it's progressing well. Happy New Year everyone! Sterling work to you Grim. And just to say many thanks to you, gcreptile and msc for all your hard work in 2020! I'm in awe how you put up with all of us and the tallying! 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
maryportfuncity 10,639 Posted December 31, 2020 19 minutes ago, YoungWillz said: Sterling work to you Grim. And just to say many thanks to you, gcreptile and msc for all your hard work in 2020! I'm in awe how you put up with all of us and the tallying! Hell yeah, I'm managing 39 teams and that's enough Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dying Probably 578 Posted December 31, 2020 Just checking - does anyone have Ronald Atkins? Well, you need to use a sub. Ron Atkins: UK's longest living former MP dies aged 104 - BBC News This includes me. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Death Impends 7,955 Posted December 31, 2020 Okay, TJS is in. Taking it far more leisurely henceforth so will be happy with a top 20 spot. Along with hoping to have my 100th career hit, but as I only need two more to do that, 2021 will be the inverse enema if I do not! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kenny 283 Posted December 31, 2020 3 hours ago, Elephant said: Just checking - does anyone have Ronald Atkins? Well, you need to use a sub. Ron Atkins: UK's longest living former MP dies aged 104 - BBC News This includes me. I've PM'd you a sub for Atkins in the Electoral Deadpool 2021. If only the old git had held on for another day! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Banana 859 Posted December 31, 2020 Main and secondary teams just sent in. Just need to finish DbyN now. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
0 Weddings & 20 Funerals 1 Posted December 31, 2020 Finally got my teams in for 2021, Main Team No Weddings and Twenty Funerals, with my theme teams being Cashier Number 91 Please and Weird with a Beard I will miss the hopeful expectation about hearing of the death of Peter Sutcliffe, the first news story that i followed as a child, but i still have high hopes that Rolf Harris will be my winner for me this year - do you know what it is yet? Yes, a conviction for kiddy fiddling... 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Unknown Man 584 Posted December 31, 2020 Good luck to everyone. Here is my team. The End of the World as we Know It George Alagiah Susan Bayh Jimmy Carter Shannen Doherty David Gulpilil Rush Limbaugh Giorgio Napolitano Olivia Newton-John Linda Nolan Tom Parker (Joker) Isabel Peron Prince Philip Yoo Sang-Chul Tom Smith Leon Spinks Bernard Tapie Jean-Louis Trintignant Bill Turnbull Paul Westphal James Whale 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Captain Hemlock 737 Posted January 1, 2021 Since it's after midnight UK time, here's a look at who I sent in. Hopefully, my main team can get a little higher than a tie for 130th place. Team name: Captain Hemlock’s Twenty: Rush Limbaugh Ady Barkan Mangosuthu Buthelezi Jimmy Carter Michael Constantine Sanjay Dutt Jules Feiffer Louis Gossett Jr. Polly Holliday Earl Holliman Joan Jara Bernard Kalb William Leuchtenburg Olivia Newton-John Yoko Ono William “The Refrigerator” Perry Carmel Quinn Mark Russell George Schlatter Paul Westphal Team name: Saints Elsewhere (Actors, actresses and a theme song composer from the 1980’s US medical drama) Norman Lloyd G.W. Bailey Bonnie Bartlett Ed Begley Jr. David Birney Ellen Bry Ronny Cox William Daniels Dave Grusin Mark Harmon Terence Knox Eric Laneuville Howie Mandel Kim Miyori David Morse France Nuyen Christina Pickles Cindy Pickett Denzel Washington Alfre Woodard Team: Rolls Off The Tongue-People with interesting sounding names Mel Lastman Maude Apatow Krystal Ball Dick Butkus Joey Buttafuoco Norm Hitzges Tunch Ilkin Jerry Kill Pops Mensah-Bonsu Fatos Nano Win Remmerswaal Socrates Rizzo Ludwig Scotty Vai Sikahema Otis Sistrunk Anna Smashnova Gay Talese Bill Tush Esteban Volkov John Wockenfuss With some of the obscure picks in this game, I wouldn't be surprised if Win Remmerswaal is not a unique pick. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,025 Posted January 1, 2021 Entries are still open for our colonial friends across the Atlantic aren't they? Keeping schtum so my uniques aren't prejudiced. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,436 Posted January 1, 2021 I think 12 noon is the "apologise nicely cut off" point but I can't mind. Anyhow, here's my theme team that's a decade in the making as I said. Be underwhelmed now... DDP Curtain: Poirot’s Last Deadpool THEME - They all played murderers in Agatha Christie TV/film adaptations! 1. Donald Douglas (joker) 2. Joss Ackland 3. Claire Bloom 4. Leslie Caron 5. Judi Dench 6. Eileen Atkins 7. Annette Crosbie 8. Derek Jacobi 9. Oliver Ford Davies 10. Polly Adams 11. Faye Dunaway 12. Deborah Findlay 13. Michael Cronin 14. Michael York 15. Fiona Walker 16. Martin Shaw 17. Charles Dance 18. Brian Cox (actor) 19. Phil Davis 20. Alison Steadman subs – Vanessa Redgrave, Beau Bridges, Peter Davison Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Grim Up North 3,725 Posted January 1, 2021 12 minutes ago, msc said: I think 12 noon is the "apologise nicely cut off" point but I can't mind. Only teams that are a bit shit and well spelled allowed after midnight 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TheKeysOfMarinus 390 Posted January 1, 2021 Whoops - I was going to do my first ever team and I've had it in the making but it slipped my mind. Too much to drink! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Grim Up North 3,725 Posted January 1, 2021 4 minutes ago, TheKeysOfMarinus said: Whoops - I was going to do my first ever team and I've had it in the making but it slipped my mind. Too much to drink! Send it in quick 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,963 Posted January 1, 2021 Here's my team: Ghislaine Maxwell (joker) Jimmy Greaves Brian Reader Bobby Charlton Carlos Bilardo Dennis Skinner Andrew McDonald Abdelaziz Bouteflika Dilip Kumar Cpt. Tom Smith Benedikt XVI Mikhail Gorbachev Jimmy Carter Johnny Ruffo Yoko Ono Michael McKevitt Stan Bowles Brian Henderson Ernie Moss Litsa Menounos 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TheKeysOfMarinus 390 Posted January 1, 2021 14 minutes ago, Grim Up North said: Send it in quick Sent! Don't laugh at it Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
