Death By Numbers 2022

[YorkshireBanker 168]

Aaron Carter was a hit for me

[YoungWillz 21,055]

Leslie Phillips for me please.

[gcreptile 10,978]

Alright, let's get it done.

First hit was missed in the previous update, Los Angeles writer Mike Davis who was a replacement hit for some, but interestingly, some people missed out. Leslie Phillips was - finally - a hit for many - end of an era, isn't it? Yorkshire Banker does indeed score with the unique hit of Aaron Carter. At least this one time the risk of picking a risky young person with a troubled lifestyle paid off. Maybe doing porn could have saved him.

And finally, beloved soap actor Bill Treacher completes the quartet.

 

Most interesting change of the scoreboard is An Fear Beag (tipped by me to win) advancing to the no. 2 slot because of the safe replacement pick Mike Davis, while other teams might have gone for, say, John Cannan, who was a surprisingly unreliable person for being on their deathbed. But Banana has a 49-point advantage still. Will it be enough?

 

Rank	Team	Score
1	Banana	1325
2	An Fear Beag	1276
3	Salmon Mousse	1263
4	msc	1196
5	Predictor	1132
6	gcreptile	1120
6	Book	1120
8	Joey Russ	1101
9	Death Impends	986
10	drol	981
11	Cpt. Chorizo	966
12	DevonDeathTrip	896
13	MariNisia	774
14	Toast	723
15	Kenny	716
16	Guy From Future	689
17	Sean	677
18	JohnKey	663
19	Annami	637
20	Great Uncle Bulgaria	636
21	Theoldlady	617
22	The old crem	581
23	The Daredevil	571
24	Wormfarmer	556
25	Torva Messor	548
26	YorkshireBanker	531
27	The Unknown Man	530
28	JoeMoneypenny	509
29	CalebH	508
30	Baby Blue	501
31	Buffalo Phil	463
32	Liz Lemon	428
33	YoungWillz	362
33	Pedro67	362
35	markb4	356
36	chilean way	287
37	Bibliogryphon	254
37	Hell	254
39	Captain Hemlock	222
40	keltos31	196
41	Famous6Eva	181
42	Doulton	178
43	The Spinosaurus	127
44	Gooseberry Crumble	120

[gcreptile 10,978]

Update and 2023 thread will be posted on the weekend.

 

I think the only change will be that the substitution period is open from the first day on until June 30th. But if you decide to substitute earlier, your replaced people can't score anymore from the moment they're out.

[Death Impends 7,979]

3 hours ago, gcreptile said:

Update and 2023 thread will be posted on the weekend.

 

I think the only change will be that the substitution period is open from the first day on until June 30th. But if you decide to substitute earlier, your replaced people can't score anymore from the moment they're out.

 

Can't wait to see you pick XXXX-XXXXX XXXXXXXXXXX as a sub again.

 

...oh, right.

[gcreptile 10,978]

Okay, big update arriving...

...think we left off with Leslie Phillips, so the next hit turned out to be Irish cancer activist and government toppler Vicky Phelan. Big points for a couple of players. Lasted long enough to get a replacement slot on some teams. Doddie Weir another popular name, didn't see that one coming! Clare Marx and Jiang Zemin, another couple of popular hits. And finally, Julia Reichert just today. Considering it's been almost a month, there weren't many hits, but they were all relatively big.

Then, a shout-out to Torva Messor for the unique hit of Ned Rorem, a classical art-piece composer who died at 99.

Bernadette Mayer is waiting for an obit. I would assume we'll get the New York Times obit eventually, but it's not exactly a headline grabbing name, so let's see...

 

I think this is it for now....? We're definitely in the final stretch. The new thread will be up on Sunday or so.

 

The scoreboard shows that An Fear Beag's streak of not missing the important names has come to a halt and Banana is back in front with about 2 hits of distance. An Fear Beag could use, say, Jeannette Lee, for example. But maybe for the first time this year, a lead has solidified into ..uhh.. solid territory.

A different huge story of this latter half of the year has been the rise of Predictor, who has been the "winner of the update" for 3-4 updates in a row now, and suddenly, he's on third place. There you see that the year has 12 months, and November is just as important as, say, January.

 

Rank	Team	Score
1	Banana	1500
2	An Fear Beag	1397
3	Predictor	1377
4	msc	1371
5	Salmon Mousse	1317
6	gcreptile	1295
7	Joey Russ	1292
8	Book	1265
9	Cpt. Chorizo	1087
10	Death Impends	1061
11	drol	1007
12	DevonDeathTrip	896
13	MariNisia	895
14	Annami	836
15	Sean	822
16	Toast	793
17	Kenny	786
18	Theoldlady	692
19	Guy From Future	689
19	JohnKey	689
21	Great Uncle Bulgaria	636
22	Wormfarmer	626
23	JoeMoneypenny	589
24	Buffalo Phil	587
25	The old crem	581
26	Torva Messor	571
26	The Daredevil	571
28	The Unknown Man	556
29	YorkshireBanker	531
30	CalebH	508
31	Baby Blue	501
32	Pedro67	432
33	Liz Lemon	428
34	YoungWillz	362
35	markb4	356
36	Bibliogryphon	324
37	chilean way	287
38	Hell	254
39	Captain Hemlock	222
40	keltos31	196
41	Famous6Eva	181
42	Doulton	178
43	Gooseberry Crumble	146
44	The Spinosaurus	127

 

[JoeMoneypenny 55]

I picked  Meg Wynn Owen

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/dec/02/meg-wynn-owen-obituary

[DevonDeathTrip 2,358]

On 02/12/2022 at 16:36, gcreptile said:

 

Bernadette Mayer is waiting for an obit. I would assume we'll get the New York Times obit eventually, but it's not exactly a headline grabbing name, so let's see...

 

 

127

 

 

New York Times obit for Bernadette Mayer.   Genuinely surprised she hasn't -yet - had a UK one.  

[Predictor 1,018]

On 02/12/2022 at 17:36, gcreptile said:

A different huge story of this latter half of the year has been the rise of Predictor, who has been the "winner of the update" for 3-4 updates in a row now, and suddenly, he's on third place. There you see that the year has 12 months, and November is just as important as, say, January.

Wow, I can't believe it. Not a bad way to retire from deathpooling after 10 years of awfulness.

 

Don't think I will win, unless my joker dies before the end of the year.

[YoungWillz 21,055]

Dieter Henrich, German philosopher only mentioned on this thread, dead aged 95: https://www-faz-net.translate.goog/aktuell/feuilleton/buecher/autoren/philosoph-dieter-henrich-mit-95-jahren-gestorben-18542756.html?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc

[gcreptile 10,978]

A tiny bit of housecleaning while I'm on it...

...the past weeks have been eerily quiet..

Bernadette Mayer got her New York Times obit to give DDT and Annami some points. Sinisa Mihajlovic was apparently such a surprise, he was a unique hit here, for Bibliogryphon. Joe Monepenny gets well-deserved points for Meg Wynn Owen who was almost universally swept under the rug, or something.

Tony Claypole is a unique pick of mine and is waiting for a QO. Dieter Henrich is a unique pick for keltos and is also waiting, probably forever, as it looks like:

 

And that's already it.. the quiet before the final storm?

 

Rank	Team	Score
1	Banana	1500
2	An Fear Beag	1397
3	Predictor	1377
4	msc	1371
5	Salmon Mousse	1317
6	gcreptile	1295
7	Joey Russ	1292
8	Book	1265
9	Cpt. Chorizo	1087
10	Death Impends	1061
11	drol	1007
12	DevonDeathTrip	941
13	MariNisia	895
14	Annami	881
15	Sean	822
16	Toast	793
17	Kenny	786
18	Guy From Future	772
19	Theoldlady	692
20	JohnKey	689
21	Great Uncle Bulgaria	636
22	JoeMoneypenny	628
23	Wormfarmer	626
24	Buffalo Phil	587
25	The old crem	581
26	Torva Messor	571
26	The Daredevil	571
28	YorkshireBanker	569
29	The Unknown Man	556
30	CalebH	508
31	Baby Blue	501
32	Pedro67	432
33	Liz Lemon	428
34	Bibliogryphon	393
35	YoungWillz	362
36	markb4	356
37	chilean way	287
38	Hell	254
39	Captain Hemlock	222
40	keltos31	196
41	Famous6Eva	181
42	Doulton	178
43	Gooseberry Crumble	146
44	The Spinosaurus	127

[YoungWillz 21,055]

Pele is a hit for me here please.

[theoldlady 2,305]

Barbara Walters is a hit for me and perhaps others here.

[The Immortal 634]

Pope Benedict XVI is a last minute hit for me.

[theoldlady 2,305]

2 hours ago, TheSpinosaurus said:

Pope Benedict XVI is a last minute hit for me.

Me too! @gcreptile

[gcreptile 10,978]

Yes, there will be 1-2 more updates.

I know, Benedikt, Barbara Walters, Don West, Tony Vacarro, Pelé... 

[YoungWillz 21,055]

Yep I'm a Pope hit.

[gcreptile 10,978]

In the wise words of Boris Johnson, let's get it done!

 

We've had some huge hits, I don't need to repeat. Let's go backwards...

Anita Pointer... was not a pick?? Too bad, she was picked once in 2023 though, will have to be subbed. And then the avalanche: Pelé, Don West, Benedict XVI - all hugely popular hits, though the popularity means that the score order doesn't change THAT much. Barbara Walters has also been picked several times. Tony Vaccaro was a late unique hit for BabyBlue, well done! I see he got a Guardian obit just six hours ago. 

I also need to report the scoring of Jet Black. Happened a while ago, and should be in the earlier scoreboard for two players.

 

This gives us the following scoreboard:

 

Rank	Team	Score
1	Banana	1603
2	An Fear Beag	1500
3	msc	1474
4	Salmon Mousse	1420
5	Predictor	1417
6	Joey Russ	1395
7	Book	1368
8	gcreptile	1335
9	Cpt. Chorizo	1190
10	Death Impends	1164
11	drol	1047
12	DevonDeathTrip	1008
13	Annami	977
14	MariNisia	935
15	Sean	925
16	Guy From Future	880
17	JohnKey	839
18	Toast	833
19	Kenny	826
20	Theoldlady	788
21	JoeMoneypenny	731
22	Wormfarmer	722
23	The old crem	677
24	Great Uncle Bulgaria	665
25	Buffalo Phil	627
26	Torva Messor	611
26	The Daredevil	611
28	The Unknown Man	596
29	YorkshireBanker	569
30	Baby Blue	541
31	Liz Lemon	524
32	CalebH	508
33	Pedro67	472
34	YoungWillz	429
35	Bibliogryphon	427
36	markb4	396
37	chilean way	354
38	Hell	321
39	Captain Hemlock	262
40	keltos31	250
41	Doulton	218
42	Gooseberry Crumble	186
43	The Spinosaurus	183
44	Famous6Eva	181

 

It does look pretty safe for Banana. I think there's noone able to surpass him with one hit.

However, we will now wait for a week. I will try to check for any missed hits, please let me know if you see one, or find anything else.

 

And then we'll make it official.

 

[Captain Hemlock 742]

This is an amazing undertaking with this many teams and this many selections. Thank you. for running this.

[gcreptile 10,978]

Alright, let's call it a wrap!

I am unaware of any late hits that impact the scoreboard.

I also checked for the possibility year-end obits, especially Sonny Caldinez and Arno, for some late points - but came up empty!

 

So the previous scoreboard should actually be the final one.

 

Which means Banana is the winner of 2022, well done! Those were some impressive 12 months of deadpooling.

 

It was not a start-to-finish walk, Banana never really ran away from the field, only in Decembre did a 2 hit-advantage crystallize. I could always imagine that, say An FearBeag, or Salmon Mousse might still make it close. For example, I regarded Jeanette Lee as a possibly threat. Especially An Fear Beag had collected, in my opinion, the strongest team "on paper", meaning lots of official stage 4 cancer names, even though not close to death. But with a stage 4 diagnosis, you never know.... Personally, I'll probably never pick Shannen Doherty, and probably never Linda Nolan. But they can always have a downturn.... though last year, they didn't. And so Banana sniffed out the "real" targets 1-2 times where others didn't.

SalmonMousse was in contention for the first half of the year, and then An Fear Beag and Predictor had some 2nd half of the year cinderella runs. Also worth mentioning is msc's podium place. Some of the gambles didn't pay off, so there was no occasion for him to shine at any point in the competition. But the end result is still impressive. The tweaking of the formula is heading into the right direction.

Also nice to see that everyone ended up comfortably in the triple digits. And we covered a lot of names, especially those in the lower region of the scoreboard who nevertheless caught a few nuggets, like Bibliogryphon's hit of MeatLoaf. Gooseberry Crumble's Michael Barratt, Annami's Margaret Keane, and the like.

A good first showing from MariNisia, too, at no. 14, well done!

It's a difficult pool, you need to collect names over time and then fire them off at the right time - not easy!

GuyFrom Future is at no. 16. I suspect we'll see some more of them in 2023.

 

Thanks for playing!

[Great Uncle Bulgaria 1,287]

Congrats Banana.

[Toast 16,143]

I am happy with my top 20 finish (15 hits).  I don't expect to win any pools now as I generally stick to reasonably well-known names, ie people I've already heard of or who have context that I can relate to.

[gcreptile 10,978]

4 minutes ago, Toast said:

I am happy with my top 20 finish (15 hits).  I don't expect to win any pools now as I generally stick to reasonably well-known names, ie people I've already heard of or who have context that I can relate to.

Yes, really good for not going down the rabbit hole of obsessive research into insanity!

[MariNisia 4,199]

57 minutes ago, gcreptile said:

Thanks for playing!

 

Thanks for hosting and running this pool so well, @gcreptile.

By the way, I like your new avatar. 

[The Old Crem 3,606]

Congratulations @Banana