Derby Dead Pool 2023

[The Old Crem 3,628]

On 13/01/2023 at 14:02, Death Impends said:

 

List of the Missed. Somewhat surprisingly to me, she was only ever picked in 2021, thought she'd be a youngish punt pick more often.

She was also picked in 1998 according to this. https://web.archive.org/web/20011225084237/https://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool1998/entries/selections.htm
 

[Death Impends 8,043]

1 minute ago, The Old Crem said:

She was also picked in 1998 according to this. https://web.archive.org/web/20011225084237/https://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool1998/entries/selections.htm
 

 

Good catch. I deferred to the fact that her celeb code had 021 in it, but that precludes DDPs from before 2003.

[The Old Crem 3,628]

Just now, Death Impends said:

 

Good catch. I deferred to the fact that her celeb code had 021 in it, but that precludes DDPs from before 2003.

I wasn’t searching for it I was just reading the archive as I am trying to keep busy. 

[Etushispushingupdaisies 136]

Here's my team, The Skate Dumpers. (I've submitted it to DDP website in time, but I'm publishing this list today, bc I'm rather lazy)
1. Johnny Irwin (joker)

2. Pele (died before the start)
3. George Alagiah

4.  Rob Burrow 

5. Simon Cowell

6. Frank Field MP
7. Rhod Gilbert

8. Jeremiah Green (died before the start, like Pele)

9. Janey Godley

10. Rolf Harris

11. Toby Keith

12. Kate Keltie

13. Frank McGarvey (a success)

14. Steve 'Mongo' McMichael

15. Linda Nolan

16. Johnny Ruffo

17. Ryuichi Sakamoto

18. Andy Taylor

19. Gianluca Vialli (a success)

20. James Whale

Subs:
Teresa Taylor (promoted to the main team), Kat Bjelland (ditto), Michael Tilson Thomas. Is this team OK?

[YoungWillz 21,178]

Ronald Blythe added to the list of hits for 2023?

[gcreptile 11,055]

11 hours ago, Etushispushingupdaisies said:

Here's my team, The Skate Dumpers. (I've submitted it to DDP website in time, but I'm publishing this list today, bc I'm rather lazy)
1. Johnny Irwin (joker)

2. Pele (died before the start)
3. George Alagiah

4.  Rob Burrow 

5. Simon Cowell

6. Frank Field MP
7. Rhod Gilbert

8. Jeremiah Green (died before the start, like Pele)

9. Janey Godley

10. Rolf Harris

11. Toby Keith

12. Kate Keltie

13. Frank McGarvey (a success)

14. Steve 'Mongo' McMichael

15. Linda Nolan

16. Johnny Ruffo

17. Ryuichi Sakamoto

18. Andy Taylor

19. Gianluca Vialli (a success)

20. James Whale

Subs:
Teresa Taylor (promoted to the main team), Kat Bjelland (ditto), Michael Tilson Thomas. Is this team OK?

I think it's pretty good, at least 10 hits and 100 points.

[Ulitzer95 12,842]

On 14/01/2023 at 15:40, The Old Crem said:

She was also picked in 1998 according to this. https://web.archive.org/web/20011225084237/https://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool1998/entries/selections.htm
 

Just for the sake of curiosity, using that archived link here are all the surviving picks from the 1998 DDP:

Dick Van Dyke (b. 1925)
David Attenborough (b. 1926)
Clint Eastwood (b. 1930)
Rupert Murdoch (b. 1931)
Ray Reardon (b. 1932)
Akihito (b. 1933)
Dickie Bird (b. 1933)
Michael Caine (b. 1933)
Chris Bonington (b. 1934)
Tom Baker (b. 1934)
Barry Humphries (b. 1934)
Woody Allen (b. 1935)
14th Dalai Lama (b. 1935)
Ernest Saunders (b. 1935)
Jacob Rothschild (b. 1936)
Richard Wilson (b. 1936)
Frank Ifield (b. 1937)
Jack Nicholson (b. 1937)
David Bailey (b. 1938)
Arthur Scargill (b. 1938)
Bob Dylan (b. 1941)
Paul Simon (b. 1941)
Willie Carson (b. 1942)
Barry Manilow (b. 1943)
Keith Richards (b. 1943)
Geraldo Rivera (b. 1943)
Gary Glitter (b. 1944)
Jimmy Page (b. 1944)
Anne Robinson (b. 1944)
Kate Adie (b. 1945)
José Carreras (b. 1946)
Iggy Pop (b. 1947)
Salman Rushdie (b. 1947)
Arnold Schwarzenegger (b. 1947)
Gerry Adams (b. 1948)
Christopher Biggins (b. 1948)
Matthew Corbett (b. 1948)
Richard Simmons (b. 1948)
Steve Tyler (b. 1948)
Martin Amis (b. 1949)
Geoff Capes (b. 1949)
Benjamin Netanyahu (b. 1949)
Richard Branson (b. 1950)
Russell Grant (b. 1951)
Michael Barrymore (b. 1952)
John Goodman (b. 1952)
Mr. T (b. 1952)
Janette Pink (b. 1952) <--- though granted, if she died, we may never know
Kathy Lee Gifford (b. 1953)
Gerry Kelly (b. 1953)
John Travolta (b. 1954)
Bill Gates (b. 1955)
Whoopi Goldberg (b. 1955)
Terry Nichols (b. 1955)
Jo Brand (b. 1957)
Julian Clary (b. 1959)
Sarah, Duchess of York (b. 1959)
Prince Andrew (b. 1960)
Holly Johnson (b. 1960)
Greg Louganis (b. 1960)
RuPaul (b. 1960)
Harry Enfield (b. 1961)
Jimmy Somerville (b. 1961)
Karen Duffy (b. 1962)
Eddie Izzard (b. 1962)
Demi Moore (b. 1962)
Carlos Sainz Sr. (b. 1962)
Wesley Snipes (b. 1962)
Tatum O'Neal (b. 1963)
Nicolas Cage (b. 1964)
Courtney Love (b. 1964)
9th Earl Spencer (b. 1964)
Robert Downey Jr. (born 1965)
Trent Reznor (b. 1965)
Slash (b. 1965)
Mike Tyson (b. 1966)
Noel Gallagher (b. 1967)
Paul Gascoigne (b. 1967)
Julia Roberts (b. 1967)
Paul Tracy (b. 1968)
Puff Daddy (b. 1969)
Michael Schumacher (b. 1969)
Beck (b. 1970)
Snoop Dogg (b. 1971)
Liam Gallagher (b. 1972)
Tori Spelling (b. 1973)
Naseem Hamed (b. 1974)
Alanis Morissette (b. 1974)
Kate Moss (b. 1974)
Robbie Williams (b. 1974)
Drew Barrymore (b. 1975)
Ralf Schumacher (b. 1975)
Fiona Apple (b. 1977)
Melissa Drexler (b. 1978)

There's one name on there that I couldn't check. Who da fuck is "Kevin Chin"?

[Spade_Cooley 9,624]

38 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said:

Janette Pink (b. 1952) <--- though granted, if she died, we may never know

 

I think this is Ms. Pink's Facebook profile. She was from Essex so living in London isn't that much of a stretch, the woman in the photos looks about 70, and more importantly, she has friends with the surname Georgiou, which was the name of the lover who gave her AIDS.

[Spade_Cooley 9,624]

1 hour ago, Ulitzer95 said:

There's one name on there that I couldn't check. Who da fuck is "Kevin Chin"?

 

There is absolutely nobody with any amount of legit fame called "Kevin Chin". Although looking through that entrant's team, we can assume there's a good chance of spelling errors so we might want to go through variants. Also the Geoff Capes selection implies the team was picked by a Brit, so I doubt it's Kevin Cheng, the Hong Kong TV actor. Progressive rock bassist Kevin Chown? Sommerset bowler Kevin Shine? Or did he mean to pick Jackie Chan, and got him confused with his character in Police Story Kevin Chan? And then spelled it wrong?

[The Old Crem 3,628]

The Statistics thread has more info on the 1998 DDP with some good analysis by @Death Impends.

 

[Ulitzer95 12,842]

59 minutes ago, Spade_Cooley said:

 

There is absolutely nobody with any amount of legit fame called "Kevin Chin". Although looking through that entrant's team, we can assume there's a good chance of spelling errors so we might want to go through variants. Also the Geoff Capes selection implies the team was picked by a Brit, so I doubt it's Kevin Cheng, the Hong Kong TV actor. Progressive rock bassist Kevin Chown? Sommerset bowler Kevin Shine? Or did he mean to pick Jackie Chan, and got him confused with his character in Police Story Kevin Chan? And then spelled it wrong?

Your last theory makes the most sense to me. I never knew that was the name of his character. I think they meant to pick Jackie Chan.

[The Old Crem 3,628]

Interesting in 2004 Lesley Ball, wife of Alan, was a pick but never got a Q/O. Now a days such a pick, wife of a famous sports person, would not be allowed but would have a much higher chance of obiting.

 

I wonder how many people have been double misses for both the DDP and the main list. Anne Haddy is one I noticed looking at the old archives. 

[drunkasaskunk 197]

So current SCORING hits appear to be the following claimed hits (with QOs) . . . . 

 

Jeff Beck

Shimon Baadani  *
Ronald Blythe
Bill Campbell
Constantine II
Carole Cook
Walter Cunningham
Roberto Dinamite
Bessie Hendricks
Bernard Kalb

Gina Lollobrigida
Frank McGarvey
Dick Savitt
Gianluca Vialli
Fay Weldon


And we await QOs for . . .

Abdelsalam Majali

Mark Stokes



(edited - thanks Death Impends)

 

PS - does Shimon Baadani have a QO?  I can't find one

 

[Death Impends 8,043]

^ Mark Stokes is also pending QO

[Great Uncle Bulgaria 1,317]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64292026

 

Lollobrigida QO

 

[gcreptile 11,055]

Shimon Baadani has a yahoo obit that works with the required uk.news.yahoo.com URL format. 

[drunkasaskunk 197]

5 hours ago, gcreptile said:

Shimon Baadani has a yahoo obit that works with the required uk.news.yahoo.com URL format. 

Cheers.

 

Do you have a link please?

 

Actually, cancel that.

 

I found it.

 

Thanks again.

 

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/spiritual-leader-israel-ultra-orthodox-171350281.html

 

 

[RyanandYodle 7]

On 10/01/2023 at 09:15, drunkasaskunk said:

You only pick 20 names on this pool

ok.  Thought it was 25.  

[drunkasaskunk 197]

I am sure someone must have picked her

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jan/17/worlds-oldest-known-person-french-nun-lucile-randon-sister-andree-dies-at-118

 

[maryportfuncity 10,682]

23 hours ago, drunkasaskunk said:

I am sure someone must have picked her

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jan/17/worlds-oldest-known-person-french-nun-lucile-randon-sister-andree-dies-at-118

 

 

 

Yeah, God - in 1944

[Thatcher 2,470]

David Sutherland QO.

[Lord Fellatio Nelson 6,223]

11 minutes ago, Thatcher said:

David Sutherland QO.

I don't think anybody on here can sniff out a corpse like you can. 

[dimreaper 713]

Crosby's bound to be a hit for a few.

[drunkasaskunk 197]

So 19 days in to the competition, we must have round about 19 hits so far ! ! ! !

[dimreaper 713]

Last year, there had been 24 hits by the 19th.