Death By Numbers 2024

[ladyfiona 2,740]

Got a hit with George Eastham.

[Wormfarmer 435]

Richard Parsons should be worth a cool 48 for Wormfarmer and maybe others . . . .

[The Immortal 655]

Manmohan Singh is a late hit, forgot I even had him to be honest.

[gcreptile 11,307]

Looks like I missed Alwen Hughes, a hit for two players. And Sean actually picked Olivia Hussey... just to remember.

 

Edit: Non-obit king is msc, this time, 4 non-obits (Josip Manolic, Joe Shannon, Michelle Fazzari, Amy Ettinger).

 

Most hits: Perhaps with 23. Only then Cpt. Chorizo with 22.

[YoungWillz 21,494]

Jimmy Carter for me - hit #10. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpww85w5p30o

[ladyfiona 2,740]

I had him as a joker.

[Predictor 1,044]

On 20/12/2024 at 19:52, ladyfiona said:

I am always middling. Send me a DM and I can message you some people who I know have cancer or don't have long lifespan.

I appreciate your offer to help, but I have decided to not enter. My heart is not in it anymore. This will be the first year since 2011 that I don't play in a single deathpool.

[ladyfiona 2,740]

I had Johnnie Walker. BBC News

[MrWonderful 497]

10 hours ago, ladyfiona said:

I had Johnnie Walker. BBC News

Same.  

[gcreptile 11,307]

So, what do we think? Is the deluge of delayed obits over?

 

Let's do a preliminary final update...

As mentioned above, I forgot to score Alwen Hughes for Yorkshire Banker and Perhaps - corrected.

Peter Procter should have been a unique hit for Summer in Transilvania back in August - also corrected.

Sean got a unique hit with legendary "Julia" Olivia Hussey, well done!

Then we get to he big hits at the end of the year: Jimmy Carter was a US president who governed from..... ah well, you know who it is. Almost everybody scores.

Johnnie Walker was a very popular replacement in the mid-year period, and actually kept his promise of dying, like, immediately after he ended his show on BBC radio.

Brenton Wood is another sexy hit for Yorkshire Banker, so his 2025 team loses Wood, but already gained Bonerz. Wood was a soul/r'n'b musician in the 60s and 70s, peaking with his first hits already in 1967 - though he had started recording a few years before. Minor hits in the 70s followed.

Michael Turner is, seemingly, Salmon Mousse's good-bye hit. The Australian Rules footballer had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and got the whipple surgery, you know, take out everything. It only gave him another year though.

 

Edit: No, Brenton Wood is a hit in 2025! So, I have to change something... Damn, I might have missed a 2024 hit, somewhere in the back of my mind.

Edit2: Well, John Amos is a missing hit for Yorkshire Banker. Maybe that was on my mind? That whole nice joke above is not true.

 

Manmohan Singh was a hit for three players, thanks for reminding me. He is regarded as a bit of an economic "liberator", maybe like Deng Xiaoping? It does feel like the India's recent ascent falls into his reign.

Richard Parsons was actually a unique hit for Wormfarmer. The business man started his career working for Rudy Giuliani, got into media business and worked on the legendary merger of AOL and Time Warner at the height of the dot-com bubble. He survived a couple of years with aggressive multiple myeloma.

George Eastham was a British midfielder in the 1960s and part of the WC winning English squad of 1966. Not the most prominent name, but he was there. Three teams score, among them TheImmortal who actually scores quite a bit in this update.

 

 

And finally,  the Steve DiMeglio case. He was picked by SalmonMousse, AnFearBeag and wannamaker. My position is that ambivalence will be to the detriment of the player who chose that pick. Usually, it means that if the date of birth is unclear, the lowest-possible scoring value will be used. In the case here, it means that DiMeglio would score neither in 2024 nor in 2025. It's an extreme case, unfortunately. If he scored, AnFearBeag would gain a few slots in the ranking. Wannamaker and SalmonMousse wouldn't see a change. For 2025, it means that those players who picked him, would have to sub him. It's only one team though (Banana) and their first sub is Shirley Chung. So I think I'm going to count Chung as a hit for Banana if she dies, even if the ambivalence stays. But DiMeglio would not count in 2025 unless we know he did die in 2025 - which, to be honest, will probably never be determined, as he died alone at home some time between the 23rd of Decembre and the 1st of January.

 

Did I miss anything? You have about three more days to complain.

But if nothing happens, the following scoreboard is the final result. Cpt. Chorizo snatches the title back from Banana in a terribly close game. Literally, every single hit mattered.

Cpt. Chorizo also shares the "most hits" achievement - now with Perhaps - at 24 hits - pretty good!

msc has 4 non-QOs, and gets that "crown".

DDP winner Thatcher only gets 12 hits. Goes to show that the DDP can be won not by obsessive research for new names, but rather by choosing the right ones out of the ones you know. Interesting, isn't it? And those with the many hits (including me), have to realize that choosing the right names out of the ones you know, is a skill of its own.

So, we wait for three more days, as the rules say, and then we'll close it up.

 

Rank	Team	Score
1	Cpt. Chorizo	1437
2	Banana	1423
3	gcreptile	1286
4	wannamaker	1181
5	Book	1171
6	Funeralopolis	1149
7	Perhaps	1139
8	RadGuy	1114
9	msc	1106
10	Summer in Transilvania	1092
11	Salmon Mousse	1028
12	Mr. Wonderful	992
13	The Immortal	942
14	Buffalo Phil	925
15	Liz Lemon	890
16	Torva Messor	880
17	Toast	872
18	Pedro67	834
19	The Unknown Man	827
20	An Fear Beag	786
21	Wormfarmer	777
22	tracy	769
23	The old lady	763
24	MariNisia	748
25	Baby Blue	716
26	Lady Fiona	713
27	Thatcher	705
28	Etushipushingupdaisies	687
29	Predictor	639
30	Death Impends	631
31	Imelda	626
32	DeathBecomesThem	625
33	The Daredevil	609
34	Charles De Gaulle	608
35	Cpt. Hemlock	583
36	Yorkshire Banker	574
37	Caleb H	561
38	John Key	552
39	TQR	550
40	The Old Crem	547
41	Sean	544
42	ThereWillBeDeaths7	516
43	Diego	500
44	arghton	497
45	Annami	457
46	Bibliogryphon	398
47	Young Willz	376
48	Great Uncle Bulgaria	348
49	chileanway	296
50	Hell	264
51	Sod's Law	226
52	Gooseberry Crumble	59