Derby Dead Pool 2024

[WEP 924]

Paraguayan lawyer and educationalist Martín Almada dead at 87:

https://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2024/celebs_A.html#almadam021

 

https://oviedopress.com/fallece-este-sabado-a-sus-87-anos-martin-almada/

[Ulitzer95 13,207]

24 minutes ago, WEP said:

Paraguayan lawyer and educationalist Martín Almada dead at 87:

https://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2024/celebs_A.html#almadam021

 

https://oviedopress.com/fallece-este-sabado-a-sus-87-anos-martin-almada/

Presumably your pick seeing as you’re hellbent on building teams that won’t get QOs?

[gcreptile 11,399]

The QO ratio for the "Alternative Nobel Prize" winners is not that bad, though.

[YoungWillz 21,719]

Lou Conter QO: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-13260775/Lou-Conter-survivor-USS-Arizona-Pearl-Harbor-attack-dies-102.html

[Lafaucheuse 4,302]

Maryse Condé obit : https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/02/maryse-conde-guadelopean-grand-storyteller-dies-aged-90

third hit for my french theme team there, could have been more if I knew Brunhoff and Malaurie would have qo but they wouldn't have scored the same amount so…

25 points which makes me 4th in the theme team league, pretty good that far

[alt obits guy 3,449]

Joe Flaherty QO: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13264141/Joe-Flaherty-dead-82-Freaks-Geeks-Happy-Gilmore.html

(Unique DDP pick)

[YoungWillz 21,719]

Juan Vicente Perez QO: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/breaking-worlds-oldest-man-who-32498833

 

Brings us to 100 hits on the DDP.

[Octopus of Odstock 2,263]

John Barth QO

 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/03/john-barth-death-american-novelist-dies-dead-aged-93

[Sir Creep 7,095]

You are certainly aware that every link for archival DDP teams takes you to the 2024 list of team names.  

[Ulitzer95 13,207]

Clarence "Frogman" Henry a DDP pick for 2 teams.
Ralph Puckett last picked in 2023. That's a bit of a surprise but oh well.

[YoungWillz 21,719]

Clarence Frogman Henry QO: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-13285547/Clarence-Frogman-Henry-New-Orleans-R-B-singer-1956-hit-Aint-Got-No-Home-dies.html

[YoungWillz 21,719]

Walid Daqqa(h) QO: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-13285715/Amnesty-International-urges-Israel-return-body-ailing-Palestinian-died-custody.html

[YoungWillz 21,719]

Sir Paul Fox QO: https://metro.co.uk/2024/04/09/bbc-legend-sir-paul-fox-launched-classic-tv-shows-dies-aged-98-20613496/

[Evil Grimace 389]

1 hour ago, YoungWillz said:

Peter Higgs Guardian straight to QO: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/apr/09/peter-higgs-physicist-who-discovered-higgs-boson-dies-aged-94

From the Nobel thread, thanks to @YoungWillz

Also a BBC QO:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68774195 , I'm sure more will follow.

Hit for two teams.

 

[Perhaps 1,490]

Akebono Tarō is one for the LOTM, placed on my B team last year and dropped this year. D'oh!

[YoungWillz 21,719]

Robert MacNeil QO: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-13302253/Robert-MacNeil-creator-anchor-PBS-NewsHour-nightly-newscast-dies-93.html

[Captain Hemlock 783]

Though I'm sure it won't last, my B Team, Rigor Mort Us is about to crack the top 20.

[Death Impends 8,320]

Finally corralled up the update, just making sure no recent LotL/LotM names slipped through the cracks?

[YoungWillz 21,719]

15 minutes ago, Death Impends said:

Finally corralled up the update, just making sure no recent LotL/LotM names slipped through the cracks?

Faith Ringgold was last picked in 2022.

 

You can probably now add Steve Smith (footballer) to the List of the Lost.

[WEP 924]

On 24/01/2024 at 19:04, WEP said:

For the LoM: last year's nominee Nick Rescher dead:

https://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2023/celebs_R.html#reschenx19

https://obituaries.post-gazette.com/obituary/nicholas-rescher-1089273510

 

[John Key 830]

On 04/03/2024 at 16:58, YoungWillz said:

Tony Green QO: https://metro.co.uk/2024/03/04/bullseye-star-tony-green-dies-aged-85-20397447/

 

Awaiting Eleanor Collins and Joe Shannon.

 

Edit: And Maurice Bembridge.

https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/joe-shannon-funeral-details-announced-32282866

 

I think only mirror.co.uk counts but here's his obit anyway

[YoungWillz 21,719]

Whitey Herzog QO: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/mlb/article-13315377/Baseball-legend-Whitey-Herzog-dies-aged-92.html

[time 8,763]

1 hour ago, YoungWillz said:

Whitey Herzog QO: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/mlb/article-13315377/Baseball-legend-Whitey-Herzog-dies-aged-92.html

It was either going to be Yahoo or the Mail! Erskine's also a pick, probably be the same source if there's a QO in the offing.

[YoungWillz 21,719]

1 hour ago, time said:

It was either going to be Yahoo or the Mail! Erskine's also a pick, probably be the same source if there's a QO in the offing.

Carl Erskine QO eventually arrives: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-13316185/Carl-Erskine-Dodgers-pitcher-surviving-member-Boys-Summer-dies-97.html

[time 8,763]

2 hours ago, YoungWillz said:

Carl Erskine QO eventually arrives: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-13316185/Carl-Erskine-Dodgers-pitcher-surviving-member-Boys-Summer-dies-97.html

I thinks that's what we call a double-play