themaninblack 2,112 Posted February 21, 2016 I'm hardly Bill Gates meself but I get by. There must be an easier, better way of doing it nowadays. Thing is I don't know my php from my elbow so I stick to the old, creaky system. Of course others are helping out with the bios, so thank you to all who are contributing, although there's still a depressingly large amount still to do. and the stats are well overdue for an update and I want to simply the archives a bit more, get rid of a load of junk etc etc... Still, I enjoy the blog writing and puns...AGL the blog is more for my own amusement than anything else. I could just put here's who's dead, here's whose got the points, but what's the fun in that? I was almost going to mention that I've read Umberto Eco's "Travels in Hyperreality" and probably only Maryport/Spade/DDT will get the "Dead Raiola" reference. (not that I'm calling them hipsters or anything). God, I'm in a chatty mood tonight! 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,439 Posted February 21, 2016 First stats update (to 31 December 2015) 2014 Winner - David Quantick’s Showbiz Pals Points – 108 Hits – 11 Total Teams – 575 Total Hits - 247 Most Popular Pick – Zsa Zsa Gabor Most Popular Hit – General Jaruzelski 2015 Winner – David Quantick’s Showbiz Pals Points – 98 Hits – 10 Total Teams – 501 Total Hits – 239 Most Popular Pick – Zsa Zsa Gabor Most Popular Hit – Sam Simon Most Points (New System since 2007) The Living End 779 Master Mind 605 Wormer, He’s a Dead Man! Niedermeir Dead! Marmalard Dead! 551 Deceased Hose 545 Octopus of Odstock 527 Misers 523 Stab in the Dark 515 Waiting List 493 David Quantick’s Showbiz Pals 457 Ethnic Cleansing 446 Going Underground 445 Carkers Convention 439 =This Mortal Coil 439 Eejit 425 Dead Ends 425 Drunkasaskunk 419 They’re Dead Y’Know! 409 Poochie Died on the Way Back to his Home Planet 407 Windsor the Troll 402 The Newstreet Boys Death Squad 402 The Beatles Are Dying in the Wrong Order 402 I’m Sorry for Your Trouble/If I’m Spared Myself 398 Stiff and the Tears 396 Star Dust 384 Shovelful of Dirt 376 Madonna’s Hand of Bod 368 The Endo f the World as We Know It 350 Groblers Still Ones 346 Golden Slumbers 342 CrazyCarl 340 Canadian Paul 336 Inquilinekea/Simfish 328 JoeRam 321 Going Green 313 Eternity Tours 310 People I think Might Die in (year) United 308 Lard Bazaar 306 Guild of Master Reapers 303 It’s Grim Up North 302 Deathlist.net 301 Tomb It May Concern 301 Teams on the Up Conqueror Worm 281 Dead Certs 257 Very Ill Turned Very Dead 278 Norfolk and Good – 283 Mr C 255 Bazziliant 289 Biologically Dead 268 Crossing the Styx 250 Die now...die now...show us you’ve pegged 257 Thomas Jefferson Survives 249 Inigo, I Hope We Win 291 I took every team who'd been in 5 years or more and did a quick count up of their tallies. Could have missed someone out in 500 but that's in the ball park. Most Points in a Year (since 2007) David Quantick Showbiz Pals (2014) 108 slips into the list Most Popular Pick to Not Die Zsa Zsa Gabor (2015) - 195 Latest Deaths 31st December 2014 - Duke of Wellington 31st December 2014 - Michael Kennedy 31st December 2015 - Wayne Rogers Earliest Deaths 1st January 2014 - Juanita Moore 1st January 2014 - Dorothy Baldwin 1st January 2015 - Mario Cuomo Christmas Day 2015 - Sadhana Shivdasani 2014 - Kate Gross, Alberta Adams Unnatural Causes Ann B Davis Fall (2014) Debbie Purdy Suicide (2014) James Brady Homicide (2014) Christopher Barry Fall (2014) Adnan Gulshair el Shukrijumah Killed (2014) Philip Seymour Hoffman Overdose (2014) Robin Williams Suicide (2014) Assad Uzzaman Killed (2015) John F Nash Car Crash (2015) Alicia Nash Car Crash (2015) Adam Yahiye Gadahn Killed (2015) Scott Weiland Overdose (2015) Cilla Black Fall (2015) Milestones 1600th - Adolfo Suarez, 23 March 2014 1700th - Kathy Craven, 18th August 2014 1800th - Kel Nagle, 29th January 2015 1900th - Marguerite Patten, 4 June 2015 2000th - Nicholas Smih, 6 December 2015 (Though given my maths issues, someone might want to double check that one...) Youngest Deaths Lauren Hill (2015, 19) Well, there's a start on them anyhow. 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Switch 141 Posted February 21, 2016 No unnatural death bonus for BB Ghali? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,439 Posted February 21, 2016 I didn't count 2016 as it's still ongoing. It would be a pain with remembering the cut off point for, say, the points totals, otherwise. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Switch 141 Posted February 21, 2016 I mean that it seems like he didn't get one despite the fact he apparently died due to a fall. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,439 Posted February 21, 2016 A few more Most hits in a month 1. January 2014 (35) 2. January 2015 (32) 3. March 2014 (30) 4. April 2015 (28) 5. July 2014 (26) Which blows out all previous records. Most Hits on one Day FOUR 10th April 2015 – Lauren Hill, Judith Malina, Jin Youzhi, Richie Benaud 14th February 2015 – Michele Ferrero, Louis Jourdan, Wim Ruska, Pamela Cundell 6th May 2014 – Cornelius Gurlitt, Maria Lassnig, Farley Mowat, Roger Dimmock FIVE (!) 7th July 2014 – Alfredo di Stefano, Dickie Jones, Anthony Smith, Michael Scuadmore, Eduard Shevardnadze 16th January 2014 – Dave Madden, Ruth Duccini, Steve Evans, Hiroo Onoda, Russell Johnson Number of hits, all time (to 31 Dec 2015) - 2010 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lard Bazaar 3,799 Posted February 21, 2016 Isn't an 'unnatural death' like getting shot or run over by a segway or kicked in the bollocks by a horse or something, rather than just being an old man that fell over? Being an old man and falling over and dying is perfectly natural. 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,439 Posted February 21, 2016 Most years in competition (correct to 2016) Mr C 18 Drunkasaskunk 18 Jesus Jones 18 Finbarr Returns from the Dead 16 JoeRam 16 Juicy Janny 16 Dates of No Death 29th Feb, 26th Oct, Days Previous Ones Were Shattered 30th October 2014 – Renee Asherson 21st December 2014 – Billie Whitelaw 28th December 2015 – Lemmy 8th October 2015 – Paul Prudhomme The other ones will take rather more work. I'm not even going to try the "average age of hit" though. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Magere Hein 1,400 Posted February 21, 2016 Dates of No Death 29th Feb, 8th Oct, 26th Oct, We get a go at that one soon. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,037 Posted February 21, 2016 Dates of No Death 29th Feb, 8th Oct, 26th Oct, We get a go at that one soon. As I've said before, Paul Prudhomme and Richard Davies both died on 8 October 2015 and were hits. It's not a date of no death. Indeed it's mentioned. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,439 Posted February 21, 2016 Given I had Prudhomme done as a "Day of No Death record breaker" that's just forgetting to tick it off despite that. Edited. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,037 Posted February 21, 2016 Cheers msc - will the other dates fall this year? Given the big names falling, I'd expect so... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,439 Posted February 21, 2016 Cheers msc - will the other dates fall this year? Given the big names falling, I'd expect so... Joss Acklund going on the 29th would be the punchline to a long running DDP biography gag, but I'm not sure he'd see it that way. 26th October has to fall some day, especially with nearly 300 hits a year these days. The last nine categories require going back to the very beginning and counting. I'm at 2001 and taking a break before my eyes see nothing but DDP stats and stars. Though if anyone would like to tell me who John Baker who died 5th December 2000 was, he's not showing up on Google and he's buggering everything up at the moment. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,037 Posted February 21, 2016 Just a guess - perhaps this John Baker? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1377911/John-Baker-GC.html 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,037 Posted February 21, 2016 Round Up #6 Samuel Willenberg: http://www.deathlist...c=6639&p=255285 (Carried Over) Guardian Obit: http://www.theguardi...ka-dies-aged-93 Eric 'Winkle' Brown: http://www.deathlist.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=8275&p=255485 Daily Mirror Obit: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/eric-winkle-brown-dead-celebrated-7413883 Majestik Magnificent: http://www.deathlist.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=34&p=255521 Awaiting Obit. Erik Christopher Zeeman: http://www.deathlist.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=8629&p=255552 Guardian Obit: http://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/feb/24/sir-christopher-zeeman-obituary Andre Timberlake-Evans: http://www.deathlist.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=8629&p=255633 Awaiting Obit. Douglas Slocombe: http://www.deathlist.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=8535&p=255663 BBC Obit: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35635360 Sonny James: http://www.deathlist.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=6842&p=255715 Daily Mail Obit: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-3459467/Country-singer-Sonny-James-dies-age-87.html Charlotte Eades: http://www.deathlist.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=8709&p=256001 The Sun Obit: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/6958779/Inspirational-Charlotte-Eades-dies-of-a-brain-tumour-after-vlogging-about-her-brave-battle-with-cancer.html Frank Kelly: http://www.deathlist.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=8588&p=256246 (BBC Obit In Link) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RadGuy 1,614 Posted February 22, 2016 Jesus Christ, some teams already around 50 points. I don't think I'll reach that many at all! But I've only got myself to blame. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,519 Posted February 22, 2016 Don't ask, you don't get. I still didn't get. 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,967 Posted February 22, 2016 Don't ask, you don't get. I still didn't get. Too bad. Last chance is the coverage of the Isle of Wight festival, I guess. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Toast 16,137 Posted February 22, 2016 Isn't it the Guardian that accepts obits from readers? 'Other Lives' I think they call it. Why not write one yourself and send it in Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
themaninblack 2,112 Posted February 22, 2016 Imagine that... "Michel Delpech was...er some French bloke. Anyway give me the points!" 11 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
themaninblack 2,112 Posted February 22, 2016 Good work, msc! Although some of these "stats" are bit irrelevant now as we've had so many hits in recent years. NYD/NYE deaths were once rare, now we get them virtually every year. So when the Stats & facts page is finally updated for real (with msc's figures as a guide) then it will be reformatted a tad... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,439 Posted February 22, 2016 No worries, TMIB. There's still one stats update to come, but as one batch of it takes several hours, it maybe a while yet. I hadn't quite appreciated how much work was involved. (Still, I've reached 2009, so no point quiting now...) On another note, Hippoposthumous, The Doffin Codgers, and Impaled on the Antlers of Doom are team names I love, which I'd missed before. Sadly, the last two no longer seem to take part. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,439 Posted February 27, 2016 Most Popular Dates of Death, DDP (1996-2015) 2nd January 11th January 16th January 11th June 12th June (all have 13 hits, historically) Most Popular Month 1. January 228 2. March 200 3. July 181 4. February 181 Most Popular Ages 88 (83) 90, 92 (80) 91 (76) 94 (75) Most Deaths by Nationality (as worked out by place of birth on derbydeadpool.co.uk, or Wikipedia on celebrities from 1996-2002*) 1. American 719 2. English 558 3. French 47 4. Scottish 45 = 4 German 45 6. Irish* 41 7. Australian 37 8. Canadian 35 9. Welsh 34 10. Italian 31 There was a huge drop away from 10th place to Japan on 21. And lots of niggly little places who showed up once or twice only. *This method disagreed with how many Scottish hits there had been up to 2013 just to warn you **That's Irish without differentiation between *which* Irish. Professions 1. TV/Radio/Film 575 2. Politics 290 3. Sports 234 4. Music 226 Oldest Death additions We're not counting those 127 year olds, right? Otherwise... Misao Okawa 117 (2015) Youngest Deaths Lauren Hill 19 (2015) And the Top 40 all time DDP hits list (1996-2015) 1. The Living End 95 2. Octopus of Odstock 83 3. Drunkasaskunk 79 4. Master Mind (etc) 78 5. Stab in the Dark 77 =5 Joe Ram 77 7. Mr C 74 8. Deathlist.net 73 9. Deceased Hose 66 =9 Dead Ends 66 11. Eejit 65 12. Jesus Jones 64 =12 Misers 64 =12 The Vyrdolak 64 15. Godot's Waiting List 62 =15 Newstreet Boys Death Squad 62 17. Wormer, He's a Dead Man! Niedermier Dead! Marmalard Dead! 61 18. They're Dead, Y'Know 60 =18 Grobler's Stiff Ones 60 20. Madonna's Hand of Bod 59 21. Windsor the Troll 58 22. This Mortal Coil 57 23. Crazycarl 55 =23 Carkers Convention 55 25. Meet your Maker 54 =25 Going Underground 54 =25 Puzlman's Passing Picks 54 28. David Quantick's Showbiz Pals 53 29. Ethnic Cleansing 52 30. We Spin Terror 50 =31 Eternity Tours 50 32. Stiff and the Tears 49 33. One Foot in the Grave 47 =33 Shovelful of Dirt 47 =33 Noah Reason and the Youth in Asia 47 36. Canadian Paul 46 =36 Daniel Faraday's Notebook/Poochie 46 =36 Norfolk and Good 46 =36 The Conqueror Worm 46 =36 Grey Panthers 46 The odd team might have been missed out because the bastards keep changing their sodding names and even the website can't find them sods law. I am now going to go lie in a dark room before all I see before my eyes is "61 years old, American, musician" notations... I didn't bother with the average age because that's far too easy to screw up. 6 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rotten Ali 600 Posted February 27, 2016 You. Are. A. Star. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CaptainChorizo 1,977 Posted February 27, 2016 Interesting to see the huge uptick in German Orbits as the Dec 2013 update it doesn't crack the top 5 and now is only 2 away from tying France for the Country with the 3rd most. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
