MHDP

[Bibliogryphon 9,614]

First hit for me on this game Patricio Aylwin former President of Chile

 

Now I need to find the foreign obits.

[Switch 141]

Now that a month has passed since the beginning of the competition, I thought it would be a good time to see where things stand. Note that this is an unofficial results table, since MH might have different thoughts on which obits count and which don't. I relied on the honesty of my fellow participants.

 

These are the obit counts I used in calculations, as well as the multipliers and points for a non-joker death (unique bonus added where applicable):

• Anker Jørgensen 25 (Arabic, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greenlandic, Hindi, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish) – multiplier 4.6439, 37 points (unique)
• Rob Ford 37 (Albanian, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian , Lithuanian, Macedonian , Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese) – multiplier 5.2095, 52 points
• Johan Cruyff 50 (Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Basque, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Maltese, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Somali, Swahili, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Welsh, Western Frisian) – multiplier 5.6439, 45 points
• Mother Angelica 12 (Croatian, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish) – multiplier 3.5850, 18 points
• Kris Travis 3 (English, French, Spanish) – multiplier 1.5850, 21 points (unique)
• Bill Rosendahl 2 (English, Spanish) – multiplier 1, 10 points (unique)
• Rachel Johnson 3 (Chinese, English, Scots Gaelic) – multiplier 1.5850, 13 points (unique)
• Patricio Aylwin TBD – obits still incoming

So far, the only joker that has passed away is Rob Ford for my team. There have been four unique picks: Anker Jørgensen for Death Impends, Kris Travis for RadGuy, Bill Rosendahl for JiroemonKimura and Rachel Johnson for msc. Bibliogryphon will also get a unique bonus for Aylwin. And now, the results table:

1. Switch: 52*2+45 = 149
2. Rad's Rad R'list: 52+45+18+21 = 136
3. Thomas Jefferson Survives: 37+52 = 89
4. Cancerous Hatred: 52+18+10 = 80
5. Yankee Go Home: 52
6. "O" (that is, the letter O): 52
7. The Unknown Man: 52
8. RoverAndOut: 45
9. msc: 13

 

[Death Impends 8,029]

I think you forgot to factor in the "1 +" in the scoring logarithm? Each multiplier is a whole number lower than my calculations see.

[Switch 141]

That makes sense, because otherwise people with only 1 obit would get 0 points. Adjusted, but still unofficial, results:

1. Switch: 62*2+53 = 177
2. Rad's Rad R'list: 62+53+23+33 = 171
3. Thomas Jefferson Survives: 45+62 = 107
4. Cancerous Hatred: 62+23+20 = 105
5. Yankee Go Home: 62
6. "O" (that is, the letter O): 62
7. The Unknown Man: 62
8. RoverAndOut: 53
9. msc: 21

• Anker Jørgensen 45 points (unique)
• Rob Ford 62 points
• Johan Cruyff 53 points
• Mother Angelica 23 points
• Kris Travis 33 points (unique)
• Bill Rosendahl 20 points (unique)
• Rachel Johnson 21 points (unique)
• Patricio Aylwin TBD – obits still incoming

[RadGuy 1,619]

Ahh... 2nd place by a small margin.

 

Thank you, Switch!

 

I've been dying to see the results, but MH has been gone for almost a month.

[maryportfuncity 10,673]

I had Diski, just sayin' like

[RadGuy 1,619]

I also had Diski, which I believe puts me ahead Switch.

 

One question though: Where the hell is Magere Hein? He's been gone for a month.

[maryportfuncity 10,673]

I also had Diski, which I believe puts me ahead Switch.

 

One question though: Where the hell is Magere Hein? He's been gone for a month.

 

 

Didn't you know...he was Prince

[ImNotHades 207]

I'll give it a try...here's my team - The Gay Squad:

 

1. Justin Bieber (Joker)

2. Peter Fonda

3. Lindsay Lohan

4. Macaulay Culkin

5. Gerard Depardieu

6. Janet Jackson

7. Charlie Sheen

8. Stevie Wonder

9. Jerry Lewis

10. Pele

11. Bill Cosby

12. Lepa Brena

13. Muhammad Ali

14. Sean Connery

15. Sidney Poitier

16. Elizabeth II

17. Elton John

18. Kirk Douglas

19. Tina Turner

20. Francis Ford Coppola

 

My crystal ball has spoken. Risky but I love to risk.

So do I get 7 points for Ali?

[Death Impends 8,029]

Hm unique hit with Goran Hadzic for me. Didn't have him on many pools as I wasn't convinced he was actually ill, but thought that if I was wrong he'd have the potential for a solid points total here.

 

Now to see how many obits he gets in the coming days.

[RadGuy 1,619]

It's been almost 6 months since the competition started.

 

Would some benevolent soul who is good at math (I am neither) care to tally up the scores?

[Cat O'Falk 3,290]

It's been almost 6 months since the competition started.

 

Would some benevolent soul who is good at math (I am neither) care to tally up the scores?

I had a look at it a couple of months ago with the intention of doing just that but came to realise not all of the entries are posted.

[Toast 16,209]

I wish we knew where Hein is.

[Death Impends 8,029]

Going to add the hits mentioned in the MHDP obits thread since the last unofficial scoreboard:

 

 

That makes sense, because otherwise people with only 1 obit would get 0 points. Adjusted, but still unofficial, results:

1. Switch: 62*2+53 = 177
2. Rad's Rad R'list: 62+53+23+33 = 171
3. Thomas Jefferson Survives: 45+62 = 107
4. Cancerous Hatred: 62+23+20 = 105
5. Yankee Go Home: 62
6. "O" (that is, the letter O): 62
7. The Unknown Man: 62
8. RoverAndOut: 53
9. msc: 21

• Anker Jørgensen 45 points (unique)
• Rob Ford 62 points
• Johan Cruyff 53 points
• Mother Angelica 23 points
• Kris Travis 33 points (unique)
• Bill Rosendahl 20 points (unique)
• Rachel Johnson 21 points (unique)
• Patricio Aylwin TBD – obits still incoming

 

 

• Patricio Aylwin - picked by Bibliogryphon - 8 basic points (5 age + 3 unique) - 13 obits - multiplier 4.7004 - 38 points (unique)
• Jenny Diski - picked by Unknown Man, JiroemonKimura, mpfc, and RadGuy - 8 basic points - 6 obits - multiplier 3.5850 - 29 points
• Susannah Mushatt Jones - picked by RadGuy and Hein - 3 basic points - 29 obits - multiplier 5.8580 - 18 points
• Muhammad Ali - picked by Unknown Man , ImNotHades, gcreptile, mpfc, RoverAndOut, Death Impends, Switch, Toast - 7 basic points - 55 obits - multiplier 6.7813 - 47 points (94 points for Unknown Man)
• Bernie Worrell - picked by JiroemonKimura and Death Impends - 14 obits - multiplier 4.8073 - 34 points
• Goran Hadzic - picked by Death Impends - 12 basic points (9 age + 3 unique) - 29 obits - multiplier 5.8580 - 70 points (unique)
• Peter Esterhazy - picked by gcreptile, JiroemonKimura, RadGuy, and Death Impends - 8 basic points - 22 obits - multiplier 5.4594 - 44 points (88 points for Death Impends)
• Kate Granger - picked by mpfc and RadGuy - 10 basic points - 1 obit - multiplier 1 - 10 points
• Joao Havelange - picked by Unknown Man, Bibliogryphon, gcreptile, JiroemonKimura, msc, RoverAndOut, RadGuy, and Toast - 4 basic points - 32 obits - multiplier 6 - 24 points
• Vera Caslavska - picked by gcreptile , JiroemonKimura, msc, and Death Impends - 7 basic points - 28 obits - multiplier 5.8073 - 41 points (82 points for gcreptile)

 

And the unofficial scoreboard now becomes:

1. Thomas Jefferson Survives: 45+62+47+34+70+44*2+41 = 387
2. Rad's Rad R'list: 62+53+23+33+29+18+44+10+24 = 296
3. "O" (that is, the letter O): 62+47+44+24+41*2 = 259
4. Cancerous Hatred: 62+23+20+29+34+44+24 = 236
5. Switch: 62*2+53+47 = 224
6. The Unknown Man: 62+29+47*2+24 = 209
7. RoverAndOut: 53+47+24 = 124
8. maryportfuncity: 29+47+10 = 86
9. msc: 21+24+41 = 86
10. Yankee Go Home: 62+18 = 80
11. Toast: 47+24 = 71
12. Bibliogryphon: 38+24 = 62
13. The Gay Squad: 47

[gcreptile 11,037]

Ok, I'm not doing too bad here, I guess I should have put more effort in finding obits (especially for my joker), but I didn't really find the time, or the mental focus.

[Rotten Ali 600]

I wish we knew where Hein is.

Not like him at all. I'm very concerned too.

[msc 18,512]

I'm still convinced that he's away on work related activities, for fear of the alternative. Didn't he have a lengthy hiatus a number of years ago? It also struck me that he disappeared shortly after Cruyff's death.

 

If The Grey Horde don't show up in the 2017 DDP, however...

[drol 12,085]

I'm still convinced that he's away on work related activities, for fear of the alternative. Didn't he have a lengthy hiatus a number of years ago? It also struck me that he disappeared shortly after Cruyff's death.

 

If The Grey Horde don't show up in the 2017 DDP, however...

No, I don't believe he was Cruyff. He would have put himself in his DDP team.

[Bibliogryphon 9,614]

I got Peres in this game.

[Switch 141]

I got Peres in this game.

The longer MH is away, the lesser our enthusiasm to search for obits. I wonder if it's a social experiment

[Cat O'Falk 3,290]

 

I got Peres in this game.

The longer MH is away, the lesser our enthusiasm to search for obits. I wonder if it's a social experiment

 

Reading between the lines, I think they've had a barney and Hein's buggered off.

[Death Impends 8,029]

Michal Kovac's death means a clean sweep of my uniques in this pool.

[Bibliogryphon 9,614]

Dario Fo was my joker.

[Toast 16,209]

 

 

I got Peres in this game.

The longer MH is away, the lesser our enthusiasm to search for obits. I wonder if it's a social experiment

 

Reading between the lines, I think they've had a barney and Hein's buggered off.

 

 

I would be greatly relieved if that's the explanation.

 

 

Now then. Why didn't I put King Bumblebee on my list?

[RadGuy 1,619]

Well, then, I think I remember some people saying they might be willing to take this over for Round 2.

 

However, I don't think anybody feels like it anymore, and that's good, if you ask me. There are so many deadpools running nowadays that it's for the best that we let some of them die out.