Inverse Dead Pool 2018

[John Key 747]

8 hours ago, YoungWillz said:

Yeah. I picked Aretha quite high on the basis I had her in my DDP team.

 

Unfortunately, the main DDP team is doing rather well this year, so it's a win win situation. Or win lose. Or something.

Glad to see she's higher on your list than mine  I didn't check other peoples lists, I wonder how this will change things? I chose Aretha even though she was in my shadow deathlist because she was sort of a wildcard - I didn't actually expect her to die! She's a treasure.

[machotrouts 828]

The people on my Derby Dead Pool team of #1 hitmakers who are also on my Inverse Dead Pool team – the ones who weren't properly imminent but were at least theme-team mortal – are Doris Day, Vera Lynn, and Olivia Newton-John. But, wisely, not Aretha Franklin. (Or Chris Rea, for that matter, who I maintain has been dead since 2017 and it's just that nobody's bothered to phone his agent and check.)

 

I'm currently 7th place. 5 of the 6 teams above me have Aretha. I like this thread now.

[CastAway 488]

Honestly I'd forgotten who I'd picked and where I'd placed them - given that apart from a few names, the list was basically pure guesswork with no research whatsoever, it was a good run, I guess!

[Joey Russ 7,220]

There’s a shakeup coming with Aretha’s death...

[YoungWillz 21,026]

Bugger!

 

A Change Is Gonna Come!

[Death Impends 7,956]

New scoreboard to come in about five hours.

[Death Impends 7,956]

Aretha Franklin's demise rearranges the scoreboard, with the majority of teams (including the last couple of straddling clean sheets) feeling like a Chain of Fools for picking her. R-E-S-P-E-C-T to the eight teams who opted otherwise - particularly theoldlady, who takes the lead and must Feel Like a Natural Woman at playing this game.

 

1.    theoldlady    4
2.    machotrouts    6
3.    Torva Messor    8
4.    John Key    9
5.    Grim Up North    12
6.    deadsox    16
7.    Wormfarmer    19
=8.    YoungWillz    20
=8.    CaptainChorizo    20
=8.    Joey Russ    20
=11.    Bibliogryphon    21
=11.    msc    21
=11.    The Dead Cow    21
=14.    CastAway    22
=14.    drol    22
=16.    Mercarte    23
=16.    Death Impends    23
=18.    gcreptile    24
=18.    Pedro67    24
20.    Dr_T    27
21.    CharonsCrew    29
22.    Garn2    32
=23.    Deathray    34
=23.    Spade_Cooley    34
=25.    FixedBusiness    37
=25.    Toast    37
=25.    Bentrovato    37
28.    Sean    40
29.    Dead Wait    42
30.    paddyfool    45
31.    Book    46
32.    Phantom of the Midway    50
33.    The Unknown Man    51
34.    time    53
35.    Sir Creep    54
36.    GraveDanger    55

 

[YoungWillz 21,026]

Just like Chuck Berry, Aretha's done for me! Ha!

 

Ah, well, still 4 months and a bit to go....

[gcreptile 10,964]

It will be an exciting finish. In my opinion, the biggest weakness of theoldlady's really good team is Simon Ricketts, and machotrouts has John McCain. But they are both placed very low in their teams.

[paddyfool 379]

A fine illustration of the power of a good landmine to upset the order of things.  And with 16 teams less than 20 points short of the leader, this could still go lots of different ways (although I expect one of the current top 5 teams will take it).

[Joey Russ 7,220]

Didn’t pick Stefan Karl here. Dodged another one again...

[Death Impends 7,956]

Here's a little lesson in deadpooling
Six of you will go down in the scoring
If you want to be the Inverse number one
You shouldn't have picked Stefan Karl Stefansson!

 

 

We are number one!

We are number one!

 

1.    theoldlady    4
2.    machotrouts    6
3.    John Key    9
4.    Torva Messor    10
5.    Grim Up North    12
6.    deadsox    16
7.    Wormfarmer    19
=8.    CaptainChorizo    20
=8.    Joey Russ    20
=8.    YoungWillz    20
=11.    msc    21
=11.    The Dead Cow    21
=13.    CastAway    22
=13.    drol    22
=15.    Bibliogryphon    23
=15.    Death Impends    23
=15.    Mercarte    23
18.    Pedro67    24
19.    gcreptile    25
20.    CharonsCrew    29
21.    Garn2    32
22.    Dr_T    33
=23.    Deathray    34
=23.    Spade_Cooley    34
=25.    Bentrovato    37
=25.    FixedBusiness    37
=25.    Toast    37
28.    Sean    40
29.    paddyfool    45
30.    Book    46
31.    Phantom of the Midway    50
=32.    Dead Wait    51
=32.    The Unknown Man    51
34.    time    53
35.    GraveDanger    55
36.    Sir Creep    57

 

[John Key 747]

Movin' on up - again! Top three single digits  

[paddyfool 379]

On 28/01/2018 at 00:13, Death Impends said:

 1.    John McCain    6
2.    Leah Bracknell    13
3.    Nobby Stiles    21
=4.    Charlotte Rae    23
=4.    Stefan Karl Stefansson    23
6.    Marieke Vervoort    24
7.    Tessa Jowell    28
8.    Fernando Ricksen    30
9.    Greg Gilbert    39
10.    Rev Billy Graham    43

 

4 out of these 10 have fallen so far, 6 still hanging in there...

[Death Impends 7,956]

All but two teams anticipated that John McCain would Arizone out this year - the least popular pick in collective score (though Leah Bracknell and Marieke Vervoort are on one less team). machotrouts and time were the only teams maverick enough to bet on the survival of a glioblastoma-addled octogenarian, which has proven a decision as unwise as making Palin your running mate. Both put him very low, meaning there's very little impact on the scoreboard, but it could still prove a crucial death as one of the affected is the current runner-up.

 

1.    theoldlady    4
2.    machotrouts    8
3.    John Key    9
4.    Torva Messor    10
5.    Grim Up North    12
6.    deadsox    16
7.    Wormfarmer    19
=8.    CaptainChorizo    20
=8.    Joey Russ    20
=8.    YoungWillz    20
=11.    msc    21
=11.    The Dead Cow    21
=13.    CastAway    22
=13.    drol    22
=15.    Bibliogryphon    23
=15.    Death Impends    23
=15.    Mercarte    23
18.    Pedro67    24
19.    gcreptile    25
20.    CharonsCrew    29
21.    Garn2    32
22.    Dr_T    33
=23.    Deathray    34
=23.    Spade_Cooley    34
=25.    Bentrovato    37
=25.    FixedBusiness    37
=25.    Toast    37
28.    Sean    40
29.    paddyfool    45
30.    Book    46
31.    Phantom of the Midway    50
=32.    Dead Wait    51
=32.    The Unknown Man    51
34.    GraveDanger    55
=35.    Sir Creep    57
=35.    time    57

 

[machotrouts 828]

This is not a game that incentivises risk-taking. I just figured McCain had months to go when people seemed to think he was imminent in January, and took a chance on him scraping 2019 to look like the forum psychic.

[Joey Russ 7,220]

Didn’t pick Denis Norden here. My small chance of a victory continues...

[Death Impends 7,956]

A bit more than half of our participants thought Denis Norden would be alright for another 365 nights. He instead takes his longest pause yet, moderately shaking up the scoreboard, and while theoldlady stays in first place, she's dropped just enough to have to share the podium with John Key. Also, ten teams now place below the guy who used Random.org to decide his names. My word...

 

=1.    John Key    9
=1.    theoldlady    9
3.    Grim Up North    12
4.    machotrouts    17
=5.    deadsox    20
=5.    Joey Russ    20
7.    The Dead Cow    21
=8.    CastAway    22
=8.    drol    22
=10.    Bibliogryphon    23
=10.    Death Impends    23
=10.    Wormfarmer    23
13.    Torva Messor    24
14.    gcreptile    25
15.    Pedro67    27
=16.    CaptainChorizo    30
=16.    YoungWillz    30
18.    msc    31
19.    Mercarte    33
=20.    Dr_T    36
=20.    Garn2    36
=22.    CharonsCrew    37
=22.    FixedBusiness    37
=22.    Toast    37
=25.    paddyfool    45
=25.    Sean    45
=27.    Book    46
=27.    Spade_Cooley    46
29.    Bentrovato    50
30.    Dead Wait    51
31.    Phantom of the Midway    56
=32.    Sir Creep    57
=32.    time    57
34.    Deathray    58
35.    GraveDanger    61
36.    The Unknown Man    71

[Joey Russ 7,220]

Never thought I’d rank this highly in the inverse pool tbh. Not to worry, someone like Val Kilmer will probably drop me to the mid table mediocrity that I’m used to being in this pool...

[paddyfool 379]

I'm still expecting Leah Bracknell at least to add to my random points total some time this year. We shall see...

[Bibliogryphon 9,570]

Olivia Newton-John would kill this game for me.

[theoldlady 2,297]

On 21/01/2018 at 17:36, The Unknown Man said:

Here is mine for 2018:

 

1. Stephen Hawking

2. Donald Trump

3. Jimmy Carter

4. Paul Gascoigne

5. Robert Mugabe

6. Denis Norden

7. Prince Philip

8. George H. W. Bush

9. Little Richard

10. Aretha Franklin

11. Valerie Harper

12. Dick Van Dyke

13. Stan Lee

14. Terry Jones

15. Henry Kissinger

16. Rev. Billy Graham

17. Queen Elizabeth II

18. Terry Jones

19. Vera Lynn

20. Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI

21. Val Kilmer

22. Clive James

23. Alberto Fujimori

24. Olivia de Havilland

25. Bob Dole

 

Sub:

26. Bob Barker

If Terry Jones should pass away during 2018, will the Unknown Man be down both minus 8 points AND minus 12 points?

[Death Impends 7,956]

Thank you for noticing and mea culpa not catching that much earlier. I gave it five minutes of thought and decided, because TUM entered a sub, to remove the second Terry Jones and put Bob Barker in spot 25. This has zero impact on TUM's rock-bottom score as everyone below Terry Jones #2 is still alive.

[paddyfool 379]

Just out of curiosity: if there was still a tie for pole position at the end of the year, how would the winner be decided?

[John Key 747]

On 27/09/2018 at 21:10, paddyfool said:

Just out of curiosity: if there was still a tie for pole position at the end of the year, how would the winner be decided?

Whoever has less money in their bank account? Whoever's last pay-check was the lowest? Whoever is in the most university debt?