Death By Numbers 2019

[markb4 902]

10 hours ago, gcreptile said:

Yes, I used the wiki DoB. Ah, now I remember there was an issue. What's your suggestion?

 

Oh well if you used the Wiki DoB, then it should have come to 157: Finney (36) + Channing (21) + Day (22) + Jean, Grand Duke (21) + Donen (24) + Conway (33) = 157.

 

And now with Wouk (15), the score should now be 172.

[gcreptile 10,978]

Quick update to correct for a small Doris Day mistake:

 

New hits: Quentin Pongia, Herman Wouk

Bobby Joe Maxwell is a non-obit, almost certainly. No changes in the other non-obits.

Also, I forgot to mention another non-obit that happened a couple of weeks ago: Bishop Francis Quinn.

 

That's a ton of non-obits...

 

DDT has both good news (Pongia moves him into 4th) and bad news (Donbavand non-obit) - new scoreboard:

 

1	Death Impends	769
2	GCReptile	725
3	Cpt Chorizo	678
4	Devon Death Trip	672
5	Phantom of the Midway	657
6	msc	623
7	Banana	621
8	Joey Russ	620
9	Clorox Bleachman	610
10	drol	571
11	Sir Creep	511
12	Skinny Kiltrunner	482
13	Grim Up North	367
14	YoungWillz	297
15	Yorkshire Banker	230
16	Prophet	186
17	markb4	172
18	theoldlady	134
18	Gooseberry Crumble	134
20	Book	129
21	The mad hatter	117
21	Fixed Business	117
23	John Key	108
24	Deathray	95
25	The old crem	93
26	Pedro 67	90
27	Grave Danger	85
28	The Unknown Man	48
29	The Quim Reaper	33
30	Bibliogryphon	0

 

[Gooseberry Crumble 5,346]

Author Judith Kerrs passing is a 'hit' for me in this pool. 

 

[Bibliogryphon 9,588]

Paul Darrow will be my first hit here. When he gets an obit.

[gcreptile 10,978]

He did! So everyone now has points. Update next weekend.

[Pedro67 232]

Norman Dewis a hit for me. Nailed on Obit I would have thought.

 

[gcreptile 10,978]

Update time!

I was glad to see that we kind of hit every "old person death" that we got in the past 3-4 weeks - well, except for Prem Tinsunalonda, as far as I can tell.

 

Paul Darrow, Thad Cochran, Judith Kerr, Bart Starr, Claus Van Bülow.

Plus belated obits for Tommy Donbavand and Mary Stopes-Roe.

 

The former puts DDT at 2nd place. And I was disappointed to find out that I hadn't picked him - but well, there you see my december research that made me pick him for the B-team, but not here, as this team was assembled on December 1st.

Mary Stopes-Roe gives Pedro a welcome hit, but he also has two more people now waiting for obits: Robin Herd and Norman Dewis. They should get them, in my opinion. And in terms of number of hits, Pedro will be quite up there.

 

I also added Bob Hawke's points for Skinny Kiltrunner. That eluded me the last time.

And as I have to leave the computer soon, there might be an omission here and there. If you notice mistakes, tell me.

 

1	Death Impends	769
2	Devon Death Trip	739
3	GCReptile	725
4	Phantom of the Midway	694
5	Cpt Chorizo	678
6	Clorox Bleachman	651
7	msc	623
8	Banana	621
9	Joey Russ	620
10	drol	571
11	Skinny Kiltrunner	511
11	Sir Creep	511
13	Grim Up North	434
14	YoungWillz	297
15	Yorkshire Banker	230
16	Prophet	186
17	The mad hatter	177
18	markb4	172
19	Gooseberry Crumble	157
20	Fixed Business	151
21	Grave Danger	145
22	theoldlady	134
23	Book	129
24	Pedro 67	117
25	John Key	108
26	Deathray	95
27	The old crem	93
28	The Unknown Man	48
29	Bibliogryphon	41
30	The Quim Reaper	33

 

Again, the reminder: Replacement period is soon!

[YoungWillz 21,058]

On ‎09‎/‎06‎/‎2019 at 01:04, Pedro67 said:

Norman Dewis a hit for me. Nailed on Obit I would have thought.

 

Norman's Telegraph mention Pedders: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cars/features/norman-dewis-personal-tribute/

[Grim Up North 3,726]

QO for this pool

 

Sad story. RIP.

[gcreptile 10,978]

Small Update:

 

New hits: Gabriele Grunewald (massive points for Cpt Chorizo and GuN!), Pat Bowlen and Franco Zeffirelli.

Plus, a belated obit for Norman Dewis for Pedro.

Also, I forgot to give points to Book and Clorox for Niki Lauda, AND points to Deathray for Herman Wouk - which is corrected now. Sorry, sometimes it's just too much for me to handle manually. I think I can improve the Excel table there, to make the hits count automatically, maybe next year (ahem....) ... but for now, I still find these mistakes myself, eventually.

 

Rank	Team name	Points
1	Death Impends	769
2	Cpt Chorizo	764
3	Devon Death Trip	739
4	Phantom of the Midway	738
5	GCReptile	725
6	Clorox Bleachman	700
7	msc	623
8	Banana	621
9	Joey Russ	620
10	drol	571
11	Grim Up North	520
12	Skinny Kiltrunner	511
12	Sir Creep	511
14	YoungWillz	297
15	Yorkshire Banker	230
16	Prophet	209
17	Book	178
18	The mad hatter	177
19	markb4	172
20	Gooseberry Crumble	157
21	Fixed Business	151
22	Grave Danger	145
23	Pedro 67	137
24	theoldlady	134
25	Deathray	110
26	John Key	108
27	The old crem	93
28	The Unknown Man	48
29	Bibliogryphon	41
30	The Quim Reaper	33

 

 

As you can see, it's getting crowded up there. Chorizo just 5 pts behind DI, Phantom of the Midway (formerly known as RadGuy) just one point behind DDT.

 

The real reason for the update - here are the rules for the substitution period - copy/pasted from last year.

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

On the day of June 30th, from 00:00GMT to 23:59GMT, you can exchange up to 5 names from your team for different names. 

You don't have to do 5, you can do 4, 3, 2, 1, or even make no changes at all. It is up to you. But 5 is the maximum. Your changes must be posted in this thread - not thru PM - in the 24 hour period stated above. Your changes will "go live" at 00:00 GMT July 1st.

Now, for the specifics. You can not transfer out a name that died (why would you want to anyway?). You can not transfer out a name that didn't get an obit. They're stuck on your team forever. *evil laugh*

You also can not change your joker for a different joker. Whoever you picked at the beginning of the year will be your joker for the next 6 months as well.

So, to answer GUN's question - I've decided you can't "lose" your joker either, as in transfer them out and continue in the game without a joker. 

Basically, no joker changes at all.

If you transfered somebody out, and it is later announced that they died in June or earlier, you don't get points even if they were technically still on your team at the time of their death. What matters is that they weren't on your team anymore at the time of their death announcement.

I want all of you to provide 1 substitute when you make your post with the transfers, because if you transfer somebody in, and they are announced within 48 hours of your transfers being posted (so sometime on July 2nd GMT) to have died in June or earlier, they will be replaced on your team with your substitute. However, if it takes more than 48 hours after the posting of your transfers for their death to be announced, they will stay on your team and no substitutions will be made. You'll just not get any points.

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

 

So, post here on June 30th. I am not sure if there will be another update before that.

[YoungWillz 21,058]

I won't be making any changes as usual gcreptile. I'm just that kind of a guy.

[markb4 902]

I also will keep what I have.

[Death Impends 7,979]

1 hour ago, gcreptile said:

Small Update:

 

New hits: Gabriele Grunewald (massive points for Cpt Chorizo and GuN!), Pat Bowlen and Franco Zeffirelli.

Plus, a belated obit for Norman Dewis for Pedro.

Also, I forgot to give points to Book and Clorox for Niki Lauda, AND points to Deathray for Herman Wouk - which is corrected now. Sorry, sometimes it's just too much for me to handle manually. I think I can improve the Excel table there, to make the hits count automatically, maybe next year (ahem....) ... but for now, I still find these mistakes myself, eventually.

 

If you want, I could guide you through the process I do for the deadpools I host. I have a mechanism that automatically detects if someone is dead or alive based on a masterlist (which is where the "killings" take place), and it assigns points based on that.

[gcreptile 10,978]

2 minutes ago, Death Impends said:

 

If you want, I could guide you through the process I do for the deadpools I host. I have a mechanism that automatically detects if someone is dead or alive based on a masterlist (which is where the "killings" take place), and it assigns points based on that.

Thank you, I can do it, too, though. I would use my longlist as the masterlist, and use the cell [year of birth] - 1900 as the score.

Only problem is, that my longlist itself hasn't been quite up to date. Doing some work on it today.

[Toast 16,145]

2 hours ago, Death Impends said:

 a masterlist (which is where the "killings" take place)

 

[Pedro67 232]

Looking forward to a huge points haul for this one

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/europes-oldest-person-dies-age-16535840

[gcreptile 10,978]

Okay, here's a quick update.

Mainly to remind you of the substitution period on July 1st.

 

Post up to 5 replacements here in this thread on July 1st, UK time zone.

If your replacement dies on July 1st, they only count if you posted here before their time of death.

If your replacement died before, even if it was only found to be the case after, they don't count.

If it is unclear whether they died before you placed them into your team, I will tend towards being lenient.

Fame requirements are the same as half a year ago: I allow any name if it is more than just a sob story.

Terminally ill fan who gets into the news because of his illness = no.

Terminally ill fan who was a household name before his illness = yes

Terminally ill fan who gets into the news, founds a cancer awareness charity, becomes an MBE, changes laws, plays a role in society, etc... = yes

 

By the way... any "Oldest person of/in XYZ" is allowed. Not much harm done, I suppose. But sometimes, 5 points is better than 0.

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Okay, so since last update we only had three hits: Helen Legh, Beth Chapman and Maria Robucci (MASSIVE 3 points to Pedro!).

So the half-time standings is this:

 

1	GCReptile	866
2	Death Impends	843
3	Cpt Chorizo	831
4	Clorox Bleachman	767
5	Devon Death Trip	739
6	Phantom of the Midway	738
7	msc	690
8	Banana	688
9	Joey Russ	687
10	drol	638
11	Grim Up North	587
12	Skinny Kiltrunner	578
12	Sir Creep	578
14	YoungWillz	297
15	Book	245
16	Yorkshire Banker	230
17	Prophet	209
18	The mad hatter	177
19	John Key	175
20	markb4	172
21	Gooseberry Crumble	157
22	Fixed Business	151
23	Grave Danger	145
24	Pedro 67	140
25	theoldlady	134
26	The Unknown Man	115
27	Deathray	110
28	The old crem	93
29	Bibliogryphon	41
30	The Quim Reaper	33

 

I scored with both Legh and Chapman and get the lead. And with me not using the replacements - I think it was good while it lasted!

DI missed the Chapman hit, but among his close competitors only Cpt Chorizo had her.

[Skinny kiltrunner 553]

Sent in my subs by PM. I didn't see your last post, GC, saying to post to thread until it was sent. Sorry about that, feel free to paste it into the thread if need be.

[gcreptile 10,978]

3 hours ago, Skinny kiltrunner said:

Sent in my subs by PM. I didn't see your last post, GC, saying to post to thread until it was sent. Sorry about that, feel free to paste it into the thread if need be.

Thank you!

However, same rules for everyone - so they need to be posted here. As an exception, I can do it on July 1st myself. I don't know yet when exactly during the day I get the chance to do it - just saying it could be in the evening in the worst case. So there might be a slight risk involved, in the case of one of your subs dying early on the 1st. You can still do it yourself, of course, if you want to eliminate that risk.

 

Transfer day is July 1st, your old picks count until then, even if you notified me before.

 

[Skinny kiltrunner 553]

1 hour ago, gcreptile said:

Thank you!

However, same rules for everyone - so they need to be posted here. As an exception, I can do it on July 1st myself. I don't know yet when exactly during the day I get the chance to do it - just saying it could be in the evening in the worst case. So there might be a slight risk involved, in the case of one of your subs dying early on the 1st. You can still do it yourself, of course, if you want to eliminate that risk.

 

Transfer day is July 1st, your old picks count until then, even if you notified me before.

 

Here they are then:

Please add: Randy Romero, Holly Clegg, Tom Long, Michael Sleggs, and Ivan Milat. Subs for these folks if needed are Chng Seok Tin and Beji Essebsi. 

[theoldlady 2,306]

@gcreptile do we also have to say the 5 names the substitution names are suppossed to replace? Like if I should choose Randy Romero, do I need to say he replaces Bob Dole for example? Thanks!

[gcreptile 10,978]

3 hours ago, theoldlady said:

@gcreptile do we also have to say the 5 names the substitution names are suppossed to replace? Like if I should choose Randy Romero, do I need to say he replaces Bob Dole for example? Thanks!

Yes, please!

 

@Skinny kiltrunner Okay, I read your names. It's still wrong though, because it's supposed to happen on July 1st. And yes, the names to be replaced are missing. 

 

[Skinny kiltrunner 553]

18 hours ago, Skinny kiltrunner said:

Here they are then:

Please add: Randy Romero, Holly Clegg, Tom Long, Michael Sleggs, and Ivan Milat. Subs for these folks if needed are Chng Seok Tin and Beji Essebsi. 

Sorry, I thought July 1 was the deadline, not the absolute day of reckoning. For completeness,  then, here is the full copy of the PM I sent you:

 

Hello GC.  Here are my changes  for DBN.  

 

Please remove: anita Doth, Anita Cochrane, Julie Strain, Richard Parsons and Sonali Bendri.

Please add: Randy Romero, Holly Clegg, Tom Long, Michael Sleggs, and Ivan Milat. Subs for these folks if needed are Chng Seok Tin and Beji Essebsi. 

 

Thank you for this.

 

Skinny Kiltrunner 

 

[Sir Creep 7,070]

REPLACEMENTS?  lord.....

OK so I just looked and like 1/3 of my team names crossed off, all at the top of the alphabet.  Confusing, not to mention inaccurate.
SC

[Bibliogryphon 9,588]

I am electing to not make any changes.