msc 18,437 Posted September 24, 2020 1 hour ago, Gooseberry Crumble said: Out of curiosity how many different names are entered by deadpoolers each year in total in the DDP and secondly how many of them are unique and is the proportion of uniques rising year on year ? Thanks @msc Well the file on entrants I think must have every living candidate as it has over 13, 000 celebs on it, and this year we have 487 teams so can only have 9740 different celebs at most. (And obviously don't, just see the Drop 40...) Ah ok, xls confuses me (I'm the words guy not the programmer) but it looks like 3396 different picks, of which 2322 are unique. The third question is beyond my knowledge. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Grim Up North 3,725 Posted September 24, 2020 1 hour ago, Gooseberry Crumble said: Out of curiosity how many different names were entered by deadpoolers in 2020 in total in the DDP and secondly how many of them are unique and is the proportion of uniques rising year on year ? Thanks @msc 24 minutes ago, msc said: Ah ok, xls confuses me (I'm the words guy not the programmer) but it looks like 3396 different picks, of which 2322 are unique. Yes 3396 is correct. Although it was actually about 8,000 unique spellings that had to be pared down to 3396 different picks. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gooseberry Crumble 5,337 Posted September 24, 2020 1 hour ago, msc said: Well the file on entrants I think must have every living candidate as it has over 13, 000 celebs on it, and this year we have 487 teams so can only have 9740 different celebs at most. (And obviously don't, just see the Drop 40...) Ah ok, xls confuses me (I'm the words guy not the programmer) but it looks like 3396 different picks, of which 2322 are unique. The third question is beyond my knowledge. That's certainly a lot more uniques than I was anticipating. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Captain Hemlock 737 Posted September 26, 2020 I just want to say the Bill Gates Sr obituary is the absolute funniest one of the year, imho. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 12,576 Posted September 26, 2020 Crossposting from the Fringes of Fame thread. Georges Gustave Hollande needs to be added to the List of the Missed. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WEP 889 Posted September 26, 2020 12 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said: Crossposting from the Fringes of Fame thread. Georges Gustave Hollande needs to be added to the List of the Missed. As well as Katy Perry's grandmother https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/pregnant-katy-perrys-grandma-ann-hudson-dies-read-her-tribute/ http://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2013/celebs_H.html#hudsan Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Captain Hemlock 737 Posted September 30, 2020 Add Helen Reddy to List of the Missed. Looks like she was picked in 2015. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Old Crem 3,582 Posted September 30, 2020 6 hours ago, Captain Hemlock said: Add Helen Reddy to List of the Missed. Looks like she was picked in 2015. Considering her poor health was known I am shocked she is a miss. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,515 Posted October 3, 2020 If my brief spreadsheet work is correct, there are 58 names between the top 16 teams still in play. They are: 16 picks Alex Trebek 14 picks David Gulpilil 13 picks Tom Smith (inc 7 captain picks) 10 picks Yoo Sang-Chul 9 picks Gianluca Vialli 7 picks Susan Bayh 5 picks Greg Gilbert George Alagiah 4 picks Tim Bilton Nobby Stiles 3 picks Sinisa Mihajlovic Jana Bennett Bernard Tapie 2 picks Peter Tobin Litsa Menounos Lisa Griffiths Leon Spinks Lars Hogh Jimmy Carter Gavin Robertson Doug Supernaw Belinda Sykes 1 pick (not unique) Vicky Phelan Tracy Smothers Superstar Billy Graham Steve Gleason Sally Sheridan Sacheen Littlefeather Rachel Zoll Prince Philip Peter Sutcliffe O. J. Simpson Laura Nuttall Kerri Parker Jean-Louis Trintignant Harry Reid Estelle Parsons Ernie Moss Dewayne "Lee" Johnson Danielle Rosher Criscilla Anderson Brian Travers Bill Turnbull Bibian Mentel-Spee Betty White Barry Du Bois Andrew Mcdonald Andrea Swift Ady Barkan Linda Nolan Lee Noble 1 pick (unique) Tim Green Sylvain Sylvain Pete Felton (dead but not QOd yet) O. J. Brigance Mark Allen Liz Clarke-Saul (dead but not QOd yet) Hope Stringer Drop 40 names in italics. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,026 Posted October 3, 2020 Liz Clarke-Saul is dead with no QO also. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,964 Posted October 3, 2020 That's a lot to choose from for next year.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gooseberry Crumble 5,337 Posted October 5, 2020 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/10/04/sir-peregrine-worsthorne-fearless-former-editor-sunday-telegraph/ Conservative journalist Peregrine Worsthorne is a'hit ' for me in my Apricot Crumble tram. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
waynet 9 Posted October 5, 2020 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8770783/Australian-music-legend-Max-Merritt-dies-aged-79.html 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Captain Hemlock 737 Posted October 5, 2020 Add another to List of the Missed. I played former governor Mike Foster of Louisiana on my Die You on the Bayou team a few years back. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-8804743/2-term-Louisiana-governor-Mike-Foster-dies-90.html Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,026 Posted October 6, 2020 Cool write-up for Bobby Wilson, thanks! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Eesti 151 Posted October 6, 2020 On 21/09/2020 at 12:41, Eesti said: Currently on 16th position, but gaps are small. Here are my survivors: Tom Smith (Joker) - If this man doesn't go down. I don't have any chance at all. George Alagiah - Back on TV? F*ck. Noel Conway - Slowly dying, maybe too slowly... David Gulpilil - Why isn't this guy dead already? Yoo Sang-Chul - Clearly has to go at some point, but maybe not this year. Leon Spinks - I'd say it is very unlikely for him to survive this year. 90% chance that he dies before 2021. Nobby Stiles - Haven't seen any news about him. Could go this year, could go later. Alex Trebek - 50/50 chances. Jean-Louis Trintignant - According to sources should be dead already. What is going on? Bill Turnbull - Seems like not going this year... Eddie Van Halen - Nobody really knows when... dead 06/10/2020 So... if I get Smith, Gulpilil, Spinks and maybe 1-2 extras from the list, do I have any chance to win? I doubt it... so better luck next year! The death of Eddie van Halen puts me back on track... kind of... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted October 7, 2020 On 04/10/2020 at 22:06, Captain Hemlock said: Add another to List of the Missed. I played former governor Mike Foster of Louisiana on my Die You on the Bayou team a few years back. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-8804743/2-term-Louisiana-governor-Mike-Foster-dies-90.html I thought we had a Louisiana team which is why I didn’t enter one. How the hell didn’t they have Foster? Are they still around? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Joey Russ 7,220 Posted October 8, 2020 Looks like Mohammad-Reza Shajarian is another one for the list of the missed. Last picked in 2017 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WEP 889 Posted October 8, 2020 4 hours ago, Joey Russ said: Looks like Mohammad-Reza Shajarian is another one for the list of the missed. As well as German writer Günter de Bruyn: http://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2019/celebs_D.html#debruygx19 https://www.tagesschau.de/kultur/de-bruyn-nachruf-101.html Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Handrejka 1,903 Posted October 11, 2020 On 31/05/2020 at 09:39, Handrejka said: Michael Angelis is one for the List of the Missed. He was in my Carla Lane theme two years ago. And now he's joined by Ronald Forfar whom I somehow forgot to include in my scouse theme. https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/oct/11/ronald-forfar-obituary Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Captain Hemlock 737 Posted October 13, 2020 On 16/08/2020 at 20:01, CaptainChorizo said: http://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2019/celebs_F.html#ferrec Possibly one for the list of the missed if her wiki edit is accurate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conchata_Ferrell Sadly, this is now true. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WEP 889 Posted October 15, 2020 Percy Schmeiser, farmer and local politician, who fought agains Monasanto for the regulation of transgenic corps, for the List of the Missed: http://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2015/celebs_S.html#schmep https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5761714 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,437 Posted October 15, 2020 So, the complete changes to the 2021 DDP: FFBI picks BANNED As a result of the above, two other things aimed as the carrot part of this carrot and stick change. UNIQUE PICKS to be worth FOUR POINTS in 2021. Expanded Qualifying Obits (as far as is fair, but no NYT, Birmingham local mail, etc...) BBC*: bbc.co.uk/news (and all subsections, including the previously banned local news pages) bbc.co.uk/sport bbc.co.uk/newsbeat And from the UK versions of the following: telegraph.co.uk thetimes.co.uk ft.com theguardian.com dailymail.co.uk* express.co.uk* dailystar.co.uk thesun.co.uk* mirror.co.uk morningstaronline.co.uk inews.co.uk heraldscotland.com dailyrecord.co.uk *includes their Scottish equivalents of the same newspaper (As of 1/1/2018, the death announcements section of broadsheet websites, which members of the general public can pay for listings, are excluded) …and from these news sites: uk.reuters.com news.sky.com/uk skysports.com itv.com/news* (this includes local news pages, and STV/UTV) channel4.com/news independent.co.uk cityam.com uk.news.yahoo.com (must be a UK link) radiotimes.com economist.com The notice of death must be in written English. Video links are only accepted if the strapline mentions the celeb’s passing. Qualifying obit sources will be monitored in use and can be eliminated in future years if they promote dross picks unexpectedly. High scores on the teams pages was asked for. Don't hold your breath, we'll see if there's time in January. No daily bonuses as it would bugger up the system. No death announcements (Hatches, Matches, Dispatches) as they can be used to game the game, sorry Willz. And now all the Cmme need to do to prepare for 2021 is to panic over where the circa £80 needed to keep the website running for another year is coming from! (The mystery of why TMIB went nuts becomes less and less of a mystery with each open door backstage...) Sorted! See what a bit of sharing your stresses publicly can fix! 9 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Old Crem 3,582 Posted October 15, 2020 Dissaponited a mention on the last word was not added. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Toast 16,129 Posted October 15, 2020 Has there been any DDP pick so far not to have had a QO, but featured on 'Last Word'? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
