Inverse Dead Pool 2020

[Clorox Bleachman 2,419]

1. Billy Connolly
2. Linda Nolan
3. Queen Elizabeth II
4. Rolf Harris
5. Doddie Weir
6. Barbara Windsor
7. Paul Gascoigne
8. Pope Benedict XVI
9. Michael Robinson
10. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
11. Bill Turnbull
12. Angela Lansbury
13. Olivia Newton-John
14. June Brown
15. Kirk Douglas
16. George Alagiah
17. Henry Kissinger
18. Leon Spinks
19. Jill Gascoine
20. Greg Gilbert
21. Jimmy Greaves
22. Prunella Scales
23. Olivia de Havilland
24. Bob Dole
25. Prince Philip
26. (Sam Lloyd)

[machotrouts 828]

I would like my Inverse Dead Pool crown back.

 

 

1.    Barbara Windsor
2.    Queen Elizabeth II
3.    Billy Connolly
4.    Bill Turnbull
5.    Linda Nolan
6.    Paul Gascoigne
7.    Doddie Weir
8.    Dick Van Dyke
9.    Angela Lansbury
10.    George Alagiah
11.    Olivia Newton-John
12.    Ruth Bader Ginsburg
13.    Rolf Harris
14.    Little Richard
15.    June Brown
16.    Betty White
17.    Greg Gilbert
18.    Mikhail Gorbachev
19.    Prunella Scales
20.    Terry Jones
21.    Henry Kissinger
22.    Bob Barker
23.    Olivia de Havilland
24.    Prince Philip
25.    Leslie Phillips

 

SUB: Sam Lloyd

 

 

That ought to do it.

[Death Impends 7,970]

And that shuts the door on Inverse 2020 entries. Good luck to everyone and their picks.

 

Stats now being tabulated...

[Death Impends 7,970]

STATS AND FACTS

 

The Inverse Dead Pool has dropped in participants compared to last year, with 36 players total (12 less than 2019 and identical to 2018). Donald Trump has usually been the top dog in the Inverse but he wasn't popular enough in the DDP this year to be Inverse eligible (the DDP - the one place where you wish Trump had popularity...). With Trump out, Gazza now sits atop the perch. There is also an unanimous pick this time around - every single team has at least some modicum of confidence in Angela Lansbury's ability to see the year out.

 

	Name	Total Points	Total # of Teams
1.	Paul Gascoigne	742	33
2.	Queen Elizabeth II	707	34
3.	Linda Nolan	646	33
4.	Billy Connolly	635	34
5.	Dick Van Dyke	616	34
6.	Angela Lansbury	601	36
7.	Barbara Windsor	529	34
8.	Bill Turnbull	490	29
9.	Doddie Weir	472	29
10.	Rolf Harris	457	32
11.	Olivia Newton-John	440	30
12.	June Brown	422	31
13.	Betty White	408	33
14.	Henry Kissinger	332	31
15.	Pope Benedict XVI	321	28
16.	Prunella Scales	296	30
17.	Ruth Bader Ginsburg	293	24
18.	Greg Gilbert	256	21
19.	Little Richard	234	23
20.	Olivia de Havilland	224	26
21.	George Alagiah	207	19
22.	Jimmy Greaves	200	19
23.	Mikhail Gorbachev	196	22
24.	Leon Spinks	189	18
25.	Jill Gascoine	188	19

 

Last year's people's choice would have finished in 10th place with 38 points, with Doris Day, Marieke Vervoort, and Valerie Harper the trio of landmines. Which of the above will follow in their paths?

 

Conversely, the community regards these ten as the most fecked:

 

	Name	Total Points	Total # of Teams
1.	Tom Smith	7	1
2.	Genesis P-Orridge	12	1
3.	Yoo Sang-Chul	13	2
4.	John Lewis	18	3
5.	Alex Trebek	21	4
6.	David Gulpilil	23	2
=7.	Nobby Stiles	28	8
=7.	Gianluca Vialli	28	7
9.	Susan Bayh	29	4
10.	John Andretti	32	3

 

Nobby Stiles has been in the bottom 10 for three years in a row. Will the community's continued lack of confidence in his stunning survivability be validated this year?

[Sir Creep 7,070]

3 hours ago, Death Impends said:

STATS AND FACTS

Conversely, the community regards these ten as the most fecked:

 

	Name	Total Points	Total # of Teams
3.	Yoo Sang-Chul	13	2
4.

 

Sir Creep will GLADLY take on 4 of those 13 points.  Are you people mad?  A world class athlete in his 60s gets diagnosed in November and you don't think he will last 14 months?  How many 80 year olds politicians with Panc C are we dealing since 2019 with who have shot past that mark?  Hell, didn't we do this with your girlfriend Ruth Ginsberg last year - I put her #1 to prove a point?  We did, and  I kept my garage full of 5-lb coffee cans. 

That's it, YOO are all subject to my 5 pounds of coffee challenge for 2020.  No way in hell (read: South Korea) is he dying this year.  2021 sure.
Put a 'like' and if he dies and you liked this post I'll ship it to the address of your choosing (or donate to foodbank).  I owe a photo to YWillz and I will honour that when I get home in a week (or maybe search out a food bank in Carlsbad NM this week).
SirC

[Joey Russ 7,225]

Yoo seem to miss the fact that he had to resign his position due to the pancan

[Sir Creep 7,070]

47 minutes ago, Joey Russ said:

Yoo seem to miss the fact that he had to resign his position due to the pancan

Yoo mean he decided to get chemo?  Like every patient?

[msc 18,442]

6 hours ago, Sir Creep said:

 

Sir Creep will GLADLY take on 4 of those 13 points.  Are you people mad?  A world class athlete in his 60s gets diagnosed in November and you don't think he will last 14 months?  How many 80 year olds politicians with Panc C are we dealing since 2019 with who have shot past that mark?  Hell, didn't we do this with your girlfriend Ruth Ginsberg last year - I put her #1 to prove a point?  We did, and  I kept my garage full of 5-lb coffee cans. 

That's it, YOO are all subject to my 5 pounds of coffee challenge for 2020.  No way in hell (read: South Korea) is he dying this year.  2021 sure.
Put a 'like' and if he dies and you liked this post I'll ship it to the address of your choosing (or donate to foodbank).  I owe a photo to YWillz and I will honour that when I get home in a week (or maybe search out a food bank in Carlsbad NM this week).
SirC

 

1. He's 48, not 60.

2. The average survival for a 40 something DDP pick averages out at 9.5 months. This can extend to 18+ months, but the mean is within the year. Interesting those averages go up per decade until 70+, although the 60 year olds are boosted by Simon Hoggart and Johnny Clegg, two very long term cases.

3. The two biggest stats for me personally is I am 10 out of 12 in pancreatic cancer DDP picks being successful, and 0 out of 14 in shortlisted but not picked pancreatic cancer names surviving the year not picked. To the point one of my rules of deadpooling is "dont ignore pancreatic cancer, you idiot". After all, if I'd picked 3 of them I shortlisted but ignored in 2016, I'd have won the DDP! There's even a post somewhere on here from 2016 where I note those 3 misses and go "yeah but it's not going to cost me, I suck at the DDP!" only for the rest of my team to have a word and dropped dead!

 

 

You *may* be right but the stats game point out to the risk.

[paddyfool 379]

Sir Creep,

 

The probability of surviving pancreatic cancer at one year from diagnosis is about 20%. https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/pancreatic-cancer/survival

 

Being young doesn't really help the chances, since younger people tend to have more aggressive cancers. Being physically fit does help the chances, but probably not enough.

 

EDIT: In short, I accept your challenge. (I choose the foodbank option, btw). 

[theoldlady 2,300]

@Sir Creep I would like to donate my coffee to a foodbank of your choice. I liked your post. Thank you. 

[BuffaloPhil 926]

Foodbank for me as well please @Sir Creep, since you're prepared to put your coffee where your mouth is it seems unfair on foodbank users not to take you up on it 

[Grim Up North 3,725]

On ‎20‎/‎01‎/‎2020 at 00:12, Death Impends said:

STATS AND FACTS

 

The Inverse Dead Pool has dropped in participants compared to last year, with 36 players total (12 less than 2019 and identical to 2018). Donald Trump has usually been the top dog in the Inverse but he wasn't popular enough in the DDP this year to be Inverse eligible (the DDP - the one place where you wish Trump had popularity...). With Trump out, Gazza now sits atop the perch. There is also an unanimous pick this time around - every single team has at least some modicum of confidence in Angela Lansbury's ability to see the year out.

 

	Name	Total Points	Total # of Teams
1.	Paul Gascoigne	742	33
2.	Queen Elizabeth II	707	34
3.	Linda Nolan	646	33
4.	Billy Connolly	635	34
5.	Dick Van Dyke	616	34
6.	Angela Lansbury	601	36
7.	Barbara Windsor	529	34
8.	Bill Turnbull	490	29
9.	Doddie Weir	472	29
10.	Rolf Harris	457	32
11.	Olivia Newton-John	440	30
12.	June Brown	422	31
13.	Betty White	408	33
14.	Henry Kissinger	332	31
15.	Pope Benedict XVI	321	28
16.	Prunella Scales	296	30
17.	Ruth Bader Ginsburg	293	24
18.	Greg Gilbert	256	21
19.	Little Richard	234	23
20.	Olivia de Havilland	224	26
21.	George Alagiah	207	19
22.	Jimmy Greaves	200	19
23.	Mikhail Gorbachev	196	22
24.	Leon Spinks	189	18
25.	Jill Gascoine	188	19

 

 

Last year's people's choice would have finished in 10th place with 38 points, with Doris Day, Marieke Vervoort, and Valerie Harper the trio of landmines. Which of the above will follow in their paths?

 

Conversely, the community regards these ten as the most fecked:

 

	Name	Total Points	Total # of Teams
1.	Tom Smith	7	1
2.	Genesis P-Orridge	12	1
3.	Yoo Sang-Chul	13	2
4.	John Lewis	18	3
5.	Alex Trebek	21	4
6.	David Gulpilil	23	2
=7.	Nobby Stiles	28	8
=7.	Gianluca Vialli	28	7
9.	Susan Bayh	29	4
10.	John Andretti	32	3

 

 

 

Nobby Stiles has been in the bottom 10 for three years in a row. Will the community's continued lack of confidence in his stunning survivability be validated this year?

 

All those stats and no room for Terry Jones...…..

[machotrouts 828]

On 19/01/2020 at 23:56, machotrouts said:

I would like my Inverse Dead Pool crown back.

 

...

 

20.    Terry Jones

 

...

 

That ought to do it.

 

Marathon not a sprint.

[paddyfool 379]

Not a good start...

[Death Impends 7,970]

Despite all the spam, spam, spam, spammity spam of his declining health in recent months, 10 teams expected Terry Jones's death as much as they did the Spanish Inquisition.

 

And now for a scoreboard completely different...

 

=1.	An Fear Bag	0
=1.	Annami	0
=1.	Bibliogryphon	0
=1.	BuffaloPhil	0
=1.	CaptainChorizo	0
=1.	Clorox Bleachman	0
=1.	Death Impends	0
=1.	drol	0
=1.	Etushispushingupdaisies	0
=1.	gcreptile	0
=1.	Grim Up North	0
=1.	Joey Russ	0
=1.	LizLemon	0
=1.	Mercarte	0
=1.	msc	0
=1.	Neobrakeon	0
=1.	Newjack	0
=1.	Pedro67	0
=1.	Spade_Cooley	0
=1.	The Dead Cow	0
=1.	The Old Crem	0
=1.	The Quim Reaper	0
=1.	The Unknown Man	0
=1.	Toast	0
=1.	Torva Messor	0
=1.	YoungWillz	0
=27.	grobler	6
=27.	machotrouts	6
29.	deadsox	7
30.	Philip	9
=31.	Book	10
=31.	paddyfool	10
=31.	theoldlady	10
34.	Sir Creep	13
35.	Skinny kiltrunner	16
36.	Great Uncle Bulgaria	17

[Great Uncle Bulgaria 1,282]

13 hours ago, Death Impends said:

36.

Great Uncle Bulgaria

17

•  

 

As the good book says about readimg too much into the the early stages of a year-long deadpool 'the last shall be first.' 

As those renowned philosophers Yazz and the Plastic Population would have it, the only way is up.

[Bibliogryphon 9,578]

32 minutes ago, Great Uncle Bulgaria said:

 

As the good book says about readimg too much into the the early stages of a year-long deadpool 'the last shall be first.' 

As those renowned philosophers Yazz and the Plastic Population would have it, the only way is up.

I admire your optimism but I think 17 points is more than Drol finished with at the end of 2019

 

However a number of players have commented how difficult it was to take decisions once the first few names are down

[machotrouts 828]

17 points was exactly my winning score in 2018. I'm not aware of anyone ever having won with a score of 0. Extrapolating from past trends, Great Uncle Bulgaria must be the most likely winner at this point.

[Sir Creep 7,070]

Oh please shall I post ‘person’s in decline’ Alzheimer’s media/family/pals comments?  They are amok with the living.  Pick and choose your 20/20 glasses there DI.  
SC

[Death Impends 7,970]

Most teams did not think Chris Doleman could tackle glio for another year, but five did and his demise might cause a defensive end for them...

 

=1.	An Fear Bag	0
=1.	Annami	0
=1.	Bibliogryphon	0
=1.	CaptainChorizo	0
=1.	Clorox Bleachman	0
=1.	Death Impends	0
=1.	drol	0
=1.	gcreptile	0
=1.	Grim Up North	0
=1.	Joey Russ	0
=1.	LizLemon	0
=1.	Mercarte	0
=1.	Newjack	0
=1.	Pedro67	0
=1.	Spade_Cooley	0
=1.	The Dead Cow	0
=1.	The Old Crem	0
=1.	The Quim Reaper	0
=1.	The Unknown Man	0
=1.	Toast	0
=1.	Torva Messor	0
=1.	YoungWillz	0
=23.	grobler	6
=23.	machotrouts	6
25.	deadsox	7
26.	Philip	9
=27.	Book	10
=27.	paddyfool	10
29.	BuffaloPhil	12
30.	Sir Creep	13
=31.	Skinny kiltrunner	16
=31.	theoldlady	16
33.	Great Uncle Bulgaria	17
34.	Neobrakeon	19
=35.	Etushispushingupdaisies	21
=35.	msc	21

[Neobrakeon 5]

-.-

[Death Impends 7,970]

John Andretti's death sees three teams crash early in the race, but plenty of time remains for a trip to the pit stop...

 

=1.	An Fear Bag	0
=1.	Annami	0
=1.	Bibliogryphon	0
=1.	CaptainChorizo	0
=1.	Clorox Bleachman	0
=1.	Death Impends	0
=1.	drol	0
=1.	gcreptile	0
=1.	Grim Up North	0
=1.	Joey Russ	0
=1.	LizLemon	0
=1.	Mercarte	0
=1.	Newjack	0
=1.	Pedro67	0
=1.	Spade_Cooley	0
=1.	The Dead Cow	0
=1.	The Old Crem	0
=1.	The Quim Reaper	0
=1.	The Unknown Man	0
=1.	Torva Messor	0
=1.	YoungWillz	0
22.	machotrouts	6
23.	deadsox	7
24.	Toast	8
25.	Philip	9
=26.	Book	10
=26.	paddyfool	10
28.	BuffaloPhil	12
29.	Sir Creep	13
=30.	Skinny kiltrunner	16
=30.	theoldlady	16
32.	Great Uncle Bulgaria	17
33.	grobler	18
=34.	Etushispushingupdaisies	21
=34.	msc	21
36.	Neobrakeon	31

[paddyfool 379]

I'm a little surprised that Moi wasn't on this list.

[Death Impends 7,970]

Kirk Douglas was Out of the Past agewise, but eight poolers hoped his Lust for Life would pull him through another year. Spartacus has departacus, plunging the teams who went for him 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea while Paths of Glory open up for those who went long. Who will emerge as Champion?

 

=1.	An Fear Bag	0
=1.	Annami	0
=1.	Bibliogryphon	0
=1.	CaptainChorizo	0
=1.	Death Impends	0
=1.	drol	0
=1.	gcreptile	0
=1.	Grim Up North	0
=1.	Joey Russ	0
=1.	LizLemon	0
=1.	Newjack	0
=1.	The Dead Cow	0
=1.	The Old Crem	0
=1.	Torva Messor	0
=1.	YoungWillz	0
16.	Spade_Cooley	3
=17.	Mercarte	4
=17.	The Quim Reaper	4
19.	Pedro67	5
20.	machotrouts	6
21.	deadsox	7
22.	Toast	8
23.	Philip	9
=24.	Book	10
=24.	paddyfool	10
26.	Clorox Bleachman	11
27.	BuffaloPhil	12
28.	Sir Creep	13
29.	The Unknown Man	15
=30.	Skinny kiltrunner	16
=30.	theoldlady	16
32.	Great Uncle Bulgaria	17
33.	grobler	18
34.	Etushispushingupdaisies	21
35.	msc	41
36.	Neobrakeon	54

[YoungWillz 21,044]

I didn't have Porridge, but breakfast is over for some. Maintaining a clean sheet so far, mwahahahaha!