2024 SDMB Celebrity Death Pool

The Game Room
1762

You mean Flowers is pushing up daisies?

1763

Flowers is taking a dirt nap.

mmm

1764

Flowers has been planted.

1765

Kitten Mitten helped me out again. And after more digging I think this is the definitive list so far. And by saying that some difference is sure to pop up again.

1 Registered at Last 263 6 2
2 jeezums 221 5 2
3 RTFirefly 210 4 0
4 candide 194 4 0
5 phungi 191 4 0
6 Happy Lendervedder 173 4 1
7 Captain Klutz 135 3 0
7 critter 42 135 3 0
7 Kitten Mitten 135 3 0
10 Loach 126 3 2
11 GIGObuster 119 3 0
12 Mean Mr. Mustard 109 2 0
13 Queen Anne’s Lace 106 2 0
14 Superdude 99 3 0
15 Hoopy Frood 97 2 0
15 It’s Not Rocket Surgery 97 2 0
15 Little Nemo 97 2 0
15 Lord Feldon 97 2 0
15 RobotDevilDog 97 2 0
20 J-P L 85 2 0
21 zadscmc 75 3 1
22 Dung Beetle 74 2 0
23 Cazzle 71 2 1
24 Pardel-Lux 69 2 0
25 Stephe96 62 3 1
26 NoNoNo 60 3 0
27 jdracingfan 54 2 0
28 BuckyPO 53 2 0
28 Dancer_Flight 53 2 0
28 Kent_Clark 53 2 0
28 Mahaloth 53 2 0
28 Precambrianmollusc 53 2 0
28 RivkahChaya 53 2 0
34 Monstera delciosa 48 2 1
35 adriancohen100 47 1 0
35 Bayaker 47 1 0
35 Borborygmi 47 1 0
35 Catamount 47 1 0
35 CreaseMunky 47 1 0
35 Culling_The_Herd 47 1 0
35 Deanna_D 47 1 0
35 Dr. Girlfriend 47 1 0
35 gkster 47 1 0
35 GuanoLad 47 1 0
35 Gyrate 47 1 0
35 Jack Batty 47 1 0
35 Jegpeg 47 1 0
35 kitap 47 1 0
35 Larry_Borgia 47 1 0
35 Lsura 47 1 0
35 Maus Magill 47 1 0
35 McDeath_the_Mad 47 1 0
35 Mona_Lott 47 1 0
35 opiewan 47 1 0
35 Railer13 47 1 0
35 Rebo 47 1 0
35 Reindeer_Flotilla 47 1 0
35 Slow Moving Vehicle 47 1 0
35 SuntanLotion 47 1 0
35 tuesdayweld 47 1 0
35 Wheelz 47 1 0
35 WolfpackJeep 47 1 0
63 xizor 44 2 0
64 ZamboniAce 1000 30 2 0
65 JohnT 24 1 0
65 Mrs. Ducky 24 1 0
67 MarkF2004 20 1 1
68 blue67ccm 19 3 1
69 Shoeless 16 2 1
70 Allecher 12 1 1
71 Paul was in Saudi 11 2 0
72 Biotop 10 2 2
73 commasense 6 1 0
73 Czarcasm 6 1 0
73 Nother Yinzer 6 1 0
76 Moriarty 4 1 0
77 irritant 2 1 0
78 Baker 0 1 1
1766

Well, I’m still in Shannen Doherty place.

1767

90,210th place? :grin:

1768
1769

Here’s one we missed:

Betty A. Bridges, actress (NYPD Blue, ER, Good Times) and mother of actor Todd Bridges, died August 27 at the age of 83.

I just realized that Todd Bridges is the only surviving main cast member of Diff’rent Strokes. Gary Coleman, Dana Plato, Conrad Bain all preceded him.

1770

Whew. I’m relieved I’ve held on to my solid 73rd place! At least I’m one above @Czarcasm (alphabetically).

1771

Nobody ever remembers Danny Cooksey.

1772

He wasn’t what I considered part of the main cast, because he wasn’t there when the show premiered.

I may not have phrased it correctly, but I was referring to the main cast from the time the show started.

1773

I am considering putting out an Honorable Mention Award next year, for the player with the highest number calculated by their points divided by number of picks won. For example, this year the player currently in the lead for that would be RTFirefly, at 52.5 They have four choices totaling 210 points.

Think this would be acceptable?

1774

I have no problem with that.

1775

You would currently be at 33.

The point of this is to find the youngest people you can who have a good chance of passing.

1776

I would find it OK: it is coherent with the aim of the game, but it is a bit redundant in the sense that you should aim for the youngest people anyway if you want to score as many points as possible. And it would be possible to win that award with a single correct pick. My points this year so far come from Shannen Doherty and Franz Beckenbauer. Had I not chosen Beckenbauer, I think Doherty on her own would put me very close to the top of that award. In fact, I would be tied with 28 others who right now beat me because Beckenbauer pulls my average down!
I think this year’s RTFirefly high score with fout picks, all very young, is unusual (and kudos to them!). Mostly this award would be won by someone picking only a few candidates, often only one. And that is covered by the “Robbing the Cradle” Award.
Speaking about numbers: have you ever calculated what the maximum amount of total points would be if every candidate of every player died, how many points would have been scored in total? Just to compare that with the points actually scored, which would have to include the players with no score at all.

1777

That would probably have to be done at the end of the year, so as to get the maximum points for each candidate, including those who may have a birthday on 12/31.

1778

Before I vote, exactly how many dozen cookies are we talking about for the winner of this?

  1. I don’t want you over-taxed in the kitchen.
  2. The amount has to make it worth my while.
  3. The frenzied recalculations by the last minute entrants might result in nervous breakdowns or cause the SDMB servers to explode.
1779

I am aware that it would be a burdensome and tedious calculation: I (like the others) submitted a list with names, not with ages, neither at the beginning nor at the end of the year. And for the deceased candidates, they may have died before or after their respective birthdays. Lots of work to do and many potential mistakes.
Still, if the data were available, I’d be interested.

1780

Actually, in thinking about it, the calculation should be done early in the year, BEFORE any candidate dies. Then, for maximum points, one would assume that all candidates would die on 12/31, so as to get the most points for each candidate.

If all entries would add the year of birth to each candidate, that would be a good start. (For somebody to calculate, not me!)

1781

Who was the celeb who apparently gave a whopping 28 Dopers 47 points each?