Yes - they are valid picks under this year’s rules. They will not be valid next year, and not only because they are already dead. When we had the discussion thread about the rules, there was strong consensus to change the rules to eliminate these choices in future. I plan to revive that thread in November to allow final decisions to be taken in advance for opening the 2010 contest on December 1. And to work out exactly how we handle validating the picks.
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Amarone, Hello I notice you go on, ahem, “trips” and I also notice, with my close attention to detail, that your picks are dropping like flies.
Coupled with the fact that you are clearly a man of some means to have so much free time to spend on spreadsheets, is there something you’re not telling us?
Hmm - and draw your own conclusions from the fact that three of my remaining survivors live a long way away - two are Antipodean - and are not easy to get to/at on a long weekend trip.
But I am proud of the fact that my spreadsheet needs no ongoing maintenance. On a death, all I do is enter the date and age, then sort the lists and everything else is done for me, even right down to generating the position with or without equal sign.
Larry Jansen, who compiled a 122-89 win-loss mark during a Major League Baseball career spent mostly with the New York Giants, has diied at the age of 89. Jansen was the winning pitcher in the decisive game of the 1951 National League playoff series against the Brooklyn Dodgers. The contest was ended by Bobby Thomson’s “shot heard 'round the world” home run which inspired broadcaster Russ Hodges’s now-legendary call: “The Giants win the pennant! The Giants win the pennant!”
I notice you go on, ahem, “trips” and I also notice, with my close attention to detail, that your picks are dropping like flies.
