Derby Dead Pool 1996-2008 History
(All stats are up to & including the death of Manekshaw)
Competitors
Most Titles
Drunkasaskunk, Meet Your Maker, Nick J 2
Deathlist.net, Fallen Sparrow, Joe Ram, MT Graves, Otis, You Want a Treat?, Whittaker's Choice 1
Scored the first hit of the year & then went on to win the Title
Nick J (1997), Drunkasaskunk (1998), MT Graves (2000)
Most Runners-Up
Otis, You Want a Treat, Stab In The Dark 2
Ed K, Finbarr Saunders, Ghoulish Guesses, Go Fish, Hoppo, I Smell Dead People, Jesus Jones, Joe Ram, Mr C, One Foot In the Grave, Rice Man 1
Most Hits
(The totals below include both the current name of the team & any former names)
| Position | Name | Hits |
| 1 | Mr C | 48 |
| 2 | One Foot In The Grave | 45 |
| 3 | Jesus Jones | 40 |
| 4 | Joe Ram | 36 |
| 5 | Meet Your Maker | 35 |
| 6= | Deathlist.net, Drunkasaskunk | 34 |
| 8= | Big Iain, Whittaker's Choice | 33 |
| 10= | Octopus of Odstock, Stab In The Dark | 31 |
| 12= | Fallen Sparrow, I Smell Dead People, Rude Kid | 30 |
| 15= | I Smell Dead People, Tim R, The Vyrdolak | 29 |
| 17 | We Spin Terror | 28 |
| 18 | Already Dead | 27 |
| 19 | The Raven | 26 |
| 20 | They're Dead Y'Know! | 25 |
| 21= | Above Average For Norfolk, The Living End, The Plymouth Jury | 24 |
| 24 | R.I.P. It All Up & Start Again | 22 |
| 25= | Eat My Dust, Juicy Janny, Slave To The Grave | 21 |
Most Points
(The totals below include both the current name of the team & any former names)
(New points system in place from 2007 onwards)
| Position | Name | Points |
| 1 | Meet Your Maker | 243 |
| 2 | One Foot In The Grave | 233 |
| 3 | Mr C | 229 |
| 4 | Stab In The Dark | 208 |
| 5 | Jesus Jones | 203 |
| 6 | Joe Ram | 201 |
| 7= | Drunkasaskunk, Rude Kid | 195 |
| 9 | Octopus of Odstock | 188 |
| 10 | Already Dead | 184 |
| 11 | R.I.P. It All Up & Start Again | 176 |
| 12 | The Living End | 170 |
| 13 | We Spin Terror | 166 |
| 14 | The Raven | 164 |
| 15 | Deathlist.net | 160 |
| 16 | They're Dead Y'Know! | 159 |
| 17 | Whittaker's Choice | 158 |
| 18= | Big Iain, Godot's Waiting List | 152 |
| 19 | Fallen Sparrow | 145 |
| 21 | Tim R | 141 |
| 22 | Eejit | 139 |
| 23 | Above Average For Norfolk | 138 |
| 24 | The Dorset Jury | 134 |
| 25 | Canadian Paul | 130 |
| 26 | The Vyrdolak | 128 |
| 27 | I Smell Dead People | 127 |
| 28 | Eat My Dust | 120 |
| 29= | Go Fish, The Last Gasp | 119 |
| 31 | Impaled on the Antlers of Doom | 116 |
| 32 | Cap'n Ohtz | 114 |
| 33 | The Doffin Codgers | 113 |
| 34 | Slave to the Grave | 112 |
| 35= | Brown Bread, The Newstreet Boys Death Squad | 111 |
| 37 | Deceased Hose | 110 |
| 38 | Time is NOT On Our Side! | 107 |
| 39 | No Noose Is Good Noose | 105 |
| 40 | Siegfried Baboon | 103 |
| 41= | Carkers Convention, The Grey Horde | 100 |
| 43= | But I'm Not Dead Yet, Juicy Janny | 99 |
| 45 | Grobler's Stiff Ones | 98 |
| 46 | Mollie Sugden's Old Pussy | 97 |
| 47 | International House of Death | 96 |
| 48= | Madonna's Hand of Bod, Puzlman's Passing Picks | 95 |
| 50= | Clathrate Gun, It's Grim Up North | 92 |
Most Consecutive Hits (In A Row)
Finbarr Saunders 5
Nick J 4
Dr Death's Diabolical Dice of Doom, Fallen Sparrow, Meet Your Maker, Mr C, Old Blue Eyes, Rigor Mortis Makes Us Hard, They Died & Left Me In Charge 3
Most Picks In a Month
Dead Ends, Dr Death's Diabolical Dice of Doom, Misers, Rigor Mortis Makes Us Hard, They're Dead Y'Know! 5
Most Picks In a Year
Fallen Sparrow, Meet Your Maker 12
I Smell Dead People, Stab In The Dark 11
Dark Clouds & Silva Livings, Godot's Waiting List, R.I.P It All Up & Start Again, The Living End, They're Dead Y'Know! (x2),
We Spin Terror 10
Most Years In Competition
Jesus Jones 13
Big Iain, The Graveyard Shifters 12
Above Average for Norfolk 11
Candidates
DDP Death Milestones
| Death Milestone | Name | When |
| 1st | Francois Mitterand | 8th January 1996 |
| 10th | Brian Connolly | 9th February 1997 |
| 50th | DeForest Kelly | 11th June 1999 |
| 100th | John Lee Hooker | 21st June 2001 |
| 200th | Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands | 1st Dec 2004 |
| 250th | Ronnie Barker | 3rd October 2005 |
| 300th | Floyd Patterson | 11th May 2006 |
| 400th | Eddie Robinson | 3rd April 2007 |
| 500th | Louis de Cavenaze | 20th January 2008 |
Biggest Hit (Percentage of teams who picked compared to total teams in competition)
Mother Teresa (1997) 85%
Frank Sinatra (1998) 71%
Pope John Paul II (2005) 70%
Picked the Most by teams in a competition
Mother Teresa 85% (1997)
The Queen Mother/Frank Sinatra/Pope John Paul II 71% (1998)/(1998)/(1999)
Pope John Paul II 70% (2005)
Candidates on the DDP for the shortest duration
2 days - Cyril Fletcher (2005), Charles "Garry" Betty (2007), Yo Sam Choi & Princess Galyani Vadhana (2008)
Candidate on the DDP for the longest time
Sir Tom Finney 12 years, (1996-2008)
(This is due to an error in the 1996 competition that wrongly listed Finney as dead. As no information on the candidates chosen, bar those that died, of course, is available, then the only one that can be certified as being picked is Finney!)
Candidates chosen every year on the DDP (where records are known)
Muhammad Ali, Captain Beefheart, Fidel Castro, Arthur C. Clarke (died 2008), Kirk Douglas, Rev. Billy Graham, Stephen Hawking, Charlton Heston (died 2008), Sir Edmund Hillary (died 2008), Holly Johnson, Nelson Mandela, Patrick Moore, The Queen, Nancy Reagan, Keith Richards, Mickey Rooney, Sir Jimmy Savile, Eric Sykes, Elizabeth Taylor, Margaret Thatcher, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Norman Wisdom
Earliest Deaths in a Year
A.I. Bezzerides 1st January 2007
Cyril Fletcher 2nd January 2005, Charles "Garry" Betty, 2nd January 2007, Princess Galyani Vadhana & Yo Sam Choi, 2nd January 2008
Latest Death in a Year
Sir John Peel 31st December 2005
Sarah Knauss 30th December 1999, Artie Shaw, 30th December 2004, Saddam Hussein, 30th December 2006
Most Jokers on a Hit
Dudley Moore (2002) 17% of all teams, 41% of those that picked him
Warren Zevon (2003) 16% of all teams, 67% of those that picked him
The Queen Mother (2001) 15% of all teams, 25% of those that picked her
Youngest Deaths
Jaymee Bowen 11yrs old (1996)
Josie Grove 16yrs old (2007)
Tom Hurndall 22yrs old (2004)
Brad Renfro 25yrs old (2008)
Oldest Deaths
Jeanne Calment 122yrs old (1997)
Sarah Knauss 119yrs old (1999)
Kamato Hongo 116yrs old (2003)
Maria Esther de Capovilla & Elizabeth Bolden 116yrs old (2006)
(Note:- Cruz Hernandez (d. 2007) was allegedly in her 120's when she died, but this has not been verified & hence she is not included in these stats above)
Candidates who died on their Birthday
Bunny Austin, 94th birthday, 26th August 2000
Candidates who died an "Unnatural" Death
(Note:- Executions are not counted in these figures - unnatural is basically anything other than a death from natural causes (dur!), which means bombs, suicide, car crashes etc.)
Total: 9
Car Crash: Desmond Llewellyn
Suicide/Overdose: Paula Yates, Anna Nicole Smith, Brad Renfro
Murdered/Killed: Tom Fox, Denis Donaldson, Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi
Accident: Shamil Basayev, Steve Irwin
Non-Human Picks
Cheeta the Chimpanzee - 2 teams(!) - 1998
Most Personal Pick
My Ex-Wife (Ray T - 2000)
Candidates who Died earliest in the New Year but were not picked:
Teddy Kollek d. 2 January 2007 (picked in 2006)
Jerry Quarry d. 3 January 1999 (picked in 1998)
Other Random Stats
Total Deaths 570
Most In One Day:
4 - 30th July 2007 - (Meshkini, Walsh, Bergman, Antonioni)
Most In One Month:
21 - January 2008
Most Deaths by Profession:
TV/Radio 93
Films 73
Politics 71
Most Deaths by Nationality:
USA 217
England 162
France 17
Most Consecutive Deaths by Nationality:
7: - England, 11th July 2000-21st Sep 2000: - (Runcie, Guinness, Austin, Wilcox, Waddington, Yates, Egerton)
U.S.A, 2nd May 2006-6th June 2006:- (Rukeyser, Woods, Asplund, Patterson, Kunitz, Bentsen, Preston)
Average Age of Death
80.728
Most Popular Age at Death
94 23 times
88 21 times
85, 86 20 times
Most Popular Day of Death
9th of Month 27 times
11th of Month 26 times
30th of Month 25 times
2nd & 3rd of Month 24 times
Most Popular Date of Death
9th February 7 times
17th January, 2nd March, 23rd April 6 times
Most Popular Month of Death
March 71
January 68
February 59
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