Derby Dead Pool 1996-2008 History

 

(All stats are up to & including the deaths of Jaafar, G. Francis & E. Wilson)

 

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 46
3 Jesus Jones 42
4= Joe Ram, Meet Your Maker 39
6 Deathlist.net 36
7= Drunkasaskunk, Fallen Sparrow, Octopus of Odstock 35
10= Rude Kid, Stab In The Dark, Whittaker's Choice 34
13= Big Iain, I Smell Dead People 33
15= Already Dead, The Vyrdolak 31
17= Tim R, We Spin Terror 30
19= The Living End, They're Dead Y'Know! 27
21  The Raven 26
22 Ahove Average For Norfolk 25
23 The Plymouth Jury 24
24= Brown Bread, Canadian Paul, Godot's Waiting List, Slave To The Grave, The Last Gasp 23

 

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 271
2 One Foot In The Grave 240
3 Mr C 229
4 Stab In The Dark 228
5 Rude Kid 221
6 Already Dead 220
7 Joe Ram 217
8= Jesus Jones, Octopus of Odstock 214
10 Drunkasaskunk 203
11 The Living End 193
12 Fallen Sparrow 179
13 We Spin Terror 178
14= Godot's Waiting List, R.I.P. It All Up & Start Again 176
16= Deathlist.net, They're Dead Y'Know! 171
18 Canadian Paul 170
19 Whittaker's Choice 165
20 The Raven 164
21 I Smell Dead People 157
22 Eejit 154
23 Big Iain 152
24 Tim R 148
25= No Noose Is Good Noose, The Last Gasp 146
27= Brown Bread, Wormer, He's a Dead Man! Marmalard, Dead! Niedermeyer... 143
29 Above Average For Norfolk 142
30 The Vyrdolak 138
31 Master Mind 136
32 The Doffin Codgers 135
33 The Dorset Jury 134
34= Slave to the Grave, Time Is NOT On Our Side! 125
36 They Died & Left Me In Charge 124
37 The Pale Horseman's.... 123
38 Eat My Dust 120
39 Go Fish 119
40 Deceased Hose 117
41 Impaled on the Antlers of Doom 116
42= Cap'n Ohtz, Grobler's Stiff Ones 114
44 The Newstreet Boys Death Squad 111
45 International House of Death 110
46 Clathrate Gun 108
47 Bazzilliant 107
48= Naked Florida Gravediggers, Puzlman's Passing Picks, See, I Told You I Was Sick! 104

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 Hits  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 Hits In a Year

 

Canadian Paul, Godot's Waiting List, The Living End                                                                                            13

Fallen Sparrow, Meet Your Maker, They're Dead Y'Know!                                                                                12

I Smell Dead People, Master Mind, Meet Your Maker, Stab In The Dark, Wormer, He's a Dead Man....            11

 

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 Suzanne Pleshette 19th January 2008
600th Nouhak Phoumsavanh 9th September 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

Larry James, 61st birthday, 6th November 2008

 

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              632            

 

 

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                     98

Films                            79

Politics                         78

 

Most Deaths by Nationality:

 

USA            247

England        175

France           18

 

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

 

81.646

 

Most Popular Age at Death

 

94                    25 times

85, 86              24 times

 

Most Popular Day of Death

 

11th of Month         29 times

9th of Month           28 times

6th of Month           27 times

 

Most Popular Date of Death

 

9th February                                                            7 times

17th January, 2nd March, 23rd April, 13th August    6 times

 

Most Popular Month of Death

 

March                 71

January                68

July                      61

 

 

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