Derby Dead Pool 1996-2010 History

 

(All stats are up to & including the death of Cardinal Daly)

 

Competitors

 

Most Titles

Drunkasaskunk, Meet Your Maker, Nick J                                                                                                                                                                              2

Deathlist.net, Fallen Sparrow, Joe Ram, MT Graves, Otis, You Want a Treat?, The Living End, Tonight, Matthew, I'm Badly Torn Boy, 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, Godot's Waiting List, Go Fish, Hoppo, I Smell Dead People, Jesus Jones, Joe Ram, Master Mind, 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 51
2 Meet Your Maker 50
3= Joe Ram, One Foot In the Grave 49
5 Jesus Jones 46
6= Deathlist.net, Rude Kid 42
8= Drunkasaskunk, Fallen Sparrow, Stab In The Dark 41
11 Octopus of Odstock 40
12 The Vyrdolak, We Spin Terror 38
14 The Living End 37
15 They're Dead Y'Know! 35
16= Canadian Paul, Whittaker's Choice 34
18= Big Iain, I Smell Dead People, The Last Gasp 33
21 Eejit 32
22= Already Dead, Godot's Waiting List 31
24= R.I.P. It All Up & Start Again, Tim R 30

 

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 360
2 Stab In The Dark 291
3 The Living End 290
4 Rude Kid 283
5 Joe Ram 274
6 Godot's Waiting List 267
7 One Foot In The Grave 256
8 Mr C 252
9 Canadian Paul 251
10= Octopus of Odstock, We Spin Terror 250
12 R.I.P. It All Up & Start Again 247
13 Jesus Jones 244
14= Drunkasaskunk, They're Dead Y'Know! 243
16 No Noose Is Good Noose 238
17 Master Mind 237
18 Eejit 228
19 The Last Gasp 227
20 Already Dead 220
21 Deathlist.net 212
22 Wormer, He's a Dead Man! Marmalard, Dead! Niedermeyer... 210
23 Fallen Sparrow 209
24 Impaled on the Antlers of Doom 207
25 Deceased Hose 206
26 Brown Bread 202
27 Clathrate Gun 192
28 Tonight Matthew, I'm Going To Be Badly Torn Boy 187
29 The Vyrdolak 177
30 Time is NOT On Our Side! 168
31 Madonna's Hand of Bod 167
32 Whittaker's Choice 165
33 The Raven 164
34 The Newstreet Boys Death Squad 162
35 Carker's Convention 161
36 Grobler's Stiff Ones 160
37 I Smell Dead People 157
38 But I'm Not Dead Yet 156
39 It's Grim Up North 154
40 The Pale Horseman's... 153
41 Big Iain 152
42 The Dorset Jury 151
43= Food for Worms, International House of Death 149
45 Tim R 148
46= Dr Death's Diabolical Dice of Doom, Windsor the Troll 145
48 Ethnic Cleansing 144
49 Naked Florida Gravediggers 143
50= Above Average For Norfolk, Going Green 142

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, Ethnic Cleansing, Godot's Waiting List, The Living End                                                                                            13

Fallen Sparrow, Master Mind, Meet Your Maker, They're Dead Y'Know!, Tonight Matthew, I'm Going to be Badly-Torn Boy       12

 

Most Years In Competition

 

Jesus Jones                                                       14

Big Iain, Juicy Janny, The Graveyard Shifters     12

 

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
666th Philip Jose Farmer 25th February 2009
700th John Campbell Ross 3rd June 2009
750th William Safire 27th September 2009

 

 

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, Kirk Douglas, Rev. Billy Graham, Stephen Hawking, 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, Claiborne Pell 1st January 2009

Cyril Fletcher       2nd January 2005, Charles "Garry" Betty, 2nd January 2007, Princess Galyani Vadhana & Yo Sam Choi, 2nd January 2008, Maria de Jesus dos Santos, 2nd January 2009

 

Latest Death in a Year

 

Sir John Peel            31st December 2005, Cardinal Cahal Daly, 31st December 2009

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)

Tom Buckley               23yrs old        (2009)

 

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 , which means bombs, suicide, car crashes etc.)

Total: 14

Car Crash: Desmond Llewellyn

Suicide/Overdose: Paula Yates, Anna Nicole Smith, Brad Renfro, Kevin McGee

Murdered/Killed: Tom Fox, Denis Donaldson, Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, Sulim Yamadayev, Velupillai Prabhakaran, Baitullah Mehsud, Michael Jackson

Accident: Shamil Basayev, Steve Irwin

 

Non-Human Picks

 

Cheeta the Chimpanzee - 2 teams(!) - 1998; 1 team - 2009

 

Most Personal Pick

 

My Ex-Wife (Ray T - 2000)

Octopus of Odstock (2009)

 

Candidates who died earliest in the New Year but were not picked:

 

Helen Suzman d. 1 January 2009 (picked in 2008)

Teddy Kollek d. 2 January 2007 (picked in 2006)

Jerry Quarry   d. 3 January 1999 (picked in 1998)

 

Other Random Stats

 

Total Deaths              778           

 

 

Most In One Day:

 

4 - 30th July 2007 - (Meshkini, Walsh, Bergman, Antonioni)

 

 

Most In One Month:

 

25 - January 2009

 

Most Deaths by Profession:

 

TV/Radio                    121

Films                             97

Politics                          96

 

Most Deaths by Nationality:

 

USA                            301

England                        218

Scotland                         21

 

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)

      England, 8th April 2009-22nd April 2009;-(Bennett, Rogers, Freud, Ballard, Jones, Cardiff, Annakin)

 

Average Age of Death

 

82.089

 

Most Popular Age at Death

 

85, 86, 91 & 94       28 times

 

Most Popular Day of Death

 

11th of Month          37 times

6th of Month            32 times

9th of Month            31 times

 

Most Popular Date of Death

 

9th February                                                                                                8 times

1st July & 13th August                                                                                 7 times

 

Most Popular Month of Death

 

January               90

March                 77

July                     74

February             71

 

 

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