DERBY DEAD POOL 1996-2010 History
(All stats are up to & including the end of December 2010)
Competitors
Most Titles
Drunkasaskunk, Meet Your Maker, Nick J 2
Deathlist.net, Fallen Sparrow, Joe Ram, MT Graves, Octopus of Odstock, 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
Stab In The Dark (2006 / 2007) 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, Otis, You Want a Treat?, Rice Man 1
Most Hits
| Position | Name | Hits |
| =1st |
Meet Your Maker/ Mr C |
54 |
| 3rd |
JoeRam | 53 |
| 4th | Jesus Jones | 51 |
| =5th |
Octopus of Odstock/ One
Foot In The Grave |
49 |
| 7th |
The Vyrdolak | 46 |
| =8th | Drunkasaskunk/ Fallen Sparrow/ Rude Kid/ STAB_In_The_DARK / We Spin Terror | 45 |
| =13th | Deathlist.net/ | 44 |
| 14th |
The Living End | 43 |
| 15th | Canadian Paul | 42 |
| =16th |
Eejit | 39 |
| =18th | Already Dead (Rot In Hell John)/ Master Mind/ The Last Gasp | 38 |
Most Points
(New points system in place from 2007 onwards)
| Position | Name | Points |
| 1st | Meet Your Maker | 392 |
| 2nd | The Living End | 345 |
| 3rd | STAB_In_The_DARK | 323 |
| 4th | Octopus of Odstock | 321 |
| 5th | Godot's Waiting List/ Cooking Small Fish/ Scottish Squid etc | 316 |
| 6th | Canadian Paul | 315 |
| 7th | Rude Kid | 314 |
| =8th | JoeRam/ We Spin Terror | 310 |
| 10th | Master Mind | 297 |
| 11th | Rot In Hell John (Already Dead) | 286 |
| =12th | Mr C/ R.I.P. It Up And Start Again | 282 |
| 14th | Impaled On The Antlers Of Doom | 278 |
| 15th | Drunkasaskunk | 273 |
| 16th | They're Dead, Y'Know! | 268 |
| 17th | Eejit | 263 |
| 18th | Wormer, He's A Dead Man! Marmalard, Dead! Niedermeyer, Dead! | 261 |
| 19th | The Last Gasp | 259 |
| 20th | One Foot In The Grave | 256 |
| 21st | Jesus Jones | 255 |
| 22nd | Tonight Matthew I'm Going To Be Badly-Torn Boy | 250 |
| 23rd | No Noose Is Good Noose | 245 |
| 24th | Brown Bread | 238 |
| 25th | Deceased Hose | 232 |
| 26th | Clathrate Gun | 227 |
| 27th | Fallen Sparrow | 225 |
| =28th | Deathlist.net/ The Vyrdolak | 222 |
| 30th | Grobler's Stiff Ones | 219 |
| 31st | Windsor The Troll | 216 |
| 32nd | Madonna's Hand of Bod | 212 |
| 33rd | The Newstreet Boys Death Squad | 211 |
| 34th | Time Is NOT On Our Side! | 207 |
| 35th | Carkers Convention | 205 |
| 36th | Naked Florida Gravediggers | 196 |
| 37th | The Pale Horseman | 192 |
| 38th | Misers | 189 |
| 39th | Ethnic Cleansing | 187 |
| 40th | It's Grim Up North | 182 |
| =41st | But I'm Not Dead Yet/ Lord Football | 175 |
| 43rd | Stiff & the Tears | 170 |
| 44th | I Smell Dead People | 167 |
| 45th | Going Green | 166 |
| 46th | The Raven | 164 |
| =47th | Dead Ends/ Slave To The Grave | 163 |
| =49th | Diepod Shuffle/ Diet Of Worms/ Only Fools & Corpses | 159 |
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 15
Juicy Janny 13
Big Iain, The Graveyard Shifters 12
Most Points In a Season (New Points System)
Meet Your Maker 109 (2007)
The Living End 108 (2008)
Tonight Matthew, I'm Going To Be Badly-Torn Boy 107 (2009)
Godot's Waiting List 102 (2008)
STAB_In_The_DARK 101 (2007) Master Mind (2009)
Most Points In a Season (Old Points System)
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 |
| 700th | Danny La Rue | 31st May 2009 |
| 800th | Doug Fieger | 14th February 2010 |
| 850th | Simon Monjack | 23rd May 2010 |
| 900th | Corneille | 5th September 2010 |
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%
Biggest
Hit (Number of teams who picked)
Patrick Swayze
(2009) 203 teams
Sir Bobby Robson
(2009) 202 teams
Norman Wisdom (2010) 166 teams
Wendy Richard (2009) 141 teams
Michael Foot (2010) 99 teams
Charlton Heston (2008) 96 teams
Picked the Most by teams in a competition (percentage)
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 2004Saddam 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)
He Pingping 21yrs old (2010)
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
John Reed, 94th birthday, 13th February 2010
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: 18
Car Crash: Desmond Llewellyn
Suicide/Overdose: Paula Yates, Anna Nicole Smith, Brad Renfro, Kevin McGee, Paul Hutchinson
Murdered/Killed: Tom Fox, Denis Donaldson, Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, Sulim Yamadayev, Velupillai Prabhakaran, Baitullah Mehsud, Michael Jackson, Eugene Terreblanche
Accident: Shamil Basayev, Steve Irwin, Robert Culp, Harry Carpenter
Non-Human Picks
Cheeta the Chimpanzee - 2 teams(!) - 1998; 1 team - 2009, 1 team- 2010
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 939
Total Number of Hits in a year
2010 - 161 hits
2009 - 146 hits
2008 - 145 hits
2007 - 126 hits
Most In One Day:
4 - 30th July 2007 - (Meshkini, Walsh, Bergman, Antonioni)
Most In One Month:
25 - January 2009
21 - January 2008
21 - May 2010
Most Deaths by Profession:
TV/Radio 143
Films 120
Politics 116
Most Deaths by Nationality:
USA 358
England 263
France 28
Scotland 25
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
82.08
Most Popular Age at Death
94 - 39 times
91 - 35 times
86 & 86 - 33 times
Most Popular Day of Death
11th of Month 43 times
6th of Month 38 times
3rd/13th of Month 36 times
Most Popular Date of Death
9th February 8 times
2nd March, 1st July & 13th August 7 times
Most Popular Month of Death
May 108
January 106
March 93
Most Unique Hits
2010 76 (47.2% of total hits)
2009 70 (47.9% of total hits)
2008 59 (40.7% of total hits)
2007 47 (37.6% of total hits)
Most Consecutive Unique Hits
7: 2000; 6th September - 7th December (Desmond Wilcox, Bill Waddington, Paula Yates, Duke of Sutherland, Sirimavo Bandaranaike, JT Barker GC, Werner Klemperer)
2008; 19th August - 1st September (Leo Abse, Hua Guofeng, Gladys Powers, Harry Kozol, Phil Hill, Tommy Bolt, Ian Edward Fraser)
2010; 16th June - 25th June (Amedeo Guillet, Andy Ripley, Marcel Bigeard, Manute Bol, Edith Shain, Peter Walker, Brian Flowers)
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