Welcome to the  Derby Dead Pool
"The sickest site on the Internet...a ghoulish competition..." – (now defunct) News of the World

"Arguably the world's most popular 'Dead Pool' competition" – BBC

"No-one gets hurt in this game of death" - San Francisco Chronicle

"A macabre celebrity death pool site" - Metro UK

"I draw up my list.  It's a game, a very amusing little game that they play in every drawing-room in Paris whenever an 'Immortal' passes on: the game of Death." – Guy de Maupassant, Bel-Ami (1885)

 

THE BASICS – WHAT IS THE DERBY DEAD POOL?

Simple – it's an online competition to guess which famous people won't make it to the end of the current year.

If they're elderly, ill, or just live a high-risk lifestyle, stick 'em in your team, and for each one whose death you correctly predict, you'll score points.

DDP was dreamt up in Derby, England (hence the name...) by Big Iain back in 1996, then was run from 2003-2007 by Siegfried Baboon and Rude Kid. From 2008-2009, it was run by Octopus of Odstock, but from 2010 onwards it's the turn of The Man in Black to run the DDP.

LAST YEAR'S COMPETITION – DDP 2011

Congratulations to The Living End, who are the winners for the second time...

THE CURRENT COMPETITION – DDP 2012

Scoreboard

Who's dead so far?

List of the Lost

List of the Missed

A–Z list of teams

A–Z list of celebrities

DDP History 1996-2011

The Drop Forty (New)

Theme Team League (New)

FURTHER INFORMATION

Click here for information on rules and scoring

A brief history of dead pools

Links

LATEST NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS: January 27th 2012

Important news.
Due to technical difficulties in generating pages, the pages for teams and celebs in Derby Dead Pool 2012 is temporarily unvailable. However, a scoreboard (of sorts) has been published Here!
Many apologies for the delay. Here's who's died so far this year:

  • Gary Ablett
  • Gene Bartow
  • Eve Arnold
  • Frederica Sagor Maas
  • Bob Holness
  • Malam Bacai Sanhá
  • Bill Janklow
  • Reginald Hill
  • Lesley Strathie
  • Gustav Leonhardt
  • Johnny Otis
  • Etta James
  • Joseph "JoePa" Paterno
  • In other news... In the meantime, the DDP archive has been updated. Starting from 1996 , there's a new look to the reviews of previous years...The DDP History page is now fully updated to the end of December.

    Message to all current competitors:  If you haven't been receiving the notification mails that we send out whenever a celeb carks it, please check that we have your current email address (re-send it to us if unsure), your inbox is not full, and our address is not blocked by your mail system.  The following teams are currently uncontactable; None.

    CONTACT US

    E-mail The Man In Black with any questions/comments about the DDP: ddp2012@derbydeadpool.co.uk

    PREVIOUS YEARS' COMPETITIONS

    2011 – Winner: The Living End (12 hits, 112 points [new scoring system])

    2010 – Winner: Octopus of Odstock (9 hits, 71 points [new scoring system])

    2009 – Winner: Tonight, Matthew, I'm Going To Be Badly-Torn Boy (12 hits, 107 points [new scoring system])

    2008 – Winner: The Living End (13 hits, 108 points [new scoring system])

    2007 – Winner: Meet Your Maker (12 hits, 109 points [new scoring system])

    2006 – Winner: Meet Your Maker (10 hits, 53 points)

    2005 – Winner: Fallen Sparrow (12 hits, 60 points)

    2004 – Winner: Deathlist.net (9 hits, 38 points)

    2003 – Winner: Otis, You Want A Treat? (7 hits, 43 points)

    2002 – Winner: JoeRam (6 hits, 33 points)

    2001 – Winner: Whittaker's Choice (4 hits, 18 points)

    2000 – Winner: MT Graves (RIP) (6 hits, 30 points)

    1999 Winner: Drunkasaskunk (8 hits, 39 points)

    1998 – Winner: Drunkasaskunk (5 hits, 23 points)

    1997 – Winner: Nick J (9 hits, 43 points)

    1996 – Winner: Nick J (? hits, 30 points)

     

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