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The 2008 Dead Pool Draft took place on Saturday, December 29, 2007. Rosters are as follows:
AshleyRuby Muhammad Wild Cards: |
Steve/MaryEli Wallach Wild Cards: |
RachelClaude Levi Strauss Wild Cards: |
MarleneAriel Sharon Wild Cards: |
ShirleyMitch Miller Wild Cards: |
Sean/ChelseaFidel Castro Wild Cards: |
Lindsey/GeorgeBob Barker Wild Cards: |
BillAlan Young Wild Cards: |
TerriMeip Gies Wild Cards: |
SueChuck Yeager Wild Cards: |
JimLuise Ranier Wild Cards: |
Standings:
First Place: Second Place: Third Place: 1/18 - Ashley moves into the field with Georgia Frontiere, former owner of the Rams football team.
Marlene
Ashley
Bill
Shirley
Everybody else

1/19 - Marlene pulls forward with Suzanne Pleshette.
2/27 - Bill enters the race with William F. Buckley.
3/24 - Shirley begins to move with Richard Widmark
4/6 - Marlene takes the lead with Charlton Heston
Unclaimed Baggage:
Here are the people who died this year and weren't on anybody's list. Such a waste....
George MacDonald Fraser (writer), 1/2
Christopher Bowman (skater/actor), 1/10
Vampira (TV host), 1/10
Sir Edmund Hillary (mountaineer), 1/11
Carl Karcher (Carl's Jr founder), 1/11
Don Cardwell (pitcher, '69 Mets), 1/14
Brad Renfro (former kid actor), 1/15
Bobby Fischer (chess champion/whackjob) 1/17
Richard Knerr (co-founder of Wham-O Toys) 1/17
Allen Melvin (Sam the butcher on "The Brady Bunch"), 1/17
Lois Nettleton (actress), 1/18
John Stewart (singer/songwriter; "Daydream Believer", Kingston Trio), 1/19
Heath Ledger (actor), 1/22
Christian Brando (Marlon's son), 1/26
Suharto (former dictator of Indonesia), 1/27
Margaret Truman (Harry's daughter), 1/29
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (guru), 2/5
Ron Leavett (TV producer; "Married With Children"), 2/10
Roy Scheider (actor, "Jaws"), 2/10
Steve Gerber (writer, creator of Howard the Duck), 2/10
David Groh (actor; Rhoda's TV husband), 2/12
Robin Moore (writer, The French Connection), 2/21
Myron Cope (writer, sportscaster), 2/27
Mike Smith (singer/songwriter, Dave Clark Five; I Like It Like That), 2/28
Jeff Healey (blind singer/guitarist), 3/2
Norman "Hurricane" Smith (producer; recording engineer; singer, "Oh Babe, What Would You Say?"), 3/3
Gary Gygax (co-created Dungeons & Dragons), 3/4
Ivan Dixon (director/actor, "Hogan's Heroes"), 3/16
Anthony Minghella (director, Truly, Madly, Deeply, The English Patient, Cold Mountain), 3/17
Sir Arthur C. Clarke (author; 2001) 3/19
Paul Scofield (Actor; A Man for All Seasons) 3/19
Abby Mann (screenwriter, Judgment at Nuremberg), 3/25
Herb Peterson (inventor of the Egg McMuffin), 3/25
The Rules
The next step is the choosing of Wild Cards. Each player chooses in turn until every player has two Wild Cards. The first is added to the player's roster, and the second is written on a card and put into a basket, from which they will be drawn at random so that each player ends up with someone else's Wild Card. If a player picks his own nominee, he may keep it if he so desires.
Throughout the year, at random intervals, the Commissioner will publish updated listings of each player's score. These will be posted on the Dead Pool website as well as being distributed in printed form. At the end of the year, the player who has had the most deaths on his/her list is declared the winner, and takes the pot. The game is winner-take-all; there are no prizes for second or third place.
What's a Celebrity?
Our standard is that candidates have to be noteworthy enough for the Associated Press to publish their obituary. We have to be able to find out who's dead. There are certain exclusions: Convicted criminals facing execution by the state are disqualified. You can't just check in with the Texas Penal System and get their schedule. Convicts who are not on death row are valid candidates, provided they are noteworthy public figures (Richard Ramirez, Charles Manson or Sirhan Sirhan, for example).
What's a Wild Card?
Wild Cards are candidates that a player does not have any reason to think would die, rather he/she wishes they would. This is your chance to vent your hostility and choose someone simply because they annoy you. Some suggestions might include Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, Dick Cheney, OJ Simpson, Martha Stewart or Tom Cruise.
This introduces two elements into the game: Random Chance and Personal Animosity. By choosing people who aren't likely to die, and by distributing some of them at random, the opportunity for an upset is added. By nominating objects of loathing for these slots, players are (1) free of the problem of nominating unlikely candidates simply because they are hated, and (2) given the opportunity to cheer for the possible demise of such people. Simply put, it makes for a livelier game.
How do I find names to pick?What if I pick someone who's already dead?
If anyone notices during the choosing period, you'll get to pick a replacement. If it's discovered after the game begins, you lose a point. It's happened before.
Sound like fun? Good.
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