Dead Pool 2012

Here we go.

Rules are generally the same as in previous years.

Post in this thread a list of 15 celebrities or other notable people. If you'd rather e-mail me, that's fine, but please post in the thread that you've done so, just so I can keep track.

I'm not going to be a total stickler about notability requirements, but please try to be reasonable. If someone doesn't have a Wikipedia page at the very least, I'll probably ask you to choose someone else. Also: humans only.

One new rule for 2012: If a Wikipedia search on one of your picks directs to a disambiguation page or to someone else with the same name, please indicate which one you mean by appending the person's profession in parentheses, e.g. "(actress)" or "(football player)."

As usual, points are awarded based on the formula (100 - [age at death]). So picking Willow Smith (at 11) would get you a lot more points than picking Kirk Douglas (at 95), were both to die.

Please post your lists to this thread by January 9. No lists will be accepted after that date. If someone dies before Jan. 9, only the people who have already submitted lists will be able to collect points. You may also revise your list at any time before Jan. 9; after that, you'll be locked in.

Lastly, I will be posting everybody's final picks to this Google spreadsheet and also updating the leaderboard there as the year goes on.

(Feel free, of course, to bump this thread and alert me if I've missed an update. Deaths of British/Australian celebs in particular sometimes pass me by.)

Good luck!

Lindsay Lohan
Andy Dick
Jerry Sandusky
William "The Refrigerator" Perry
Michael Douglas
Sly Stone
Christopher Lee
Shirley Temple Black
Ariel Sharon
Edward Furlong
Kim Novak
Kim Jong-un
Jan-Michael Vincent
Etta James
Bryant Gumbel

Good list!

wow, shirley temple's still alive.

i don't think i had ever made a correct death pool pick before amy winehouse last year (hugo chavez's cancer, CLOSE BUT NOT QUITE), if i do a list this year it will somehow reflect the ethical consequences of that.

Sinead O'Connor
Mgt Thatcher
Robin Gibb
Pete Doherty
Lindsay Lohan
Kerry Katona
Courtney Love
Terry Pratchett
Larry Hagman
Jenna Jameson
Stevo Jackass
Charlie Sheen
Robin Van Persie
Johnathan Rhys-Meyers
Ronnie Corbett

RVP killed by the sudden eruption of a year's worth of accumulated injuries?

Hugh Hefner
Lindsay Lohan
Andy Dick
Margaret Thatcher
Jimmy Carter
Hu Jintao
Michael Douglas
Joe Paterno
Aretha Franklin
Robin Gibb
Pete Doherty
Fidel Castro
Bashar al-Assad
Hamid Karzai
Terry Pratchett

Paul Gascoigne
Robbie Williams
Muhammed Ali
Margaret Thatcher
Larry Hagman
Robin Gibb
Abdelbaset Ali Al-Megrahi
Liz Dawn
Bill Tarmey
Charlie Sheen
Ian Brady
Ian Huntley
Doris Day
George Michael
Glen Campbell

Lindsey Lohan
Fidel Castro
Gary Busey
Ai Wei Wei
Chuck Berry
Bob Dole
Muhammad Ali
Jerry Lee Lewis
Lauren Bacall
Steve-O
Barbara Bush
Phyllis Diller
Nancy Reagan
Justice John Paul Stevens
John Larroquette

There are several people i dearly hope i'm wrong about on here

Whoa! I hope John Larroquette is a wild card. : (

Jerry Sandusky
Joe Paterno
Abdelbaset Ali Al-Megrahi
Michael Douglas
Dick Cheney
Isaiah Rider
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Bobby Chacon
Muhammad Ali
Roger Ebert
Jenna Jameson
Lenny Dykstra
Chasey Lain
Lindsay Lohan
Steven Adler

yep, Larroquette is my RANDOM PICK

shit ailsa, gascoigne is a good one

merdey- pretty much, yeah

Artie Lange
Fred Phelps
Robin Gibb
Ernest Borgnine
George McGovern
Ali Khamenei
Leonard Cohen
Mario Batali
Glen Campbell
Rivers Cuomo
Joe Francis
Jerry Lewis
Liv Ullmann
Adam Yauch
Justin Bieber

Margaret Thatcher
Richard E Grant
Paul Gascoigne
Roger Moore
Sean Connery
Timothy Dalton
Bobby Charlton
Jerry Sadowitz
Lindsey Lohan
Pete Docherty
Fidel Castro
Bashar Al-Assad
Clive James
Prince Philip
Courtney Love

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Bashar al-Assad
Muhammad Ali
Fidel Castro
Dick Cheney
Bob Dylan
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Kim Jong-Un
Rush Limbaugh
Lindsy Lohan
Courtney Love
Whitney Houston
George Michael
Joe Paterno
Terry Pratchet

Robert Mugabe
Kim Jong-Un
Vicente Zambada
Russell Brand
Robert Iler
Tao Lin
Michel Houllebecq
David Mamet
Tom Hardy
Bizarre
Tom Cruise
Christopher Poole
Earl Sweatshirt
Dick Cheney
Suge Knight

Oh, wait, with everyone else doing Kim Jong-Un, I'm going with Kim Jong-Nam.

I always look forward to your picks, Eazy!

It seems to be a blessing of long life on those I pick. (Last year everyone but Andy Rooney prospered.)

not a single Benedict XVI yet? do I underestimate his longevity for some reason?

Andy Williams
Tariq Aziz
John Edrich
Etta James
"Superstar" Billy Graham
Geoffrey Hughes
Robin Gibb
Dennis "Fergie" Frederiksen
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi
Gary Carter
Hugo Chávez
Michael Dokes
Jeff Palmer (former gay porn actor)
Eric Lynch (dwarf)
Aditya Dev

ooh, I forgot Geoffrey Hughes. Had him last year as well...

(dwarf)

Earl Sweatshirt?

And not Tyler?

Didn't want to bogart all of Odd Future.

just seems like earl is the least likely to catch an early death of that squad.

Kamala
Bobby Heenan
Scott Hall
Perry Saturn
Barry Windham
Matt Hardy
Chyna
Rikishi
Lex Luger
Viscera
Henry Godwinn
Sean Waltman
Virgil
Alex Ferguson
Margaret Thatcher

oh shit wait can i replace Bobby Heenan, a man I never want to die, with Paul Merson

Still too squeamish to enter, still morbidly fascinated by the lists from those who do. Poor Lindsay Lohan.

Frankie Muniz
Lindsey Lohan
Ashton Kutcher
Russell Brand
Andy Dick
Steve-O
Sinead O'Connor
Joe Paterno
Jerry Sandusky
Margaret Thatcher

5 more bro

oh 15... damn....

Charlie Sheen
Fidel Castro
Billy Graham
Artie Lange
Terry Pratchett

Earl Sweatshirt? And not Tyler?

The proper OFWGKTA answer is: more points.

if it turns out earl was murdered a year ago and has been lying in a ditch, does he still count towards 2012 points?

How deadly is Hep C? I'm seeing a lot of Billy Graham here. And while I would love to see him shut the shit up, he seems the type that will be dying his beard for much bloody longer.

Margaret Thatcher
Abe Vigoda
Clarence Thomas
HRH Queen Elizabeth
Donald Knuth
Terry Pratchett
Paula Deen
Roger Ebert
Kim Jong-un
Ben Gibbard
Dick Clark
Thomas Pynchon
Liza Minelli
Bono
Marc Maron

Bonus animal dead pool: National Zoo panda-in-residence Mei Xiang

have Marc Maron's podcasts taken an interesting turn?

You never know with depressives.

etta james
lindsay lohan
margaret thatcher
mel gibson
fidel castro
joe paterno
katy perry
suri cruise
michael j fox
warwick davis
peter dinklage
kenny baker
michael j anderson
verne troyer
tony cox

did a little person tick you off today or

i thought it was funny that someone upthread posted someone (dwarf), so i decided to pick a bunch of dwarves

I had no idea Lindsay Lohan is a dwarf! I guess the camera can make you look bigger.

One new rule for 2012: If a Wikipedia search on one of your picks directs to a disambiguation page or to someone else with the same name, please indicate which one you mean by appending the person's profession in parentheses, e.g. "(actress)" or "(football player)"

Also, a 100 point bonus if your pick was both an actress and a football player....

John Laws
Phillip Ruddock
Margaret Thatcher
Neil Harvey
John Kennedy (AFL coach)
Donald Rumsfeld
Etta James
Olivia de Havilland
Justin Beiber
Frank Tyson
Ronnie Wood
Engelbert Humperdinck
Jerry Lewis
Charlie Sheen
Bernie Ecclestone

Margaret Thatcher
Stephen Hawking
Fidel Castro
Terry Pratchett
Mark E. Smith
Iggy Pop
Prince Philip
Buzz Aldrin
Nelson Mandela
Keith Richards
David Attenborough
George Bush Snr
Bruce Forsyth
Patrick Moore
Sidney Poitier

^^^I think every name on this list made me go, 'you sure they are still alive?', so I think you'll do p well.

charlie sheen
etta james
stephen hawking
fidel castro
artie lange
pete doherty
mel gibson
margaret thatcher
dick cheney
sean parker
robin gibb
david prowse
morrissey
klas ingesson
barbara bush

Hello. My random pick list of people that I do not hope to die but then again, amaze myself (has anyone actually made a hormov where a dead pool list is involved? Actually don't answer if it's somthing obv like "Dead Pool" or else owt)..

One of Bananarama (oh ok, keren then)
Philip Glenister
Simon Cowell
Jack Black
Phil the Greek
Phil Oakey
Shirley Temple
Genesis P Oridge
Mo Tucker
Justin Bieber
Les McKeowen of the Rollers
Ronnie Corbett
Bruce Forsyth
Brian Blessed
Gary Glitter

That's it yes? I think all are alive as at:

Am waiting for the fall to kill off my old people and the holiday season to drive my depressives to suicide. I am still in it to win it.

Updated for al-Megrahi.

Finally, dude died.

14 of us just got a point bump. :(

Yup, just now updated for Gibb, too. You're in the top 5, Simon.

Hosni Mubarak needs to make up his mind if he is dead or not.

An Ariel Sharon for this year's pool pickers.

some folk due points for Geoffrey Hughes (not me, though I had him last year).

Added, thx.

Ernest Borgnine also died.

Now updated for Borgnine as well.

so does Dom hold the all-time record (327 points in 2010)? it's gonna be hard to beat, but I'll do my best...

Andy Williams, Michael Dokes, Aditya Dev. RIP. Gimme points.

No idea who Dokes or Dev are, but OK. You're now in the lead!

My strategy this year of picking mainly at-risk young-guns isn't working out.

The "Courtney Love" gambit.

courtney will live forever.

much to our chagrin.

I hit one last night. Bummed about the death, but gimmee the points.

I went long, hoping for a massive year of young celebrity death, but unfortunately it's mostly been awesome old people this year.

Bump for my dang points.

Easy, easy. Got it. (David S. Ware, I assume? Weirdly both of the dudes you scored points on were 62 y/o.)

Welp, guess I know how long I got left, then.

Bumping for my 29 Bill Tarmey points :(

Who are these people? (Got it.)

Updated for Larry Hagman.

Bumping for my Maurice Herzog points.

Now updated for Herzog, Ravi Shankar, and Patrick Moore.

As the year draws to a close, I'll go through and see if there's anyone else I've missed. If you happen to know that I've missed one of your picks, feel free to mention it here.

Elvis Telecom -- if we'd been scoring by the raw number of correct predix, you'd be tied for 3rd. With the age points factored in, you're 20th.

So I won?

r.i.p. it up and start again, jaymc

Not doing one this year?

Of course jaymc will.

All my last year picks survived.

they'll be paying you next

http://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/02/front-page-obituaries-more-than-doubled-in-2012-heres-why

Only an asteroid hitting the earth can help me now.

I was otm.

So I won?

Yes! Or at least: I think so.

Somehow the annual Dead Pool accounting slipped my mind over the last few days. I'll make the results final this weekend.

And here's the new thread for 2013:

Dead Pool 2013

Playing the dwarf lottery paid off this year.

abanana: 319 points

well damn

and uh RIP Aditya Dev, I had no idea you existed

I've double-checked to make sure that no one else died and that the numbers add up. Nothing has changed.

Congratulations, abanana, on your win!

For posterity, here's the final leaderboard:

1. abanana (319 points) (8 picks)
2. unregistered (263) (7)
3. Stevie D(eux) (157) (4)
4. Jeff (148) (4)
5. ailsa (126) (4)
6. Simon H. (106) (4)
7. Jimmy the Mod (97) (3)
8. jaymc (82) (3)
9. Three Word Username (76) (2)
10. n/a (73) (3)
11. Clay (67) (2)
12. sonderangerbot (65) (2)
13. johnny crunch (58) (2)
14. darraghmac (57) (2)
15. Matt Armstrong (55) (2)
16. milo z (53) (2)
17. sarahel (42) (2)
18. j.lu (38) (1)
(tie) Le Bateau Ivre (38) (1)
20. Elvis Telecom (32) (4)
21. buzza (27) (1)
(tie) Fred Nerk (27) (1)
(tie) naus (27) (1)
24. silby (18) (1)
25. remy bean (17) (1)
26. Viceroy (15) (1)
27. govern yourself accordingly (15) (1)
28. krakow (11) (1)
29. forksclovetofu (5) (1)

(Nine contestants with zero points.)

Other items of note:

*The 1st- and 2nd-place finishers of 2011 switched places in 2012.
*Dom Passantino (2010) still holds the record for total points (327) and picks (9), though abanana's 39.9 points-per-pick (PPP) average > Dom's 36.3.
*Stevie D. and Three Word Username also had PPP averages of at least 38. Well done.
*Elvis Telecom's PPP average of 8.0 was the lowest of any contestant with at least 2 correct picks.
*I was the highest finisher NOT to pick Robin Gibb, the most-picked dead person. (14 of y'all got points for him.)

(Oops, Viceroy and g.y.a. should be tied for 26th.)

None of my picks died--did I shoot the moon?

None of my picks died either, though I came really close with Burt Bacharach (he didn't die, but Hal David did).

None of mine died, it's like a breath of life to everyone I nom. Avoided nomming Thatch for this very reason.

Dammit, just missed the podium.

lol, i am officially the worst at this

I actually feel sort of shitty for doing so well!