Bumping for my Maurice Herzog points.
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 15 December 2012 21:41 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Sax Blatterday (jaymc), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 16:50 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Sax Blatterday (jaymc), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 16:53 (eleven years ago) link
So I won?
― abanana, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 06:54 (eleven years ago) link
r.i.p. it up and start again, jaymc
― buzza, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 07:17 (eleven years ago) link
Not doing one this year?
― Mark G, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 14:15 (eleven years ago) link
Of course jaymc will.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 14:16 (eleven years ago) link
All my last year picks survived.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 14:19 (eleven years ago) link
they'll be paying you next
― slitherin sockattacks (darraghmac), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 14:54 (eleven years ago) link
http://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/02/front-page-obituaries-more-than-doubled-in-2012-heres-why
― ILX is not a non-profit — we are just not profitable (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 17:26 (eleven years ago) link
Only an asteroid hitting the earth can help me now.
I was otm.
― Aimless, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 17:31 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Sax Blatterday (jaymc), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 17:45 (eleven years ago) link
And here's the new thread for 2013:
Dead Pool 2013
― jaymc, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 18:09 (eleven years ago) link
Playing the dwarf lottery paid off this year.
― abanana, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 22:04 (eleven years ago) link
abanana: 319 points
well damn
― the horse world of the bludgrass (unregistered), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 22:22 (eleven years ago) link
and uh RIP Aditya Dev, I had no idea you existed
― the horse world of the bludgrass (unregistered), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 22:25 (eleven years ago) link
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.)
― jaymc, Friday, 11 January 2013 05:52 (eleven years ago) link
(Oops, Viceroy and g.y.a. should be tied for 26th.)
― jaymc, Friday, 11 January 2013 05:53 (eleven years ago) link
None of my picks died--did I shoot the moon?
― Chief Duff (Eazy), Friday, 11 January 2013 05:55 (eleven years ago) link
None of my picks died either, though I came really close with Burt Bacharach (he didn't die, but Hal David did).
― Lee626, Friday, 11 January 2013 08:27 (eleven years ago) link
None of mine died, it's like a breath of life to everyone I nom. Avoided nomming Thatch for this very reason.
― Mark G, Friday, 11 January 2013 09:18 (eleven years ago) link
Dammit, just missed the podium.
― Jeff, Friday, 11 January 2013 13:16 (eleven years ago) link
lol, i am officially the worst at this
― What am I, in France? (forksclovetofu), Friday, 11 January 2013 17:02 (eleven years ago) link
I actually feel sort of shitty for doing so well!
― Yo! MTV La Tengo (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 12 January 2013 04:13 (eleven years ago) link