Thursday, December 24, 2009

George Michael Dead...

No Not that George Michael, "Sports Machine" George Michael died yesterday at age 70. He was unaffiliated in the 2009 death league but would have been a 50 point score.

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

How this is going to work...

So now all the teams in the league have their rosters added, and you can view each team by the link on the right hand side. There are the current standings also on the right that will be updated as needed. The way this blog is going to work is that in the coming days we will post some information about some of the more obscure draft picks, like what makes them famous and what illness they may have. After that post will only come when there is a scoring event or if someone famous that is not on a roster dies. Therefore it may be days and even a week or two between posts, but if you would like to contact us please feel free to do so with the contact section on the right. Thank you.

Ethereal Spirits Roster

2011 Draft Picks

1. Asif Ali Zardari
2. Margaret Thatcher
3. Eleanor Mondale
4. Pat Burns
5. Sharon Osbourne
6. Brenda Joyce (Tarzan's Jane)
7. Darlene Cates
8. Ravi Shankar
9. Jeff Conway
10. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
11. Anita Page
12. Otto von Habsburg
13. A. B. Vajpayee
14. Andy Dick
15. Louis Farrakhan
16. Joe Jackson (MJ's dad)

2012 Draftee's


Asif Ali Zawdari
AB Vajpayee
Gene Wilder
iman al zawahari
james watson
dilip kumar
marc fields
delta goodrem
brett michael
zohra segal
arte johnson
paul azinger
noori al-malaki
heinrich matthaei
c-smoove
i.k.gujral

Stiff Competition Roster

Stiff Competition had 2 keeper and the #13 overall pick in round 1:

Kirk Douglas*
Seve Ballesteros*
Abdelbaset Ali Mohamed AlMegrahi
John Edrich
Nelson Mandela
Russell Watson
Patrick Moore
Aaron Kluge (met)
Clive Dunn
Jean Chretien
Desmond Tutu
Stan Lee
Charlie Watts
Neil Armstrong
Petula Clark
David Cassidy

This team has the license to kill...

2012 Draftee's


Billy Graham
nelson mandela
mickey rooney
keith richards
ozzy osbourne
desmond tutu
king shiouk
le duc anh-
clive dunn
patrick moore
hugh hefner
stan lee
gilbert stork
aaron klug
Pete Seeger
bono

Happy enTrails Roster

Until we Meet Again my friends!

2011 Draft Picks
1. Aretha Franklin Keeper
2. Rajo Devi Lohan
3. Nancy Reagan
4. Charlie Sheen
5. Bryant Gumbel
6. Tony Martin
7. Bret Michaels
8. John Paul Stevens
9. Alan Scott LeDoux
10. Tila Tequila
11. Ray Bradbury
12. Henry Kissinger
13. Helen Thomas
14. Barbaba Bush
15. Bhateri Devi
16. Al Davis

2012 Draftee's


Aretha Franklin
Tila Tequila
cardinal bevilaqua
jonathan rhysemeyer
randy quaid
darryl strawberry
arlen specter
shane mcgowan
pete doherty
charlie watts
jerry lee lewis
jake Lamotta
mary kate olsen
James "Whitey" bulger
john frusciante
little richard

Ars Longa aka Vitae Brevis Roster

Vitae Brevis had no keeper and the #12 overall pick:

**Christopher Hitchens**
**Roger Ebert**
Sargent Shriver
Eli Wallach
Yitzhak Shamir
Bruce Gordon
Lucille Bliss
Noel Neill
Argie Armstrong
Prof. Irwin Corey
Sherwood Schwartz
Marvin Miller
Malcolm Toon
George Gaynes
Theodore Hesburgh
Alan Arbus

Hasta La Vista!

2012 Draftee's


Eli Wallach
Roger Ebert
dick cheney
Yitzhak shamir
dick vandyke
mary tyler moore
professor irwin corey
lucille bliss
noel neill
argie armstrong
marvin miller
george gaynes
theodore hesburgh
allan arbus
kyle petty
dale earnhardt jr

Corpse with No Name Roster

Corpse with No Name had no keepers and the #7 overall pick:

Kim Jong Il
Carol Channing
Steven Hawking
Sid Caesar
Vera Lynn
David Rockefeller
Andy Griffith
Bob Barker
Peter O'Toole
Don Pardo
Dear Abby (**the mother**, Abigail van Buren Sr.)
Lindsay Lohan
Joan Fontaine
Pope Benedict
Chuck Berry
Paul Allen

2012 Draftee's


dick clark
Ernest Borgnine
Phyllis Diller
abe vigoda
sid caesar
bob barker
lindsay lohan
courtney love
jerry sandusky
Dotty sandusky
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
helen thomas
larry flynt
allan greenspan
tommy lasorda
willie mays

Get Got's Roster

Heaven's Gate had 2 Keepers, Dick Cheney & Dick Van Patten and the 6th overall pick in the draft (note that the team name is now "Get Got"):

1. Dick Cheney*
2. Dicke Van Patten*
3. Harry Morgan
4. Ernest Borgnine
5. Lisa Ray
6. Don Rickles
7. Tommy LaSorda
8. Shecky Greene
9. Gene Wilder
10. Charles Durning
11. Karen Black
12. Kirstie Alley
13. Larry Storch
14. Eddie Van Halen
15. George Michael
16. Marilyn Manson
Here's to your team meeting St. Peter!

2012 Draftee's


George Michaels
etta jones
jerry lewis
Stephen Hawking
peter sharp
murtala nyako
malam bacai sanha
u gambira
qinmei wang
bingu wa mutharika
harry byrd jr
ray Harryhausen
peter o toole
boris Spasky
Charlie sifford
Hugh Downs

Bloody Mary Roster

Bloody Mary had one keepers this year and had the #11 overall pick:

Billy Graham*
Eunice Sanborn
Claude Stanley Choules
Frank Woodruff Buckles
Lawrence Beatrice Greene
Dave Rose
Norman Spinred
Jack Klugman
Bernie Madoff
Rush Limbaugh
Eydie Gorme
Betty White
Besse Cooper
Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
Don Imus
James Arness

Both Mandela's? your going to a special place in the afterworld...

2012 Draftee's


Besse Cooper
Ariel Sharon
Betty white
Jack Klugman
Dina Manfredini
Shelby Harris
Florence Green
Gerald McRaney
George H.W. Bush
Barbra Bush
larry king
bob dole
Pat summerall
Frank gifford
Ethel Kennedy
kathryn joosten

Corpses' Bride Roster

Corpses' Bride had 2 keepers from last year and picked #9 overall:

Dick Clark*
Phyllis Diller*
Penny Marshall
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Suzanne Sumers
David Souter
Butch Patrick
Liza Minelli
Yogi Berra
Michael J. Fox
Martina Navratilova
Hugh Hefner
Larry Hagman
Andrew Lloyd Weber
Keith Richards
Shirley Temple

The Price Might be wrong this year!

Team on hiatus for 2012 season, see you in 2013

Cremation Nation Roster

No bad bets this year Cremation Nation!

2011 Draft Picks
1. Zsa Zsa Gabor keeper
2. Walter Breuning keeper
3. Gerry Rafferty
4. Robert Mugabe
5. Oscar Niemeyer
6. Amy Winehouse
7. Andy Rooney
8. Herman Wouk
9. Geoffery Hughes
10. Herbert Lom
11. Anna Wing
12. Chatman Pincher
13. Loretta Lynn
14. George Carl
15. Eddie Montgomery
16. Randy Owen

2012 Draftee's


Zsa Zsa Gabor
Abdelbaset Al Megrahi
Tariq Aziz
robert mugabe
James Garner
gary carter
jiroemon kimura
bill janklow
russell means
alberto fujimori
brian gumbel
geoffrey hughes
angelina mae omara
charles manson
mike tyson
maurice clarett

Davey Bones' Locker Roster

Davey Bones' Locker had one keepers and here is their roster:

Ronnie Biggs*
Michael Douglas
Dr. A.Q. Khan
Chiyono Hasegawa
Robin Rogers (country music singer)
Lura Lynn Ryan (former 1st lady of IL)
Vasily Aleksanyan (fmr. Yukos executive)
Kenneth William Stevenson (Bishop of Portsmouth, Church of England)
Brian Lenihan (Irish finance minister)
Barry Ryan (Catholic priest, sex offender)
Andy Whitfield (Welsh actor)
Lee Kwan Yew (Singapore)
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
Vaclav Havel
Gordon Murray (wallstreeter who wrote investment book while on deathbed)
Charles Manson

See you at the bottom of the sea Davey Bones' Locker!

Team on a Hiatus for 2012 season, see you in 2013

CiX the Bucket Roster

Here is the number 8 pick roster CiX the Bucket who had 2 keepers:

Fidel Castro*
Betty Ford*
Annette Funicello
James Garner
Peter Falk
Abe Vigoda
Muhammad Ali
King Sihanouk
Jack Kevorkian
Ferlin Husky
Jack Ramsey
Queen Elizabeth II
Rise Stevens
Wilford Grimley
C. Everett Koop
Joe Simon
Worst Wishes CiX the Bucket!

2012 Draftee's


Michael Douglas
Ronnie Biggs
Penny Marshall
Luise Rainer
Tony Martin
David Rockefeller
Herman Wouk
Rise Stevens
Ayatollah Khamenei
Harlan Ellison
Celeste Holm
Efrem Zimbalist
Ivan Demyanyuk
Queen Elizabeth II
Wilford Brimley
Don Rickles

Living in Oblivion Roster

Good Luck to Living in Oblivion, or should I say Bad Luck?

2011 Draft

1. Dolores Hope
2. Ariel Sharon
3. Liz Taylor
4. Luise Rainer
5. Olivia de Havilland
6. Steve jobs
7. Frank Cady
8. Ivan Demyanyuk
9. Anne Francis
10. B. B. King
11. Lou Hanson
12. Courtney Love
13. Merle Haggard
14. Kareem Abdul Jabbar
15. Maureen O'Hara
16. Carl Reiner

2012 Draftee's

kirk douglas
Margaret Thatcher
Olivia De Havilland
Annette Funnicello
Eydie Gorme
Frank Cady
Mike Wallace
Andy Griffith
prince philip
doris day
merle-75
Ed Asner
Lawrence Walsh
Herbert Lom
Carol Channing
Don Pardo

Dead President's Roster

Good Luck Dead Presidents

2011 Draft Picks

1. Jimmy Carter Keeper
2. George H.W. Bush Keeper
3. Run Run Shaw
4. Mickey Rooney
5. Stan Musial
6. Jerry Lewis
7. Jack LaLanne
8. Artie Lang
9. Doc Watson
10. Fats Domino
11. Pinetop Perkins
12. I. M. Pei
13. Alan Young
14. Mike Wallace
15. Rose Marie
16. Pete Seeger

2012 Draftee's

Run Run Shaw
Jimmy Carter
fats domino
Superstar Billy Graham
I.M. Pei
Dear Abby
yogi berra
bernie madoff
Tom Seizmore
jake the snake roberts
paul orndorff
lex lugar
iron sheik
bobby the brain heenan
Joan fontaine
roberta McCain

Monday, December 21, 2009

Scorring System

As promised here is the scoring system for the league:

1. The "season" consists of the time frame from Jan. 1 until Dec. 31st of a given year.

2. Upon the announced death of a player (shall henceforth be known as "a score") the owner of that player will be awarded the points.

3. Scoring is calculated by taking 120 - players age

There are also several bonuses to be taken into account:

* First Blood - The team with the first stiff will receive 10 bonus points. If multiple teams score on that same day, those teams will each receive the 10 bonus points. For example, if a team scores at 8am on January 1 and a second team scores at 10pm on the same day, both teams will be awarded the First Blood bonus.

* Last Blood - The last player to kick the bucket earns a 20 point bonus for his/her franchise.

* Quinella - Within 72 hours of the draft, each franchise designates two 'franchise players'. If both wind up pushing up daisies during the season, the franchise receives a 25-point quinella bonus.

* Bloodbath Bonus - When two players in the league keel over during the same calendar week (by Eastern Standard Time), 25 bonus points are awarded to each. Each additional snuff during the same week will receive an additional 25 bonus points. For example, if 3 players from different teams take a dirt nap during the same week, these 3 teams will each receive 25 bonus points.

* Two-in-a-Row Bonus - When a franchise has 2 consecutive scores in the league, 15 bonus points are awarded. 3 consecutive scores by a franchise will result in awarding the Two-in-a-Row twice.

* The Four-Bagger - Any franchise that suffers 4 or more expirations during the season receives a 20 point bonus.

* 2 Birds, 1 Stone - When two players cash their chips in the same incident (to be determined by the commissioner), 30 bonus points are awarded in addition to the Bloodbath Bonus. Each additional extinction in the same incident will receive an additional 30 bonus points.

* Till Death do Us Part - Can be claimed if two spouses kick the bucket in the same year while still legally married. Each team with a member of this union receives an extra 30 points.

* Clutch Performer - When a player sprouts wings on Christmas Day or after, 20 bonus points are awarded.

Draft results and lineups to come...

Welcome to The Dead League

Welcome to "The Dead League" a place where a small group of friends with a sick idea decided to publish it to the world. So here is the set up, at a small company in the Northeastern United States, a group of friends and co-workers decided that it woudl be fun to have a Celebrity Death pool. Now the rules of the game are not unlike the rules of any other office pool or fantasy league, but instead of picking the football player who will score the most TD's, we pick the famous people we think will die in the next year. There is an entire points system that I will get into in a later post but for now we will Keep It Simple Stupid (herefore refered to as KISS) so all you have to know is that A) this persons demise must make the AP newswire and B) participants in the pool cannot have anything to do with the celebrities death. On this site we will be posting a few things, team rosters, recent deaths, updated points standings and a brief run down of illnesses that you may not know that your favorite celeb has leading them to their final resting place. So to all those who enjoy the darkness and relish in thoughts of the afterworld, come follow along for this year long ride.