15 players. 112 picks. Countless hurt butts.Picks (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1h_JjfteaN2UVG4GR1M1azsm1jRx_yaeUvc_HvS4zRrE/pub?single=true&gid=5&output=html)
Scoreboard (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1h_JjfteaN2UVG4GR1M1azsm1jRx_yaeUvc_HvS4zRrE/pub?single=true&gid=3&output=html)
Status Board (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1h_JjfteaN2UVG4GR1M1azsm1jRx_yaeUvc_HvS4zRrE/pub?single=true&gid=4&output=html) Most popular: Joey Feek, Nancy Reagan
(4 picks)Oldest: Kirk Douglas
(99 years and 23 days, 100 in December)Youngest: Jahi McMath
(15 years and 70 days, sweet 16 in October)Mean age: 71 years and 38 days
Median age: 76 years and 269 days
First death of 2016: Craig Strickland
(pending official time of death) (http://www.desipio.com/messageboard/index.php?topic=9015.0) or Pat Harrington
(January 6, 2016) (http://www.desipio.com/messageboard/index.php?topic=9012.0)
Lists with all new faces for 2016: Wheezer
Lists with all retreads from 2015: BigDrinky, Butthead and TEC
Most unique list: CT
(10 unique picks)Least unique lists: Butthead and Thrill
(2 unique picks, 13 penalty points)49 names carried over from 2015The biggest gainers...Nancy Reagan
(+3)The Amazing Johnathan
(+2)Jimmy Carter
(+2)Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
(+1)Bob Newhart
(+1)Bob Dole
(+1)Kirk Douglas
(+1)Joost van der Westhuizen
(+1)Scott Steiner
(+1)Malcolm Young
(+1)Mary Tyler Moore
(+1)Glen Campbell
(+1)Billy Graham
(+1)The biggest losers...George H.W. Bush
(-4)Valerie Harper
(-2)Gordie Howe
(-2)Dick Van Dyke
(-2)63 new names for 2016...Joey Feek, Charlie Sheen, Martin Crowe, Jared Fogle, Sandy Alderson, Don Shula, Chuck Berry, Harper Lee, Robert Mugabe, Prince Philip, Jahi McMath, Randal Grichuk, Starchild Abraham "Wolf" Cherrix, Craig Strickland, Abu Omar al-Shishani, Abu Waheeb, Alex Wynn, Kate Granger, Jason Van Dyke, Jason Rezaian, Gino Odjick, Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins, Scott Putesky, Stefanie Larue, Oscar Bolin, Barack Obama, Lawrence Taylor, Luis Garavito, Jim Belushi, Ray Kurzweil, Bo Ryan, Mercury Morris, Omar al-Bashir, Ratko Mladić, Richard M. Daley, Rene Angelil, Stephen Hawking, Dennis Hastert, Hawk Harrelson, Eddie Large, William Devane, Walter Jacobson, Mengistu Haile Mariam, Alain Badiou, The Dalai Lama, Warner Saunders, John Coleman, Kenny Baker, Willie Nelson, Than Shwe, Archbishop Jim V. Humble, Lou Henson, G. Edward Griffin, Rip Torn, Christopher Plummer, Pat Harrington, Whitey Ford, Harry Porterfield, Martin Landau, Pope Benedict XVI, Henry Kissinger, Betty White, Zsa Zsa Gabor
51 picks from 2015 who got out alive...Rob Ford, Carol Channing, Leah Still, Malala Yousafzai, Bobby Shmurda, Belle Gibson, Frankie Muniz, Gill Rosenberg, George Zimmerman, Jeff George, Artie Lange, Gregg Jefferies, Paul Gascoigne, Steve Smith, Wynonna Judd, Caroline Aherne, Bret Michaels, Darren Daulton, Tom Sizemore, Bill de Blasio, Jim Kelly, Randy Travis, Scott Thorson, Shane McGowan, Wattie Buchan, Alvin Yellon, George Brett, Louie Anderson, Frank "Kellie" Maloney, Slim Dunlap, Uri Dowbenko, Jeff Lowe, Joan Lunden, Esther Hicks, Cheryl Tiegs, Judd Gregg, Gary Busey, Aretha Franklin, Steve Wynn, Pelé, Ginger Baker, Mike Shannon, Donald Sterling, C. Norman Shealy, Jim Nabors, Frank Worthen, James Garner, George "Dr. Nick" Nichopoulos, Louise Hay, Toots Thielemans, I.M. Pei
The Chuck Dickens Endowed Chair in HellPenFoeFor the selection of brain-dead 15-year-old Jahi McMath (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jahi_McMath_case)
The Irish Yeti Moonshot Award for Youth ProspectingTonkerAverage list age: 52 years and 37 days
The Golden Bort Award for Gerontological StudiesHueyAverage list age: 87 years and 112 days
The Paul W. Tanner III Memorial Freedom Fighter Award of Most Glorious HonorChuckDPicks: Abu Waheeb, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Robert Mugabe, Omar al-Bashir, Mengistu Haile Mariam, Henry Kissinger, Luis Garavito, Ratko Mladić, Than Shwe, Abu Omar al-Shishani
The Northside FroDog Award for Outstanding Achievement in SoothsayingTJ Brown"Richard M. Daley (projected duplicates: 1 -- Huey, for sure)"
Actual: 0"Charlie Sheen (projected duplicates: 5)"
Actual: 2"Jason Van Dyke (projected duplicates: 2)"
Actual: 0"Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (projected duplicates: 3)"
Actual: 2"Lawrence Taylor (projected duplicates: 1, maybe if Fork thinks of it)"
Actual: 0"Jared Fogle (projected duplicates: 10, maybe more if anyone else actually enters this pool)"
Actual: 1"Don Shula (projected duplicates: 0)"
Actual: 1"Sandy Alderson (projected duplicates: 0)"
Actual: 1"Harry Porterfield (projected duplicates: 0. Sad, because Harry is Someone You Should KnowTM)"
Actual: 0"Kim Jong Un (projected duplicates: 1)"
Actual: 0
The Mothering.com Lifetime Acheivement Award for WheezeringWheezer
See you in December!
I'm picturing Pen clicking this post's blue button only to get hit with a login screen, endlessly.
Worth the wait.
I love you, Thrill.
Also, I'm going to win this year.
Goddamnit. (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/16/iran-releases-washington-post-journalist-jason-rezaian) Really, Iran? Two fucking weeks into the New Year? Screw you guys.
Because I'm tired of searching for it. Sticky this, SKO
THERE. Shut the hell up.
I took a look at the picks and was astonished to see that Fork, Huey and I are the leaders of the survivor pool: 28 unique picks among us, and not one dead.
Only 29 days to go for the 28 to last into 2017:
Richard M. Daley, Charlie Sheen, Jason Van Dyke, Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi (alive as far as we know), Lawrence Taylor, Jared Fogle, Don Shula, Sandy Alderson, Harry Porterfield, Kim Jong Un, Mary Tyler Moore, Billy Graham, Hulk Hogan, Jimmy Carter, Valerie Harper, Amanda Bynes, Chuck Berry, Whitey Ford, Barack Obama, Ed Asner, William Devane, Rip Torn, Johnny Lujack, Bob Dole, Tippi Hedren, Joyce Randolph, and of course the already-celebrating Don Rickles and Bob Newhart:
Jesus that picture of Rickles is haunting. He looks like he died and they just fixed him with a smile and propped his ass up.