Bring Out Your Dead
And we're off. Or more hopefully they'll be off - they being the members of the pool.
This year is a bit of a bump - from 14 entries last year to 40 for the 2004 edition, so our winner this year will take home $200. At least if you're going to risk eternal damnation, you ought to have a little walking around money.
A total of 217 picked people in the pool, and if our selections are anything to go by, Ronald Reagan (on 18 lists), Pope John Paul II (15), Fay Wray (13), Lady Byrd Johnson (10) and Billy Graham (8) better not buy any green bananas. Sure when they get selected that many times they aren't worth points, but we get to laugh at the people who missed out. Course, for the record, this is Reagan's second straight year on the top picked list.
The attached spreadsheet features all the 2004 entries. If there is an error, please let me know as soon as possible. Feel free to add a team name if the spirit moves you. For the many newbies in the game, the number below your name is the total number of bonus points you can earn if all 10 of your picks have enjoyed their last November. As a reminder, the winner shall be determined by total dead, with the points serving as a tie breaker. Column H is the paid up column. If there's an X, I have received payment. If there isn't you're a deadbeat. If you've made arrangements to pay up, great. If not… ahem. Sheet 2 lists all the pool peeps, the number of people as smart as you are and the total points they're worth, and as the year progresses, the year in death, both for those in the pool (noted in bold) and those that strike my fancy, will be chronicled on Sheet 3.
Good luck to all, and for our listees let's not be too careful out there.
This year is a bit of a bump - from 14 entries last year to 40 for the 2004 edition, so our winner this year will take home $200. At least if you're going to risk eternal damnation, you ought to have a little walking around money.
A total of 217 picked people in the pool, and if our selections are anything to go by, Ronald Reagan (on 18 lists), Pope John Paul II (15), Fay Wray (13), Lady Byrd Johnson (10) and Billy Graham (8) better not buy any green bananas. Sure when they get selected that many times they aren't worth points, but we get to laugh at the people who missed out. Course, for the record, this is Reagan's second straight year on the top picked list.
The attached spreadsheet features all the 2004 entries. If there is an error, please let me know as soon as possible. Feel free to add a team name if the spirit moves you. For the many newbies in the game, the number below your name is the total number of bonus points you can earn if all 10 of your picks have enjoyed their last November. As a reminder, the winner shall be determined by total dead, with the points serving as a tie breaker. Column H is the paid up column. If there's an X, I have received payment. If there isn't you're a deadbeat. If you've made arrangements to pay up, great. If not… ahem. Sheet 2 lists all the pool peeps, the number of people as smart as you are and the total points they're worth, and as the year progresses, the year in death, both for those in the pool (noted in bold) and those that strike my fancy, will be chronicled on Sheet 3.
Good luck to all, and for our listees let's not be too careful out there.
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