DP 2007 - The Official Rules

Ok, it doesn't happen very often, but the Chad makes a good point. I don't think that I laid out a very clear explanation of all the rules for the Pool. Since I know that we will have many more participants this year, I think its good to lay everything out in one area for everybody to see. So, here we go, and if there is anything that I miss, post it in the comments section and I will amend it. The official posting for those of us who can re-sign our free agents will be up later tonight (Tuesday).

Official Rules

By the power vested in me by the United States of America, I hereby declare these the Official rules of the 2007 Monday 5 P.M. Death Pool

1. The Death Pool (hereto referred to simply as "the Pool") attempts to predict which celebrities will pass away in the current year.

2. The only people eligible to be selected are Celebrities. While impossible to specifically declare what makes a celebrity, a good rule of thumb is that their obit would appear in national newspapers. Also, a person can not become a celebrity only because of their death. We'll refer to this as the Daniel Smith rule.

3. The scoring works as such: you take the number 100 minus your celebrity's age. For instance, if someone would have had Steve Irwin this year, they would have received 56 points (100-44). This way, you are rewarded by taking chances that younger celebrities will parrish.

4. The person with the highest total number of points for the entire year wins. For the 2006 Pool, there have been exactly 0 points awarded. We suck at this.

5. Your selections are only good for that year. So, the picks for 2007 will be made in December of 2006. If one of your picks dies before 2007, tough luck. However, we will allow you to select a supplemental draft choice.

6. People who are ineligible as selections: People on death row. Currently missing children. If I missed anyone else that is obvious, let me know. In other words, play like a normal person (or as normal as a person who participates in the Pool can be).

7. The way that it stands now, there are no repetitive picks. Once a person has been drafted, they are off the board. This could change in future years, but that's the rule as it stands now.

8. Participants will be able to re-sign their free agents year after year. Currently, the re-signing period will run from November 1st till November 30th at midnight. If you haven't declared your intent to keep some or all of your previous year selections by that point, anyone can draft them.

9. This should be much higher up, but each person can draft up to 10 people. The 10 people includes any re-signed draftees from the previous year.

10. The open selection period for new participants and current players looking to fill out their rosters is December 1st at midnight till Dec 31st at midnight. All picks can be made in the comments section of the offical Pool Posting which will be up shortly. The timestamp from this site will be the official tie-breaker and official record keeper as to who got their picks in first.

11. This is for entertainment purposes only.

12. Have fun.

~K