Official Rules: By the power vested in me by the United States of America, I hereby declare these the Official rules of the 2008 Monday 5 P.M. Death Pool, aka the Soul Bowl.
1. The Death Pool (hereto referred to simply as "the Bowl" or "the Pool") attempts to predict which celebrities will pass away in the upcoming year. The Soul Bowl starts at 12:01 am on January 01, 2008 and will end at the stroke of midnight on December 31st, 2008.
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, (aka Anna Nicole's son) rule. The management retains the right to reject any person who doesn't fit the "celebrity" criteria.
3. The scoring works as such: Each person is allowed to select a total of 10 celebrities. You will rank your selections from 1 to 10. In this case, your #1 selection will be the person who you think is most likely to die in the upcoming year. The #1 slot is worth 10 points, the #2 slot is worth 9 points, and so on. If the person in that position does pass away, you then multiply the position points by the difference of 100 minus their age. So, as an example, if you had Evel Knievel at #7 this year that would have been worth 124 points. (4*(100-69)). This format still rewards people who take chances on younger people instead of playing it safe with all elderly selections. Also, if you select a person who is over age 100, then they will be scored simply as 1 times the position points. So, there is some strategy involved as well. It's not enough to just pick someone for your list. You want to put them as high up as possible. So, if two people have the same person on their lists, but they are in different positions, it will generate more points for the person who has them higher up.
4. The person with the highest total number of points for the entire year wins.
5. There are no restrictions on who you can select, relative to others' picks. You can select someone regardless of whether or not someone else has them on their list.
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. You are allowed to draft your people between December 1st and December 31st.
8. In order to keep things fair, all the selections need to be e-mailed to ourdeathpool@yahoo.com This way, we have a way for people to get their selections in, but I won't release the names until after January 1st. So, people who don't put any thought into this won't be able to pick and choose from other people's selections. Also, feel free to make up a creative team name and send it in with your selections. This year we simply went with people's initials as the team name. However, as the Soul Bowl continues to grow, this will eventually become confusing. So, a distinctive team name might be more appropriate going forward.
9. This is for entertainment purposes only. The only prize is the pride and sense of accomplishment of winning.
10. Have fun.
Remember, the more the merrier! So, encourage friends, neighbors, co-workers, your local clergymen, etc to participate.
1. The Death Pool (hereto referred to simply as "the Bowl" or "the Pool") attempts to predict which celebrities will pass away in the upcoming year. The Soul Bowl starts at 12:01 am on January 01, 2008 and will end at the stroke of midnight on December 31st, 2008.
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, (aka Anna Nicole's son) rule. The management retains the right to reject any person who doesn't fit the "celebrity" criteria.
3. The scoring works as such: Each person is allowed to select a total of 10 celebrities. You will rank your selections from 1 to 10. In this case, your #1 selection will be the person who you think is most likely to die in the upcoming year. The #1 slot is worth 10 points, the #2 slot is worth 9 points, and so on. If the person in that position does pass away, you then multiply the position points by the difference of 100 minus their age. So, as an example, if you had Evel Knievel at #7 this year that would have been worth 124 points. (4*(100-69)). This format still rewards people who take chances on younger people instead of playing it safe with all elderly selections. Also, if you select a person who is over age 100, then they will be scored simply as 1 times the position points. So, there is some strategy involved as well. It's not enough to just pick someone for your list. You want to put them as high up as possible. So, if two people have the same person on their lists, but they are in different positions, it will generate more points for the person who has them higher up.
4. The person with the highest total number of points for the entire year wins.
5. There are no restrictions on who you can select, relative to others' picks. You can select someone regardless of whether or not someone else has them on their list.
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. You are allowed to draft your people between December 1st and December 31st.
8. In order to keep things fair, all the selections need to be e-mailed to ourdeathpool@yahoo.com This way, we have a way for people to get their selections in, but I won't release the names until after January 1st. So, people who don't put any thought into this won't be able to pick and choose from other people's selections. Also, feel free to make up a creative team name and send it in with your selections. This year we simply went with people's initials as the team name. However, as the Soul Bowl continues to grow, this will eventually become confusing. So, a distinctive team name might be more appropriate going forward.
9. This is for entertainment purposes only. The only prize is the pride and sense of accomplishment of winning.
10. Have fun.
Remember, the more the merrier! So, encourage friends, neighbors, co-workers, your local clergymen, etc to participate.
4 comments:
Welcome back Buddy!!! I was having withdrawls!
Thank you. Thank you. I knew you were. Glad to see I still have one reader.
on your next post, you have to include this link somewhere:
http://blog.pennlive.com/pennstatefootball/2007/12/paterno_is_wellendowed.html
So I suck at life.
The above link was to an article entitled "JoePa is well endowed."
Post a Comment