Week 27 update
Two deaths this week. Up first is the other Frank Williams: Frank Williams obituary | Dad's Army | The Guardian
Williams died at 90 so he's worth 35 Base Points with a Deadly Duo bonus totalling 60 points for @The DA and @The Master.
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Second death was... podcast host Deborah James: Dame Deborah James obituary | Bowel cancer | The Guardian
I will link to my thoughts on this one from a few weeks ago:
tl;dr - she counts now, but I'm going to revisit the specifics of this rule for 2023. I do genuinely think this is a grey area and really I think it's difficult to define "famous for being ill" as anyone who's famous for being ill is still famous somehow. Is she famous because she had cancer, or because she did a podcast about it?
James died at 40, so she's worth 85 Base Points to @Indale Winton and @mathematics. @Bishop Briggs gets a Vice-Captain bonus for 128 points and @Billy Jean King and @Moomintroll get a Captain bonus for 170 points.
As a result, the standings look like this:
1. Bishop Briggs 586
2. Indale Winton 530
3. JustOneCornetto 431
4. chomp my root 403
5. sparky88 372
6. Ned Nederlander 371
7. Billy Jean King 309
8. Arch Stanton 302
9. Moomintroll 293
10. gkneil 271
11. mathematics 269
12. peasy23, weirdcal 259
14. Arbroathlegend36-0 255
15 The Master 244
16. psv_killie 242
17. Savage Henry 230
18. The DA 204
19. Desp 188
20. pawpar, Sweaty Morph 187
22. The_Craig 178
23. Florentine_Pogen 173
24. thistledo 167
25. Melanius Mullarkey 163
26. Blootoon87 151
27. gingette, microdave 150
29. buddiepaul 146
30. scottsdad 138
31. cdhafc1874 130
32. pub car king 122
33. nessies long lost ghost, The Naitch 113
35. senorsoupe 108
36. Miguel Sanchez 105
37. Bully Wee Villa 104
38. jimbaxters, lichtgilphead, sleazy 92
41. scorge 85
42. Lofarl, Mark Connolly 75
44. The Hologram 73
45. ThomCat 69
46. thisal 64
47. Hamish's Passenger 61
48. Fuctifano, Willie adie 57
50. Raidernation 46
51. Bert Raccoon, speckled tangerine, statts1976uk 39
52. ayrunitedfw, cambozpar, Karpaty Lviv, Les Cabbage 30
58. Everyone else 0
The spreadsheet has also been updated with these scores: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mup1IJllKHs0a47J8G6IXUkvShJrV28Iuc-Kkn7RKuo/edit?usp=sharing