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The real Dead Pool contest is whether Miguel can get his team lists out before Ned Nederlander scores his first hit.

I wasn't going to tell him until after midnight.

Wrong thread. Right now, the captains are getting their photos taken, the goalie is chucking his towel and bottle of lucozade sport behind the goal line and the little kid mascots are being marched off the pitch.

The Tidy ending was in March this year.

Division B Table and Fixtures Division B P W D L Pts redVtop 18 17 1 0 52 pleslie999 19 16 1 2 49 PnbMathematics 20 12 2 6 38 Basedgodsa1nt 18 12 1 5 37 Dandies1983 15 9 1 5 28 mackieboz 17 7 1 9 22 N5_Spur 19 7 1 11 22 RBWatson 17 6 1 10 19 markf268 14 4 0 10 12 DieHardDoonhamer 17 4 0 13 12 Dustysghost 20 4 0 16 12 XCTR94 16 2 1 13 7 Round 21 redVtop vs markf268 mackieboz vs pleslie999 Basedgodsa1nt vs DieHardDoonhamer XCTR94 vs Dustysghost Dandies1983 vs N5_Spur RBWatson vs PnbMathematics Round 22 mackieboz vs redVtop DieHardDoonhamer vs markf268 pleslie999 vs XCTR94 N5_Spur vs Basedgodsa1nt Dustysghost vs RBWatson PnbMathematics vs Dandies1983 These are the last sets of fixtures. From next week onwards, I'll be listing all the outstanding results and unplayed fixtures to catch up on.

Division A Table and Fixtures Division A P W D L Pts ancientnoise 16 14 2 0 44 DearyMe 16 14 1 1 43 The_Curmudgeon 17 12 2 3 38 AimHere 16 10 0 6 30 stewartmathers 17 9 0 8 27 KenDeans 17 6 2 9 20 AlbinoRov 17 4 2 11 14 invergowrie 17 3 4 10 13 AH13STU 9 3 0 6 9 beef2711 11 2 2 7 8 Arabjoe 13 2 2 9 8 The_kid1433 14 2 1 11 7 Round 21 invergowrie vs AlbinoRov DearyMe vs ancientnoise AimHere vs Arabjoe KenDeans vs AH13STU The_kid1433 vs beef2711 stewartmathers vs The_Curmudgeon Round 22 DearyMe vs invergowrie Arabjoe vs AlbinoRov ancientnoise vs KenDeans beef2711 vs AimHere AH13STU vs stewartmathers The_Curmudgeon vs The_kid1433 As usual, results and calculations are recorded on the spreadsheet at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YwODlp2A0TBMf2VuyjJox4ZaiyNKmLk37TH0_HrC-jk/

It's particularly annoying when after solving the puzzle, it doesn't redirect me! I have to redo the entire rotten post. And hit the rotten spamtrap again. I'm assuming that it doesn't like the repetitive format of the weekly chess league updates.

Looks like we're on track for a record-breaking year. Unless people are sending them in early, we should be on track for at least 150 teams.

Doesn't always work though. Ed Asner was so busy up until he died of old age that they released twelve films and TV shows that he'd been working on afterwards. And Richard O' Sullivan has been retired since 1996 and living it up in a care home since 2003.

We signed him by accident when he had one year left on a four-year contract, and somehow that turned into a three-year contract. Rocky Bushiri's agent is the second biggest miracle worker in Scottish fitba', after Steve Clarke.

What do you mean penalties aside? The penalties were crap too.

It already feels like a blockbuster ending to some of us. I've been sitting on the most fragile Dead Pool lead you can get since December 8th, and waiting to see if *any* pool picks (other than the ten survivors in my pool) cark it and deprive me of my lead (if just one person dies between now and Jan 1st, then out of the surviving 617 contenders, 516 of them land psv_killie with a win. Miguel has 11 chances of a one-hit win and I have 10). What's annoying is we're in the stages where it's getting increasingly likely that I might win. I estimate that the probabilities have crept up from 2% on December 8th to about 40-45% right now. The tension is racking up, and every new post in this thread twitches my blood pressure up by half a notch. If someone IS going to die before the bells, could they please get it over with quickly and save me the stress.

If we're going with the 'laugh at the arsecheeks' genre, then HibsFan's chronicle of the Sevco banter years thread is surely the best in that category, as well as surely having the highest greenie count of any post on P&B.

Here's a list of your outstanding fixtures, including the two that just went up today. I don't know which are currently being played. |-------+----------------------------| | Round | Fixture | |-------+----------------------------| | 12 | XCTR94 vs mackieboz | | 15 | XCTR94 vs Dandies1983 | | 16 | Basedgodsa1nt vs XCTR94 | | 17 | XCTR94 vs markf268 | | 18 | DieHardDoonhamer vs XCTR94 | | 19 | XCTR94 vs N5_Spur | | 20 | PnbMathematics vs XCTR94 | |-------+----------------------------|

Division B Table and Fixtures Division B P W D L Pts redVtop 18 17 1 0 52 pleslie999 17 14 1 2 43 PnbMathematics 18 11 2 5 35 Basedgodsa1nt 17 11 1 5 34 Dandies1983 15 9 1 5 28 N5_Spur 16 7 1 8 22 RBWatson 17 6 1 10 19 mackieboz 14 4 1 9 13 markf268 14 4 0 10 12 DieHardDoonhamer 17 4 0 13 12 Dustysghost 18 4 0 14 12 XCTR94 13 1 1 11 4 Round 19 redVtop vs Basedgodsa1nt pleslie999 vs Dustysghost Dandies1983 vs markf268 mackieboz vs PnbMathematics RBWatson vs DieHardDoonhamer XCTR94 vs N5_Spur Round 20 pleslie999 vs redVtop markf268 vs Basedgodsa1nt Dustysghost vs mackieboz DieHardDoonhamer vs Dandies1983 PnbMathematics vs XCTR94 N5_Spur vs RBWatson

Division A Table and Fixtures Division A P W D L Pts ancientnoise 15 14 1 0 43 The_Curmudgeon 16 12 1 3 37 DearyMe 13 11 1 1 34 AimHere 14 9 0 5 27 stewartmathers 14 8 0 6 24 KenDeans 17 6 2 9 20 AlbinoRov 16 4 2 10 14 invergowrie 16 3 4 9 13 AH13STU 9 3 0 6 9 beef2711 11 2 2 7 8 Arabjoe 12 2 2 8 8 The_kid1433 13 1 1 11 4 Round 19 invergowrie vs AimHere ancientnoise vs AH13STU The_kid1433 vs AlbinoRov DearyMe vs The_Curmudgeon stewartmathers vs Arabjoe KenDeans vs beef2711 Round 20 ancientnoise vs invergowrie AlbinoRov vs AimHere AH13STU vs DearyMe Arabjoe vs The_kid1433 The_Curmudgeon vs KenDeans beef2711 vs stewartmathers As usual, results and calculations are on the spreadsheet at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YwODlp2A0TBMf2VuyjJox4ZaiyNKmLk37TH0_HrC-jk

If you need to go out with a bit of whimpering, I did a seasonal scores check. By my reckoning: Michael W should be on 295 instead of 297 (probably added to the wrong high score row) ICT Johnboy should be on 220 not 230 (adding) alta-pete should be on 199 points (missed Shane Macgowan, probably) Lex should be on 93 points not 85 or 83 (no idea where this number comes from) I think 101 should be on 90 points not 60 (Missed VC bonus for Shane Macgowan)

Hibs fans have done their own unofficial pitch inspection and their report is that Ross County are a bunch of shitebags.

Much as I want to see every death from here until 2024 stricken from the scoresheet, Derek Draper was one of Mandelson's spin doctor's during the Blair years and ended up being in a couple of political scandals at the time. His wikipedia page barely references his wife.

Strangely, this seems to have taken place hours after the death of one Frank James McAffrey, a teenage GAA player https://www.belfastlive.co.uk/sport/gaa/frank-james-mccaffery-tributes-paid-28308409 Perhaps a coincidence, or someone's skimmed a headline and jumped to the wrong conclusion. Or there's a time travelling killer robot trying to stop the descendants of some Frank McAffrey from halting the robot uprising.

That was what it used to be famous for, until the plastic surgery industry came along. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botulism

There's multiple meanings of 'past 4 games'. There's the last 4 fixtures I've put up here, the last 4 game results reported here, the last 4 league games played in your chess.com account, and so on. The fixtures I'm putting up look fine, the last 4 games in your chess.com account have issues of extra confusion (like a game against AlbinoRov that doesn't match the result reported on November 8th) so I stopped when I realised that gets confusing. Of the last 4 of your game results reported in this thread, I did spot an error in the spreadsheet for the very last result (recorded the wrong way round) and I've fixed it. Sorry about that. If that's not the problem you had, then please clarify.

The narrowest in recorded history is when DBA took the title from Albino Rover by 4 points (498 to 494) in 2017. As things stand, 2023 is not quite THAT close, in that technically I'm in the lead by 22 points, what with Ryan O' Neal being the presumptive holder of the last gasp bonus. It only comes down to three if someone else scores in a way that doesn't otherwise affect the top two standings. So here's to a long, healthy, happy life for everyone in the dead pool roster.

You're right. Fortunately it doesn't affect the fixture list, just a brainfart when putting the titles on the postings.

Division B Table and Fixtures Division B P W D L Pts pleslie999 13 12 1 0 37 redVtop 13 12 1 0 37 Basedgodsa1nt 15 10 1 4 31 PnbMathematics 15 9 2 4 29 Dandies1983 13 8 1 4 25 N5_Spur 15 6 1 8 19 RBWatson 15 6 1 8 19 markf268 13 4 0 9 12 Dustysghost 14 4 0 10 12 mackieboz 13 3 1 9 10 DieHardDoonhamer 14 2 0 12 6 XCTR94 11 1 1 9 4 Round 17 redVtop vs Dandies1983 Dustysghost vs PnbMathematics RBWatson vs Basedgodsa1nt pleslie999 vs N5_Spur XCTR94 vs markf268 mackieboz vs DieHardDoonhamer Round 18 Dustysghost vs redVtop Basedgodsa1nt vs Dandies1983 PnbMathematics vs pleslie999 markf268 vs RBWatson N5_Spur vs mackieboz DieHardDoonhamer vs XCTR94 As usual, results and calculations are recorded on the spreadsheet at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YwODlp2A0TBMf2VuyjJox4ZaiyNKmLk37TH0_HrC-jk