What's new
By:
USCHO Fan Forum

This is a sample guest message. Register a free account today to become a member! Once signed in, you'll be able to participate on this site by adding your own topics and posts, as well as connect with other members through your own private inbox!

  • The USCHO Fan Forum has migrated to a new plaform, xenForo. Most of the function of the forum should work in familiar ways. Please note that you can switch between light and dark modes by clicking on the gear icon in the upper right of the main menu bar. We are hoping that this new platform will prove to be faster and more reliable. Please feel free to explore its features.

USCHO Dead Pool

bigblue_dl

bigblue_dl

Armed
Is anyone interested in doing a dead pool? I figure there are enough horrible people on here to get enough that will root for old famous people to die. :p

I figure get a group of posters, cap it at 15 or something close to that. Then have a draft, probably using AIM, like the fantasy college hockey drafts do. Each person drafts 20 people. If that would take too long, we could even do the draft on the board, and have it draw out over weeks, whenever you see that its your turn, post to make your pick.

Thoughts?
 
Re: USCHO Dead Pool

bigblue_dl said:
Is anyone interested in doing a dead pool? I figure there are enough horrible people on here to get enough that will root for old famous people to die. :p

I figure get a group of posters, cap it at 15 or something close to that. Then have a draft, probably using AIM, like the fantasy college hockey drafts do. Each person drafts 20 people. If that would take too long, we could even do the draft on the board, and have it draw out over weeks, whenever you see that its your turn, post to make your pick.

Thoughts?
Click to expand...

Can I pick you for the pool?
 
Re: USCHO Dead Pool

Dirty said:
Can I pick you for the pool?
Click to expand...
I don't think I'm famous enough, but I'm sure everyone would be willing to make an exception.

I am starting to think it would work best to just do the draft here, over a couple weeks. Lets see if we can get 10-15 interested.
 
Re: USCHO Dead Pool

I'm in.

I once won an award for "Ballsiest Pick" in a dead pool for picking Sean Preston Federline at the age of 2.
 
Re: USCHO Dead Pool

I've heard of these but never did one... How does it work? You pick 5 people and the first one to have all 5 pass wins?
 
Re: USCHO Dead Pool

RaceBoarder said:
I've heard of these but never did one... How does it work? You pick 5 people and the first one to have all 5 pass wins?
Click to expand...

Millions of different ways. I like the ones where there are elegance points (i.e., you'd only get 1 for Fidel Castro or 3 for Abe Vigoda, but say 20 for Bristol Palin).
 
Re: USCHO Dead Pool

I'll play.

I've seen ones where everyone makes a list of 10-15, and it lasts for a certain amount of time (usually a year), and the ones I've seen have scoring done along the lines of 90-minus-Age, plus 5 points or so for being the only person to have the deceased on your list. That way you can have more than one person have the same person on death watch (if you can understand that), and you don't have everyone sitting on a bunch of 96-year olds that think buying green bananas is a long-term investment.

Example: Bobby Thompson passed today. He was 86. You get 4 points (90-86), plus 5 more if you're the only one that has him on your list. If someone else also has him, you both get 4 points.
 
Last edited:
Re: USCHO Dead Pool

This is sick. Sophomoric. Disrespectful. Morbid. You should all be ashamed of yourselves.









Of course I'm in.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top