Saturday, December 31, 2005
One Day Left
Wednesday, December 28, 2005
The Rules for 2006
1. ROSTERS
1a. In 2006, each roster will begin with 55 players.
1b. Owners are permitted to designate 10 keepers to carry over onto their rosters for the following season. All remaining players will return to the free agent pool for redrafting.
1c. Drafting for 2007 and all subsequent seasons will take place no later than midnight on December 31. Drafts can be conducted in person, over the phone, via instant message, or e-mail.
1d. On July 4, owners will participate in a supplemental draft. Each team will draft 1 player to represent the 56th Man. The team trailing in points on July 4 will be awarded the first pick. At the end of the year, the player will return to the free agent pool, or can be designated as a keeper.
1e. Players are ineligible for draft based on following criteria: if they are famous for reasons such as sickness or misfortune. Example: Ryan White, AIDS victim, would not have been eligible for draft because he became famous only because of his disease.
1f. Players eligible for draft include: entertainers, media members, athletes, politicians, and world figures. Spouses and children of said figures are themselves draft eligible.
1g. A calendar year is determined midnight to midnight, Eastern Standard Time.
1h. Draft order is determined by which team is trailing on the date of the draft.
1j. If following the draft a rostered player dies before the new season has begun, a compensatory pick will be awarded to the team impacted by the death.
2. POINTS
2a. Points awarded based on player deaths. Point totals are reached as follows: 100 - age at death. Example: Kirk Douglas would earn 11 points (100-89=11).
2b. Points awarded based on age at the time of death. Example: Kirk Douglas starts the year at 89 years old. If he dies after his 90th birthday, however, he will be awarded one less point (100-90=10).
2c. Each team can designate one Moneyball player whose death can earn owners double value. Example: As a Moneyball designee, Kirk Douglas would earn 22 points (11*2=22).
2d. Points will not be awarded for unconfirmed deaths, i.e., a missing person does not constitute a death. However, if a player goes missing in August, for example, an owner can choose to designate this person as a keeper player if they have not been found by December 31. Then, if the person dies the following year, points will be assigned to that owners total.
2e. The so-called "Heather O' Rourke Clause" dictates that any drafted player under 17 years of age is subject to half point value. In other words, the death of a 12 year old would not result in 88 points. Rather, only half, or 44 points, would be awarded for the death.
2f. A player at any time may take out a 10-day, or 240-hour, insurance policy on any player on the opposing roster. The moment insurance is taken, the owner of the insured player is immediately awarded half the value of his players death total. If the insured player dies, the owner will retain his accrued points. However, the owner of the policy collects half of the player's original value. If the insured player dies after the insurance policy has lapsed, he is awarded the original value of his player plus the points he earned when the policy was taken out on his player. Example: Sweet Valley Death decides to take out an insurance policy against Ewing Oil's Ed McMahon. McMahon's value at the time is 18. Ewing Oil will be awarded 9 points. If McMahon dies while insured, Sweet Valley Death will also be awarded 9 points, or half of McMahon's value. If, however, McMahon outlives the 10-day, 240-hour policy, and dies at a later date, Ewing Oil will retain the 9 points it earned at the time of McMahon's insurance, and will earn his original 18 point value as well for a total of 27 points. If McMahon does not die, Ewing Oil will still retain the 9 points it earned at the time of McMahon's insurance.
2g. Each team has the option to take out an insurance policy once per season, but is under no obligation to ever use it.
3. TIEBREAKERS
1st tiebreaker: Total deaths. Most total deaths on roster wins season.
2nd tiebreaker: Sudden death. Owner with the first player on active roster to die in the following calendar year wins the previous year.
4. GRAND PRIZE
Grand prize will be a DVD(s) of the winners choosing, not to exceed $50 value.
As of January 1, 2006
Just a Reminder
With 4 days left in the 2005 season, Ewing Oil holds a 82-57 lead over Sweet Valley Death. A complete season in review post will be available after Jan. 1.
Draft breakdown
Youngest player drafted: Scott Weiland, 38
Oldest player drafted: (tie) Buck O'Neil and Joe Barbarra, 94
Number of players drafted by Sweet Valley Death between 30-69 yrs. old: 4
Number of players drafted by Ewing Oil between 30-69 yrs. old: 13
Number of players drafted by Sweet Valley Death between 90-99 yrs. old: 8
Number of players drafted by Ewing Oil between 90-99 yrs. old: 1
Total years drafted by Sweet Valley Death: 4,001
Total years drafted by Ewing Oil: 3,726
Avg. age of Sweet Valley Death draft picks: 80.0
Avg. age of Ewing Oil draft picks: 74.5
Most popular drafted age: 82 (11 players)
Most Dons drafted: 4, Ewing Oil (Don Ho, Don Pardo, Don Herbert, Don Meredith)
Most Quaker Oats spokesman drafted: 1, Sweet Valley Death (Wilford Brimley)
Don't Forget the Keepers
Sweet Valley Death:
Karl Malden, 92
Olivia del Havilland, 88
Pat Summerall, 74
Dick Clark, 75
Nancy Reagan, 83
Ewing Oil:
Charlton Heston, 80
Margaret Thatcher, 79
Larry Hagman, 73
Don Knotts, 80
Elizabeth Taylor, 72
Ewing Oil draft results
1. Sadaam Hussein, 68
2. Muhammed Ali, 63
3. Walter Cronkite, 89
4. Queen Elizabeth II, 79
5. Courtney Love, 41
6. Gen. Pervez Musharraf, 62
7. Jane Wyman, 91
8. Ed McMahon, 82
9. Kirk Douglas, 89
10. Don Ho, 75
11. Don Pardo, 87
12. Ante Gotovina, 50
13. Justice John Paul Stevens, 85
14. Tom McEwen, 82
15. Don "Mr. Wizard" Herbert, 88
16. Nelson Mandella, 87
17. Eunice Kennedy Shriver, 84
18. Red Auerbach, 88
19. Pat Burns, 43
20. Coretta Scott King, 78
21. Estelle Getty, 82
22. Dana Reeve, 44
23. Dick Cheney, 64
24. Don Meredith, 67
25. Gordie Howe, 77
26. George Steinbrenner, 75
27. Andy Rooney, 86
28. Bob Dole, 82
29. Mike Tyson, 39
30. Merv Griffin, 80
31. O.A. "Bum" Phillips, 82
32. Gary Glitter, 61
33. Ann B. Davis, 79
34. Katherine Helmond, 77
35. Mike Martz, 54
36. Sherwood Schwartz, 89
37. Bea Arthur, 82
38. Tom Poston, 84
39. Gene Wilder, 72
40. F. Lee Bailey, 72
41. Margot Kidder, 57
42. Tommy Lasorda, 78
43. George H.W. Bush, 81
44. Barbara Bush, 80
45. Betty White, 83
46. Mel Brooks, 79
47. Bill Daily, 79
48. Rue McClanahan, 71
49. Jimmy Carter, 81
50. Pope Benedict XVI, 78
Tuesday, December 27, 2005
Sweet Valley Death draft results
Here are the complete results of Sweet Valley Death's 2006 draft.
1. Lou Rawls, 70
2. Jerry Lewis, 79
3. Don Rickles, 79
4. Andy Griffith, 79
5. Wilford Brimley, 71
6. Gerald Ford, 92
7. Billy Graham, 87
8. Ernest Borgnine, 88
9. Ronnie Biggs, 76
10. Paul Tibbets, 90
11. Joey Bishop, 87
12. Shelly Winters, 83
13. John Forsythe, 87
14. Ingmar Bergman, 87
15. Eli Wallach, 90
16. Stan Musial, 85
17. Fidel Castro, 79
18. Patricia Kennedy Lawford, 81
19. Bo Didley, 76
20. B.B. King, 80
21. Lady Bird Johnson, 92
22. Al Lewis, 82
23. Vin Scully, 78
24. Louie Anderson, 52
25. Art Donovan, 80
26. Studs Terkel, 93
27. Mike Wallace, 87
28. Jonathan Winters, 80
29. Henry Kissinger, 82
30. Scott Weiland, 38
31. Art Linklater, 93
32. Della Reese, 74
33. Walter Mondale, 77
34. Ed Asner, 76
35. Charles Durning, 82
36. Sidney Potier, 78
37. Rudy Dee, 81
38. Norman Mailer, 82
39. Roger Moore, 78
40. Arnold Palmer, 76
41. Richard Dawson, 73
42. Stephen Hawking, 63
43. Bob Barker, 82
44. Dick Van Patten, 77
45. Calvert DeForest, 77
46. Evil Kenivel, 67
47. Buck O'Neil, 94
48. Chuck Berry, 79
49. Arthur C. Clarke, 88
50. Joe Barbarra, 94
