Everyone is eligible to be in a team - i.e. any nationality, age, race, gender, of any occupation and so on. The only restrictions are that they must be at least reasonably well-known (been heard of by the majority of other players), and they must not have a known terminal disease when they are first admitted into a team. If such an unfortunate illness strikes an individual already in a team, they do not have to be removed from the list.

A hasty addition to the rules: no-one currently awaiting execution is admissable.

A successful prediction gets you five points.

Each team is allowed three transfers before the end of the year, which can be used at any time. Any subsequent transfers used will cost the team one point, though an unlimited number can be used.

The administrator (that's me) is the final judge on any questionable matters, including possible disqualification for any player believed to be a suspect in the murder of any team members.

(Strike indicates a deceased team member. Red indicates a member transferred out)

Team name: Stiff Little Toetags
Team leader: Nigel Samson
Points scored: 25
Transfers remaining: 0
Team members
Pope John Paul II 5pts
Elizabeth Taylor
George Best
Michael Jackson
Ernest Borgnine
Phil Spector
Ronnie Biggs
Kirk Douglas
Prince Rainier of Monaco 5pts
James Doohan 5pts
Augusto Pinochet
Michael Foot
Mark Felt
Gerald Ford
Zsa Zsa Gabor
George Best 5pts
Pat Morita 5pts
Norman Kember

Team name: Little Town of Deathlehem
Team leader: Neil Percival
Points scored: 25
Transfers remaining: 3
Team members
Ronnie Biggs
Pope John Paul II 5pts
Elton John
Richard Pryor 5pts
Bob Dylan
Elizabeth Taylor
Edward Heath 5pts
Augusto Pinochet
John Mills 5pts
Gerald Ford
Brian Harvey
Mo Mowlam 5pts
Norman Kember

Team name: Get Stiffed
Team leader: Nigel Bevan
Points scored: 35
Transfers remaining: 2
Team members
Pope John Paul II 5pts
John Mills 5pts
Ronnie Biggs
Edward Heath 5pts
Gerald Ford
Augusto Pinochet
James Callaghan 5pts
Boris Yeltsin
Shane MacGowan
Mohammed Ali
George Best 5pts
Prince Rainier of Monaco 5pts
Michael Foot
Patrick Moore
Simon Wiesenthal 5pts
John Kenneth Galbraith
Doug Ellis

Team name: Cad�veres Para Dinero
Team leader: Chris Lockie
Points scored: 15
Transfers remaining: 0
Team members
Pope John Paul II 5pts
Gerald Ford
Ronnie Biggs
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Ian Huntley
Augusto Pinochet
Osama Bin Laden
Rosa Parks 5pts
Michael Foot
Jack Klugman
Hamid Karzai
Arthur C. Clarke
Brooke Astor
Mo Mowlam 5pts
Murray Walker
Charles Lane

Team name: 5 for heaven, 5 for hell
Team leader: Ian Douglas
Points scored: 5
Transfers remaining: 1
Team members
Pope John Paul II 5pts
Margaret Thatcher
Bernard Manning
Ozzy Osbourne
Nelson Mandela
Ian Paisley
Gerry Adams
Richard Branson
Michael Jackson
Ariel Sharon
Pete Doherty
Gareth Hunt
Jeremy Beadle

Team name: Who's Next?
Team leader: Allan Catlin
Points scored: 20
Transfers remaining: 3
Team members
Michael Jackson
James Brown
Pope John Paul II 5pts
George Best 5pts
Edwyn Collins
Luther Vandross 5pts
Pete Doherty
Ozzy Osbourne
Ted Heath 5pts
Whitney Houston
Ronnie Biggs
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Michael Foot
Norman Kember

Team name: Ted's dead baby, Ted's dead
Team leader: Michael Saunders
Points scored: 20
Transfers remaining: 0
Team members
George Bush Sr
Ted Heath 5pts
Pope John Paul II 5pts
Shane McGowan
Alex 'Hurricane' Higgins
Osama Bin Laden
Pete Doherty
Barbara Windsor
Paul O'Grady
Jimmy Saville
Michael Jackson
George Cole
Mo Mowlam 5pts
Peter Sallis
George Best 5pts
Saddam Hussein