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Celebrity death pool software

Your death pool deserves better than a spreadsheet.

Draft famous people in a live draft room, let us watch the news for you, and keep score on a tombstone graveyard the whole league can see. The dead pool, ghoul pool or death pool your group already runs, run properly.

Every rostered name is checked against Wikidata several times a day, and no points move until you confirm the hit.

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Every player plays freeLive draft roomDeaths detected for youYou confirm every hit
A death pool graveyard on a phone: the league name, a count of 14 recorded hits, and a headstone for Debbie Reynolds, 1932 to 2016, marked as the latest recorded hit.

One engine, built for a season of this

A death pool is a mode of Draft Room, our season-long draft engine. Turn it on and the draft, the detection and the graveyard come with it.

Wikidata detectionCommissioner confirmsLicensed module — annual per-league subscription

Draft Room

Build your team. Own your draft.

Teams draft real people through a Wikipedia picker, in a live snake or auction draft with a pick clock. From then on every rostered name is re-checked against Wikidata several times a day. A death shows up as a pending hit for you to confirm, and the graveyard and standings update the moment you do.

Best for: Friend groups, offices and long-running leagues that have outgrown the group text

Set it up once. It keeps score all year.

01
Draft
Pre-load a pool of names or run an open draft where whoever is on the clock searches Wikipedia live. Snake or auction, with a pick clock and auto-picks.
02
Watch
Every rostered name is checked against Wikidata several times a day. Nobody has to notice anything.
03
Confirm
A detected death waits for you. Confirm it and the points land; nothing moves on a bad edit.
04
Brag
The graveyard shows every hit with dates, ages and points, and the standings sort themselves.

You stop refereeing the news.

What your league actually sees

The graveyard

A headstone for every hit.

Each confirmed death gets its own stone, with the dates, the age, the team that drafted them and the round they went in. The standings sit beside it, so the whole league can see who is ahead without asking you.

A death pool graveyard on a laptop: a headstone for Debbie Reynolds with her dates, age 84 and the team that drafted her, beside a standings table of nine teams by hits and points.

The parts a spreadsheet makes you do

Several times a day
every rostered name re-checked against Wikidata
0 points
move before you confirm a hit
3 ways
to score: flat, age-weighted or your own age brackets

Every player plays free. One commissioner licenses the league; on the Organization plan it is included.

How would you like to run your death pool?

Spreadsheet / group textChooseASquare
Run the draftA long email thread✓ A live draft room with a pick clock
Notice a deathWhoever reads the news first✓ Checked against Wikidata for you
Settle "does that count?"An argument✓ You confirm every hit before it scores
Work out the pointsYou, with the age maths✓ Flat, age-weighted or brackets, automatically
Show the standingsA screenshot of a sheet✓ A tombstone graveyard and a live table
Next yearStart the sheet again✓ Keepers carry over

Commissioner ≠ obituary reader.

How a death pool runs on ChooseASquare

Celebrity death pool rules, scoring and the draft

A celebrity death pool (also called a dead pool or a ghoul pool) is a season-long draft: each team drafts a roster of famous living people, and scores when one of them dies during the season. On ChooseASquare it is a mode of Draft Room, so the draft itself is a real draft room: a live snake or auction draft with a pick clock, chat, auto-picks from each manager’s private ranked prospect list, and an optional thumbs-up or thumbs-down vote on whether a pick is famous enough.

Scoring can be flat (every hit is worth the same), age-weighted (points are a ceiling minus the age at death, so a younger pick pays more) or your own age brackets. Add a uniqueness bonus for the only team holding a name, a draft-position bonus that rewards late-round finds, and season bonuses for the first death of the season, the last, or the one closest to a date you choose. Ties pay every tied team in full.

Detection is the part that makes it hands-off. Every rostered name is checked against Wikidata several times a day, and a detected death becomes a pending hit that you confirm before any points move, so a mistaken edit on the internet never changes the standings. You can also mark one by hand, reverse one, and see a full audit trail. Keepers carry names into next season, and a mid-season redraft can make every team release names by a deadline and draft back as many as they released.

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Celebrity death pools, answered

Is there software for a celebrity death pool?

Yes. ChooseASquare runs death pools as a mode of Draft Room: a live draft room, automatic death detection against Wikidata that you confirm, age-weighted or bracket scoring, season bonuses, keepers and a mid-season redraft. No spreadsheet, no Google Form, no Discord bot.

How are deaths detected?

Every name on a roster is re-checked against Wikidata several times a day. When one is reported dead it appears as a pending hit for the commissioner to confirm. Points only move after that confirmation, so a vandalised page or a hoax never changes your standings.

How does age-weighted scoring work?

Each hit is worth a ceiling you choose minus the person’s age at death. With a ceiling of 100, a pick who dies at 57 scores 43 and one who dies at 92 scores 8, which rewards the bold pick over the obvious one. You can use flat scoring or your own age brackets instead.

What is a dead pool or a ghoul pool?

The same game under different names: a league drafts famous people and scores when one of them dies during the season. Some groups call it a death pool, some a dead pool, some a ghoul pool. All of them run the same way here.

Can we keep names from year to year?

Yes. Keepers carry a set number of names into the next season, and a mid-season redraft can make every team release names by a deadline and draft back as many as they released. Names lost to a death are never replaced.

What does it cost?

Every player plays free. On the Free or Pro plan, Draft Room is licensed per league at $49 a year with Death Pool mode a $19 a year add-on; on the Organization plan it is included. Those are the standard prices, and sales run from time to time.

Is there a guide to running one?

Yes, the celebrity death pool guide walks through the draft, scoring choices and season bonuses step by step.

Draft your death pool this week

Set up the league, send one link, run the draft. The graveyard takes it from there.

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