Scoring and seasons in a celebrity death pool

Every serious pool needs clear season boundaries. Deaths outside the window do not score—even if the pick “would have been obvious” in hindsight. That is what makes the game comparable year to year and stops arguments about retroactive points.

RIPdraft aligns drafts and monitoring with calendar logic your admin configures. After the draft completes, your league is “in season” for a defined stretch. When a death is confirmed and dated inside that window, the app applies scoring: broadly, younger deaths yield more points, reflecting the grim intuition that unexpected loss hits harder in competitive terms—without pretending any of this is pretty.

If you are comparing RIPdraft to a homebrew pool, the biggest upgrade is consistency: fewer spreadsheet errors, fewer fights about whether a Wikipedia date was “official” yet, and a single timeline your whole league can open on a phone.