The Death Roll

So, I heard about this from an acquaintance; apparently there's some group you can join to place bets on who is going to die within the calendar year. Except there's no money involved, and you don't get anything but points in the Death Roll club or whatever it is, and points are acquired through rather strange qualifiers. Like, more points for younger people (the further away they are from 100 years old, the more points you score if you called it), more points for suicides, etc. This all made about as much sense to me as the way my acquaintance analogized the thing: ["It's like fantasy football, but with no teams. Or players. Or games."] Riiiigggghhht...

OK, so it's weird and messed up and kind of um, disgusting/pathetic/nonsensical? But let's put all that aside. What I really want to know is, are there qualifiers that deduct points from your total, if you're participating in this thing? Like, if you pick someone with terminal cancer, or some other life-threatening illness? What about someone whose lifestyle involves higher inherent risks than the average joe, like skydiving or traveling to hostile lands or being related to the Kennedys?

So there's my musing for the day...wow, I should probably get some coffee in me and get going...