I think if we don't know about it then we can't be expected to not pick them on that basis though, and if we did then it's just very good 'luck' (as bad as it is to use that word in this context). I know there's grey areas but someone like Martin Crowe was given a 5% chance of making it twelve months back in 2014. The obvious thing to do if you really cared about winning is just to pick another 9 celebs like that, like Jools van der Westhuizen who quite a few of us have, whereas part of the 'fun' of the game was just doing sheer guesswork about which celebs might somehow die, or at least making some logical guesses.
Very morbid thing to talk about and accept I'm probs in a minority with that but there we are