I think the one change I would like to see made is to assign points at
one point per game, period.  I haven't entered for some time because I
am still left with an unpleasant "taste" from 94 when LSSU won it all
with their incredible 9-1 upset in the final over BU.  Not bragging
since it was mostly luck, but I picked every game correct that year
except the final, but finished well down the list because the final was
weighted so much more that anyone who had LSSU winning it all would beat
anyone else in the field even if the only games they picked right were
those involving LSSU.  At least that was my perception at the time.
Thus, I like suggestion #4 and would like to see it adopted across the
board.

Tom Rowe  

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Subject: next years contests

This years contest is over for me.  All I do is plug in numbers and sort
at the end.  So I started to think about what I might do for next year
to change the contests a bit.
I thought I might throw some ideas out there before the finals are over
since some people unsubscribe during the off season.
Here's what I came up with so far.  Any comments are appreciated.  You
can either reply to me personally or to the list.

1) require contestants to specify scores for all games
2) no longer require contestants to add up total goals.  If the scores
are there, the spreadsheet can do the sums
3) have contestants specify the number of tiebreakers for each of the
regionals as well as the phrozen phour
4) run a fourth contest, similar to contest 1 except that all games will
be worth the same number of points
5) run 5 sets of contests; one for each of the 4 regionals and one for
the whole tournament
6) If I'm really nuts, run contests just for the nationals; people who
had entries for the tournament would be able to submit new entries after
the regionals weekend so there would be a sixth contest that just
included the phrozen phour

or maybe I'll just get a life and drop the whole thing.

Any comments are appreciated but no commitments are being made.
I did consider putting up a website where people could post their own
entries so I wouldn't have to cut and paste contest entries.  But my ISP
doesn't allow interactive websites and I decided against getting into
the whole website scene.