With the conference post-season tournaments over and the NCAA tournament
almost upon us, it's time to announce the winners of the Pick the Post-
Season Tournament contests. For Contest #1, in which the later rounds
were weighted more than the earlier ones, the overall winner is...
Nick Markham
whose 212 points beat runner-up Matt Sullivan by 15. Congratulations,
Nick, and we all bow to your (luck) superior (luck) prognosticating
(luck) skills (blind luck). As for your humble contest administrator,
the less said about my picks the better -- except to note that I managed
to finish behind two people who didn't even submit picks for some of
the tourneys. (See, I told you that would have been better left unsaid)
As for the individual conference winners...
Matt Sullivan's 61 points were good for first place in the ECACHL.
First place in Hockey East went to Craig Powers with 42 points.
The CCHA title went to Mark Lewin with 56 points.
Jim Dixon and Tony Buffa finished tied atop the WCHA with 49 points each.
Jim wins the title on the first tie-breaker, as he nailed the score of
the championship game.
Nick Markham topped Atlantic Hockey with a score of 44 points.
From last week's update, Jim Dixon won the CHA race in a tiebreaker, with
12 points.
Complete scoring results are below. Congratulations to all the winners,
and thanks again to all those who participated.
Tiebreaker notes: The first tiebreaker was the difference between your
predicted championship-game score and the actual score. Thus, if you
picked the score of the ECAC championship game (actually 4-2) to be 3-1,
you would get two points; if you picked 1-0, you would get five points;
and if you picked 5-4, you would get three points. Obviously, the lower
the point score the better.
The second tiebreaker was the difference between your predicted total of
goals scored in the entire tournament and the actual number. Again, the
lower the point total the better.
As far as tiebreakers that were actually needed:
For the WCHA, the championship game score was 3-2.
For the CHA (from last week), the championship game score was 5-4.
The USCHO prognosticators' numbers are included below, as are the "Higher
Seed" picks showing what would have happened if the higher seed for each
game had been picked to win.
Overall
NAME TOTAL
Nick Markham 212
Matt Sullivan 197
Tony Buffa 171
Troy D. Mills 171
Andy Weise 166
Wayne Smith 157
Mark Lewin 151
Charlie Shub 145
Craig Powers 144
Jim Dixon 141
Mike Larson 139
Bill Krebs 139
Bill Groskreutz III 129
* Ken Butler 120
William Sangrey 115
* Nathan Hampton 111
Bill Fenwick 105
* Erik Phelps 98
* Will Groskreutz IV 54
USCHO 202
Higher Seed 171
* Did not submit picks for all conferences
ECAC Hockey East
NAME TOTAL NAME TOTAL
Matt Sullivan 61 Craig Powers 42
Troy D. Mills 53 Matt Sullivan 39
Craig Powers 52 Tony Buffa 36
Andy Weise 51 Andy Weise 28
Nick Markham 49 Nick Markham 27
Ken Butler 48 William Sangrey 23
Charlie Shub 46 Charlie Shub 22
Wayne Smith 45 Bill Groskreutz III 20
Tony Buffa 45 Mike Larson 20
Erik Phelps 44 Jim Dixon 20
Bill Groskreutz III 43 Bill Fenwick 20
Nathan Hampton 43 Mark Lewin 20
Bill Krebs 35 Wayne Smith 19
Mike Larson 34 Troy D. Mills 16
Jim Dixon 34 Bill Krebs 15
William Sangrey 33
Will Groskreutz IV 25 USCHO 43
Bill Fenwick 21 Higher Seed 31
Mark Lewin 20
USCHO 52
Higher Seed 35
CCHA WCHA Tiebreaker 1
NAME TOTAL NAME TOTAL Score Pts
Mark Lewin 56 Jim Dixon 49 3-2 0
Nathan Hampton 54 Tony Buffa 49 5-4 4
Nick Markham 54 Bill Krebs 46
Troy D. Mills 52 Andy Weise 46
Ken Butler 52 Nick Markham 38
Wayne Smith 51 Matt Sullivan 38
Matt Sullivan 49 Bill Fenwick 32
Charlie Shub 44 Mike Larson 29
Mike Larson 43 Mark Lewin 26
Erik Phelps 40 Bill Groskreutz III 25
Bill Groskreutz III 35 Wayne Smith 22
Andy Weise 35 Charlie Shub 21
William Sangrey 27 William Sangrey 20
Bill Krebs 26 Craig Powers 18
Will Groskreutz IV 23 Troy D. Mills 17
Bill Fenwick 23
Tony Buffa 23 USCHO 39
Craig Powers 14 Higher Seed 34
Jim Dixon 11
USCHO 40
Higher Seed 51
Atlantic Hockey
NAME TOTAL
Nick Markham 44
Troy D. Mills 33
Wayne Smith 20
Ken Butler 20
Mark Lewin 17
Jim Dixon 15
Tony Buffa 14
Erik Phelps 14
Nathan Hampton 14
Charlie Shub 12
William Sangrey 12
Mike Larson 9
Bill Krebs 9
Bill Fenwick 9
Andy Weise 6
Will Groskreutz IV 6
Matt Sullivan 6
Craig Powers 6
Bill Groskreutz III 6
USCHO 20
Higher Seed 20
--
Bill Fenwick DJF 5/27/94
Cornell '86 and '95 JCF 12/2/97
LET'S GO RED!!
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