As today is the eve before the appearance of America's favorite rodent, and
my pre-assigned date for the third update, we proudly present the final update
(before the end of the season and the crowning of our Demigod of Prognostica-
tion [Regular Season Version]) for the Hockey-L Regular Season Prediciton
Contest!
(You'll have to pardon me, the spellchecker in my brain is on vacation this
week.)
As is our wont, the current standings (and the tiebreaker procedures used):
HE ECAC CCHA WCHA
1. Maine Clarkson Michigan Colorado College
2. Boston Univ. Brown Bowling Green Wisconsin
3. New Hampshire Harvard Michigan St. Denver
4. Northeastern RPI Miami Minnesota
5. Mass Lowell Colgate Lake Superior Michigan Tech
6. Boston Coll. Yale Ferris St. North Dakota
7. Merrimack Vermont Illinois-Chicago N. Michigan
8. Providence Princeton W. Michigan Minnesota-Duluth
9. Mass Amherst Cornell Notre Dame St. Cloud St.
10. Union Ohio St. Alaska-Anchorage
11. St. Lawrence
12. Dartmouth
First off, I'd like to thank fellow Spartan Glen Keeney for his "h2h score
list" which made my job infinitely easier.
There were no ties in the HE standings and both ties in the CCHA (Michigan and
BG for first and Lake Superior and FSU for fifth) were broken based on head-
to-head play. The three ties in the ECAC (Clarkson/Brown for first, Vermont/
Princeton for seventh, and Cornell/Union for ninth) were also broken on head-
to-head play. There were three ties in the WCHA which were a bit more
challenging. Wisconsin gets the nod over Denver for second based on head-to-
head play. North Dakota edges out Northern Michigan for sixth based on more
conference wins (the second WCHA tiebreaker). And St. Cloud escapes the
cellar by winning the third tiebreaker with UAA, better goal differential.
With the third update, we have our third new leader. The man who's been
lurking near the top for a while finally takes the lead. We welcome to the
front of the pack
STEVE KAPETANAKIS
who also wins the longest name contest. Steve (like many others) dropped his
total score from 90 to 62 during the month of January to take the lead. Our
leader at Christmas, Lance Harry, has fallen to second, despite shaving 12
points off his total. The leader at Thanksgiving, Bob Constantine, still
languishes in fifth. Our big mover of the month was Robin Lock, who jumped
from 48th to 14th. (Yours truly still lingers in a tie for 8th.)
With the totals I have also included the number of teams correctly placed (to
sort the tied participants out). Note this does not replace the existing
tiebreaker. The person with the "most correct" entry is Eric Robinson, who
has 16 of the 41 teams correctly positioned.
The complete list:
Current Last Number Last
Rank Rank Correct HE ECAC CCHA WCHA Total Total
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1 6 Steve Kapetanakis 13 6 22 8 26 62 90
2 1 Lance Harry 7 10 16 14 24 64 78
3 6 Eric Robinson 16 2 26 14 26 68 90
4 3 Tony Buffa 9 8 30 10 26 74 82
5 2 Tim Newman 7 8 24 16 28 76 80
5 5 Bob Constatine 6 8 30 12 26 76 88
7 14 Brian Morris 9 10 30 14 24 78 96
8 29 David Wang 10 10 22 18 30 80 102
8 8 G. M. Finniss 8 8 30 16 26 80 92
8 14 Russell Jaslow 8 8 30 14 28 80 96
8 20 Jeff Bowen 5 10 24 18 28 80 98
12 20 Steve Weisfeldt 7 12 26 16 28 82 98
12 8 Bruce Spencer 4 10 32 18 22 82 92
14 35 J. Jodzis 8 12 24 16 32 84 104
14 29 Andrew Frisch 7 8 26 22 28 84 102
14 35 Brian Gentry 7 10 24 22 28 84 104
14 48 Robin Lock 7 10 32 16 26 84 110
14 20 Brian Roberts 6 8 30 20 26 84 98
14 14 Kristen Robinson 5 24 32 14 14 84 96
20 35 Dave Hendrickson 13 6 34 16 30 86 104
20 29 Rich Boehme 6 8 28 14 36 86 102
20 35 Mike Sheehan 5 12 24 16 34 86 104
20 43 Tark McMains 4 14 36 12 26 86 106
24 10 Eric Maiwald 11 12 30 14 32 88 94
24 10 Glenn Gale 8 8 34 14 32 88 94
24 46 Mark Johnson 5 10 30 22 26 88 108
24 35 Andrew Peed 5 14 24 20 30 88 104
24 14 Dave Kaufman 4 10 26 20 32 88 96
29 35 John Forsyth 11 8 28 24 30 90 104
29 29 Steve Phillips 10 6 38 18 28 90 102
29 25 I. R. Rutks 9 6 32 24 28 90 100
29 25 Mike Machnik 8 12 32 16 30 90 100
29 20 Ross Bracco 6 16 32 16 26 90 98
29 14 Ron Fraser 6 10 34 18 28 90 96
29 29 Dave Nicolai 6 12 28 20 30 90 102
29 48 Andrew Weise 4 12 38 22 18 90 110
37 51 Chris Paine 8 12 24 18 38 92 112
37 10 Sean Pickett 6 14 32 16 30 92 94
37 14 Nate Webster 3 8 32 16 36 92 96
40 35 Lloyd Hsu 8 14 32 18 30 94 104
40 51 Peter Knapp 8 14 26 24 30 94 112
40 4 Joe Brownson 7 18 36 14 26 94 86
40 25 William Krebs 5 18 28 22 26 94 100
44 43 Robb Dunn 8 10 40 18 28 96 106
44 43 Andrew Samwick 5 8 36 18 34 96 106
46 20 Troy Thiele 7 6 40 18 34 98 98
46 35 Roger Feeley 4 14 36 26 22 98 104
46 25 Eric Hoffman 2 14 30 18 36 98 100
49 29 Bill Fenwick 4 12 36 20 32 100 102
49 10 Beth Darrah 3 10 40 16 34 100 94
51 58 Jayson Moy 8 10 36 20 36 102 120
51 56 Don Demick 4 22 34 18 28 102 114
51 51 Steve Moerland 3 14 28 22 38 102 112
54 57 Willis Lam 6 18 30 22 34 104 116
54 51 Curt Nelson 6 8 40 22 34 104 112
54 51 Jeff Kelly 4 14 40 18 32 104 112
57 48 Scott Biggar 6 14 40 22 32 108 110
58 46 Anthony Frolik 7 30 34 14 32 110 108
59 60 Greg Williams 3 16 40 20 36 112 132
60 58 John McCumiskey 5 12 40 30 42 124 120
61 61 Jeffrey Anbinder 1 22 42 40 36 140 152
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The final standings will be posted sometime around March 10 (give or take a
few days). More details on the Conference Tournament contest should come out
about February 20, with the deadline for that contest being March 7 (hopefully,
the conference standings will be pretty well set the week before that, since
the end of the season and the start of the playoffs are only 2 days apart).
G. M. Finniss
Michigan State University 12-3-2, 17-6-2
Contest Central
WVU '87, UTenn '92, MSU who the hell knows when?
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