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 Tournaments contests. For Contest #1, in which the later
rounds were weighted more than the earlier ones, the overall winner is...
Nick Markham
whose 259 points were nine better than runner-up Wayne Smith.
Congratulations to Nick, who today must consider himself the LUCKIEST
SO-AND-SO ON THE FACE OF -- uh, excuse me, whose prognosticating ability
now stands second to none.
As for the individual conference winners...
In a close race, Wayne Smith finished atop the ECACHL with 67 points.
Hockey East saw a tie for first between Jim Dixon and Craig Roberts, with
Jim taking the first tiebreaker, as his predicted championship-game score
was one point closer than Craig's. This marks the second straight year
that Jim has won the Hockey East contest in a tiebreaker.
Wayne Smith's 57 points were good for first place in the CCHA race.
The WCHA title went to Jim Edwards with 56 points.
And here's a real upset -- your humble and wildly lucky contest
administrator topped the Atlantic Hockey race with 44 points.
From last week's update, Thom Davis won the CHA race in a tiebreaker, with
a perfect 40 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 3-1) to be 4-2,
you would get two points; if you picked 1-0, you would get three points;
and if you picked 5-4, you would get five points. Obviously, the lower
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 Hockey East, the championship game score was 3-1.
For the CHA (from last week), the championship game score was 3-0.
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 259
Wayne Smith (RHEAL) 250
Jim Edwards 248
Robin Lock 244
Jim Dixon 242
Andy Weise 237
Stephen Roth 235
CHODR 234
Ross Belfiori 222
Craig Roberts 222
Mike Abegg 220
William Sangrey 215
Matt Sullivan 210
William Groskreutz 197
* Thom Davis 192
Nathan Hampton 191
Charlie Shub 189
Bill Fenwick 182
Rita Monde 170
* John Edwards 161
Tony Buffa 154
Wendy Istvanick 148
* Carol Belfiori 114
* Dan McMurrer 113
* Mark Lewin 98
* Jim Teresco 50
* Dave Belfiori 46
* Billy G. Taylor 39
* Jay Punwar 31
USCHO 258
Higher Seed 258
* Did not submit picks for all conferences
ECAC Hockey East Tiebreaker 1
NAME TOTAL NAME TOTAL Score Pts
Wayne Smith (RHEAL) 67 Jim Dixon 47 2-1 1
Nick Markham 66 Craig Roberts 47 4-2 2
CHODR 66 Andy Weise 46
Mike Abegg 61 Nick Markham 46
Jim Edwards 59 John Edwards 45
Robin Lock 57 CHODR 45
William Sangrey 57 Stephen Roth 44
Mark Lewin 57 Jim Edwards 39
Wendy Istvanick 54 Wayne Smith (RHEAL) 37
Stephen Roth 53 Robin Lock 37
Craig Roberts 52 Mike Abegg 37
Jim Teresco 50 William Sangrey 28
Charlie Shub 50 Tony Buffa 27
Andy Weise 49 Matt Sullivan 23
Rita Monde 48 Nathan Hampton 22
Nathan Hampton 47 Bill Fenwick 22
Ross Belfiori 46 Charlie Shub 22
Dave Belfiori 46 Thom Davis 21
Thom Davis 45 Wendy Istvanick 19
Matt Sullivan 43 Carol Belfiori 15
Tony Buffa 41 Dan McMurrer 14
Billy G. Taylor 39 Ross Belfiori 14
William Groskreutz 37 William Groskreutz 14
Bill Fenwick 34 Rita Monde 13
Dan McMurrer 32
Jim Dixon 30 USCHO 42
Higher Seed 39
USCHO 61
Higher Seed 62
CCHA WCHA
NAME TOTAL NAME TOTAL
Wayne Smith (RHEAL) 57 Jim Edwards 56
Jim Dixon 53 Jim Dixon 55
Thom Davis 52 Nick Markham 50
Robin Lock 52 Ross Belfiori 48
Ross Belfiori 50 Andy Weise 40
Matt Sullivan 50 Mike Abegg 34
Craig Roberts 49 Thom Davis 34
Nick Markham 49 CHODR 34
CHODR 49 Robin Lock 34
Carol Belfiori 49 Stephen Roth 34
Mike Abegg 48 Craig Roberts 34
Stephen Roth 48 Matt Sullivan 34
William Sangrey 46 William Groskreutz 34
Andy Weise 46 Wayne Smith (RHEAL) 33
Rita Monde 42 Bill Fenwick 31
William Groskreutz 39 William Sangrey 31
Jim Edwards 38 Jay Punwar 31
Nathan Hampton 32 John Edwards 30
Tony Buffa 32 Rita Monde 30
Bill Fenwick 31 Nathan Hampton 29
Charlie Shub 30 Dan McMurrer 26
John Edwards 30 Charlie Shub 23
Dan McMurrer 25 Carol Belfiori 22
Wendy Istvanick 24 Tony Buffa 22
Wendy Istvanick 15
USCHO 31
Higher Seed 50 USCHO 44
Higher Seed 51
Atlantic Hockey
NAME TOTAL
Bill Fenwick 44
William Groskreutz 41
Mark Lewin 41
Charlie Shub 36
Nick Markham 28
Ross Belfiori 28
John Edwards 28
Robin Lock 28
Andy Weise 28
William Sangrey 25
Rita Monde 25
Nathan Hampton 25
Jim Dixon 25
Wayne Smith (RHEAL) 20
CHODR 20
Wendy Istvanick 20
Mike Abegg 20
Matt Sullivan 20
Stephen Roth 20
Jim Edwards 20
Craig Roberts 20
Tony Buffa 12
USCHO 44
Higher Seed 20
--
Bill Fenwick DJF 5/27/94
Cornell '86 and '95 JCF 12/2/97
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