With the first weekend of the Hockey East and WCHA playoffs in the books, and with the ECAC, CCHA, and Atlantic Hockey playoffs continuing, here's another look at the score so far in the Pick the Tourneys Contest #1 (in which the later rounds are weighted more heavily than the earlier ones). Also included are the scores for the predictions by the USCHO staff (who, it should be pointed out, don't have to pick all the games at once) and a "Higher Seed" entry, showing what would have happened if the higher seed for each game had been picked to win. Thus, in the "Higher Seed" entry, all first-round/quarterfinal series get picked as sweeps.

William Sangrey continues to be the overall leader with 77 points.

Scoring reminder:  Three points are awarded for each correctly predicted winner in the first round.  An additional bonus point was given for correctly forecasting the number of games (2 or 3) a series would go.  The quarterfinal round will be scored the same way; predicting the winner is worth three points, and correctly picking the number of games in the series is worth a bonus point.

Scoring for the rest of the contest is as follows:  4 points for correctly picking the winner of each play-in/finals qualifier game (WCHA only), 8 points for correctly picking semifinal winners, 4 points for picking the consolation winner (ECAC and CCHA only), and 16 points for picking the championship game winner.


Overall
NAME                    TOTAL
William Sangrey           77
Bill Fenwick              70
Troy D. Mills             69
Charlie Shub              66
Bill Krebs                63
Scott Kaplan              63
Robin Lock                62
CHODR                     62
Bill Groskreutz           61
Craig Roberts             61
Mark Lewin                58
Todd Nielson              56
Andy Weise                55
Jim Dixon                 55
Tony Buffa                55
Nathan Hampton            51
* John Edwards            26
* Wayne Smith             26
* Glen Keeney             23
* Mike Larson             19

USCHO                     55
Higher Seed               73

* Did not submit picks for all conferences


ECAC                            Hockey East
NAME                   TOTAL    NAME                   TOTAL
William Sangrey         21      Bill Fenwick            15
Craig Roberts           17      Scott Kaplan            15
Troy D. Mills           14      Charlie Shub            15
Todd Nielson            14      John Edwards            14
Bill Groskreutz         13      William Sangrey         11
Mark Lewin              13      Troy D. Mills           11
Bill Fenwick            10      Bill Krebs              11
Bill Krebs              10      Robin Lock              11
Scott Kaplan            10      CHODR                   11
Robin Lock              10      Andy Weise              11
CHODR                   10      Wayne Smith             11
Tony Buffa              10      Bill Groskreutz          8
Glen Keeney              9      Mark Lewin               8
Charlie Shub             7      Tony Buffa               8
Jim Dixon                7      Mike Larson              8
Nathan Hampton           6      Craig Roberts            7
Andy Weise               3      Todd Nielson             7
                                Jim Dixon                7
USCHO                   11      Nathan Hampton           7
Higher Seed             13
                                USCHO                    7
                                Higher Seed             12


CCHA                            WCHA
NAME                   TOTAL    NAME                   TOTAL
William Sangrey         21      Bill Fenwick            15
Bill Fenwick            19      Troy D. Mills           15
Charlie Shub            19      Wayne Smith             15
Troy D. Mills           18      William Sangrey         14
Robin Lock              18      Charlie Shub            12
CHODR                   18      Robin Lock              12
Bill Krebs              17      John Edwards            12
Nathan Hampton          17      CHODR                   11
Andy Weise              16      Bill Krebs              11
Todd Nielson            16      Nathan Hampton          11
Scott Kaplan            16      Andy Weise              11
Tony Buffa              15      Scott Kaplan            11
Jim Dixon               15      Tony Buffa              11
Craig Roberts           14      Jim Dixon               11
Glen Keeney             14      Mark Lewin              11
Bill Groskreutz         12      Mike Larson             11
Mark Lewin              12      Craig Roberts           10
                                Todd Nielson             8
USCHO                   11      Bill Groskreutz          8
Higher Seed             22
                                USCHO                   11
                                Higher Seed             15


Atlantic Hockey
NAME                   TOTAL
Bill Groskreutz         20
Jim Dixon               15
Bill Krebs              14
Andy Weise              14
Mark Lewin              14
Charlie Shub            13
Craig Roberts           13
CHODR                   12
Bill Fenwick            11
Troy D. Mills           11
Robin Lock              11
Scott Kaplan            11
Tony Buffa              11
Todd Nielson            11
William Sangrey         10
Nathan Hampton          10

USCHO                   15
Higher Seed             11

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