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 #2, in which all rounds are
scored the same, we have a tie for first place between Craig Roberts and
Charlie Shub. The tiebreaker is the number of individual conference
contests won, and since Charlie won a conference contest and Craig did not,
the winner of Contest #2 is:
Charlie Shub
with 60 points. He and Craig edged out the runner-up (me!) by two.
As for the individual conference winners...
The ECAC wound up in a kind-of-ridiculous eight-way tie among Scott Kaplan,
Bill Krebs, Mark Lewin, Charlie Shub, Wayne Smith, Jim Dixon, John Edwards,
and William Sangrey, each of whom had 18 points. The first tiebreaker
whittled the tie down to four (Scott, Bill, Mark, and Charlie), who each
missed the championship game score by one point. Scott Kaplan took the
second tiebreaker, and the crown, as his predicted total goals for the tour-
nament was off by only five.
Hockey East finished with a four-way tie among Robin Lock, CHODR, Mark Lewin,
and Wayne Smith. The first tiebreaker gave the top spot to Robin Lock, as his
predicted score was only off by two points.
Four people also tied for the top spot in the WCHA: Robin Lock, Craig
Roberts, myself, and Sean Keller, with 12 points each. Robin, Craig, and me
remained tied after the first tiebreaker, as we were all two points off in
the championship-game score, but Robin took the second tiebreaker, missing the
total goals scored by only four.
Yet another four-way tie occurred in the NCHC, with Charlie Shub, Sean Keller,
John Edwards, and myself finishing with six points each. Charlie and me both
were one off in our championship-game scores, but I took the second
tiebreaker,
as my predicted total goals was off by 16.
The Atlantic Hockey race featured a more conventional tie between Charlie Shub
and Craig Roberts, each of whom had 14 points. Charlie Shub took the first
tiebreaker and the title, coming one point closer in his predicted
championship
game score.
No tiebreakers were necessary in the Big Ten, as Jim Dixon finished in the top
spot with six 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 5-2) to be 5-0,
you would get two points; if you picked 3-1, you would get three points;
and if you picked 1-0, you would get six 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 ECAC, the championship game score was 5-2 and the total goals
scored in
the tournament was 113.
For Hockey East, the championship game score was 4-0.
For the WCHA, the championship game score was 4-1 and the total goals
scored in
the tournament was 72.
For the NCHC, the championship game score was 4-3, and the total goals
scored in
the tournament was 83.
For Atlantic Hockey, the championship game score was 7-4.
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
Charlie Shub 60
Craig Roberts 60
Bill Fenwick 58
Robin Lock 56
Jim Dixon 56
Wayne Smith 56
Sean Keller 54
CHODR 54
Scott Kaplan 52
Bill Krebs 52
* John Edwards 52
Tony Buffa 50
Mark Lewin 50
William Sangrey 50
Andy Weise 44
* Nathan Hampton 18
USCHO 68
Higher Seed 60
ECAC Tiebreaker 1 Tiebreaker 2
NAME TOTAL Score Pts Goals Pts
Scott Kaplan 18 5-3 1 118 5
Bill Krebs 18 4-2 1 122 9
Mark Lewin 18 4-2 1 101 12
Charlie Shub 18 4-2 1 52 61
Wayne Smith 18 5-4 2
Jim Dixon 18 3-2 2
John Edwards 18 3-1 3
William Sangrey 18 3-1 3
Robin Lock 16
Andy Weise 16
Bill Fenwick 16
Craig Roberts 16
CHODR 16
Tony Buffa 14
Sean Keller 12
USCHO 20
Higher Seed 20
Hockey East Tiebreaker 1
NAME TOTAL Score Pts
Robin Lock 14 4-2 2
CHODR 14 3-2 3
Wayne Smith 14 5-3 4
Mark Lewin 14 6-2 4
Bill Krebs 12
Bill Fenwick 12
William Sangrey 12
Scott Kaplan 10
Charlie Shub 10
Sean Keller 10
Jim Dixon 12
John Edwards 10
Craig Roberts 10
Tony Buffa 10
Andy Weise 10
USCHO 16
Higher Seed 14
WCHA Tiebreaker 1 Tiebreaker 2
NAME TOTAL Score Pts Goals Pts
Robin Lock 12 3-2 2 68 4
Bill Fenwick 12 4-3 2 77 5
Craig Roberts 12 4-3 2 84 12
Sean Keller 12 5-4 4
Charlie Shub 10
Tony Buffa 10
CHODR 10
Nathan Hampton 10
Wayne Smith 10
William Sangrey 8
Scott Kaplan 8
John Edwards 8
Bill Krebs 8
Jim Dixon 8
Mark Lewin 6
Andy Weise 6
USCHO 10
Higher Seed 10
NCHC Tiebreaker 1 Tiebreaker 2
NAME TOTAL Score Pts Goals Pts
Bill Fenwick 6 5-3 1 67 16
Charlie Shub 6 4-2 1 44 39
Sean Keller 6 4-1 2
John Edwards 6 3-0 4
Craig Roberts 4
Jim Dixon 4
Scott Kaplan 4
Bill Krebs 4
Nathan Hampton 4
Andy Weise 2
CHODR 2
Robin Lock 2
William Sangrey 2
Tony Buffa 2
Wayne Smith 2
Mark Lewin 2
USCHO 2
Higher Seed 2
Atlantic Hockey Tiebreaker 1 Big Ten
NAME TOTAL Score Pts NAME TOTAL
Charlie Shub 14 4-2 5 Jim Dixon 6
Craig Roberts 14 3-2 6 Scott Kaplan 4
Sean Keller 12 Nathan Hampton 4
Tony Buffa 12 Craig Roberts 4
Mark Lewin 10 Wayne Smith 4
CHODR 10 Charlie Shub 2
Andy Weise 10 Robin Lock 2
Robin Lock 10 William Sangrey 2
Bill Krebs 10 Sean Keller 2
Bill Fenwick 10 Tony Buffa 2
John Edwards 10 Bill Fenwick 2
Scott Kaplan 8 CHODR 2
Jim Dixon 8 Andy Weise 0
Wayne Smith 8 Mark Lewin 0
William Sangrey 8 Bill Krebs 0
USCHO 14 USCHO 6
Higher Seed 10 Higher Seed 4
Bill Fenwick
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