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, the overall winner is...
Wayne Smith
whose total of 69 points was good enough to edge out runner-up Scott Kaplan
by one. Congratulations, Wayne!
As for the individual conference winners...
The top spot in the ECAC went to Sean Keller with 20 points.
Scott Kaplan's 18 points were good for first place in Hockey East.
The WCHA was won by Craig Roberts with 12 points.
Nathan Hampton took the NCHC with 13 points.
Atlantic Hockey saw a four-way tie among Sean Keller, William Sangrey,
Richard Vehlow, and Craig Roberts. The first tiebreaker, and the title,
went to Sean.
There was another four-way tie in the Big Ten race, this one among Wayne
Smith, Bill Krebs, Bill Groskreutz, and myself. Wayne and me remained
tied after the first tiebreaker, but the second tiebreaker went to me.
Complete scoring results are below. Congratulations to all the winners,
and thanks again to all those who participated.
Note that since the NCHC consolation game ended in a tie, anyone who
picked North Dakota or Denver to win the consolation was awarded 1 point.
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 4-1) to be 2-1,
you would get two points; if you picked 2-0, you would get three points;
and if you picked 6-4, you would get five 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 Atlantic Hockey, the championship game score was 7-4.
For the Big Ten, the championship game score was 5-3, and the total goals
scored in the tournament was 37.
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
Wayne Smith 69
Scott Kaplan 68
Nathan Hampton 67
Sean Keller 66
Bill Groskreutz 64
Bill Krebs 64
Craig Roberts 64
William Sangrey 64
Andy Weise 63
Charlie Shub 62
Tony Buffa 62
Jim Dixon 60
John Edwards 58
Bill Fenwick 52
Mark Lewin 50
* Richard Vehlow 30
USCHO 68
Higher Seed 71
* Did not submit picks for all conferences
ECAC Hockey East
NAME TOTAL NAME TOTAL
Sean Keller 20 Scott Kaplan 18
Wayne Smith 18 Charlie Shub 16
Charlie Shub 16 Bill Krebs 14
Nathan Hampton 16 Bill Groskreutz 12
Bill Krebs 16 Sean Keller 12
William Sangrey 16 John Edwards 12
Tony Buffa 14 Nathan Hampton 12
Scott Kaplan 14 Wayne Smith 12
Jim Dixon 14 William Sangrey 12
Andy Weise 14 Andy Weise 12
Bill Groskreutz 12 Tony Buffa 12
Craig Roberts 12 Jim Dixon 10
John Edwards 12 Craig Roberts 10
Mark Lewin 12 Richard Vehlow 8
Bill Fenwick 10 Bill Fenwick 8
Richard Vehlow 8 Mark Lewin 8
USCHO 16 USCHO 10
Higher Seed 18 Higher Seed 12
WCHA NCHC
NAME TOTAL NAME TOTAL
Craig Roberts 12 Nathan Hampton 13
John Edwards 10 Bill Groskreutz 12
Wayne Smith 8 Wayne Smith 11
Jim Dixon 8 Andy Weise 9
Bill Krebs 8 Jim Dixon 8
Scott Kaplan 8 Bill Krebs 8
William Sangrey 8 Bill Fenwick 8
Tony Buffa 8 Charlie Shub 8
Andy Weise 8 Scott Kaplan 8
Bill Groskreutz 8 Mark Lewin 8
Bill Fenwick 6 Craig Roberts 8
Charlie Shub 6 John Edwards 8
Nathan Hampton 6 Tony Buffa 8
Sean Keller 6 Sean Keller 8
Mark Lewin 4 William Sangrey 6
USCHO 6 USCHO 12
Higher Seed 10 Higher Seed 11
Atlantic Hockey Tiebreaker 1
NAME TOTAL Score Pts
Sean Keller 14 5-2 4
William Sangrey 14 4-2 5
Richard Vehlow 14 4-2 5
Craig Roberts 14 3-2 6
Tony Buffa 12
Nathan Hampton 12
Jim Dixon 12
Charlie Shub 12
Scott Kaplan 12
Andy Weise 12
Bill Groskreutz 10
Bill Fenwick 10
Wayne Smith 10
John Edwards 10
Mark Lewin 10
Bill Krebs 8
USCHO 16
Higher Seed 12
Big Ten Tiebreaker 1 Tiebreaker 2
NAME TOTAL Score Pts Goals Pts
Bill Fenwick 10 4-3 1 33 4
Wayne Smith 10 4-3 1 27 10
Bill Krebs 10 6-4 2
Bill Groskreutz 10 4-0 4
William Sangrey 8
Nathan Hampton 8
Andy Weise 8
Scott Kaplan 8
Mark Lewin 8
Tony Buffa 8
Jim Dixon 8
Craig Roberts 8
Sean Keller 6
John Edwards 6
Charlie Shub 4
USCHO 8
Higher Seed 8
Bill Fenwick
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