With the first weekend of the ECAC, Hockey East, WCHA, and Atlantic Hockey
playoffs in the books, here's a 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, along with the
WCHA semis, get picked as sweeps.

The current overall leader in the Pick the Tourneys Contest #1 is Nathan
Hampton with 49 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:  8 points for correctly
picking semifinal winners (except in the WCHA, where 7 points are awarded for
correctly predicting the winner and an additional bonus point is given for
correctly forecasting the number of games), 4 points for picking the conso-
lation winner, and 16 points for picking the championship game winner.



Overall
NAME                   TOTAL
Nathan Hampton          49
Bill Fenwick            47
Mark Lewin              47
Scott Kaplan            45
Jim Dixon               43
Rick McAdoo             43
William Sangrey         41
Tony Buffa              40
Charlie Shub            40
Bill Krebs              36
Andy Weise              36
Sean Keller             36

USCHO                   51
Higher Seed             49

ECAC                            Hockey East
NAME                   TOTAL    NAME                   TOTAL
Scott Kaplan            16      Bill Fenwick            15
Nathan Hampton          15      Jim Dixon               15
William Sangrey         15      Nathan Hampton          12
Rick McAdoo             14      Bill Krebs              12
Sean Keller             14      Scott Kaplan            11
Mark Lewin              14      William Sangrey         11
Andy Weise              11      Rick McAdoo             11
Bill Fenwick            11      Mark Lewin              11
Charlie Shub            11      Andy Weise              11
Tony Buffa              10      Charlie Shub            11
Bill Krebs              10      Tony Buffa              11
Jim Dixon               10      Sean Keller              8

USCHO                   15      USCHO                   15
Higher Seed             15      Higher Seed             12


WCHA                            Atlantic Hockey
NAME                   TOTAL    NAME                   TOTAL
Nathan Hampton          15      Mark Lewin               8
Bill Fenwick            14      Tony Buffa               8
Mark Lewin              14      Jim Dixon                8
William Sangrey         11      Scott Kaplan             8
Tony Buffa              11      Rick McAdoo              8
Jim Dixon               10      Charlie Shub             8
Bill Krebs              10      Nathan Hampton           7
Scott Kaplan            10      Bill Fenwick             7
Rick McAdoo             10      William Sangrey          4
Andy Weise              10      Bill Krebs               4
Charlie Shub            10      Andy Weise               4
Sean Keller             10      Sean Keller              4

USCHO                   13      USCHO                    8
Higher Seed             15      Higher Seed              7


Bill Fenwick
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