With Atlantic Hockey and the CHA finishing their tournaments last weekend,
we have our first two winners in the Pick the Post-season Tournaments
Contest #1. A couple of upsets played havoc with most people's predictions
in Atlantic Hockey, and the winner there was Nick Markham with 42 points.
The CHA was a bit more predictable, with five people tying for the top spot
with a perfect 36 points each: Robin Lock, Nick Markham, Scott Kaplan,
Wayne Smith, and (!) myself. Robin and Nick both took the first tiebreaker
by forecasting the championship game score exactly, and in a triumph for
the CHODR rankings, Robin won the second tiebreaker by predicting the total
goals scored in the tournament right on the nose.
Defending contest champ Nick Markham is off to a good start in this year's
edition, as he currently holds the overall lead with 160 points.
Scoring reminder: Three points were awarded for each correctly predicted
winner in a conference's first round/quarterfinal. An additional bonus
point was given for correctly forecasting the number of games (2 or 3) a
series would go. The bonus point did not apply to the CHA, which had no
quarterfinal round.
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, CCHA, and WCHA only), and 16 points for picking
the championship game winner.
Here is the scoring so far, overall and for each conference. Also ncluded
are the scores for the predictions by the USCHO staff (who, it should be
pointed out, didn'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.
Overall
NAME TOTAL
Nick Markham 160
Wayne Smith 147
Scott Kaplan 125
Bill Fenwick 119
Troy D. Mills 117
Nathan Hampton 113
Jim Dixon 105
John Edwards 105
Craig Roberts 103
Mark Lewin 101
Tony Buffa 101
Andy Weise 100
Craig Knowles 97
Charlie Shub 95
* William Sangrey 70
* Robin Lock 65
* Mike Larson 47
USCHO 133
Higher Seed 112
* Did not submit picks for all conferences
Atlantic Hockey
NAME TOTAL
Nick Markham 42
Wayne Smith 40
William Sangrey 24
Scott Kaplan 23
Nathan Hampton 22
Troy D. Mills 22
Craig Knowles 20
Craig Roberts 19
Jim Dixon 18
Charlie Shub 18
Tony Buffa 17
Andy Weise 16
Mark Lewin 16
John Edwards 16
Bill Fenwick 14
USCHO 24
Higher Seed 19
CHA Tiebreaker 1 Tiebreaker 2
NAME TOTAL Score Pts Goals Pts
Robin Lock 36 3-2 0 23 0
Nick Markham 36 3-2 0 30 7
Scott Kaplan 36 3-1 1
Bill Fenwick 36 4-2 1
Wayne Smith 36 5-2 2
Mike Larson 20
Troy D. Mills 20
Nathan Hampton 20
Craig Knowles 20
Andy Weise 20
John Edwards 20
Craig Roberts 20
Jim Dixon 20
Mark Lewin 12
Charlie Shub 12
Tony Buffa 12
USCHO 36
Higher Seed 20
ECAC Hockey East
NAME TOTAL NAME TOTAL
Nick Markham 26 Nick Markham 16
William Sangrey 24 Bill Fenwick 16
Troy D. Mills 24 Robin Lock 15
Scott Kaplan 22 Troy D. Mills 14
Mark Lewin 21 Jim Dixon 14
Jim Dixon 20 Nathan Hampton 14
Craig Roberts 19 Wayne Smith 14
Andy Weise 18 Mark Lewin 13
John Edwards 18 Mike Larson 12
Nathan Hampton 18 Craig Roberts 12
Tony Buffa 17 Scott Kaplan 11
Wayne Smith 17 Andy Weise 11
Charlie Shub 16 Tony Buffa 11
Bill Fenwick 15 Craig Knowles 11
Craig Knowles 13 John Edwards 10
Charlie Shub 10
USCHO 20
Higher Seed 20 USCHO 15
Higher Seed 14
CCHA WCHA
NAME TOTAL NAME TOTAL
Nick Markham 26 Tony Buffa 19
Wayne Smith 26 Charlie Shub 18
Bill Fenwick 25 Mark Lewin 17
Tony Buffa 25 Andy Weise 17
John Edwards 25 John Edwards 16
Nathan Hampton 24 Nathan Hampton 15
Troy D. Mills 22 Troy D. Mills 15
Mark Lewin 22 Scott Kaplan 15
Craig ROberts 22 Mike Larson 15
William Sangrey 22 Nick Markham 14
Charlie Shub 21 Wayne Smith 14
Jim Dixon 19 Jim Dixon 14
Craig Knowles 19 Craig Knowles 14
Scott Kaplan 18 Robin Lock 14
Andy Weise 18 Bill Fenwick 13
Craig Roberts 11
USCHO 23
Higher Seed 24 USCHO 15
Higher Seed 15
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Bill Fenwick DJF 5/27/94
Cornell '86 and '95 JCF 12/2/97
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