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.

The overall lead is shockingly held by me with 89 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 only), and 16 points for picking the championship game winner.


Overall
NAME                    TOTAL
Bill Fenwick              89
CHODR                     88
Sean Keller               86
William Sangrey           86
Andy Weise                84
Wayne Smith               84
Troy D. Mills             84
Nathan Hampton            83
Robin Lock                83
Mark Lewin                75
Tony Buffa                74
Charlie Shub              73
Bill Groskreutz           70
Scott Kaplan              68
* Jim Dixon               48
* John Edwards            44

USCHO                     87
Higher Seed               93

* Did not submit picks for all conferences


ECAC                            Hockey East
NAME                   TOTAL    NAME                   TOTAL
William Sangrey         28      Wayne Smith             15
Nathan Hampton          25      Troy D. Mills           15
Andy Weise              24      Scott Kaplan            15
Wayne Smith             23      Andy Weise              14
Mark Lewin              23      William Sangrey         12
Bill Fenwick            21      Sean Keller             12
Tony Buffa              21      Robin Lock              12
Troy D. Mills           20      Nathan Hampton          11
CHODR                   19      CHODR                   11
Bill Groskreutz         19      Bill Groskreutz         11
Sean Keller             18      Bill Fenwick            10
Charlie Shub            17      Tony Buffa              10
John Edwards            17      Charlie Shub             8
Robin Lock              16      Mark Lewin               7
Jim Dixon               16
Scott Kaplan            14      USCHO                   15
                                Higher Seed             15
USCHO                   23
Higher Seed             22


CCHA                            WCHA
NAME                   TOTAL    NAME                   TOTAL
Bill Fenwick            19      Sean Keller             23
Troy D. Mills           17      Troy D. Mills           18
Charlie Shub            15      CHODR                   18
Robin Lock              14      Wayne Smith             18
CHODR                   14      Bill Groskreutz         18
Wayne Smith             11      Bill Fenwick            17
Andy Weise              11      Robin Lock              17
William Sangrey         11      Nathan Hampton          17
Sean Keller             11      William Sangrey         15
Jim Dixon               11      Charlie Shub            14
Scott Kaplan            10      Andy Weise              14
Nathan Hampton          10      Scott Kaplan            14
Tony Buffa              10      Tony Buffa              14
Mark Lewin              10      Mark Lewin              13
Bill Groskreutz          7
John Edwards             7      USCHO                   17
                                Higher Seed             18
USCHO                   18
Higher Seed             14


Atlantic Hockey
NAME                   TOTAL
CHODR                   26
Robin Lock              24
Sean Keller             22
Bill Fenwick            22
Mark Lewin              22
Andy Weise              21
Jim Dixon               21
Nathan Hampton          20
William Sangrey         20
John Edwards            20
Charlie Shub            19
Tony Buffa              19
Wayne Smith             17
Bill Groskreutz         15
Scott Kaplan            15
Troy D. Mills           14

USCHO                   14
Higher Seed             24

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Bill Fenwick
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