Before USCHO stepped in, this list was the only reliable information on
the college Hockey world. Now, not so much. Indeed, during the season,
usually not a peep from almost anyone. That in itself is a little sad
to an old snort like me. Without that input I just don't feel very well
informed. My bad - I could be better informed via USCHO, but its not
something I spend much time on. Hence, I usually don't enter the
contests, and my lack of knowledge shows up with my lowly results this
year. Of course, it didn't help that I picked St. Cloud State to go all
the way.
What I would like to see is two independent contests: A regional
contest that stops with the regional winners and a second Final Four
contest. The latter because we have had a chance to see those top 16
teams play, often for the first time for a lot of us, and now it becomes
more fun to pick the final 3 games. And, as an aside, never have been
a fan of weighting the later games over the early ones.
Tom Rowe
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Sometimes I use big words I don't full understand
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On 4/4/2019 7:31 PM, Mark Lewin wrote:
> while I am working on the rankings for all 4 regionals, I wanted to
> throw a few questions out to the list.
>
> I am trying to decide about the future of this contest or anything
> like it. Back in the nineties, we had 50 or more people
> participating. Now we have 18. For the past few years, the number
> has been pretty steady between the mid teens and the mid twenties.
>
> So this question is this: has the contest run its course? Is it time
> to stop?
>
> Over the course of the years I have run several variations of this.
>
> There are the usual contests 1-3.
>
> There are contest 1-6 where 4-6 are the same as 1-3 except without
> weighting of later rounds.
>
> Now I'm doing 1-3 but also running mini-contests for each of the
> regionals.
>
> What is the general feeling out there? What, if anything, should I be
> doing going forward?
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