Announcing this year's Pick the Post-season Tournaments contest! Try
out your prognosticating skills by predicting the game results and
champions of each of the six Division I conference tournaments!
This year's contest will be in two parts, as the CHA regular season will
not end until this coming weekend. So this part of the contest will
deal with the five conferences which are starting their tournaments this
weekend (ECAC, Hockey East, CCHA, WCHA, and MAAC). I'll send out a
separate mailing for the CHA next week.
As I did last year, I'll be running two contests in one. The first will
give higher weighting to the latter stages of the tournaments, and the
second will give equal weight to all results (see under Scoring below).
There will be contest #1 and #2 winners for each of the six tournaments,
plus #1 and #2 overall Prognosticating Gods.
Just to preserve their immortality, last year's winners were:
Contest #1 Contest #2
ECAC: Jennifer Iwen Jennifer Iwen
Hockey East: Iyer Venkatesan Anthony R. Mastantuoni
CCHA: Thomas Bednarek James O. Edwards
WCHA: Charlie Shub Charlie Shub
MAAC: Iyer Venkatesan Iyer Venkatesan
CHA: Andrew Christianson Christian Danish
Overall: Iyer Venkatesan Iyer Venkatesan
The first playoff games are on Thursday, March 7 at 7:00 PM EST, so the
deadline for this contest will be Thursday, March 7 at 6:00 PM EST.
The tournament formats are as follows:
ECAC:
Ten teams meet in the first round, with the top five seeds hosting a
best-of-three series. All games are now played "to conclusion."
The five winners advance and are reseeded.
The lowest and second-lowest seeds meet in a Finals Qualifier (5 vs 4
play-in game).
The winner of that game advances to the semifinals and plays the highest
remaining seed. The other two seeds meet in the other semifinal.
The semifinal losers meet in the consolation game.
The semifinal winners meet in the championship game.
Hockey East:
Eight teams meet in the quarterfinals, with the top four seeds hosting a
best-of-three series. All games are played "to conclusion".
The four winners advance and are reseeded.
The highest and lowest seed meet in one semifinal, while the other two
seeds
meet in the other semifinal.
The semifinal winners meet in the championship game. There is no
consolation game.
CCHA:
Twelve teams meet in the first round, with the top six seeds hosting a
best-of-three series. All games are played "to conclusion."
The six winners advance and are reseeded.
The four lowest seeds meet in Finals Qualifier games, with 6 playing 3
and 5 playing 4.
The winners of those games advance to the semifinals and are reseeded,
with the lowest remaining seed playing the #1 seed in one semifinal and
the other two seeds meeting in the other semifinal.
The semifinal winners meet in the championship game. There is no
consolation
game.
WCHA:
Ten teams meet in the first round, with the top five seeds hosting a
best-of-three series. All games are played "to conclusion".
The five winners advance and are reseeded.
The lowest and second-lowest seeds meet in a Finals Qualifier (5 vs 4
play-in game).
The winner of that game advances to the semifinals and plays the highest
remaining seed. The other two seeds meet in the other semifinal.
The semifinal losers meet in the consolation game.
The semifinal winners meet in the championship game.
MAAC:
Eight teams meet in the quarterfinals, with the top four seeds hosting a
single game.
The four winners advance and are reseeded.
The highest and lowest seed meet in one semifinal, while the other two
seeds meet in the other semifinal.
The semifinal winners meet in the championship game. There is no
consolation game.
CHA:
The tournament does not start until next weekend.
Six teams make the playoffs. The four lowest seeds meet in Finals
Qualifier games, with 6 playing 3 and 5 playing 4.
The winners of those games advance to the semifinals, with the 5-4 game
winner playing the #1 seed and the 6-3 winner playing #2 (there is no
reseeding).
The semifinal winners meet in the championship game. There is no
consolation game.
Scoring:
Contest #1:
Each correct quarterfinal/first-round winner is worth 3 points. Giving
the correct number of games in the series is worth an additional point.
Sorry, but if you get the winner wrong, you get zippo, even if you get
the number of games right. Since the MAAC quarterfinals are all single
games, there are no bonus points there. The CHA has no
quarterfinal/first round; their tournament starts with the play-in
games.
Correct play-in game winners are worth 4 points. (All leagues but
Hockey East and the MAAC)
Correct semifinal game winners are worth 8 points.
Correct consolation game winners are worth 4 points. (ECAC and WCHA
only)
Correct championship game winners are worth 16 points.
So the maximum total points for each league would be:
ECAC 60
Hockey East 48
CCHA 64
WCHA 60
MAAC 44
CHA 40
There will also be two tiebreakers for each conference. The first will
be the predicted final score of the championship game, with the closest
score winning. For example, if you predict 5-2 and the actual score is
4-2, you're one off; if the actual score is 4-3, you're two off.
The second tiebreaker will be the total number of goals scored in the
tournament.
If there is a tie for the overall winner, the tiebreaker will be who
performed best in the greater number of individual tournaments.
Contest #2:
Each correct result from each round is worth one point. So you get one
point for each quarterfinal/first round winner you pick (regardless of
whether or not you forecast the correct number of games), one point for
each semifinal winner you pick, and so on. The maximum total points for
each league would be:
ECAC 10
Hockey East 7
CCHA 11
WCHA 10
MAAC 7
CHA 5
Tiebreakers will be the same as for Contest #1.
An official entry form will follow as soon as I post this. Questions,
comments, and entries can be sent to [log in to unmask] .
Thanks and good luck!
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