Now that all the conference tournaments are out of the way, it's time to
announce the winners of the Pick the Post-Season Tournaments contests. For
Contest #1, in which the later rounds were weighted more than the earlier
ones, the overall winner is...
Dave Belfiori
who put up a big 240 points, 21 ahead of runner-up Iyer Venkatesan. Let us
all pause a moment to appreciate Dave's keen college hockey acumen (luck),
unbelievable prognosticating ability (sheer dumb luck), and amazing grasp of
the complexities of tournament play (it's luck, I tell you, and the fact
that
I finished 60-some points behind has nothing to do with it!)
As for the individual conference winners...
Jay Kryzston took the honors in the ECAC with 50 points.
A tight race in Hockey East came down to a tie between Nathan Hampton
and the
CHODR rating, with a perfect 48 points each. Nathan won the first
tiebreaker
(championship game score prediction), coming two points closer to the
actual
game score than CHODR did.
Dave Belfiori finished atop the CCHA with 58 points.
Matt Carberrys 55 points paced the WCHA.
Both William Sangrey and Steve Syrett picked the MAAC perfectly to
finish tied
with 44 points each, and the first tiebreaker resolved nothing, as each was
one point off the actual score. William won the second tiebreaker (total
goals scored in the tournament), coming eight goals closer to the actual
result than Steve did.
The CHA produced a seven-way tie at 36 points among Craig Powers, Iyer
Venkatesan, Matt Carberry, Craig Roberts, John MacKinnon, Terry Casper, and,
of all people, your humble contest administrator. I won the first
tiebreaker
by picking the final score right on the nose. (Keeping me grounded is the
fact that USCHO reporter Geof F. Morris picked every CHA tourney game right,
though with a lot of hedging, and would have picked up 40 points in the
contest)
Complete scoring results are below. Congratulations to all the winners, and
thanks again to all those who participated.
Tiebreaker notes: The first tiebreaker was the difference between your
predicted championship-game score and the actual score. Thus, if you picked
the score of the Hockey East championship game (actually 3-1) to be 4-2,
you
would get two points; if you picked 5-0, you would get three points; and if
you picked 2-1, you would get one point. Obviously, the lower point score
the better.
The second tiebreaker was the difference between your predicted total of
goals scored in the tournament and the actual number. Again, the lower the
point total the better.
As far as tiebreakers that were actually needed:
For Hockey East, the championship game score was 3-1.
For the MAAC, the championship game score was 6-4, and the total goals
scored
in the tournament was 50.
The USCHO prognosticators' numbers are included below, as are the "Higher
Seed" picks showing what would have happened if the higher seed for each
game
had been picked to win.
Overall
NAME TOTAL
Dave Belfiori 240
Iyer Venkatesan 219
James Edwards 209
Jeff Boutiette 203
John MacKinnon 200
Steve Syrett 200
Terry Casper 199
Ken Butler 197
Andy Weise 197
* Christine Quinn 196
Dan Zeuske 194
Craig Roberts 192
David Morgenstern 191
Charlie Shub 188
Matt Carberry 186
Bill Fenwick 184
* Richard Hungerford 182
Nathan Hampton 179
William Sangrey 179
Craig Powers 175
* CHODR (Robin Lock) 173
Tom Bednarek 172
Kate Belfiori 171
Jay Kryzston 170
Ross Belfiori 169
Carol Belfiori 168
Clayton Hoyt 163
Troy D. Mills 160
Bill and Virginia Krebs 157
* Robin Lock 157
Matt Sullivan 141
Tony Buffa 139
* Christian Danish 132
John Edwards 132
Jennifer Iwen 123
Mark Lewin 123
* Joe LaCour 108
* Benjamin Flickinger 52
USCHO 203
Higher Seed 219
* Did not submit predictions for all conference tournaments
ECAC Hockey East Tiebreaker 1
NAME TOTAL NAME TOTAL Score Pts
Jay Kryzston 50 Nathan Hampton 48 3-2 1
Steve Syrett 43 CHODR (Robin Lock) 48 4-3 3
David Morgenstern 37 Christian Danish 47
Christine Quinn 35 Andy Weise 46
Charlie Shub 35 James Edwards 46
Tom Bednarek 34 Iyer Venkatesan 46
CHODR (Robin Lock) 34 Robin Lock 46
James Edwards 32 Dave Belfiori 46
Dave Belfiori 31 Richard Hungerford 44
Kate Belfiori 31 Carol Belfiori 44
Iyer Venkatesan 31 Christine Quinn 43
Carol Belfiori 31 Ken Butler 39
Bill and Virginia Krebs 30 Charlie Shub 36
Jeff Boutiette 30 Jeff Boutiette 36
Terry Casper 30 Dan Zeuske 35
John MacKinnon 27 William Sangrey 35
Mark Lewin 27 Tom Bednarek 32
Richard Hungerford 27 Steve Syrett 32
John Edwards 26 Jennifer Iwen 31
Bill Fenwick 26 Craig Roberts 30
Andy Weise 25 David Morgenstern 30
Troy D. Mills 24 Bill Fenwick 28
Ken Butler 23 Craig Powers 28
Ross Belfiori 23 John MacKinnon 27
Clayton Hoyt 23 John Edwards 27
Matt Sullivan 23 Terry Casper 26
Dan Zeuske 22 Matt Sullivan 26
Craig Powers 22 Ross Belfiori 22
Craig Roberts 22 Troy D. Mills 22
Matt Carberry 22 Jay Kryzston 20
Benjamin Flickinger 22 Matt Carberry 19
Joe LaCour 22 Kate Belfiori 19
Nathan Hampton 20 Bill and Virginia Krebs 19
Christian Danish 19 Mark Lewin 19
William Sangrey 19 Clayton Hoyt 18
Robin Lock 18 Joe LaCour 18
Jennifer Iwen 18 Tony Buffa 18
Tony Buffa 11
USCHO 21 USCHO 24
Higher Seed 28 Higher Seed 39
CCHA WCHA
NAME TOTAL NAME TOTAL
Dave Belfiori 58 Matt Carberry 55
Ross Belfiori 54 Christine Quinn 51
Terry Casper 53 James Edwards 51
Christine Quinn 50 David Morgenstern 50
Jay Kryzston 49 Iyer Venkatesan 50
Jeff Boutiette 46 Ken Butler 47
Steve Syrett 46 Ross Belfiori 44
John MacKinnon 46 Andy Weise 43
Andy Weise 46 Kate Belfiori 43
Clayton Hoyt 43 Dan Zeuske 42
Troy D. Mills 38 Tom Bednarek 42
Richard Hungerford 38 Bill Fenwick 42
Bill Fenwick 38 Richard Hungerford 40
David Morgenstern 37 John MacKinnon 39
Robin Lock 37 Jeff Boutiette 38
Craig Roberts 37 Troy D. Mills 37
Craig Powers 37 Charlie Shub 36
Mark Lewin 37 William Sangrey 35
Bill and Virginia Krebs 37 Dave Belfiori 35
Matt Carberry 37 CHODR (Robin Lock) 32
Ken Butler 35 Robin Lock 31
Charlie Shub 35 Jay Kryzston 30
Tom Bednarek 35 Terry Casper 29
Nathan Hampton 35 Joe LaCour 27
CHODR (Robin Lock) 34 Carol Belfiori 27
William Sangrey 34 Craig Roberts 26
Carol Belfiori 33 John Edwards 24
Kate Belfiori 33 Steve Syrett 23
Christian Danish 32 Bill and Virginia Krebs 23
Iyer Venkatesan 31 Nathan Hampton 23
Benjamin Flickinger 30 Jennifer Iwen 21
Jennifer Iwen 30 Clayton Hoyt 21
John Edwards 29 Christian Danish 20
Tony Buffa 29 Craig Powers 19
Matt Sullivan 29 Mark Lewin 19
Joe LaCour 27 Matt Sullivan 14
James Edwards 27 Tony Buffa 12
Dan Zeuske 26
USCHO 51 USCHO 42
Higher Seed 51 Higher Seed 48
MAAC Tiebreaker 1 Tiebreaker 2
NAME TOTAL Score Pts Goals Pts
William Sangrey 44 5-4 1 35 15
Steve Syrett 44 6-3 1 27 23
Tony Buffa 41
Craig Roberts 41
Dan Zeuske 41
Clayton Hoyt 38
Dave Belfiori 38
Craig Powers 33
Richard Hungerford 33
Andy Weise 25
Troy D. Mills 25
Robin Lock 25
John MacKinnon 25
Jeff Boutiette 25
Nathan Hampton 25
Ken Butler 25
James Edwards 25
Iyer Venkatesan 25
CHODR (Robin Lock) 25
Terry Casper 25
Bill and Virginia Krebs 20
Tom Bednarek 17
Christine Quinn 17
David Morgenstern 17
Carol Belfiori 17
Matt Sullivan 17
Jay Kryzston 17
Kate Belfiori 17
Matt Carberry 17
Joe LaCour 14
Ross Belfiori 14
Christian Danish 14
Charlie Shub 14
Bill Fenwick 14
John Edwards 14
Jennifer Iwen 11
Mark Lewin 9
USCHO 25
Higher Seed 25
CHA Tiebreaker 1
NAME TOTAL Score Pts
Bill Fenwick 36 5-4 0
Craig Powers 36 4-2 3
Iyer Venkatesan 36 4-2 3
Matt Carberry 36 4-2 3
Craig Roberts 36 4-2 3
John MacKinnon 36 3-2 4
Terry Casper 36 4-1 4
Matt Sullivan 32
Charlie Shub 32
Dave Belfiori 32
Dan Zeuske 28
Ken Butler 28
James Edwards 28
Nathan Hampton 28
Bill and Virginia Krebs 28
Jeff Boutiette 28
Kate Belfiori 28
Tony Buffa 28
Clayton Hoyt 20
David Morgenstern 20
Carol Belfiori 16
Troy D. Mills 16
William Sangrey 12
Mark Lewin 12
Jennifer Iwen 12
Steve Syrett 12
Andy Weise 12
Ross Belfiori 12
John Edwards 12
Tom Bednarek 12
Jay Kryzston 4
USCHO 40
Higher Seed 28
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