With the conference post-season tournaments over and the NCAA tournament
upon us, it's time (actually well past time, sorry for the delay) 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...
Ross Belfiori
In a close contest, his 219 points were one better than runner-up Bob
Fitta. Ross can now lay claim to being the luckiest -- I mean, most
skilled -- prognosticator here on HOCKEY-L. Let us all pause to marvel at
his amazing sheer DUMB LUCK -- excuse me, amazing abilities.
As for the individual conference winners...
Bob Fitta finished atop the ECAC with 60 points.
The CCHA race ended up in a tie between Ross Belfiori and Bob Fitta with 62
points each, with the first tiebreaker (final score of the championship
game) giving the title to Ross, who finished three points closer to the
actual score.
There was also a tie in the WCHA, between Dan Zeuske and Mike Larson with
48 points each. Dan won the first tiebreaker, predicting the final score
exactly.
The MAAC title went to Bob Fitta with 44 points.
From last week's update, Patrick Lethert won the Hockey East race with 35
points and Jennifer Iwen finished atop the CHA with 32 points, both in
tiebreakers.
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 ECAC championship game (actually 3-2) to be 2-1, you would get
two points; if you picked 5-0, you would get four points; and if you picked
3-1, 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 (from last week), the championship game score was 1-0.
For the CCHA, the championship game score was 5-3.
For the WCHA, the championship game score was 4-2.
For the CHA (from last week), the championship game score was 3-2.
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
Ross Belfiori 219
Bob Fitta 218
Charlie Shub 213
Andy Weise 208
Mike Brown 207
Terry Casper 202
Patrick Lethert 199
James Edwards 199
Craig Powers 199
Jim Dixon 199
Craig Roberts 197
Jennifer Iwen 197
Matt Sullivan 191
Mark Lewin 190
Nathan Hampton 187
Dan Zeuske 183
Bill Fenwick 180
John Edwards 178
Dan McMurrer 164
William Sangrey 161
Tony Buffa 152
* Thom Davis 86
* Bill Krebs 80
* Brian Wilantowicz 76
* Rita-Ann Monde 63
* Deron Treadwell 62
* Christian Danish 61
* Benjamin J. Flickinger 60
* Thomas Bednarek 54
* Mike Larson 48
USCHO 199
Higher Seed 209
* Did not submit picks for all conferences
ECAC CCHA Tiebreaker 1
NAME TOTAL NAME TOTAL Score Pts
Bob Fitta 60 Ross Belfiori 62 4-3 1
Brian Wilantowicz 58 Bob Fitta 62 3-1 4
Bill Fenwick 56 Nathan Hampton 59
James Edwards 56 Andy Weise 58
Mike Brown 55 Matt Sullivan 55
Jim Dixon 54 Bill Fenwick 53
Deron Treadwell 54 John Edwards 51
Ross Belfiori 53 Terry Casper 49
Patrick Lethert 52 Craig Powers 49
Andy Weise 51 Charlie Shub 48
Thom Davis 51 Mike Brown 47
Mark Lewin 50 Craig Roberts 47
William Sangrey 49 Jennifer Iwen 46
Rita-Ann Monde 44 Tony Buffa 44
Charlie Shub 43 Dan McMurrer 43
Dan Zeuske 42 Dan Zeuske 42
Matt Sullivan 42 Jim Dixon 39
Terry Casper 42 William Sangrey 38
Tony Buffa 38 James Edwards 34
Dan McMurrer 38 Patrick Lethert 31
Thomas Bednarek 38 Mark Lewin 31
Jennifer Iwen 37 Bill Krebs 25
John Edwards 36
Craig Powers 35 USCHO 32
Nathan Hampton 33 Higher Seed 40
Craig Roberts 31
Benjamin J. Flickinger 28
Christian Danish 27
USCHO 54
Higher Seed 54
WCHA Tiebreaker 1 MAAC
NAME TOTAL Score Pts NAME TOTAL
Dan Zeuske 48 4-2 0 Bob Fitta 44
Mike Larson 48 4-3 1 Ross Belfiori 41
Craig Powers 47 Andy Weise 41
Craig Roberts 46 James Edwards 41
John Edwards 46 Terry Casper 41
Charlie Shub 36 Nathan Hampton 41
Matt Sullivan 34 Craig Powers 36
Bill Fenwick 34 Charlie Shub 36
Jim Dixon 34 Mark Lewin 36
Mike Brown 32 Jim Dixon 33
Patrick Lethert 32 Patrick Lethert 33
James Edwards 32 Mike Brown 33
Bob Fitta 28 Matt Sullivan 33
Nathan Hampton 27 Jennifer Iwen 30
Ross Belfiori 27 Tony Buffa 28
Dan McMurrer 23 Dan McMurrer 28
William Sangrey 23 Bill Krebs 28
Mark Lewin 22 William Sangrey 25
Andy Weise 22 Dan Zeuske 25
Terry Casper 19 Craig Roberts 22
Bill Krebs 19 John Edwards 17
Tony Buffa 19 Bill Fenwick 14
Jennifer Iwen 18
USCHO 30
USCHO 24 Higher Seed 41
Higher Seed 34
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