With the first weekend of the ECAC playoffs in the books, here's a 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.

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 picing the number of games in the series
is worth a bonus point.

Scoring for the rest of the contest is as follows:  8 points for correctly
picking
semifinal winners, 4 points for picking the consolation winner, and 16
points for picking the championship game winner.


NAME                    TOTAL
John Edwards             15
Tony Buffa               14
Matt Carberry            14
Brian Morris             14
Matt Sullivan            14
Christian Danish         14
Craig Roberts            13
David Belfiori           12
Charlie Shub             11
Craig Powers             11
Jim Dixon                11
Jim Edwards              11
Wendy Istvanick          11
Bill & Virginia Krebs    10
Ross Belfiori            10
Troy D. Mills            10
Benjamin J. Flickinger   10
William Sangrey          10
Erik Phelps              10
Nathan Hampton            8
Mike Larson               8
Wayne T. Smith            7
Jen Iwen                  7
Mark Lewin                7
Dan Zeuske                7
Bill Fenwick              4
Thomas Bednarek           4
Jim Teresco               4
Andy Weise                3

USCHO                    13
Higher Seed               8

--
Bill Fenwick                                                 DJF   5/27/94
Cornell '86 and '95                                          JCF   12/2/97
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