With the conference post-season tournaments over and the NCAA tournament
almost upon us, 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...
Tony Buffa
In a bit of a runaway, his 175 points bested runner-up Jim Dixon by 14.
Tony now takes the mantle of Exalted HOCKEY-L Lucky BAST –- er, I mean,
Supremely Talented Prognosticator. Congratulations, Tony!
As for the individual conference winners...
Tony Buffa took top honors in the ECAC with 46 points, on the strength of
being the only person to forecast Harvard’s title win.
A tight Hockey East race finished in a tie between Jim Dixon and David
Belfiori, with 35 points each. Both remained tied after the first
tiebreaker (final score of the championship game), but Jim took the second
tiebreaker, coming within two of the total goals scored in the entire
tournament.
Carol Belfiori, who was the only person to pick Ohio State to win the
tournament, topped the CCHA with 50 points.
The WCHA title went to Bill and Virginia Krebs, who were the only ones to
pick Minnesota to win the championship and finished with 36 points.
William Sangrey and Charlie Shub tied atop the Atlantic Hockey standings
with 36 points each. Both were still tied after the first tiebreaker, but
William won the second tiebreaker, coming within four of the total goals
scored in the tournament.
From last week’s update, Matt Carberry won the CHA race in a tiebreaker,
with 36 points.
Complete scoring results are below. Congratulations to all the winners,
and thanks again to all those who participated.
Also, my apologies to Terry Casper and Matt Sullivan, whose picks were left
off my earlier updates.
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 4-2) to be 2-1,
you would get three points; if you picked 1-0, you would get five points;
and if you picked 3-2, 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 entire 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 2-1 and the total goals
scored in the tournament was 58.
For Atlantic Hockey, the championship game score was 4-0 and the total
goals scored in the tournament was 39.
For the CHA (from last week), the championship game score was 4-3.
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
Tony Buffa 175
Jim Dixon 161
Matt Carberry 157
Terry Casper 155
Bill Fenwick 153
Jim Edwards 143
Andy Weise 141
Nathan Hampton 140
Ross Belfiori 139
John Edwards 139
William Sangrey 134
Wayne T. Smith 133
Mike Larson 131
Craig Roberts 130
Charlie Shub 127
David Belfiori 122
Bill & Virginia Krebs 122
Jen Iwen 121
Matt Sullivan 119
Craig Powers 114
Troy D. Mills 113
* Carol Belfiori 110
Wendy Istvanick 108
* Thom Davis 105
* Bob Fitta 94
Mark Lewin 86
* Christian Danish 29
* Brian Morris 23
* Benjamin J. Flickinger 19
* Dan Zeuske 17
* Erik Phelps 14
* Thomas Bednarek 11
* Jim Teresco 7
USCHO 158
Higher Seed 136
* Did not submit picks for all conferences
ECAC
NAME TOTAL
Tony Buffa 46
Matt Sullivan 31
John Edwards 24
Brian Morris 23
Christian Danish 21
Terry Casper 20
Ross Belfiori 20
Craig Roberts 20
David Belfiori 19
Benjamin J. Flickinger 19
William Sangrey 19
Jim Dixon 18
Jim Edwards 18
Bill & Virginia Krebs 18
Dan Zeuske 17
Matt Carberry 17
Wayne T. Smith 15
Charlie Shub 14
Craig Powers 14
Wendy Istvanick 14
Mark Lewin 14
Erik Phelps 14
Troy D. Mills 13
Mike Larson 11
Nathan Hampton 11
Thomas Bednarek 11
Jen Iwen 10
Jim Teresco 7
Bill Fenwick 7
Andy Weise 6
USCHO 40
Higher Seed 14
Hockey East Tiebreaker 1 Tiebreaker 2
NAME TOTAL Score Pts Goals Pts
Jim Edwards 35 4-3 4 60 2
David Belfiori 35 4-3 4 25 33
Terry Casper 34
John Edwards 34
Mike Larson 34
Jim Dixon 34
Jen Iwen 31
Thom Davis 31
Bill Fenwick 28
Tony Buffa 20
Nathan Hampton 19
Matt Carberry 19
Wendy Istvanick 19
Craig Roberts 19
Troy D. Mills 19
Wayne T. Smith 18
Bill & Virginia Krebs 18
Andy Weise 18
Mark Lewin 18
Craig Powers 18
Ross Belfiori 16
Bob Fitta 15
Carol Belfiori 15
William Sangrey 12
Charlie Shub 12
Matt Sullivan 8
Christian Danish 8
USCHO 23
Higher Seed 20
CCHA WCHA
NAME TOTAL NAME TOTAL
Carol Belfiori 50 Bill & Virginia Krebs 36
Mike Larson 38 Matt Carberry 25
Nathan Hampton 36 Carol Belfiori 24
Craig Powers 35 Bill Fenwick 23
Troy D. Mills 34 Andy Weise 22
Jim Edwards 34 Charlie Shub 22
Terry Casper 33 Jen Iwen 22
Jen Iwen 32 Terry Casper 22
Tony Buffa 32 Nathan Hampton 21
Wayne T. Smith 32 Craig Powers 21
Ross Belfiori 31 Craig Roberts 21
Bob Fitta 31 Matt Sullivan 21
John Edwards 30 Bob Fitta 19
Matt Carberry 30 Mark Lewin 19
Matt Sullivan 30 Tony Buffa 19
Thom Davis 29 Ross Belfiori 19
Bill Fenwick 29 Jim Edwards 19
William Sangrey 29 Wendy Istvanick 19
Charlie Shub 27 William Sangrey 18
Andy Weise 26 Troy D. Mills 18
Mark Lewin 25 Mike Larson 18
Jim Dixon 22 Jim Dixon 18
David Belfiori 21 Wayne T. Smith 18
Craig Roberts 20 John Edwards 17
Wendy Istvanick 18 David Belfiori 14
Bill & Virginia Krebs 17 Thom Davis 10
USCHO 26 USCHO 19
Higher Seed 30 Higher Seed 19
Atlantic Hockey Tiebreaker 1 Tiebreaker 2
NAME TOTAL Score Pts Goals Pts
William Sangrey 36 3-1 2 43 4
Charlie Shub 36 4-2 2 50 11
Nathan Hampton 33
Andy Weise 33
Ross Belfiori 33
Jim Dixon 33
Craig Roberts 30
Terry Casper 30
Wendy Istvanick 30
Matt Carberry 30
Bill Fenwick 30
Tony Buffa 30
Wayne T. Smith 30
Bill & Virginia Krebs 17
Jim Edwards 17
Matt Sullivan 17
Troy D. Mills 17
Bob Fitta 17
Craig Powers 14
John Edwards 14
Jen Iwen 14
Mike Larson 14
Carol Belfiori 9
David Belfiori 9
Mark Lewin 6
Thom Davis 3
USCHO 30
Higher Seed 33
--
Bill Fenwick DJF 5/27/94
Cornell '86 and '95 JCF 12/2/97
LET'S GO RED!!
"For surely there is nothing more thrilling in this world than the sight of
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