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 Tournament contests. For Contest #1, in which the later rounds
were weighted more than the earlier ones, the overall winner is...
Sean Keller
whose total of 138 points trounced the runners-up, Charlie Shub and myself,
by 17. Congratulations to Sean, but to be honest, this was a pretty down
year for the collected wit and wisdom of HOCKEY-L. Three of the individual
conference contests were over last week, as nobody picked either of the
actual semi-final winners in the ECAC, WCHA, or Atlantic Hockey. C'mon,
folks! :-)
As for the individual conference winners...
William Sangrey took top honors in the ECAC with 28 points.
The Hockey East crown went to Scott Kaplan with 47 points.
I somehow got 43 points for the top spot in the CCHA.
Sean Keller's 27 points were good for first place in the WCHA.
The Atlantic Hockey race went to the CHODR rating with 26 points.
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 3-1) to be 5-1,
you would get two points; if you picked 1-0, you would get three points;
and if you picked 5-4, you would get five points. Obviously, the lower the
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.
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. It should be noted that the USCHO staff did
not pick the games all at once, the way the rest of us did - which was
especially advantageous this year, with all the upsets.
OVERALL
NAME TOTAL
Sean Keller 138
Bill Fenwick 121
Charlie Shub 121
Wayne Smith 116
CHODR 112
Scott Kaplan 108
Robin Lock 107
Nathan Hampton 95
William Sangrey 94
Troy D. Mills 92
Bill Groskreutz 86
Andy Weise 84
Mark Lewin 83
Tony Buffa 78
* Jim Dixon 56
* John Edwards 44
USCHO 155
Higher Seed 129
* Did not submit picks for all conferences
ECAC Hockey East
NAME TOTAL NAME TOTAL
William Sangrey 28 Scott Kaplan 47
Nathan Hampton 25 Wayne Smith 39
Andy Weise 24 Sean Keller 36
Wayne Smith 23 Charlie Shub 32
Mark Lewin 23 Robin Lock 28
Bill Fenwick 21 CHODR 27
Tony Buffa 21 Bill Groskreutz 27
Troy D. Mills 20 Troy D. Mills 23
CHODR 19 William Sangrey 20
Bill Groskreutz 19 Nathan Hampton 19
Sean Keller 18 Bill Fenwick 18
Charlie Shub 17 Mark Lewin 15
John Edwards 17 Andy Weise 14
Robin Lock 16 Tony Buffa 10
Jim Dixon 16
Scott Kaplan 14 USCHO 39
Higher Seed 39
USCHO 31
Higher Seed 22
CCHA WCHA
NAME TOTAL NAME TOTAL
Bill Fenwick 43 Sean Keller 27
Charlie Shub 39 Nathan Hampton 21
Sean Keller 35 Wayne Smith 18
Robin Lock 22 CHODR 18
CHODR 22 Bill Groskreutz 18
Jim Dixon 19 Tony Buffa 18
Wayne Smith 19 Troy D. Mills 18
Scott Kaplan 18 Robin Lock 17
Troy D. Mills 17 Bill Fenwick 17
William Sangrey 11 William Sangrey 15
Andy Weise 11 Charlie Shub 14
Nathan Hampton 10 Scott Kaplan 14
Tony Buffa 10 Andy Weise 14
Mark Lewin 10 Mark Lewin 13
Bill Groskreutz 7
John Edwards 7 USCHO 37
Higher Seed 22
USCHO 26
Higher Seed 22
Atlantic Hockey
NAME TOTAL
CHODR 26
Robin Lock 24
Sean Keller 22
Bill Fenwick 22
Mark Lewin 22
Andy Weise 21
Jim Dixon 21
Nathan Hampton 20
William Sangrey 20
John Edwards 20
Charlie Shub 19
Tony Buffa 19
Wayne Smith 17
Bill Groskreutz 15
Scott Kaplan 15
Troy D. Mills 14
USCHO 22
Higher Seed 24
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Bill Fenwick DJF 5/27/94
Cornell '86 and '95 JCF 12/2/97
LET'S GO RED!!
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