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...
Nathan Hampton
whose total of 185 points was six better than runner-up Bill Groskreutz.
Congratulations to Nathan on his awesome prognosticating skills; here's
where I always grumpily mention something about blind luck, but as we all
know, luck is the residue of -- well, more luck. Anyway, congrats to
Nathan!
As for the individual conference winners...
The ECAC race went to Sean Keller with 56 points.
Scott Kaplan took the top spot in Hockey East with 37 points.
Craig Roberts' 30 points was good for first place in the WCHA.
Nathan Hampton took top honors in the NCHC with 41 points.
The Atlantic Hockey race ended in a three-way tie for first among William
Sangrey, Richard Vehlow, and Craig Roberts. William and Richard remained
tied after the first tiebreaker, but William's total goals prediction was
four points closer, winning him the second tiebreaker and the crown.
Also ending in a tie for the top spot was the Big Ten race, among Wayne
Smith, Bill Krebs, Bill Groskreutz, and myself (!) Wayne and I remained
tied after the first tiebreaker, but I won the second tiebreaker by six
points.
Complete scoring results are below. Congratulations to all the winners,
and thanks again to all those who participated.
Note that since the NCHC consolation game ended in a tie, anyone who
picked North Dakota or Denver to win the consolation was awarded 2 points.
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 4-1) to be 2-1,
you would get two points; if you picked 2-0, you would get three points;
and if you picked 6-4, 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.
As far as tiebreakers that were actually needed:
For Atlantic Hockey, the championship game score was 7-4, and the total
goals scored in the tournament was 104.
For the Big Ten, the championship game score was 5-3, and the total goals
scored in the tournament was 37.
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 in some
cases was especially advantageous.
OVERALL
NAME TOTAL
Nathan Hampton 185
Bill Groskreutz 179
Wayne Smith 176
Bill Krebs 166
Andy Weise 166
Scott Kaplan 165
Sean Keller 157
Craig Roberts 152
William Sangrey 142
Charlie Shub 135
Jim Dixon 133
Bill Fenwick 125
Tony Buffa 124
Mark Lewin 119
John Edwards 116
* Richard Vehlow 58
USCHO 175
Higher Seed 168
* Did not submit picks for all conferences
ECAC Hockey East
NAME TOTAL NAME TOTAL
Sean Keller 56 Scott Kaplan 37
Bill Krebs 49 Charlie Shub 33
Wayne Smith 48 Bill Krebs 26
Nathan Hampton 46 Bill Groskreutz 22
Andy Weise 45 Sean Keller 22
Bill Groskreutz 38 John Edwards 22
Charlie Shub 37 Nathan Hampton 22
Scott Kaplan 32 Wayne Smith 22
William Sangrey 31 William Sangrey 21
Jim Dixon 30 Andy Weise 21
Tony Buffa 27 Tony Buffa 21
Craig Roberts 26 Jim Dixon 18
John Edwards 26 Craig Roberts 17
Mark Lewin 25 Richard Vehlow 15
Bill Fenwick 19 Bill Fenwick 15
Richard Vehlow 14 Mark Lewin 15
USCHO 31 USCHO 27
Higher Seed 50 Higher Seed 22
WCHA NCHC
NAME TOTAL NAME TOTAL
Craig Roberts 30 Nathan Hampton 41
John Edwards 22 Bill Groskreutz 39
Wayne Smith 19 Wayne Smith 24
Scott Kaplan 19 Andy Weise 20
Andy Weise 19 Jim Dixon 19
Bill Groskreutz 18 Bill Krebs 19
Jim Dixon 17 Bill Fenwick 16
Bill Fenwick 15 Charlie Shub 15
Bill Krebs 15 Scott Kaplan 15
Charlie Shub 15 Mark Lewin 15
Nathan Hampton 15 Craig Roberts 14
William Sangrey 14 John Edwards 14
Tony Buffa 13 Tony Buffa 14
Sean Keller 11 Sean Keller 14
Mark Lewin 6 William Sangrey 11
USCHO 10 USCHO 39
Higher Seed 22 Higher Seed 26
Atlantic Hockey Tiebreaker 1 Tiebreaker 2
NAME TOTAL Score Pts Goals Pts
William Sangrey 29 4-2 5 92 12
Richard Vehlow 29 4-2 5 88 16
Craig Roberts 29 3-2 6
Sean Keller 26
Scott Kaplan 26
Tony Buffa 25
Nathan Hampton 25
Jim Dixon 25
Andy Weise 25
Wayne Smith 23
Charlie Shub 23
Bill Groskreutz 22
Mark Lewin 22
Bill Fenwick 20
Bill Krebs 17
John Edwards 16
USCHO 32
Higher Seed 24
Big Ten Tiebreaker 1 Tiebreaker 2
NAME TOTAL Score Pts Goals Pts
Bill Fenwick 40 4-3 1 33 4
Wayne Smith 40 4-3 1 27 10
Bill Krebs 40 6-4 2
Bill Groskreutz 40 4-0 4
William Sangrey 36
Nathan Hampton 36
Andy Weise 36
Scott Kaplan 36
Mark Lewin 36
Craig Roberts 36
Sean Keller 28
Tony Buffa 24
Jim Dixon 24
John Edwards 16
Charlie Shub 12
USCHO 36
Higher Seed 24
Bill Fenwick
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