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, for the
second year in a row, is...
Nick Markham
whose total of 200 beat runner-up Wayne Smith by five points.
Congratulations again, Nick, on your extremely refined prognosticating
skills and -- aah, you lucky son-OF-A -- oops, excuse me. Anyway, well done.
As for the individual conference winners...
The ECACH title went to the only person with the nerve to pick Princeton to
win it all: yours truly, with 39 points. And if that doesn't convince you
of the role that blind luck plays in this contest, well, I don't know what
will :-)
Mike Larson finished atop the Hockey East standings with 44 points.
The CCHA saw a tie for the top spot between Nick Markham and Wayne Smith,
with 58 points each. The first tiebreaker, championship game score,
resolved nothing, but Nick took the title with the second tiebreaker, as
his predicted total number of goals in the tournament was 13 points closer
to the real total.
Tony Buffa won the WCHA race with 47 points, on the strength of being the
only person to pick Denver to win it all.
From last week's update, Nick Markham's 42 points were good enough to win
the Atlantic Hockey race, while Robin Lock took the CHA in a tiebreaker
with 36 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 4-1) to be 3-2,
you would get two points; if you picked 1-0, you would get four 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 the CCHA, the championship game score was 2-1 and the total goals
scored in the tournament was 148.
For the CHA (from last week), the championship game score was 3-2 and the
total goals scored in the tournament was 23.
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
Nick Markham 200
Wayne Smith 195
Scott Kaplan 193
Bill Fenwick 171
Nathan Hampton 157
Tony Buffa 153
William Sangrey 152
Troy D. Mills 149
John Edwards 145
Craig Roberts 143
Andy Weise 140
Jim Dixon 137
Mark Lewin 133
Craig Knowles 121
Charlie Shub 119
* Mike Larson 79
* Robin Lock 65
USCHO 193
Higher Seed 152
* Did not submit picks for all conferences
ECAC Hockey East
NAME TOTAL NAME TOTAL
Bill Fenwick 39 Mike Larson 44
Nick Markham 34 Nathan Hampton 38
William Sangrey 32 Scott Kaplan 35
Troy D. Mills 32 Jim Dixon 22
Scott Kaplan 30 Wayne Smith 22
Mark Lewin 29 Craig Roberts 20
Jim Dixon 28 Craig Knowles 19
Craig Roberts 27 John Edwards 18
Nathan Hampton 26 Charlie Shub 18
John Edwards 26 Bill Fenwick 18
Andy Weise 26 Nick Markham 18
Wayne Smith 25 William Sangrey 15
Charlie Shub 24 Robin Lock 15
Tony Buffa 17 Troy D. Mills 14
Craig Knowles 13 Mark Lewin 13
Andy Weise 11
USCHO 40 Tony Buffa 11
Higher Seed 28
USCHO 15
Higher Seed 14
CCHA Tiebreaker 1 Tiebreaker 2
NAME TOTAL Score Pts Goals Pts
Nick Markham 58 3-2 2 123 25
Wayne Smith 58 1-0 2 110 38
Scott Kaplan 50
Andy Weise 50
John Edwards 49
Bill Fenwick 49
Tony Buffa 49
Craig Roberts 46
Troy D. Mills 46
Mark Lewin 46
William Sangrey 38
Jim Dixon 35
Craig Knowles 35
Nathan Hampton 32
Charlie Shub 29
USCHO 59
Higher Seed 58
WCHA
NAME TOTAL
Tony Buffa 47
William Sangrey 23
Scott Kaplan 19
Nathan Hampton 19
Charlie Shub 18
Andy Weise 17
Bill Fenwick 17
Mark Lewin 17
John Edwards 16
Troy D. Mills 15
Mike Larson 15
Wayne Smith 14
Nick Markham 14
Jim Dixon 14
Craig Knowles 14
Robin Lock 14
Craig Roberts 11
USCHO 19
Higher Seed 15
Bill Fenwick
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