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 #2, in which all rounds are scored the same, the overall winner is...
Nick Markham
whose 62 points edged out runner-up Tony Buffa by one.
As for the individual conference winners...
Mark Lewin’s 16 points took top honors in the ECACH.
The Hockey East crown went to Tony Buffa with 12 points.
The CCHA race ended in a dead heat among Scott Kaplan, Nick Markham, Jim Dixon, and Robert Hamilton, each of whom recorded 14 points. Scott, Nick, and Jim remained tied after the first tiebreaker (championship game score), but Scott took the second tiebreaker and the title, as his predicted total goals scored in the tournament was only one shy of the actual result.
Nathan Hampton finished first in the WCHA race with 14 points.
Atlantic Hockey went to Wayne Smith, who got 16 points.
From last week's update, the CHA went to me with 4 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 3-0) to be 1-0, you would get two points; if you picked 4-2, you would get three points; and if you picked 5-3, 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 128.
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 62
Tony Buffa 61
Wayne Smith 60
Mark Lewin 58
Craig Roberts 57
Robert Hamilton 57
Bill Fenwick 56
Scott Kaplan 56
Troy D. Mills 56
Andy Weise 55
Bill Groskreutz 53
Nathan Hampton 50
Charlie Shub 48
Jim Dixon 48
John Edwards 47
William Sangrey 46
Bill Krebs 42
USCHO 67
Higher Seed 58
ECACH Hockey East
NAME TOTAL NAME TOTAL
Mark Lewin 16 Tony Buffa 12
Troy D. Mills 14 Nick Markham 10
William Sangrey 14 Bill Fenwick 10
Bill Groskreutz 14 Craig Roberts 10
Tony Buffa 12 Wayne Smith 8
Andy Weise 12 Troy D. Mills 8
Wayne Smith 12 Andy Weise 8
Robert Hamilton 12 Scott Kaplan 6
Scott Kaplan 12 Robert Hamilton 6
Nick Markham 12 Jim Dixon 6
Nathan Hampton 10 Nathan Hampton 6
Craig Roberts 10 Bill Groskreutz 4
Charlie Shub 10 William Sangrey 4
Bill Krebs 10 Charlie Shub 4
John Edwards 10 Mark Lewin 4
Jim Dixon 8 John Edwards 4
Bill Fenwick 6 Bill Krebs 2
USCHO 14 USCHO 8
Higher Seed 10 Higher Seed 8
CCHA Tiebreaker 1 Tiebreaker 2
NAME TOTAL Score Pts Goals Pts
Scott Kaplan 14 4-1 2 127 1
Nick Markham 14 4-1 2 130 2
Jim Dixon 14 3-2 2 80 48
Robert Hamilton 14 5-4 6
Bill Fenwick 12
Andy Weise 12
Craig Roberts 12
Tony Buffa 12
John Edwards 12
Wayne Smith 12
Mark Lewin 12
Charlie Shub 10
Nathan Hampton 10
Troy D. Mills 10
Bill Krebs 8
William Sangrey 6
Bill Groskreutz 6
USCHO 22
Higher Seed 14
WCHA Atlantic Hockey
NAME TOTAL NAME TOTAL
Nathan Hampton 14 Wayne Smith 16
Robert Hamilton 12 Nick Markham 14
Charlie Shub 12 Bill Groskreutz 14
Bill Groskreutz 12 Mark Lwein 14
Tony Buffa 12 Scott Kaplan 12
Nick Markham 12 Bill Krebs 12
Troy D. Mills 12 John Edwards 12
Mark Lewin 12 Craig Roberts 12
Bill Fenwick 12 Troy D. Mills 12
Wayne Smith 12 Bill Fenwick 12
Scott Kaplan 10 Charlie Shub 12
Craig Roberts 10 William Sangrey 12
Andy Weise 10 Andy Weise 10
William Sangrey 10 Jim Dixon 10
Jim Dixon 10 Nathan Hampton 10
Bill Krebs 8 Tony Buffa 10
John Edwards 6 Robert Hamilton 10
USCHO 10 USCHO 10
Higher Seed 12 Higher Seed 14
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