Thanks Bill for your efforts. I will take a top placing in the WCHA and a 3
point escape from last as a success.
On Sun, Mar 21, 2021, 2:59 PM Bill Fenwick <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> With the conference post-season tournaments over and the NCAA tournament
> (hopefully?) 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
>
> who successfully defended his crown with a total of 140 points, four better
> than runners-up Tony Buffa and Scott Kaplan. Congratulations again,
> Nathan! Although it's a bit intriguing to note that, even with several
> tourney upsets, simply picking the higher seed in each game/series would
> have won this year's contest.
>
> As for the individual conference winners...
>
> The ECAC "race" ended in a five-way tie among Sean Keller, Nathan Hampton,
> John Edwards, Tony Buffa, and Richard Vehlow, with 8 points each. Sean
> took the tiebreaker as his predicted score was only one point off the
> actual result.
>
> William Sangrey took the top spot in Hockey East with 36 points.
>
> The WCHA crown went to Jim Dixon with 18 points.
>
> Tony Buffa's 44 points topped the NCHC.
>
> Atlantic Hockey was won by Nathan Hampton with 41 points.
>
> The Big Ten came down to a three-way tie among Scott Kaplan, Nathan
> Hampton, and Tony Buffa, with 38 points each. Scott took the crown on the
> first tie-breaker.
>
> 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 3-2) to be 5-2,
> you would get two points; if you picked 4-0, you would get three points;
> and if you picked 6-1, you would get four 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 ECAC, the championship game score was 3-2.
>
> For the Big Ten, the championship game score was 6-4.
>
> 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 140
> Tony Buffa 136
> Sean Keller 136
> Scott Kaplan 127
> William Sangrey 120
> Jim Dixon 103
> Bill Fenwick 100
> Mark Lewin 100
> * John Edwards 76
> * Richard Vehlow 8
>
> USCHO 141
> Higher Seed 142
>
> * Did not submit picks for all conferences
>
> ECAC Tiebreaker 1 Hockey East
> NAME TOTAL Score Pts NAME TOTAL
> Sean Keller 8 4-2 1 William Sangrey 36
> Nathan Hampton 8 4-3 2 John Edwards 33
> John Edwards 8 3-0 2 Sean Keller 33
> Tony Buffa 8 5-3 3 Scott Kaplan 23
> Richard Vehlow 8 5 Tony Buffa 20
> Scott Kaplan 0 Bill Fenwick 12
> Jim Dixon 0 Jim Dixon 12
> William Sangrey 0 Mark Lewin 12
> Bill Fenwick 0 Nathan Hampton 9
> Mark Lewin 0
> USCHO 17
> USCHO 8 Higher Seed 9
> Higher Seed 8
>
> WCHA NCHC
> NAME TOTAL NAME TOTAL
> Jim Dixon 18 Tony Buffa 44
> Bill Fenwick 12 William Sangrey 36
> Mark Lewin 12 Sean Keller 36
> Nathan Hampton 11 Nathan Hampton 33
> Scott Kaplan 11 Scott Kaplan 33
> William Sangrey 10 Mark Lewin 33
> Sean Keller 8 Jim Dixon 30
> Tony Buffa 8 Bill Fenwick 30
>
> USCHO 20 USCHO 36
> Higher Seed 20 Higher Seed 41
>
> Atlantic Hockey Big Ten Tiebreaker 1
> NAME TOTAL NAME TOTAL Score Pts
> Nathan Hampton 41 Scott Kaplan 38 4-2 4
> John Edwards 35 Nathan Hampton 38 3-2 5
> Mark Lewin 34 Tony Buffa 38 2-1 7
> Sean Keller 34 Bill Fenwick 22
> Bill Fenwick 24 Jim Dixon 22
> Scott Kaplan 22 William Sangrey 17
> William Sangrey 21 Sean Keller 17
> Jim Dixon 21 Mark Lewin 9
> Tony Buffa 8
> USCHO 38
> USCHO 22 Higher Seed 22
> Higher Seed 42
>
> --
> Bill Fenwick DJF 5/27/94
> Cornell '86 and '95 JCF 12/2/97
> LET'S GO RED!!
>
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