With the first weekend of the ECAC, WCHA, Atlantic Hockey, and Big Ten
playoffs in the books, here's a look at the score so far in the Pick the
Tourneys Contest #1 (in which the later rounds are weighted more heavily
than the earlier ones). Also included are the scores for the predictions by
the USCHO staff (who, it should be pointed out, don't have to pick all the
games at once) and a "Higher Seed" entry, showing what would have happened
if the higher seed for each game had been picked to win. Thus, in the
"Higher Seed" entry, all first-round/quarterfinal series, along with the
WCHA semis, get picked as sweeps.

Note:  CHODR is the College Hockey Offensive/Defensive Ratings, provided
by Robin Lock.  More information on CHODR is available at
http://it.stlawu.edu/~chodr/

There is currently a tie for the overall lead in the Pick the Tourneys
Contest #1, between Nathan Hampton and CHODR with 46 points each.

Scoring reminder:  Three points are awarded for each correctly predicted
winner in the first round.  An additional bonus point was given for
correctly forecasting the number of games (2 or 3) a series would go.
The quarterfinal round will be scored the same way; predicting the winner is
worth three points, and correctly picking the number of games in the series
is worth a bonus point.

Scoring for the rest of the contest is as follows:  8 points for correctly
picking semifinal winners (except in the WCHA, where 7 points are awarded for
correctly predicting the winner and an additional bonus point is given for
correctly forecasting the number of games), 4 points for picking the conso-
lation winner, and 16 points for picking the championship game winner.


Overall
NAME                   TOTAL
Nathan Hampton          46
CHODR                   46
Jim Dixon               42
William Sangrey         39
Bill Fenwick            38
Charlie Shub            38
Tony Buffa              38
Scott Kaplan            35
Bill Groskreutz         33
Mark Lewin              31
Andy Weise              30
Sean Keller             29

USCHO                   37
Higher Seed             49

ECAC                            WCHA
NAME                   TOTAL    NAME                   TOTAL
William Sangrey         14      Nathan Hampton          16
CHODR                   14      CHODR                   15
Sean Keller             14      Scott Kaplan            15
Nathan Hampton          13      Tony Buffa              14
Jim Dixon               12      Charlie Shub            12
Tony Buffa              11      William Sangrey         11
Bill Fenwick            10      Jim Dixon               11
Charlie Shub            10      Andy Weise              11
Scott Kaplan            10      Bill Fenwick            10
Bill Groskreutz         10      Sean Keller              8
Mark Lewin              10      Mark Lewin               8
Andy Weise               9      Bill Groskreutz          7

USCHO                   11      USCHO                   14
Higher Seed             15      Higher Seed             16

Atlantic Hockey                 Big Ten
NAME                   TOTAL    NAME                   TOTAL
Charlie Shub             9      Jim Dixon               12
William Sangrey          8      Bill Fenwick            10
Bill Fenwick             8      Nathan Hampton          10
Nathan Hampton           7      CHODR                   10
CHODR                    7      Bill Groskreutz         10
Jim Dixon                7      Mark Lewin              10
Tony Buffa               6      Charlie Shub             7
Bill Groskreutz          6      Tony Buffa               7
Scott Kaplan             3      Scott Kaplan             7
Andy Weise               3      Andy Weise               7
Sean Keller              3      William Sangrey          6
Mark Lewin               3      Sean Keller              4

USCHO                    4      USCHO                    8
Higher Seed              7      Higher Seed             11

Bill Fenwick
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