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...
Sean Keller
who lapped the field with a total of 249 points, 30 better than runner-up
Andy Weise. Congratulations, Sean!
Scoring note: Minnesota State was the unanimous pick to win the CCHA
championship. I know the Mavericks had to win that game twice, but no, I'm
not giving out double points ( 1/2 :-) )
As for the individual conference winners...
The ECAC was won by Sean Keller with 62 points.
Hockey East ended in a tie between Sean Keller and Andy Weise, with 42 points
each. Sean took the crown on the first tiebreaker.
Andy Weise took the top spot in the CCHA with a perfect 48 points.
The NCHC saw a three-way tie among Scott Kaplan, Mark Lewin, and Sean Keller,
with 22 points each. The first tiebreaker, and the title, went to Scott.
Atlantic Hockey went to Jim Dixon with 43 points.
Andy Weise won the Big Ten with 44 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 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 Hockey East, the championship game score was 2-1.
For the NCHC, the championship game score was 3-0.
Only a couple of USCHO prognosticators submitted tournament picks this year,
and neither picked the entire tournament. Their 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
Sean Keller 249
Andy Weise 219
Jim Dixon 188
Scott Kaplan 168
Mark Lewin 166
Tony Buffa 162
William Sangrey 146
Bill Fenwick 124
* USCHO 46
Higher Seed 167
* Did not submit picks for all conferences
ECAC Hockey East Tiebreaker 1
NAME TOTAL NAME TOTAL Score Pts
Sean Keller 62 Sean Keller 42 4-2 3
Jim Dixon 45 Andy Weise 42 5-4 6
Scott Kaplan 37 Tony Buffa 26
Andy Weise 31 Jim Dixon 23
Mark Lewin 31 William Sangrey 20
Bill Fenwick 29 Scott Kaplan 18
Tony Buffa 26 Mark Lewin 15
William Sangrey 24 Bill Fenwick 12
USCHO 30 Higher Seed 29
Higher Seed 33
CCHA NCHC Tiebreaker 1
NAME TOTAL NAME TOTAL Score Pts
Andy Weise 48 Scott Kaplan 22 3-2 2
Sean Keller 43 Mark Lewin 22 4-2 3
Tony Buffa 40 Sean Keller 22 4-3 4
Jim Dixon 36 Andy Weise 19
Mark Lewin 36 Jim Dixon 15
William Sangrey 36 Bill Fenwick 14
Scott Kaplan 35 William Sangrey 11
Bill Fenwick 32 Tony Buffa 11
Higher Seed 35 Higher Seed 12
Atlantic Hockey Big Ten
NAME TOTAL NAME TOTAL
Jim Dixon 43 Andy Weise 44
Scott Kaplan 41 Sean Keller 43
Sean Keller 37 Mark Lewin 39
William Sangrey 36 Jim Dixon 26
Tony Buffa 36 Tony Buffa 23
Andy Weise 35 William Sangrey 19
Mark Lewin 23 Scott Kaplan 15
Bill Fenwick 22 Bill Fenwick 15
Higher Seed 35 USCHO 16
Higher Seed 23
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Bill Fenwick DJF 5/27/94
Cornell '86 and '95 JCF 12/2/97
LET'S GO RED!!
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