With the first week/weekend of the ECAC, CCHA, 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 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 and quarter-
final series get picked as sweeps.

I could only find USCHO predictions for the ECAC, so I also included those.
I'm guessing the rest of USCHO got scared off because HOCKEY-L keeps doing
better than they do :-)

The current overall lead in the Pick the Tourneys Contest #1 is held by Andy
Weise with 48 points.

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, and 16 points for picking the championship game
winner.


Overall
NAME                   TOTAL
Andy Weise              48
Sean Keller             43
Jim Dixon               43
William Sangrey         39
Mark Lewin              39
Scott Kaplan            38
Tony Buffa              37
Bill Fenwick            27

* USCHO                 11
Higher Seed             36

* Did not submit picks for all conferences

ECAC                            CCHA
NAME                   TOTAL    NAME                   TOTAL
Andy Weise              16      Andy Weise              16
Sean Keller             15      Tony Buffa              16
Jim Dixon               13      Jim Dixon               12
Scott Kaplan            13      William Sangrey         12
William Sangrey         12      Mark Lewin              12
Mark Lewin              12      Sean Keller             11
Tony Buffa              10      Scott Kaplan            11
Bill Fenwick             9      Bill Fenwick             8

USCHO                   11      Higher Seed             12
Higher Seed             14

Atlantic Hockey                 Big Ten
NAME                   TOTAL    NAME                   TOTAL
Jim Dixon                8      Andy Weise              12
Mark Lewin               8      Sean Keller             11
Scott Kaplan             7      William Sangrey         11
Sean Keller              6      Jim Dixon               10
Andy Weise               4      Mark Lewin               7
Tony Buffa               4      Scott Kaplan             7
William Sangrey          4      Tony Buffa               7
Bill Fenwick             3      Bill Fenwick             7

Higher Seed              4      Higher Seed              7


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Bill Fenwick                                                 DJF   5/27/94
Cornell '86 and '95                                          JCF   12/2/97
LET'S GO RED!!