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...
Charlie Shub
whose total of 186 points bested runner-up Nathan Hampton by 19.
Congratu-
lations to Charlie on his amazing prognosticating skills and his
sheer
overwhelming knowledge of college hockey. (mumble pure luck
mumble)
As for the individual conference winners...
The ECAC race was won by Tony Buffa with 31 points.
Also with 31 points, Nathan Hampton took the Hockey East crown.
John Edwards won in the WCHA with 30 points.
Scott Kaplan finished atop the NCHC with 50 points.
Charlie Shub’s 38 points were good for first place in Atlantic
Hockey.
The Big Ten went to William Sangrey with 43 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 2-1) to be
4-1,
you would get two points; if you picked 4-0, you would get three
points;
and if you picked 6-2, 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.
After all that, no tiebreakers were needed in the contest.
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
Charlie
Shub
186
Nathan Hampton
167
Sean
Keller
158
Tony
Buffa
152
Bill
Fenwick
150
Mark
Lewin
150
William Sangrey 149
Scott
Kaplan
141
Jim
Dixon
138
* John Edwards
127
Andy
Weise
114
* Craig Knowles
16
USCHO
180
Higher
Seed
149
* Did not submit picks for all conferences
ECAC
Hockey East
NAME
TOTAL
NAME
TOTAL
Tony
Buffa
31 Nathan
Hampton 31
Sean
Keller
29 Charlie
Shub
29
Nathan Hampton
28 Jim
Dixon
27
Charlie
Shub
28 William
Sangrey 26
John
Edwards
28 Mark
Lewin
25
Scott
Kaplan
27 Tony
Buffa
25
Jim
Dixon
21 Scott
Kaplan
24
William Sangrey
21 Sean
Keller
24
Bill
Fenwick
20 John
Edwards
22
Mark
Lewin
19 Andy
Weise
21
Andy
Weise
18 Bill
Fenwick
18
Craig Knowles
16
USCHO
29
Higher
Seed
20
USCHO
24
Higher
Seed
23
WCHA
NCHC
NAME
TOTAL
NAME
TOTAL
John
Edwards
30 Scott
Kaplan
50
Sean
Keller
23 Bill
Fenwick
43
Bill
Fenwick
22 Nathan
Hampton 42
William Sangrey
20 Sean
Keller
41
Charlie
Shub
19 Mark
Lewin
38
Jim
Dixon
18 Charlie
Shub
33
Mark
Lewin
15 Tony
Buffa
26
Tony
Buffa
14 William
Sangrey 25
Scott
Kaplan
14 Jim
Dixon
19
Andy
Weise
14 Andy
Weise
18
Nathan Hampton
11
USCHO
21
USCHO
20 Higher
Seed
30
Higher
Seed
18
Atlantic
Hockey
Big Ten
NAME
TOTAL
NAME
TOTAL
Charlie
Shub
38 William
Sangrey 43
Sean
Keller
26 Jim
Dixon
42
Mark
Lewin
22 Tony
Buffa
40
Bill
Fenwick
20 John
Edwards
40
Tony
Buffa
16 Nathan
Hampton 40
Nathan Hampton
15 Charlie
Shub
39
William Sangrey
14 Andy
Weise
32
Scott
Kaplan
11 Mark
Lewin
31
Jim
Dixon
11 Bill
Fenwick
27
Andy
Weise
11 Sean
Keller
15
John
Edwards
7 Scott
Kaplan
15
USCHO
46
USCHO
40
Higher
Seed
14 Higher
Seed
44
Bill Fenwick
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