With the first weekend of the NCHC playoffs in the books, and with the ECAC, Hockey East, WCHA, Atlantic Hockey, and Big Ten playoffs continuing, here's another 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 get picked as sweeps. The current overall leader in the Pick the Tourneys Contest #1 is, by some quirk of fate, myself, with 118 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 (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 consolation winner (NCHC only), and 16 points for picking the championship game winner. Overall NAME TOTAL Bill Fenwick 118 William Sangrey 113 Charlie Shub 110 Tony Buffa 108 Jim Dixon 106 Nathan Hampton 103 * John Edwards 103 Mark Lewin 102 Sean Keller 102 Andy Weise 90 Scott Kaplan 89 * Craig Knowles 16 USCHO 124 Higher Seed 117 * Did not submit picks for all conferences ECAC Hockey East NAME TOTAL NAME TOTAL Tony Buffa 23 Nathan Hampton 23 William Sangrey 21 John Edwards 22 Jim Dixon 21 Charlie Shub 21 Sean Keller 21 Andy Weise 21 Bill Fenwick 20 Jim Dixon 19 Charlie Shub 20 William Sangrey 18 Nathan Hampton 20 Bill Fenwick 18 John Edwards 20 Tony Buffa 17 Mark Lewin 19 Mark Lewin 17 Scott Kaplan 19 Sean Keller 16 Andy Weise 18 Scott Kaplan 16 Craig Knowles 16 USCHO 21 Higher Seed 20 USCHO 24 Higher Seed 23 WCHA NCHC NAME TOTAL NAME TOTAL John Edwards 30 Mark Lewin 14 Sean Keller 23 Tony Buffa 14 Bill Fenwick 22 Scott Kaplan 14 William Sangrey 20 William Sangrey 13 Charlie Shub 19 Charlie Shub 13 Jim Dixon 18 Bill Fenwick 11 Mark Lewin 15 Jim Dixon 11 Andy Weise 14 Andy Weise 10 Tony Buffa 14 Nathan Hampton 10 Scott Kaplan 14 Sean Keller 9 Nathan Hampton 11 USCHO 13 USCHO 20 Higher Seed 14 Higher Seed 18 Atlantic Hockey Big Ten NAME TOTAL NAME TOTAL Mark Lewin 22 Bill Fenwick 27 Bill Fenwick 20 William Sangrey 27 Sean Keller 18 Jim Dixon 26 Tony Buffa 16 Tony Buffa 24 Nathan Hampton 15 Nathan Hampton 24 William Sangrey 14 John Edwards 24 Charlie Shub 14 Charlie Shub 23 Scott Kaplan 11 Andy Weise 16 Jim Dixon 11 Mark Lewin 15 Andy Weise 11 Sean Keller 15 John Edwards 7 Scott Kaplan 15 USCHO 22 USCHO 24 Higher Seed 14 Higher Seed 28 Bill Fenwick [log in to unmask]