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
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