With the first weekend of the ECAC, WCHA, 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 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, along with the WCHA semis, get picked as sweeps. Note: CHODR is the College Hockey Offensive/Defensive Ratings, provided by Robin Lock. More information on CHODR is available at http://it.stlawu.edu/~chodr/ There is currently a tie for the overall lead in the Pick the Tourneys Contest #1, between Nathan Hampton and CHODR with 46 points each. 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 conso- lation winner, and 16 points for picking the championship game winner. Overall NAME TOTAL Nathan Hampton 46 CHODR 46 Jim Dixon 42 William Sangrey 39 Bill Fenwick 38 Charlie Shub 38 Tony Buffa 38 Scott Kaplan 35 Bill Groskreutz 33 Mark Lewin 31 Andy Weise 30 Sean Keller 29 USCHO 37 Higher Seed 49 ECAC WCHA NAME TOTAL NAME TOTAL William Sangrey 14 Nathan Hampton 16 CHODR 14 CHODR 15 Sean Keller 14 Scott Kaplan 15 Nathan Hampton 13 Tony Buffa 14 Jim Dixon 12 Charlie Shub 12 Tony Buffa 11 William Sangrey 11 Bill Fenwick 10 Jim Dixon 11 Charlie Shub 10 Andy Weise 11 Scott Kaplan 10 Bill Fenwick 10 Bill Groskreutz 10 Sean Keller 8 Mark Lewin 10 Mark Lewin 8 Andy Weise 9 Bill Groskreutz 7 USCHO 11 USCHO 14 Higher Seed 15 Higher Seed 16 Atlantic Hockey Big Ten NAME TOTAL NAME TOTAL Charlie Shub 9 Jim Dixon 12 William Sangrey 8 Bill Fenwick 10 Bill Fenwick 8 Nathan Hampton 10 Nathan Hampton 7 CHODR 10 CHODR 7 Bill Groskreutz 10 Jim Dixon 7 Mark Lewin 10 Tony Buffa 6 Charlie Shub 7 Bill Groskreutz 6 Tony Buffa 7 Scott Kaplan 3 Scott Kaplan 7 Andy Weise 3 Andy Weise 7 Sean Keller 3 William Sangrey 6 Mark Lewin 3 Sean Keller 4 USCHO 4 USCHO 8 Higher Seed 7 Higher Seed 11 Bill Fenwick [log in to unmask]