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...
Tony Buffa
whose total of 170 points struck a blow for humanity, besting the CHODR
picks by one. Many congratulations to Tony for his amazing luck, I mean,
prognosticating skills, and great knowledge of luck, I mean, collegiate
hockey -- well, OK, you know what I mean :-) :-)
As for the individual conference winners...
The ECAC race saw CHODR and Nathan Hampton tie for first place with 33
points each. CHODR's perfect pick of the championship game score was
good enough to take the crown.
Hockey East went to Andy Weise with 20 points.
Nathan Hampton won the race in the WCHA with 47 points.
William Sangrey's 43 points were good for first place in the NCHC.
The Atlantic Hockey crown was won by Jim Dixon with 38 points.
The Big Ten went to Sean Keller with 28 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 3-2) to be 5-2,
you would get two points; if you picked 4-0, you would get three points;
and if you picked 6-1, you would get four 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.
As far as tiebreakers that were actually needed:
For the ECAC, the championship game score was 3-2.
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
Tony Buffa 170
CHODR 169
Nathan Hampton 167
Andy Weise 157
Bill Fenwick 148
Sean Keller 146
Jim Dixon 143
William Sangrey 141
Mark Lewin 136
Scott Kaplan 126
Bill Groskreutz 116
Charlie Shub 113
USCHO 168
Higher Seed 155
ECAC Tiebreaker 1 Hockey East
NAME TOTAL Score Pts NAME TOTAL
CHODR 33 3-2 0 Andy Weise 20
Nathan Hampton 33 5-2 2 Nathan Hampton 16
Sean Keller 32 William Sangrey 15
Tony Buffa 29 Sean Keller 15
Bill Fenwick 28 Mark Lewin 12
Andy Weise 28 Charlie Shub 12
William Sangrey 28 Tony Buffa 12
Charlie Shub 27 Bill Fenwick 11
Mark Lewin 26 Jim Dixon 11
Bill Groskreutz 24 CHODR 8
Jim Dixon 24 Bill Groskreutz 7
Scott Kaplan 24 Scott Kaplan 3
USCHO 54 USCHO 7
Higher Seed 26 Higher Seed 8
WCHA NCHC
NAME TOTAL NAME TOTAL
Nathan Hampton 47 William Sangrey 43
CHODR 45 Mark Lewin 42
Tony Buffa 45 Tony Buffa 40
Bill Fenwick 41 Bill Fenwick 36
Scott Kaplan 39 Charlie Shub 35
Jim Dixon 35 Scott Kaplan 32
Andy Weise 35 Nathan Hampton 31
Sean Keller 32 CHODR 31
Mark Lewin 32 Andy Weise 31
Bill Groskreutz 31 Sean Keller 24
William Sangrey 18 Bill Groskreutz 24
Charlie Shub 12 Jim Dixon 15
USCHO 29 USCHO 27
Higher Seed 40 Higher Seed 28
Atlantic Hockey Big Ten
NAME TOTAL NAME TOTAL
Jim Dixon 38 Sean Keller 28
Tony Buffa 37 Jim Dixon 20
Andy Weise 36 CHODR 18
CHODR 34 Nathan Hampton 18
William Sangrey 23 Bill Fenwick 18
Nathan Hampton 22 William Sangrey 18
Scott Kaplan 21 Bill Groskreutz 10
Charlie Shub 20 Mark Lewin 10
Bill Groskreutz 20 Andy Weise 7
Sean Keller 15 Scott Kaplan 7
Bill Fenwick 14 Charlie Shub 7
Mark Lewin 14 Tony Buffa 7
USCHO 27 USCHO 24
Higher Seed 34 Higher Seed 19
Bill Fenwick
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