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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