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.

The current overall lead in the Pick the Tourneys Contest #1 is held by
Nathan Hampton with 46 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 conso-
lation winner, and 16 points for picking the championship game winner.


Overall
NAME                   TOTAL
Nathan Hampton          46
Scott Kaplan            41
John Edwards            41
William Sangrey         39
Tony Buffa              39
Andy Weise              39
Mark Lewin              36
Bill Fenwick            35
Sean Keller             30
Jim Dixon               29

USCHO                   32
Higher Seed             40

ECAC                            WCHA
NAME                   TOTAL    NAME                   TOTAL
Andy Weise              12      Bill Fenwick            14
Nathan Hampton          11      Andy Weise              13
Tony Buffa              11      Nathan Hampton          13
Scott Kaplan            11      Tony Buffa              11
John Edwards            11      Scott Kaplan            11
William Sangrey         10      John Edwards            10
Mark Lewin               8      Mark Lewin              10
Sean Keller              8      Sean Keller             10
Jim Dixon                8      William Sangrey          7
Bill Fenwick             6      Jim Dixon                7

USCHO                    7      USCHO                    7
Higher Seed             11      Higher Seed              7

Atlantic Hockey                 Big Ten
NAME                   TOTAL    NAME                   TOTAL
Mark Lewin              12      Nathan Hampton          12
William Sangrey         11      William Sangrey         11
Nathan Hampton          10      John Edwards            10
Scott Kaplan            10      Scott Kaplan             9
John Edwards            10      Jim Dixon                8
Tony Buffa              10      Tony Buffa               7
Bill Fenwick             8      Bill Fenwick             7
Andy Weise               7      Andy Weise               7
Sean Keller              6      Mark Lewin               6
Jim Dixon                6      Sean Keller              6

USCHO                   11      USCHO                    7
Higher Seed             11      Higher Seed             11

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