Given the rather sudden end to the
college hockey season, I thought I
should recognize the winners of the abbreviated Pick the Post-season
Tournament Contest, so the final results for Contest #1 are below.
Not to kill the suspense or anything, but this is pretty much the
same
as last week's update. Anyway...
For Contest #1, in which the later rounds were weighted more than
the
earlier ones, the overall winner is...
Nathan Hampton
whose total of 46 was good for a five-point victory over Scott
Kaplan
and John Edwards. Congratulations, Nathan!
As for the individual conference winners...
Andy Weise won the top spot in the ECAC with 12 points.
The WCHA crown went to moi with 14 points.
Mark Lewin's 12 points were good for first place in Atlantic
Hockey.
Nathan Hampton won the Big Ten with 12 points.
The Hockey East and NCHC tournaments did not have any games
played.
Complete scoring results are below. Congratulations to all the
winners,
and thanks again to all those who participated.
Tiebreaker notes: As there were no championship games, the first
tie-
breaker (the difference between your predicted championship-game
score
and the actual score) was not used.
The second tiebreaker was the difference between your predicted total
of
goals scored in the entire tournament and the actual number. The
lower
the point total the better.
No tiebreakers were needed for Contest #1.
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. Not that it made a difference this
year,
but it should still be noted that the USCHO staff did not pick the
games
all at once, the way the rest of us did, which might have been an
advantage.
Please be safe, everybody. Take care of yourselves and each
other.
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
Bill Fenwick
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