With the first week/weekend of the
Hockey East, WCHA, NCHC, 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, the quarterfinal series for the
WCHA and
Atlantic Hockey get picked as sweeps.
The current overall lead in the Pick the Tourneys Contest #1 is held
by
William Sangrey with 56 points.
Scoring reminder: Three points are awarded for each correctly
predicted
winner in the first round and quarterfinals. In the case of the WCHA
and
Atlantic Hockey, an additional bonus point was given for correctly
forecasting the number of games (2 or 3) a series would go.
Scoring for the rest of the contest is as follows: 8 points for
correctly
picking semifinal winners, and 16 points for picking the championship
game
winner.
One other scoring note: In Atlantic Hockey, Holy Cross had to forfeit
its
first-round game against Sacred Heart, and Bentley had to forfeit
its
quarterfinal series against AIC. Thus, Sacred Heart was credited with
a
first-round win, and AIC was credited with a quarterfinal sweep.
Overall
NAME
TOTAL
William Sangrey 56
Scott
Kaplan
55
Bill
Fenwick
52
Mark
Lewin
52
Nathan Hampton
52
Sean
Keller
48
Tony
Buffa
48
Jim
Dixon
47
* John Edwards
20
USCHO
53
Higher
Seed
54
* Did not submit picks for all conferences
Hockey
East
WCHA
NAME
TOTAL
NAME
TOTAL
Scott
Kaplan
15 Bill
Fenwick
12
William Sangrey
12 Mark
Lewin
12
Bill
Fenwick
12 Scott
Kaplan
11
Mark
Lewin
12 Nathan
Hampton 11
Tony
Buffa
12 William
Sangrey 10
Jim
Dixon
12 Jim
Dixon
10
Nathan
Hampton
9 Tony
Buffa
8
Sean
Keller
9 Sean
Keller
8
John
Edwards
9
USCHO
12
USCHO
9 Higher
Seed
12
Higher
Seed
9
NCHC
Atlantic Hockey
NAME
TOTAL
NAME
TOTAL
William Sangrey
12 Nathan
Hampton 17
Tony
Buffa
12 Bill
Fenwick
16
Sean
Keller
12 Scott
Kaplan
14
Mark
Lewin
9 William
Sangrey 13
Scott
Kaplan
9 Jim
Dixon
13
Nathan
Hampton
9 John
Edwards
11
Bill
Fenwick
6 Tony
Buffa
10
Jim
Dixon
6 Sean
Keller
10
Mark
Lewin
10
USCHO
12
Higher
Seed
9
USCHO
14
Higher
Seed
18
Big Ten
NAME
TOTAL
William Sangrey
9
Sean
Keller
9
Mark
Lewin
9
Nathan
Hampton
6
Bill
Fenwick
6
Scott
Kaplan
6
Jim
Dixon
6
Tony
Buffa
6
USCHO
6
Higher
Seed
6
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Bill
Fenwick
DJF 5/27/94
Cornell '86 and
'95
JCF 12/2/97
LET'S GO RED!!