Thanks Bill for your efforts. I will take a top placing in the WCHA and a 3 point escape from last as a success. On Sun, Mar 21, 2021, 2:59 PM Bill Fenwick <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > With the conference post-season tournaments over and the NCAA tournament > (hopefully?) 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... > > Nathan Hampton > > who successfully defended his crown with a total of 140 points, four better > than runners-up Tony Buffa and Scott Kaplan. Congratulations again, > Nathan! Although it's a bit intriguing to note that, even with several > tourney upsets, simply picking the higher seed in each game/series would > have won this year's contest. > > As for the individual conference winners... > > The ECAC "race" ended in a five-way tie among Sean Keller, Nathan Hampton, > John Edwards, Tony Buffa, and Richard Vehlow, with 8 points each. Sean > took the tiebreaker as his predicted score was only one point off the > actual result. > > William Sangrey took the top spot in Hockey East with 36 points. > > The WCHA crown went to Jim Dixon with 18 points. > > Tony Buffa's 44 points topped the NCHC. > > Atlantic Hockey was won by Nathan Hampton with 41 points. > > The Big Ten came down to a three-way tie among Scott Kaplan, Nathan > Hampton, and Tony Buffa, with 38 points each. Scott took the crown on the > first tie-breaker. > > 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. > > For the Big Ten, the championship game score was 6-4. > > 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 > Nathan Hampton 140 > Tony Buffa 136 > Sean Keller 136 > Scott Kaplan 127 > William Sangrey 120 > Jim Dixon 103 > Bill Fenwick 100 > Mark Lewin 100 > * John Edwards 76 > * Richard Vehlow 8 > > USCHO 141 > Higher Seed 142 > > * Did not submit picks for all conferences > > ECAC Tiebreaker 1 Hockey East > NAME TOTAL Score Pts NAME TOTAL > Sean Keller 8 4-2 1 William Sangrey 36 > Nathan Hampton 8 4-3 2 John Edwards 33 > John Edwards 8 3-0 2 Sean Keller 33 > Tony Buffa 8 5-3 3 Scott Kaplan 23 > Richard Vehlow 8 5 Tony Buffa 20 > Scott Kaplan 0 Bill Fenwick 12 > Jim Dixon 0 Jim Dixon 12 > William Sangrey 0 Mark Lewin 12 > Bill Fenwick 0 Nathan Hampton 9 > Mark Lewin 0 > USCHO 17 > USCHO 8 Higher Seed 9 > Higher Seed 8 > > WCHA NCHC > NAME TOTAL NAME TOTAL > Jim Dixon 18 Tony Buffa 44 > Bill Fenwick 12 William Sangrey 36 > Mark Lewin 12 Sean Keller 36 > Nathan Hampton 11 Nathan Hampton 33 > Scott Kaplan 11 Scott Kaplan 33 > William Sangrey 10 Mark Lewin 33 > Sean Keller 8 Jim Dixon 30 > Tony Buffa 8 Bill Fenwick 30 > > USCHO 20 USCHO 36 > Higher Seed 20 Higher Seed 41 > > Atlantic Hockey Big Ten Tiebreaker 1 > NAME TOTAL NAME TOTAL Score Pts > Nathan Hampton 41 Scott Kaplan 38 4-2 4 > John Edwards 35 Nathan Hampton 38 3-2 5 > Mark Lewin 34 Tony Buffa 38 2-1 7 > Sean Keller 34 Bill Fenwick 22 > Bill Fenwick 24 Jim Dixon 22 > Scott Kaplan 22 William Sangrey 17 > William Sangrey 21 Sean Keller 17 > Jim Dixon 21 Mark Lewin 9 > Tony Buffa 8 > USCHO 38 > USCHO 22 Higher Seed 22 > Higher Seed 42 > > -- > Bill Fenwick DJF 5/27/94 > Cornell '86 and '95 JCF 12/2/97 > LET'S GO RED!! >