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
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Bill Fenwick DJF 5/27/94
Cornell '86 and '95 JCF 12/2/97
LET'S GO RED!!