With the conference post-season
tournaments over and the NCAA tournament
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...
Sean Keller
who lapped the field with a total of 249 points, 30 better than
runner-up
Andy Weise. Congratulations, Sean!
Scoring note: Minnesota State was the unanimous pick to win the
CCHA
championship. I know the Mavericks had to win that game twice, but
no, I'm
not giving out double points ( 1/2 :-) )
As for the individual conference winners...
The ECAC was won by Sean Keller with 62 points.
Hockey East ended in a tie between Sean Keller and Andy Weise, with 42
points
each. Sean took the crown on the first tiebreaker.
Andy Weise took the top spot in the CCHA with a perfect 48
points.
The NCHC saw a three-way tie among Scott Kaplan, Mark Lewin, and Sean
Keller,
with 22 points each. The first tiebreaker, and the title, went to
Scott.
Atlantic Hockey went to Jim Dixon with 43 points.
Andy Weise won the Big Ten with 44 points.
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 Hockey East, the championship game score was 2-1.
For the NCHC, the championship game score was 3-0.
Only a couple of USCHO prognosticators submitted tournament picks this
year,
and neither picked the entire tournament. Their 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.
OVERALL
NAME
TOTAL
Sean
Keller
249
Andy
Weise
219
Jim
Dixon
188
Scott
Kaplan
168
Mark
Lewin
166
Tony
Buffa
162
William Sangrey 146
Bill
Fenwick
124
*
USCHO
46
Higher
Seed
167
* Did not submit picks for all conferences
ECAC
Hockey
East
Tiebreaker 1
NAME
TOTAL
NAME
TOTAL Score Pts
Sean
Keller
62 Sean
Keller
42 4-2 3
Jim
Dixon
45 Andy
Weise
42 5-4 6
Scott
Kaplan
37 Tony
Buffa
26
Andy
Weise
31 Jim
Dixon
23
Mark
Lewin
31 William
Sangrey 20
Bill
Fenwick
29 Scott
Kaplan
18
Tony
Buffa
26 Mark
Lewin
15
William Sangrey
24 Bill
Fenwick
12
USCHO
30 Higher
Seed
29
Higher
Seed
33
CCHA
NCHC
Tiebreaker 1
NAME
TOTAL
NAME
TOTAL Score Pts
Andy
Weise
48 Scott
Kaplan
22 3-2 2
Sean
Keller
43 Mark
Lewin
22 4-2 3
Tony
Buffa
40 Sean
Keller
22 4-3 4
Jim
Dixon
36 Andy
Weise
19
Mark
Lewin
36 Jim
Dixon
15
William Sangrey
36 Bill
Fenwick
14
Scott
Kaplan
35 William
Sangrey 11
Bill
Fenwick
32 Tony
Buffa
11
Higher
Seed
35 Higher
Seed
12
Atlantic
Hockey
Big Ten
NAME
TOTAL
NAME
TOTAL
Jim
Dixon
43 Andy
Weise
44
Scott
Kaplan
41 Sean
Keller
43
Sean
Keller
37 Mark
Lewin
39
William Sangrey
36 Jim
Dixon
26
Tony
Buffa
36 Tony
Buffa
23
Andy
Weise
35 William
Sangrey 19
Mark
Lewin
23 Scott
Kaplan
15
Bill
Fenwick
22 Bill
Fenwick
15
Higher
Seed
35
USCHO
16
Higher
Seed
23
--
Bill
Fenwick
DJF 5/27/94
Cornell '86 and
'95
JCF 12/2/97
LET'S GO RED!!