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, there was a tie between Andy Weise and Tony Buffa with 190 points each. The tiebreaker is most individual conference contests won, and as Andy won two of them and Tony won one, this year's overall winner is... Andy Weise Congratulations, Andy! And congratulations to Tony as well for putting up a good fight. Oddly enough, even with the upsets in this year's tournaments, picking the higher seed each time would have wound up with a contest-winning 191 points. As for the individual conference winners... William Sangrey and Sean Keller tied for the top spot in the ECAC with 38 points each. William won the crown on the first tiebreaker, as his predicted championship game score was two points closer to the result than Sean's was. I managed to take Hockey East with 50 points. The CCHA also went to me with 47 points. Tony Buffa won the NCHC race with 40 points. Andy Weise's 47 points were good for the top spot in Atlantic Hockey. The Big Ten saw a four-way tie among Andy Weise, Jim Dixon, Mark Lewin, and Steve Roth, who each had 31 points. The championship-score tiebreaker went to Andy. 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 3-1) to be 5-1, you would get two points; if you picked 5-2, you would get three points; and if you picked 6-3, you would get five 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 3-1. For the Big Ten, the championship game score was 5-4. Also included below 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 Andy Weise 190 Tony Buffa 190 Sean Keller 182 Steve Roth 182 William Krebs 167 Bill Fenwick 165 William Sangrey 152 Mark Lewin 150 * Jim Dixon 124 Higher Seed 191 * Did not submit picks for all conferences ECAC Tiebreaker 1 Hockey East NAME TOTAL Score Pts NAME TOTAL William Sangrey 38 3-2 1 Bill Fenwick 50 Sean Keller 38 4-3 3 Steve Roth 47 Andy Weise 36 William Krebs 47 Jim Dixon 25 Andy Weise 45 Tony Buffa 24 Sean Keller 45 William Krebs 24 William Sangrey 37 Steve Roth 22 Mark Lewin 31 Mark Lewin 22 Tony Buffa 26 Bill Fenwick 17 Higher Seed 50 Higher Seed 29 CCHA NCHC NAME TOTAL NAME TOTAL Bill Fenwick 47 Tony Buffa 40 Jim Dixon 43 Sean Keller 35 William Krebs 30 Steve Roth 23 Tony Buffa 27 William Krebs 20 Sean Keller 26 Mark Lewin 20 Steve Roth 19 Andy Weise 15 Mark Lewin 19 William Sangrey 10 William Sangrey 18 Bill Fenwick 8 Andy Weise 16 Higher Seed 19 Higher Seed 20 Atlantic Hockey Big Ten Tiebreaker 1 NAME TOTAL NAME TOTAL Score Pts Andy Weise 47 Andy Weise 31 4-3 2 Tony Buffa 43 Jim Dixon 31 3-2 4 Steve Roth 40 Mark Lewin 31 3-2 4 William Krebs 39 Steve Roth 31 3-2 4 William Sangrey 38 Tony Buffa 30 Bill Fenwick 27 Bill Fenwick 16 Mark Lewin 27 Sean Keller 12 Sean Keller 26 William Sangrey 11 Jim Dixon 25 William Krebs 7 Higher Seed 41 Higher Seed 32 -- Bill Fenwick AJF 5/27/94 Cornell '86 and '95 JCF 12/2/97 LET'S GO RED!!