jimdahl Posted March 19, 2006 Posted March 19, 2006 Is back: NCAA Tournament pick'em Early users, please pay particular attention to making sure its working correctly, saving your picks correctly, and that the matchups are correct and let me know of any problems. Quote
morley Posted March 19, 2006 Posted March 19, 2006 It saved and loaded my picks. Interesting to see that the majority of people are only having one wcha team making the frozen four. And that of course being UND. Quote
Bird Dog Posted March 19, 2006 Posted March 19, 2006 Worked just great. Odd that NHU is getting so much interest. Makes me think a closet NHU rube is out their? Thanks for setting it up. Quote
UNHWildCats Posted March 19, 2006 Posted March 19, 2006 Worked just great. Odd that NHU is getting so much interest. Makes me think a closet NHU rube is out their? Thanks for setting it up. Its UNH not NHU any hoot i got this link from someone on the AGS site and i passed it to some UNH fan friends. Quote
jimdahl Posted March 19, 2006 Author Posted March 19, 2006 How does the scoring system work? I'll post it formally later this afternoon along with announcing PRIZES! But previous years there were two leaderboards: 1) Tournament scoring -- each round is worth twice as much as the previous (strongly rewards getting the Frozen Four / champ right) 2) Simple scoring -- one point per correct pick (more strongly rewards getting first round upsets) Picks can be modified through Friday, so if the scoring announcements change your strategy there will be plenty of time, I just wanted to get the bracket up and "exercised" ASAP as I sometimes mess up setting it up. Quote
Goon Posted March 19, 2006 Posted March 19, 2006 Just for FYI, On XM 204 (NHL XM radio channel) today Adam Wodon predicted UND to win the NCAA tourney. I am not sure if that is the kiss of death or not. Quote
Diggler Posted March 20, 2006 Posted March 20, 2006 I hope I win so I can get autographed picture of Toews. It's rare you know! Quote
redwing77 Posted March 20, 2006 Posted March 20, 2006 I hope I win so I can get autographed picture of Toews. It's rare you know! Forsaking The Oshie for Toews? Quote
farce poobah Posted March 20, 2006 Posted March 20, 2006 Just for FYI, On XM 204 (NHL XM radio channel) today Adam Wodon predicted UND to win the NCAA tourney. I am not sure if that is the kiss of death or not. Bob Norton on ESPN2 did also. Quote
redwing77 Posted March 20, 2006 Posted March 20, 2006 Bob Norton on ESPN2 did also. Two kisses of death. We're doomed. Quote
stafford_rules Posted March 20, 2006 Posted March 20, 2006 Two kisses of death. We're doomed. uh oh....... Quote
SiouxMeNow Posted March 20, 2006 Posted March 20, 2006 uh oh....... Norton did last year too and we made the Championship game - I'll take my chances You'd think he'd be a tool for the East (especially the Boston Schools) but he seems to look at it objectively...and likes UND Quote
bigmrg74 Posted March 20, 2006 Posted March 20, 2006 jees.... You guys are sandbagging!! Oh Jim, the Monster will take a XXL shirt, and 7.25 size hat. I'm guessing they'll be Kelly Green instead of Electric Blue?? Quote
sagard Posted March 20, 2006 Posted March 20, 2006 These are the Krach based odds of the teams making it to each round. Krach takes no consideration of home ice for the regional or how well the team is playing at a given moment. If recalculated after the 1st round games UW and UM wouldn't be such dramatic favorites, but the advantage of facing a weak 1st round opponent is large when compared to the rest of the field. Based on the way UND has played for the last month and the home ice regional, I think their chances are decent. But having a potential path of Michigan, Minnesota, BU/Miami, then UW is a tough road. If I were forced to bet a lot of my money, I'd take UW every time. They look to me to have a very easy road to the championship game with basically home crowd advantage and one team in the top six of KRACH in their path to the championship game. Quote
cavedurtis Posted March 20, 2006 Posted March 20, 2006 Norton did last year too and we made the Championship game - I'll take my chances You'd think he'd be a tool for the East (especially the Boston Schools) but he seems to look at it objectively...and likes UND Once again showing the media's bias towards UND. Quote
Goon Posted March 20, 2006 Posted March 20, 2006 Bob Norton on ESPN2 did also. Well he knows what UND can do as they dismantled a few of his HE teams in the past 10 years. Quote
siouxtatoo42 Posted March 20, 2006 Posted March 20, 2006 Well he knows what UND can do as they dismantled a few of his HE teams in the past 10 years. i'm sure he remembers the beanpot title the sioux won exactly one year ago Quote
Siouxdonyms Posted March 21, 2006 Posted March 21, 2006 Prizes! One of those prizes looks awfully familiar. Did AZSioux have something to do with prizes, or do you guys just have the same connections? Quote
jimdahl Posted March 21, 2006 Author Posted March 21, 2006 One of those prizes looks awfully familiar. Did AZSioux have something to do with prizes, or do you guys just have the same connections? From the above link: AZSIOUX has offered to give some Sioux-related prizes to the highest scorers. A long time ago (8 years or so now?) I gave away some prizes for the pick-the-WCHA contest, but haven't been organized enough since to plan in advance. Quote
Siouxdonyms Posted March 21, 2006 Posted March 21, 2006 From the above link: A long time ago (8 years or so now?) I gave away some prizes for the pick-the-WCHA contest, but haven't been organized enough since to plan in advance. You expect me to read that?? I saw the prizes, you know the important things! Quote
Goon Posted March 21, 2006 Posted March 21, 2006 i'm sure he remembers the beanpot title the sioux won exactly one year ago I refer to last years regional as Bean Pot II. Quote
jimdahl Posted March 24, 2006 Author Posted March 24, 2006 About a half hour before the first puck drops, picks are closed! The most interesting stat so far is that SiouxSports.com visitors picked 12 different teams from the field of 16 to win the tournament. No one picked #4 Holy Cross or #4 Bemidji State University to win it all. More surprisingly, no one picked #2 Harvard or #2 Miami, though #4 UNH and #4 UNO were picked! Further, note that 17% and 14% expected #2 Miami and #2 Harvard to reach the Frozen Four, respectively. Though the #4 seed received the fewest picks to escape its regional in each region, only Holy Cross received no picks to win its region. Despite the breadth of picks, there was not similar depth. Sioux fans are hopeful, with 70% of the 456 participants guessing UND to win it all (this is historically a modestly hopeful percentage, in contrast to about 50% last year or closer to 85% in 2003-04). Consensus picks Leaderboard / laugh at your friend's picks Quote
LTJ Posted March 24, 2006 Posted March 24, 2006 HERE IS TRUE PICKS: Minnesota 8 Holy Cross 2 Sioux 5 Michigan 3 -------------------------------- Sioux 5 Minnesota 4 OT ........and off to Joe Louis we go! Quote
NDFAN Posted March 24, 2006 Posted March 24, 2006 About a half hour before the first puck drops, picks are closed! The most interesting stat so far is that SiouxSports.com visitors picked 12 different teams from the field of 16 to win the tournament. No one picked #4 Holy Cross or #4 Bemidji State University to win it all. More surprisingly, no one picked #2 Harvard or #2 Miami, though #4 UNH and #4 UNO were picked! Further, note that 17% and 14% expected #2 Miami and #2 Harvard to reach the Frozen Four, respectively. Though the #4 seed received the fewest picks to escape its regional in each region, only Holy Cross received no picks to win its region. Despite the breadth of picks, there was not similar depth. Sioux fans are hopeful, with 70% of the 456 participants guessing UND to win it all (this is historically a modestly hopeful percentage, in contrast to about 50% last year or closer to 85% in 2003-04). Consensus picks Leaderboard / laugh at your friend's picks I didn't realized there were that many registured posters to this board. Quote
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