HF Playoff Pick'Em Challenge (Congrats SensNation613!)

[Canada4Gold]

Preds in 6

 

[Itkonen]

I'm second to last out of everyone who has participated in all rounds I'm not quitting though! Maybe I can make it to dead last!

 

[olli]

Preds in 7.

 

[Eric Sachs]

Picks are closed! Good luck in the finals all!

Only 50 submissions for the SCF:
54% picked the Penguins.

56% predicted a 6 game series.
No-one predicted a sweep.

 

[Eric Sachs]

Potentially all over tonight!

We had 338 unique usernames submitted across all the rounds. No-one had a perfect bracket in the first three rounds and the competition was fairly close.

104 point max.

If Pittsburgh wins tonight, SensNation613 will have won the overall competition with 70 points thanks to his Penguins in 6 SCF pick.

Yeah15 wins with 68 points if Penguins win in 7.
Kevin8se7en wins with 65 points if Predators win in 7.

No tiebreakers will be needed but I will post those results when I have time as well.

Thanks to all for participating!

 

[Eric Sachs]

SCF pick breakdown:

50 total picks.

27 picked the Penguins (54%)
23 picked the Predators (46%)

0 picked 4 games.
8 picked 5 games (16%)
28 picked 6 games (56%)
14 picked 7 games (28%)

5 picked Penguins in 5 games (10%)
3 picked Predators in 5 games (6%)
14 picked Penguins in 6 games (28%)
14 picked Predators in 6 games (28%)
8 picked Penguins in 7 games (16%)
6 picked Predators in 7 games (12%)

 

[Eric Sachs]

Congrats SensNation613!

Final leaderboard: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...uulKWLjdzjbFiclTSBy0cY5AWw/edit#gid=457335021

 

[Eric Sachs]

Users who picked the Penguins in 6:
Bumpus
davethehammer
deathtouchtrample
flaneur
Itkonen
Jeff647
Johnny Tomala
Mike Farkas
Moncherry
OttawaKing
Patmac40
Sensnation613
Shoalzie
StaalForOne

Users who picked Hornqvist for the GWG:
tony d
Mike Farkas

Users who picked the correct amount of goals in the SCF (32):
Canucks5551
Senators101
OilerPensfan97
davethehammer

 

[SensNation613]

Congrats SensNation613!

Final leaderboard: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...uulKWLjdzjbFiclTSBy0cY5AWw/edit#gid=457335021

Thanks so much for setting this up! I should have probably put some money down on my picks but I'll know next year!

 

[Eric Sachs]

Thanks so much for setting this up! I should have probably put some money down on my picks but I'll know next year!

You had all of these series picked perfect:
1st round (Sens in 6, Pens in 5)
2nd round (Preds in 6, Ducks in 7)
Conference Finals (Preds in 6)
SCF (Pens in 6)

11 of 15 series winners picked right. Though you did pick the Sens in the CF

 

[davethehammer]

well, I made it to number 43 with 42 points.

out 200 guys that forgot to play for a couple weeks

 

[Michael Farkas]

Thanks for this, E.S., great job administrating this thing!

 

[Muh]

You doing prizes for 11th place?

Good work though, I enjoyed this.

 

[SensNation613]

You had all of these series picked perfect:
1st round (Sens in 6, Pens in 5)
2nd round (Preds in 6, Ducks in 7)
Conference Finals (Preds in 6)
SCF (Pens in 6)

11 of 15 series winners picked right. Though you did pick the Sens in the CF

I'm optimistic haha

 

[dethszn]

Had fun, looking forward to next years

 

[Bumpus]

18th place ... Not too shabby.

Thanks for organizing this Eric! It was fun.

 

[flaneur]

Woah. I came in third? Not too bad

Thanks for organizing this Eric.

 

[Eric Sachs]

Had fun, looking forward to next years

Heh, the nice thing is that it doesn't require much effort now that the spreadsheet is all built.

I do wonder if next year we should just do the entire bracket in one go or round-by-round like this one was.

 

[StaalForOne]

cool, came in 4th.

Thanks for doing all the work. Hope to see it back next year.

 

[Eric Sachs]

cool, came in 4th.

Thanks for doing all the work. Hope to see it back next year.

If I remember (or someone PMs me to remind me), I'll absolutely do it again. Like I said, it's all set up already so I would just have to hit a button and paste the link.

 

[Muh]

Heh, the nice thing is that it doesn't require much effort now that the spreadsheet is all built.

I do wonder if next year we should just do the entire bracket in one go or round-by-round like this one was.

I vote both.

But if i had to choose, round by round. I enjoyed this one.

 

[Eric Sachs]

I vote both.

But if i had to choose, round by round. I enjoyed this one.

I was thinking of a "let it ride" concept. You pick the entire bracket before the playoffs begin and then are give the opportunity everyone to change your picks. If you keep your picks and let it ride, you get double points that round. Means you can change picks if teams are eliminated and adds a nice dynamic. Not sure I would include number of games there though.. maybe you can just pick that every round.

 

[StaalForOne]

I like that idea. Rewards people from having it right from the beginning, but also keeps everyone else interested and in the mix.

 

[davethehammer]

where's the new one!?