2016 NHL Bracket Challenge - Predicting the Playoffs

[Cecil Terwilliger]

Originally Posted by Bingo

Literally can not find a username that isn't taken. Is that a glitch?

Originally Posted by Canuck-Hater

Same here, I spent 10 minutes typing in usernames and gave up.

I still can't get it to work. No idea what the deal is.

[OffsideSpecialist]

Originally Posted by OutOfTheCube

I am making my bracket literally by flipping a coin. Higher seed is heads. Here we go.

And we have the Phiadelphia Flyers beating the Minnesota Wild ( ) in a hard fought six game series to win the cup!

I did that for one of my brackets but managed to get a very believable Ducks over Capitals lol.

[Aegypticus]

I was checking standings for the Sportsnet pool and saw that Hi-Psi is ranked 138th overall today out of well north of 50k entries. Pretty cool!

[OffsideSpecialist]

Naturally, I picked Mrazek and Lehtonen as my goaltenders

[trublmaker]

well the first series is done and my first loss of many. oy vey I suck at this

[Hi-Psi]

I'm ranked 31 out of 50,000+! Not bad lol (In the Sportsnet pool)

[Ashasx]

The guy in first place worldwide correctly predicted every series winner and length except for TB-DET, which he had going 7.

[Weitz]

Geez I did better then I thought. Picked underdogs hoping for excitement like every year but actually came through!

[Aegypticus]

Hi-Psi is currently tied for first overall in the Sportsnet pool, as in first place in the entire thing and if it ended today he'd possibly win like 50k.

[OffsideSpecialist]

I have the exact same D and G as Hi-Psi in this round, including our stars I'm pretty sure. obviously my forwards are killing me.

[Hi-Psi]

Yeah it's pretty crazy, I'm kicking myself for choosing Tavares as my forward star and for putting Crosby in... Somehow I need to try and stay in the top 10 through this round and the next round in order to stay in contention. The next round is going to be super stressful making my picks if I'm still in contention lol

[Hi-Psi]

Does anyone have suggestions for Round 3/4 of the Sportsnet pool? Is it best to just pick 2 teams that you think will be in the finals and build your team out of that or? I've never done a pool where you're stuck with the same team for both rounds

[flamesfan1297]

Well I had the Ducks and caps in the finals... And Blackhawks and Ducks in the Western semis. Oops

[Aegypticus]

Originally Posted by Hi-Psi

Does anyone have suggestions for Round 3/4 of the Sportsnet pool? Is it best to just pick 2 teams that you think will be in the finals and build your team out of that or? I've never done a pool where you're stuck with the same team for both rounds

I would say yes, that's how you should do it. There are no prizes for hedging. There is bound to be someone near the top that picks only guys from the finals teams... Hell, it's a 1/4 chance you get the correct teams by random chance.

[calgarygeologist]

My two Cup teams are still in the playoffs so I can possibly move up a bit more. I should get a few points for knowing that Washington would go out in the second round but I picked NYR to beat them instead of Pittsburgh.

[KevanGuy]

I'm doing alright in the NHL bracket, 1774th overall. Congrats to Hi-Psi on 1st place so far!

[3rd line Grinder]

that moment you check your bracket to discover you have only 3 series righ and can only get 30 points...

[Street Pharmacist]

I'm second but man Weitz got a lot right. Wow

[Hi-Psi]

Anyone setting up a CP pool again this year?

[normtwofinger]

Why the bump? Why not start a new thread?