Pick-A-Pen Playoffs Rd1 Gm1: NY Rangers 13-APR-2016 8:00pm EDT

[dodint]

• Pick-A-Pen Playoffs Rd1 Gm1: NY Rangers 13-APR-2016 8:00pm EDT

Official Rules:

Pick a player and score points based on his points scored in that game. Accrue more points than anyone else over the course of the playoffs and you win. Players' points are weighted, so check the table and choose wisely. Point modifiers will be updated at least every round.

• Picks must be submitted by puck drop. Actual faceoff times are almost always eight minutes after scheduled game times. So a 7:00 game will usually have a 7:08 faceoff. The official NHL score sheet will list the game start time. A pick made at the same time as puck drop will count.
• Only players' last names will be counted (no nicknames)
• No conditional picks- Part of playing the game is knowing who is playing the game. If you want to change your pick, you can edit your original post up until puck drop. Any edits after faceoff will disqualify you for that game.
• Game Winning Goals - A game winning goal, whether scored during regulation or overtime, will earn one additional point (i.e. If Letang has a multiplier of 2 and scores the game winner, it's worth 3 points).

Playoff Rule Additions:

Playoff PAP is two competitions run concurrently. There is the standard points challenge, the winner of which takes the Conn Smythe Trophy for having the greatest post-season points production and thus becomes the Most Valuable Player. Additionally a playoff bracket will run where sixteen of the greatest PAPers of 2015-2016 will compete head to head on a per-game basis in a four round Stanley Cup tournament.
Trash talk is encouraged.

• You make one PAP selection per Penguins game. It will count towards the points contest and the bracket portion, if applicable.
• You will also make a one time prediction of the Pens Shots/60min over the course of the playoffs. This will serve as a tie-break for individual games in the bracket portion. You may only make this prediction once and it will be to the tenth of a point. Failure to make a prediction will result in a 0 recorded for your tie-break until you make a qualifying Shots/60 prediction.
• Round 1 will be a Best of Five series. Quarter/Semi/Final round length will be dictated by the duration of real world round length.
• If the Pens season completes before the bracket terminates, the remaining games will 'chalk out' with the player with the highest points total winning all future pairings.
• Your prize is glory, no tangible award is expressly offered or implied.

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Text Table:
01 Crosby, Letang, Malkin
02 Hornqvist, Kessel
03 Kunitz, Hagelin
04 Daley
05 Bonino, Bennett, Sheary
06 Cullen, Schultz, Dumoulin
07 Pouliot, Fehr
08 Kuhnhackl, Rust
09 Lovejoy, Sundqvist, Sestito
10 Cole, WBS Call-Up
15 Fleury S.O.
18 Murray S.O.
20 Zatkoff S.O.
30 Jarry S.O.

Round-of-16 Matchups:
Gaucho v. relantel
Morkle v. Orlando Penguin
dodint v. BigMck
Pavement v. pens_ct
mikey v. robbiestoupe
Silentom v. willeyeam
Willie Kool v. lilpgh2
MR25 v. count2infinity

5AF Final Regular Season Leaderboard:
1. @Gaucho 246
2. @mikey 191
3. @Willie Kool 185
4. @dodint 171
5. @Pavement 143
6. @MR25 142
6. @Silentom 142
8. @Morkle 134
9. @Orlando Penguin 119
10. @willeyeam 118
11. @count2infinity 105
12. @pens_ct 103
13. @BigMck 100
14. @offsides 98
15. @llipgh2 77
16. @robbiestoupe 72
17. @Gabe 69
18. @relantel 61
19. @Jofa Guy 60
20. @Lemon Berry Lobster 49
21. @Tico Rick 45
22. @BEPF 33
23. @PFiDC 32
24. @Factorial 28
25. @shafnutz05z 12
26. @beachboy76 10
27. @nocera 6
28. @bhaw 5
29. @NAN 2
30. @FLPensFan 1

Best of luck everyone, get your Rd1 Gm1 pick and your Shots/60 tiebreaker prediction submitted!

[dodint]

Cullen
33.7

[Silentom]

Fehr
35.2

[count2infinity]

COLE!

28

[dodint]

Never change. That 28 is brilliant, too.

[relantel]

bonino.

32.6

[Factorial]

Hagelin

35

[Willie Kool]

Bonino

31.1

[robbiestoupe]

Bonino

31.4

[MR25]

Bonino

35.4

[Gaucho]

Bonino

33.3

[willeyeam]

Bonino

32.2

[Pavement]

Hornqvist

32.4

[Morkle]

Bonino 22.7

[pens_ct]

Cullen
31.7

[offsides]

Cullen
30

BTW, how's come I'm not in the top 16?

[dodint]

Source of the post BTW, how's come I'm not in the top 16?

I counted back the last five games worth of people that participated and there were 17 players, I eliminated Great58 because they had zero points which gave us a bracket of 16 which worked really well. If you had participated in any of games 78-82 and I missed you, my sincerest apology.

[offsides]

Source of the post BTW, how's come I'm not in the top 16?

I counted back the last five games worth of people that participated and there were 17 players, I eliminated Great58 because they had zero points which gave us a bracket of 16 which worked really well. If you had participated in any of games 78-82 and I missed you, my sincerest apology.

No apology needed and I was basically just kidding. Only winning I care about is the Pens.

[llipgh2]

Daley

32.2

[Orlando Penguin]

Hagelin

34.1

[BigMck]

Hagelin

33.1

[mikey]

Cullen

32.3

[dodint]

Pens Scoring:
9 Kuhnhackl
8 Hornqvist
5 Bonino
5 Sheary
4 Daley
3 Crosby
2 Kessel
2 Letang

5AF Scoring:
8 Pavement
5 Gaucho
5 Morkle
5 MR25
5 relantel
5 robbiestoupe
5 willeyeam
5 Willie Kool
4 llipgh

5AF Leaderboard:
1. Pavement 8
2. Gaucho 5
3. Morkle 5
4. MR25 5
5. relantel 5
6. robbiestoupe 5
7. willeyeam 5
8. Willie Kool 5
9. llipgh 4
10. beachboy
11. bhaw
12. BigMck
13. BPFE
14. count2infinity
15. dodint
16. Factorial
17. FLPensFan
18. Gabe
19. Jofa Guy
20. Lemon Berry Lobster
21. mikey
22. NAN
23. nocera
24. offsides
25. Orlando Penguin
26. pens_ct
27. PFiDC
28. shafnutz
29. Silentom
30. Tico Rick


Bracket Matchup Winners:
Gaucho 33.3
relantel 32.6 X

Morkle 22.7 X
Orlando Penguin 34.1

dodint 33.7
BigMck 33.1 X

Pavement 32.4 X
pens_ct 31.7

mikey 32.3
robbiestoupe 31.4 X

Silentom - 35.2
willeyeam 32.2 X

Willie Kool 31.1 X
llipgh2 32.2

MR25 35.4 X
count2infinity - 28

Tiebreaker was 31 which allowed BigMck to eek out a win by .6 over me.
Congrats to @Pavement for winning the night.

[Pavement]

Wooooo!