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Yet Another Super Bowl Prediction

When it comes to Super Bowl sports betting how do you know who to choose? Are you going to go with the Steelers just because bookmakers have picked them as the favorites? Or are you going to go with your gut feeling and pick the team that you really believe are going to prevail? One man claims he has the answer for the winner of Super Bowl XL, and it is all based on logic. Forget about the odds makers and pick the Seattle Seahawks. The Seahawks should defeat the Pittsburgh Steelers in Super Bowl XL. So predicts the creator of the Mental Performance Index, Dr. John F. Murray, who works with NFL players and has used the index throughout the last four NFL seasons to quantify the degree to which a team performs to perfection.

Seattle scored better than Pittsburgh in the playoffs, and held their opponents to a much lower MPI score than Pittsburgh. In addition, the Seahawks were absolutely remarkable on defense, where they posted a .598 to .505 advantage over Pittsburgh. They also held a slight advantage on offense, .551 to .535, and total pressure, .624 to .564. However, the Steelers scored slightly higher in offensive pressure situations, .633 to .616, and were better in special teams play, .584 to .531.

Taken together, it appears that Pittsburgh is going to have to play almost flawless football to win this game, and they must win the battle of turnovers. Seattle has performed much better overall. The 44-year-old PhD. licensed sport/performance psychologist in Palm Beach assigns points on each play for "focused execution," and "pressure management" and game totals range from .000 to 1.000 (perfection). "Scoring at .600 is excellent," said Murray. "But to a sport psychologist, no team ever reaches perfection." Seattle`s .566 is almost as good as it gets.