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New: Ron Sellers on Radio with Dr.
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Why the MPI Now has 3 Super Bowl Rings!
Cincinnati Enquirer: Success is Much More than Talent!
Smart
Pro News
Issue 10
Mental
Performance
Index™
As highlighted in ESPN The Magazine (Dec.
2002), the Arizona Republic,
and the Sun Sentinel and endorsed by many
including Super Bowl Champion Ron Sellers, used by 12 Teams in
2004!
The MPI has been deadly accurate each of the Past Two Super Bowls,
and both predictions were contrary to public opinion, showing
the extreme value of including the mental game in any review of
actual performance!
Call: 561-596-9898
Click here for a sample of an MPI Report
for a football team
Click here for AUDIO on MPI, A Great Advantage to
team & to rate upcoming opponents!
All the MPI Stats from the
2003-2004 Playoffs and Super Bowl Below!
MPI accurately forecasts
an "extremely close game," but New England breaks a 29-29 tie
with 8 seconds left! See
all the MPI Playoff and Super Bowl stats
to find
out how the teams actually performed on every play.
 
Click
here to listen to
the 2004 MPI Super Bowl interview prediction on
Bloomberg Radio!
(Takes
approx. 120 seconds on a high speed modem)
Click
here
to listen to Dr. Murray's 2003 interview on
Bloomberg Radio before last year's Super Bowl.
Takes
approx. 90 seconds on a high speed modem)
See the Post-Super Bowl Release
Hi!
Dr. John Murray here. Congrats for finding just one of the many
tools I use to help football teams. While the MPI received national publicity last year,
accurately
forecasting Tampa Bay's upset blowout in the Super Bowl,
the real benefit of hiring a mental coach/sport psychologist is
to gain valuable insight into the team and player's mental skill level.
Mental training is the area most often neglected in sports
because there are only a handful of authentic sport
psychologists. Since every player
is unique, by understanding the player's mental makeup, and then
providing specific training, the player improves, the team improves, and winning is
easier!
Below are the Final Scores and
the MPI Scores for all games in the 2003-2004 Playoffs & Super
Bowl -
innovative and insightful!
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Final Scores with MPI
total scores in parentheses followed by "p" the pressure index
score
Note: MPI scores
represent actual performance and measure "focused execution" and
"pressure management" on every single play of a game. Index
scores range from .000 to 1.000 and represent percentage of
perfection in execution similar to a baseball batting average,
but for the team. The pressure index (newly developed this
year) shows how well the team performed in critical pressure
moments of the game
AFC Wildcard Games
Colts 41 (.553, p=.597)
Broncos 10 (.450, p=.431)
Titans 20 (.538, p=.620) Ravens 17 (.504, p=
.477)
NFC Wildcard Games
Panthers 29 (.555, p=.620) Cowboys
10 (.470, p= .450)
Packers 33 (.508, p=.438) Seahawks 27
(.481, p= .545)
AFC Divisional Playoffs
Patriots 17 (.489,
p=.464) Titans 14 (.472, p=.458)
Colts 38 (.511, p= .597) Chiefs 31
(.453, p= .383)
NFC Divisional Playoffs
Panthers 29 (.481, p=
.563) Rams 23 (.508, p=.447)
Eagles 20 (.556, p= .468) Packers 17
(.495, p= .549)
AFC Championship Game
Patriots 24
(.548, p=.500) Colts 14 (.487, p=
.508) NFC
Championship Game
Panthers 14 (.530, p= .500)
Eagles 3 (.479, p = .615) Super Bowl
Patriots 32 (.508,
p= .553)
Panthers 29 (.458,
p= .438)
New England
Carolina
Total = .508
Total
= .458
Offense =
.563
Offense = .534
Defense =
.444
Defense = .414
Special Teams =
.452
Special Teams = .458
Last Year's Summary - Super Bowl MPI Scores
MPI
scores from the 2003 Super
Bowl are below.
Oakland Tampa Bay
Total = .423
Total
= .563
Offense =
.389
Offense = .500
Defense =
.430
Defense = .607
Special Teams =
.481
Special Teams = .644
A precise
analysis of the Raiders and Bucs scores on the MPI in the
playoffs before the Super Bowl assisted Dr.
Murray in saying that the Bucs would likely win by a huge
margin.
What
is the MPI?
The
Murray Performance Index™ (MPI™) is just one tool that sport
psychologist Dr. John F Murray uses to quantify
observed team mental performance in a football game. It is like an index
of perfection, and the percentage scores indicate how close a
team came to a flawless performance in a game.
How is the MPI useful?
The
MPI provides a football team an accurate rating of how
they "performed" in every phase of a game (offense,
defense, special teams and overall) independent of the final
score, which often does not reflect actual performance and can
often be very misleading - causing players to either become
overconfident or unjustifiably negative after a game. It's just one of many ways
to get players and coaches to thinking of excellence in focus,
execution and pressure management.
Why is it needed?
Players
and coaches often minimize the extreme importance of mental
skills in football. The MPI quantifies this important factor.
Winning is the obvious goal of every game, but athletes
often dwell only on outcome. This often lead to inappropriate focus and
lower than optimal performance. Teams become overly excited or
discouraged after a game. The MPI shows them exactly how well they
performed and where they need to improve!
The
MPI is based on sport psychology principles, and provides the
coaches and team
a huge mental advantage over the upcoming opponent. Dr. Murray's
brief interpretive summary after each
game further explains how the team performed, what the
numbers mean, and what steps are needed to improve mentally in their
next game.
How
do the numbers relate?
Scores are like a batting average in baseball, ranging from .000
to 1.000. .500 is average. Teams set
goals to reach a certain score. Dr. Murray predicts that if a
team scores 70 or more on the total score, they will win the
game 99% of the time. Scoring
is based on set rules with some minor interpretive flexibility
based on Dr. Murray's professional judgment and experience.
How will the Murray Performance Index help my football
team?
The MPI is just one tool, but it clearly shows how your team
actually performed. By using the MPI, Dr. Murray can quantify your team's
pressure management skills and focus ability in crucial
moments of a game. This is a useful springboard to illustrate
how to improve these skills through
individual and group work.
Please
contact Dr. Murray by email at johnfmurray@mindspring.com
or by telephone in the United States at: (561) 596-9898 or (561) 805-8662 (fax).
Murray
Performance Index™ (MPI™) Copyright 2003-2004 by Dr. John F. Murray, All Rights Reserved
UPDATE YOUR BOOKMARK WITH
THIS NEW WEBSITE AT THE URL:
http://www.JohnFMurray.com
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