Plenty of prognostications to be had around things like Super Bowls. SBLI is no exception, and for this long-time observer, the pick isn't really that difficult.
New England Patriots. More on the score later.
Nothing overly scientific here; too many hyper-analyses just become so much stat-spinning, and as often as not, the games are decided by someone or some play that didn't factor in the figurings (Malcolm Butler, David Tyree, that kind of thing).
No, the Patriots win in part because they are NOT the NFL's highest-scoring team. The Atlanta Falcons are, and an interesting piece of fact-checking by ESPN notes that of the other top nine scoring teams in NFL history, only one – the 1999 "Greatest Show on Turf" St.