Posted by ESPN.com's Mike Sando
We calculated power rankings by averaging the rankings of each voter. This produced a couple of ties, which editors broke. The chart below shows how each voter ranked each team, and how the numbers averaged out. John Clayton, Matt Mosley, Jeremy Green, Keith Kidd, James Walker, Bill Williamson, Pat Yasinskas and I submitted votes.
I've shaded the highest rankings for each team in red. The lowest rankings for each team are shaded in yellow. The shading makes it easier to see which voters were highest and lowest on each team. As noted, Baltimore generated the widest disparity.
I've put the rankings into an Excel spreadsheet that also shows how each voter ranked teams on a division-by-division basis.
We can then see that James Walker ranked NFC East teams higher than any other voter, at about No. 7 overall on average (all four teams between third and 11th overall).
We see that I ranked NFC West teams higher than any voter, largely because I ranked the Rams seven spots higher than any other voter, at No. 19.
We see that Pat Yasinskas ranked NFC South teams higher, on average, than any other voter, largely because he ranked the Saints sixth.
We see that Yasinskas and John Clayton ranked AFC North teams lower than the other voters, presumably because those teams play some rugged schedules.
Note: Six teams tied for three spots when rankings were averaged. Editors broke the ties. The official rankings made the Jaguars fifth and the Giants sixth; the Packers 10th and the Saints 11th; and the Bengals 24th and the Bears 25th.
