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Posted by ESPN.com's Mike Sando

Got a problem with where your team landed in ESPN.com's power rankings for Week 11? The above chart shows how each voter ranked every team in the league. None of us can hide.

	Mike Sando NFC West blogger		Matt Williamson Scouts, Inc.		James Walker AFC North blogger
	Bill Williamson AFC West blogger		Jeff Chadiha senior writer		Pat Yasinskas NFC South blogger
	Tim Graham AFC East blogger		John Clayton senior writer		Kevin Seifert NFC North blogger
	Paul Kuharsky AFC South blogger		Jeremy Green Scouts Inc.		Matt Mosley NFC East blogger

Tiebreaker alert: We broke one tie this week. The Jaguars edged the Saints for 22nd in the rankings based on Week 10 results. Both teams have the same record, but the Jaguars won their most recent game.

Agree to disagree: The Eagles generated the widest gap between highest and lowest votes. Nine other teams also produced disparities of at least eight spots. We break them down, with the gap between highest and lowest votes listed parenthetically (and, yes, we name names):

• Eagles (16): Matt Williamson ranked them third. Chadiha ranked them 19th.
• Packers (14): Chadiha 11th, Mosley 25th.
• Colts (13): Graham third, Seifert 16th.
• Cardinals (12): Graham sixth, Mosley 18th.
• Ravens (9): Yasinskas sixth, Sando 15th.
• Bills (9): Seifert 12th, three panelists 21st.
• Patriots (8): Mosley and Bill Williamson fourth, Matt Williamson 12th.
• Jets (8): Yasinskas fourth, three panelists 12th.
• Broncos (8): Mosley 15th, Graham 23rd.
• Chargers (8): Kuharsky and Matt Williamson 14th, three panelists 22nd.

Divisional ranks: Voters ranked NFC East teams higher than teams from other divisions on average. They voted AFC West teams lower than teams from any other division. A look at how each division fared, with average ranks in parenthesis:

• NFC East (8.96): Matt Williamson ranked NFC East teams 6.75 on average, higher than any other voter ranked teams from this division. Chadiha ranked them 10.75 on average, lower than any other voter ranked teams from this division.
• NFC South (10.5): Seifert 8.75 on average, Graham 11.75 on average.
• AFC East (10.8): Yasinskas 7.0, three panelists 12.75.
• AFC South (14.5): Graham 11.75, Seifert 16.25.
• AFC North (18.9): Seifert 17.75, Bill Williamson 20.5.
• NFC North (20.98): Sando 19.5, Clayton 21.75.
• NFC West (23.3): Chadiha 21.75, Mosley 27.75.
• AFC West (24.2): Walker and Mosley 22.5, Green 25.5.

High-low scorecard: I also totaled how many times each voter provided the high or low votes for teams. The scorecard: Mosley 19, Seifert 14, Sando 14, Matt Williamson 14, Graham 13, Walker 12, Chadiha 11, Kuharsky 11, Bill Williamson 10, Clayton 9, Green 9, Yasinskas 8.

• Example: Mosley provided the lowest vote for a team eight times and the highest vote 11 times, a total of 19.

Download No. 1: This Excel file allows for sorting by voter, team, team ranking, high votes, low votes and high-low disparities.

Download No. 2: A second file reveals potential flaws in the rankings, pointing out how many higher-ranked opponents each team has defeated. The Bucs rank below the Panthers even though Tampa Bay defeated Carolina this season, to cite one example. The Colts rank behind the Patriots and Steelers after defeating both teams. And so on.

• Column Y features team rankings.
• Column Z shows how many times a team has defeated higher-ranked teams.
• Change the rankings in column Y as you see fit.
• Re-sort column Y in ascending order (1 to 32) using the standard Excel pull-down menu atop the column.
• The information in column Z, which reflects potential ranking errors, will change (with the adjusted total highlighted in yellow atop the column).
• The lower the figure in that yellow box, the fewer conflicts.