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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 16? 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 no ties this week.

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

• Jets (11): Chadiha ranked them eighth, higher than any other voter ranked them. Matt Williamson ranked them 19th, lower than any voter ranked them.
• Eagles (10): Green and Matt Williamson seventh, Kuharsky 17th.
• Cowboys (9): Matt Williamson third, Seifert 12th.
• Texans (9): Matt Williamson, Sando and Kuharsky 15th, Chadiha 24th.
• Bucs (8): Mosley seventh, Yasinskas 15th.
• Vikings (8): Clayton seventh, Graham 15th.
• Patriots (7): Yasinskas and Bill Williamson sixth, Clayton and Mosley 13th.
• Dolphins (7): Chadiha seventh, Graham and Sando 14th.

Divisional ranks: The NFC South held a narrow lead over the NFC East as the highest-ranked division on average. The NFC West fell past the AFC West into the lowest-rated spot. A look at how each division fared, with average ranks in parenthesis:

1. NFC South (10.2): Seifert and Graham ranked NFC South teams 9.25 on average, higher than any other voter ranked teams from this division. Yasinskas and Bill Williamson ranked NFC South teams 11.5 on average, lower than any other voter ranked teams from this division.
2. NFC East (10.8): Matt Williamson 8.75, Seifert 12.25.
3. AFC South (12.4): Sando 11.25, Chadiha 13.25.
4. AFC East (13.8): Yasinskas and Chadiha 11.75, Matt Williamson 16.5
5. AFC North (16.1): Graham 15.0, Yasinskas 17.0.
6. NFC North (20.8): Clayton 19.5, Kuharsky 22.25.
   
7. AFC West (23.8): Walker 22.25, Graham 25.0.
8. NFC West (24.2): Graham 22.75, Clayton 25.25.

High-low scorecard: I also totaled how many times each voter provided the high or low votes for teams. The scorecard: Matt Williamson 21, Kuharsky 15, Graham 15, Chadiha 15, Clayton 12, Yasinskas 11, Sando 11, Seifert 11, Mosley 8, Walker 8, Bill Williamson 7, Green 7.

• Example: Matt Williamson provided the lowest vote for a team 10 times and the highest vote seven times, a total of 17.

Download No. 1: This Excel file features one worksheet allowing for sorting by voter, team, team ranking, high votes, low votes and high-low disparities. A second worksheet shows how each voter ranked each division's teams on average.

Download No. 2: This Excel file reveals potential flaws in the rankings, pointing out how many higher-ranked opponents each team has defeated. For example, the Eagles rank 13th despite defeating three higher-ranked teams. How to use the flaw detector:

• 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.