These pools are skewed by people giving players 5 out of 5 in games like this.

Who had an outstanding game against Bath?

I've cleaned that up a bit. As deadly says, I can't be sure every "5" is just someone taking liberties, but there were a number of duplicates there that I could remove. Initially I thought it was genuine mistakes where people submitted the same form, but the timing between some of them shows it's not that innocent.

I could force people to use a gmail account to use this, and then they'd only be allowed one submission per account, but I don't really want to go that far.

In your opinion

I think there's a potential problem with how voters perceive the nature of the poll. For instance, does everyone start at 3 and have their performance rated against their own ability or is there some notional yardstick where 3 is an average for a premiership player in that position, so Robshaw may start as a 4 whereas Lambert may start as a 2 and then get rated up or down from there.

DOK, perhaps you should get voters to rate a player's ability from, say, 1 to 3, then rate their performance out 5. You could then calculate their adjusted performance rating from the natural logarithm of the square of the performance divided by the natural logarithm of the square of their ability. This may give a more accurate reflection of whether someone played like a donkey. Or not

In your opinion

Yep and I'd be happy to debate anyone who thinks any of our players were outstanding on Saturday and find out what they've based their opinion on.

This is the rough guide I use.

1. Poor
2. Below Average
3. Average   
4  Above average
5  Some excellent work .

 Everyone that crosses the whitewash starts as a 3 and I mark them up or down from there .