But what has gone on the week before has nothing to do with how players are rated. No one ever says anything like "JFC awful performance today, would have been a 3, but he trained really well all week, and he was really nice at a club shop signing, so 9". They are judged by their contribution to...
But if everyone did that today, Stockdale would be rated higher than players who actually contributed to the game. How is that fair?
I prefer instead of automatically giving the keeper 10, give him a team average then adapt. i.e. if the average mark you give the outfield players is around 7...