What if you just can't vote for your own team? a top 25 minus your team. Obviously some would still rate rivals lower, but it would offset some of the bullshit
Or people could just vote rationally, that would work.
Or the person adding up the poll could throw out any vote 10 or more votes away from the average or something. I don't know.
Or I could just not worry about it and stop taking the internet serious.