Well after playing for three days straight to catch up on six months of missed games, I think I have found the answer to the scoring system: Reset everything every month or so!

I suggest on the first of every month simply archive the top scores and times for each category, and clear out the rest. Maybe even clear out the old games completely! You could maybe have some award system for the top scores for the month kind of like the star system.

I think that would make it *much* easier for new players to get on the board because as it is now you really have to play *every* game in order to get up there. That would also free up a bit of db space and make your score calcs much less CPU intensive.