Jason, it's your trophy, your rules for this round and it's just awesome that you set up the Bronze Joystick Trophy.
Danny, do you have any idea if they have something automated on that other site or is someone just doing all the legwork of doing all the math and reordering and everything else each time?
I think that system is great and does make everyone feel like they have a bit more chance of being in the running. The real problem seems to be maintenance of the system. Top two (or three) is very simple.
Who would run it and how would we make sure it's clearly and consistently maintained. Almost needs a database a simple submit field of its own to make it not an undue amount of work over time. Our own little mini-Twin Galaxies. Or maybe as simple as a shared Google Sheet or something. Gets to be too much work and it will collapse under its own weight and won't be any fun.
I must admit I don't know much about how it is run, I might ask them how and if it's much work etc. I agree you don't want it to be a lot of work or things just peter out. The one I'm in is up to number 21 so however they are doing it, it is holding up. And of course that could be down to one 'Walter Day' holding it all together.
Agreed also if you were to change the scoring system, it's definitely a 'next time' job. Just adding a third position would get a lot more people up on the board though and that wouldn't be too much extra work. Incidentally, I climbed the ranks to 18th (from 21st)in that competition I was in. If I had started from the beginning, it would have been higher. As you can see, not much in it for me to go another position or two up. I beat the guy in 17th in every game we both played, just that he played more games in total. And there really was that 'I'm going to cane this game until I beat so-and-so' atmosphere, for me especially for Qix. I beat my personal best (",)