pseudo_code_gb

totalDailyRuns = getTotalNumber()
reqRuns = totalDailyRuns/3
players = getPlayers()

function weighScores(scores)
    for i = 1, #scores -- 1 being most recent
        scores[i] = scores[i] * (log(totalDailyRuns - (i - 1)) / log(totalDailyRuns))
    end

    return scores
end

function determinePlayerScores()
    for i = 1, #players
        scores = players[i].getScores()
        players[i].weightedScores = weighScores(scores)
    end
end

function getTotalScore(weightedScores)
    sum(max(weightedScores, reqRuns)) -- get a sum of maximum 33% of the dailies after weighted scores
end

function determineAllTimeLeaderboard()
    totalScores = {}

    for i = 1, #players
        totalScore[i].score = getTotalScore(player.weightedScores)
        totalScore[i].player = players[i]
    end

    totalScore.sortBy(score)
end

-- base algorithm
-- suggested changes
-- normalize each daily score, so max score is 10k (or any other arbitrary number)

function normalizedDailyScores()
    for i = 1, #dailies do
        for j = 1, #dailies.scores do
            dailies[i].normalizedDailyScores[j] = (dailies[i].scores[i] / max(dailies[i].scores)) * 10000
        end
    end
end

-- don't decrease weight of last few recent dailies

function weighScores(scores)
    for i = 1, #scores -- 1 being most recent
        if(i <= 5) then
            scores[i] = scores[i]
        else
            scores[i] = scores[i] * (log(totalDailyRuns - (i - 1 - 5)) / log(totalDailyRuns))
        end

    end

    return scores
end