A lot of rating systems (including USCF) label ratings as "provisional" when they're based on a small number of games, to indicate that the player's rating isn't well established within the system. On some internet playing sites, this is indicated by putting (P) after the rating. That might be a way to go here, and it should be easy enough to add to the site code, for players with less than 25 games or something. Erik? What do you think?
--Fromper
Going back to the ratings debate I think monty's suggestion of using a ? (question mark) after peoples ratings (who have less than a certain amount of games under their belt) is a great and simple idea.
or perhaps sometimes a number is just a number :)