Currently, the segment versus compares you with the entire list of times regardless of your pace estimated time. It is, frankly, humiliating and unhelpful to be compared with seeming Olympians (lol) and it would be much more encouraging and interesting to be compared with others based on the estimated time. The estimated time is already being calculated, why not use that as a stick and carrot to push me harder to climb up the list a bit but still be reasonable?
Yeah, I’ve often wondered why they don’t compare you with whoever is just ahead of you (ie. you have a chance of pushing the pace a bit to beat them), vs. the 1st place person who was probably on a wacky trainer pushing world tour numbers.
They do some sort of estimation to work out which hologram they give you, they could do something similar with the vs popup. Or just show your estimated time where it would sit in the leaderboard.
Or - and here’s a crazy thought - give us options. Some people might like seeing the current leaders time until they’ve gone past it, others might prefer seeing the nearest time to their estimated completion. And some might prefer to ever have the vs popup showing at all.
Estimated position might get tricky on the sprint segments where there are hundreds of people within a few seconds, particularly when there are big pace partner groups going through. They could treat sprint, TT, and KOM segments differently for this purpose.