Originally Posted by kbarch

You know what they need to do? They need to set up a REAL KOM metric. And by REAL, I mean royal. Someone who actually "rules" the segment, not whoever happened to get the fastest time somehow, by fluke or random opportunity.

Seems it would be pretty simple. Take the number of times each athlete has covered the segment over the past 12 months, say, and rank them in reverse order, i.e., the one who's ridden it the most is number 1, and all those who've ridden only once have the maximum number. Then average that score with the athlete's usual ranking, and whoever's average is closest to 1 is King. For even greater certainty about who rules a segment, they could calculate the ranking of every trip an athlete made and average those, then average that with the frequency ranking. If the calculations are too complicated to maintain on a continuous basis, it would still be pretty interesting to see on a periodic basis - at the end of each week or month maybe, if not the end of each day.