It's indeed very helpful. Predictions should be independent for wisdom of the crowd to actually work. But we did introduce this dependency by revealing crowd predictions after yours as a tradeoff. We want to give feedback on how our users are doing, so that they're incentivized to continue making predictions.

Sometimes what you see as crowd prediction could be just a couple predictions. As new predictions come in, we adjust individual scores. We are planning to hide scores until a healthy number of predictions are made on that profile. That should help a bit on the dependency issue. We are open to suggestions as well. Thanks for the feedback.