It could do it, Vince has been testing it out. But that's not really an issue with Podium, that's an issue with people not understanding MB, and it's advantages. I've heard lots of comments about "Challonge's crazy ranking".
Yeah, there are problems with MB as well, no system is perfect. Theoretically outliers (games with best outcome and worst outcome) should be ignored, which at many tournaments leaves only 3 games to judge by.
If you look at the rankings produced by Podium for NAHBPC double elim, you'll see they pretty closely reflect the final results produced by double elim. The top ranked team won, the top 6 all finished top 6, and 13 of the top 16 after swiss rounds finished in top 16....
Yeah, there are problems with MB as well, no system is perfect. Theoretically outliers (games with best outcome and worst outcome) should be ignored, which at many tournaments leaves only 3 games to judge by.
I just posted this on the thread about swiss rounds on LOBP:
If you look at the rankings produced by Podium for NAHBPC double elim, you'll see they pretty closely reflect the final results produced by double elim. The top ranked team won, the top 6 all finished top 6, and 13 of the top 16 after swiss rounds finished in top 16....