Graphic representation of a group

When I was younger and working for aAa, I did like to represent the result of a tournament byu a graph that feature every result, for exemple for China thats work like that :
https://imgur.com/CZqZ9z5.png

• The White line show who beat who (If you are higher in the graph thats mean you beat team under except if they are a yellow arrow)
• Yellow arrow are upset that break the transitivity
• White circle is a situation where A > B > C > A and have same number of point

I wanted to know if you find this graph easy to understand. To me I find it easier to read than tables since it's more visual and on a blink on a aye you can see who beat who.
So I take feeback

I can see the advantage for tiebreakers, but I find it really hard to read the exact standings from it (though your image is one of the most extreme examples possible)

I find matrix' the easiest to work with personally, but it'd be interested to see if the graphic representation could help with larger groups (since you have the spatial order of "better" teams being higher up) or if the arrows just get out of hand too quickly

Coder brain myself so ill never be able to give up the matrix though since it makes thinking in terms of the algorithms so much easier