Fireball
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You're really manipulating the numbers. The part highlighted in black shows that in your post, it "showed the same result as the winner." And since my system doesn't take placement into account at all, player B, unlike player A, did manage to match the leader's result once, while player A couldn't do it at all, which is why B overtook him by 0.81. And what's so great about your example?
that the player with a higher rating showed results closer to the leader in terms of days in tournaments.
And in your case, it's completely messed up. If someone considers your bonus in the fourth stage (out of 55 earned points, you received 28 purely for the placement) to be a good advantage for themselves, then let them vote for systems that take placement into account.
Players are not obliged to be responsible for the attendance or non-attendance of other players in the tournament with their rating!!
You're good at drawing conclusions. So, answer, who of the strong players did YOU personally beat in the fourth stage?
Even three twelfth places are better than one first place and nothing else. Where is the guarantee that if Prophet played as well as Alexei in the next two tournaments, he wouldn't have grabbed two twentieth places there. But he didn't play and that's it.
First place should be better than several twelfth places.
However, if it comes to a vote, and systems that take placement into account gain the upper hand (i.e., I see that a system without placement is losing), then I will cast my vote for the one that will have a greater ratio in favor of the result rather than the placement (for example, 3 to 7, as Kamikaze suggests).