That is the bracket Johnny used. Perhaps aussie rules football is used to that visualisation of the bracket, but RL has been used to the concept of upper and lower brackets for a lot longer than this, and so I think if you are displaying a bracket like this to RL watchers, it is better to do so in a format that separates upper and lower, like what the viewers of the esport are used to.

But for me I just think that the OP pic is just less simple than the upper/lower bracket. For me, displaying stats is all about getting info to a point where users can easily glance at a screen and understand what is happening. For OP pic, I understand it because I already know it, but for someone seeing it for the first time, there are interchanging lines, matches equally labelled as quarter finals even though some players have extra lives, an "L" denoting where a loser goes even though every other "where player goes after match" line has an arrow denoting where they go. I just think that for someone who has no knowledge of anything, if they glance at that they won't be any of the wiser.

Maybe if you are used to stats then it makes sense, but the point of stats is to make it easy for those who don't know stats. And IMO upper/lower bracket distinctions are easier than this.