Team A beats Team B. Team B beats Team C. Team A is not necessarily going to beat Team C. Each event is independent from the other. It is certainly possible that Team A is superior than Team C, but the inverse is also possible. Superiorty in a single event has no necessary correlation to superiority in another event.

None of that matters though because I can't get over it. It's inside my head and it's not leaving.
There are a few solutions to this, but only one is really going to work.