In D4946#212002, @marder wrote:

meh - at the end the sorting ads no real overhead and it's kind of nice to know that the IDs are always sorted

imo I think it would be better to not sort when doing team placements, at least for the circle placements. It is common in multiplayer to use the game setup window to influence player positions. I think this approach is better than defining separate placement functions for grouped vs alternating Circle. For instance, since alternating circle is much less popular than grouped circle, it would produce some annoyance when using the 'random' team placement option. (referring to team placement options patches).