Are there records for players in Party in TAW?

I've heard it does take them into account unless it thinks every instance of the players in the party being in the same team is too "unbalanced", kinda curious if that's the answer or what's actually going on too though if that's not the case

Last I knew the balancer for a large two-team game broadly works in the following way:

First, it attempts to find two balanced teams, putting all clans and all parties together.

If it fails to find a balanced set of teams subject to that restriction, then it balances the teams ignoring ALL clan and party considerations.

I do not know what the threshold for a "balanced enough" game is. It is probably pretty restrictive. Paraphrasing the Law of Large Numbers, for a large teams game there are likely to be a lot of team arrangements that are very close to even in terms of rating.

I do not remember exactly what influence rating variance within teams has on the balancer.

So if lots of players of the same clan join a battle where all the clan players are either low rated or where all players are high rated, they also destroy the balancing for small parties?
Lots of similarly rated clan people being in the same battle seems to be likely to happen quite often.

Sounds like it would be better if it first tries to "balance putting all clans and all parties together" and if it fails to balance then, it would "balance putting parties together" before it ignores both.

Potentially it could even do advanced stuff like ignoring big clanstacks or big parties that are of either high or low relative rating to the average rating of the the battle before going on to ignore small parties or parties with a more average rating.