Table row focus at top; padding below. Is this UI pattern used anywhere?

I've created a prototype that adds whitespace at the bottom of a table if the page is loaded with an anchor that points to one of the last rows of the table.

'Usual' behavior of table row focus would be that the bottom row is still at the bottom. The table scrolled down 'as far as possible'. But not generating whitespace, and hence the row focus would not be at the top.

I think intuition would have us look at the first row first, then down until we find the one with focus. Why not set it at the top and add whitespace at the bottom of the table? ...I cannot find examples of this. So I suspect there is some strong argument against this approach that I haven't thought of. ..or just nobody bothers with the technical challenges of this.

Any pros and cons? Examples?