General DiscussionWhy do Safe to leave games count!?!?!

That's terrible. We'll contact Jason to quickly fix that issue.

Best regards,
The Dotabuff staff

To balance the games which are counted by DotaBuff, but not by the Dota2 game.

http://dotabuff.com/matches/385511281 Like this one, which does not even appear in the game's list.

Since they made low priority so fucking god awful. They should really make any game where someone left voluntarily automatic low priority and make the game not count regardless if it was after or before first blood.

"safe to leave" is different to "no stats recorded". all games that have no stats recorded are safe to leave, but not all safe to leave games will record stats.

a game can be safe to leave yet stats will still be recorded if first blood has already been drawn, meaning you can't get someone else to abandon in an attempt to prevent your MMR dropping.

dotabuff's algorithm for detecting games that don't count isn't 100% accurate, but looking at your past few games, i'd assume none of them had someone abandon before kills were given, from looking at their duration. my assumption is that someone left when the game was already well in full swing.

here's a match that doesn't count
http://dotabuff.com/matches/520972247
note that it says the game doesn't count if someone leaves "very early", not just at any point in the game.

ill give you an example of a game that would be considered safe to leave, you tell me whether you think it should count or not.

game lasts 90 minutes
one team loses a teamfight and get mega creeps because of it
one player on the losing team abandons before the ancient falls
game is safe to leave
the rest of his team can leave the game without being receiving abandonment penalties

does this mean the game should not be recorded because it was safe to leave?