General DiscussionWhat is DBR?

DBR is the now defunct DotaBuffRating.

Since Valve was not making the official MMR score public DotaBuff came up with their own based on a similar TSR type system that rated players on their strength of schedule wins and losses.

However Valve shut it down just days after it began by adding a default option to hide every players stats. Anyone who did not manually switch stats to public was hidden. Individual players can still use dotabuff now to see their stats, but the rating system is ruined because it requires the stats of everyone in the game to decide the strength of schedule.

You have a DBR or did, if you played over 3 months ago. But its forever hidden and out of date now.

Even the link that used to explain how the rating system worked is now gone. The only remnants are the DBR categories displayed still for Plus members on players who had one of the top 80 ranked games of the week on each hero...again 3 months old.

The only thing made public so far is the MMR of teams. Eventually I expect Valve will make the individual MMR accessible at least to those who want them.

The team MMR's can be viewed by clicking on "TEAMS" at the top of the page. The average score for rated teams is currently 3075. There are about 19,300 rated teams, and another 40,000 that don't have enough games with a stable roster to have an official rating.

For example, my team is currently rated 3814. That's better than 87% of rated teams. The weakest pro teams start turning up at about 4600-4800. That is better than about 99% of teams. Only the weakest 0.5% of teams are below 1000. Hopefully that gives you some idea of what the scores mean.

Why not give a complete break down? So...

Btw this rating moves only a couple points for a win or loss. Its starting point is based on your personal MMR.

Top pros...team MMR
5500 - 4653 top 1%
>4222 top 5%
>3963 top 10%
>3627 top 20%
>3408 top 30%
>3237 top 40%
>3075 top 50%
>2939 top 60%
>2777 top 70%
>2608 top 80%
>2348 top 90%
>2151 top 95%
>1858 top 99%

Rated teams are being added rapidly, since I checked last week and it was at 19,300 total it has jumped to 19,650 total today. You have to play at least 3 games in a row (not changing team members) with the same roster in an official rated game for it to count.