Incomplete Replay Data Question

[davechurchill]

Hello! Thank you so much for your parser, it has saved me a ton of time and effort. I have a question for you with regards to some replays that I have which appear to have incomplete data in them. Here's some stats from a set of around 1200 replay files I obtained online:

Total Replays: 1200
With PlayerStats: 1032
Complete PlayerStats: 715

'With PlayerStats' means that replay['properties'] contains a 'PlayerStats' array containing an overview of that player's name, team, performance in the match, etc. 'Complete PlayerStats' means that the PlayerStats array size is actually equal to the number of players in the game after looking at all the network frames. In this example, nearly 30% of the replays with a PlayerStats array do not actually contain information about all the players, for example the PlayerStats array may be of size 3 for a 2v2 game.

My questions are the following:

• Do you know why the PlayerStats value may be missing from some replays?
• Do you know why if it's there, it may be incomplete?
• If a replay doesn't have a complete PlayerStats value, should we "trust" the rest of the replay to contain accurate information?

Thank you again for the software