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Furbol — How It Works

I forgot to rate my teammates — did I miss the window?

I forgot to rate my teammates — did I miss the window?

The game ended hours ago. You look at the app and notice you never rated your teammates. Is it too late? Does it matter?

The short version: rating is always optional, and if the three-hour feedback window has closed, you can’t go back and add ratings. You haven’t been penalised — but the ratings you would have given are simply gone as input.

When the window closes

The window opens when the game’s scheduled end time arrives and closes exactly three hours later. During those three hours:

  • You can rate teammates — a 1–5 slider for each, on three topics (Performance, Grit, Fair Play).
  • You can answer the “how was the game?” question — including I didn’t play a game, if you weren’t actually on the pitch. That answer is yours alone; you can’t mark anyone else as absent.
  • You can still see the roll-call and finalise attendance.

Once the three hours are up, the game’s book closes. Ratings stop being writable. Stats are computed and frozen. The game moves into history as a finished record.

What happens if you never rated

You don’t get flagged. Rating is voluntary — there’s no “you must rate to keep playing” rule.

But your silence counts. If a critical mass of players don’t rate in a given game, Furbol reads that as a weak signal and the resulting stats lean on less information. Individual ratings matter; the absence of them just means the average of whoever did rate is what sticks. Your specific take on each teammate isn’t reflected — that’s the only real loss on your side.

What rating actually does

Two things:

  • Teammate levels and stats. Ratings feed into the level and the stat scores (Performance, Grit, Fair Play) that show on a player’s profile — how a host sees them as a prospective player, how other players get a sense of them. Consistent feedback (over many games) moves levels. A single missed rating barely affects anything; habitually missing them means your opinions just aren’t in the mix.
  • Your own attendance record. Answering the game-level question with a rating counts the game as one you actually played; answering “I didn’t play a game” — or never answering at all — means the game doesn’t count towards your solidity. That’s your half of the honesty ledger, and skipping the window skips it too.

See Rating and Feedback for the formal rule.

Why the window can’t be reopened

The feedback window is the last flexible stretch of a game’s life. Host earnings are held until it closes. The lineup can still shift inside it (players can still be removed if they ghosted). Reopening the window after it’s closed would reopen all of that — payouts could be clawed back, lineup could shift after it’s been treated as final, stats could flip. So once the window is closed, it’s closed.

Furbol’s rule is: three hours from end-of-game is the window for everything. No extensions. If you miss it, you miss it.

A note on “I didn’t play”

If the thing you missed was your own “I didn’t play a game” answer — you were booked, the game happened without you, and you never said so — the moment has passed with the window. There’s no way to add the answer later. And since a game only counts towards your solidity when you actively answer with a rating, a missed window is a game that doesn’t count in your favour either way. Over a larger run of games one silence barely moves the number, but the cleanest habit is simple: answer the question when it pops.

Avoiding it next time

The app pushes you a reminder when the feedback window opens (at end-of-game) and nudges again about ten minutes before it closes. If you’ve muted those pushes, rating slip-ups are more likely. See Notification Preferences if you want to tune this.