honestly, players should not lose LP for games like this. When players goes afk it loses games for players. The player that goes afk should be punished by loseing LP and bans. And players who tried to win the game but had an afk should not lose LP or lose very little LP. Also you should lose LP based on BAD you played or gain LP based on how GOOD you played.
I agree that it sucks losing LP because you had an AFK on your team. I heard that Riot is currently working on a system that will cancel/redo a match if a player fails to connect from the very beginning. However, there's not much, if anything at all, that can be done to compensate for having a teammate leave in the middle of a match without creating other unfair scenarios.
Also, losing LP based on how bad you play and gaining LP based on how good you play isn't as good of an idea as you may think. Gaining/losing LP based on your individual performance would pretty much completely change how ranked is played. In short, it would basically create situations where players would try to maximize/minimize their LP gains/losses instead of actually trying to win the game.
Yeah Just got out of a match where our Ashe afked halfway into the match. This was after she verbally abused the team, Fed the enemy and refused to Back (her own words "Backing (aka recalling) is for Noobs" So we lost because she was too proud to recall back to spawn. fed the enemy team, then afked to leave us to deal with the mess.
I totally agree I lost 20 points four times today bcos of afk's its ridiculous I mean when does it stop affecting the people who are trying to climb. i mean yes punish the person who is afk but also mayb eless lp loss like half defiently not more than 10 points surely bcos more than that is a big hit depending on your mmr and points per win
