Dota never has only one economic question.
Choose the actual match fork: where to farm, when greed must end, how to convert a timing, whether to hold buyback or what to test in the replay.
Can the map feed an accelerator?
Check safe waves, camps and time before the mandatory fight before buying Battle Fury or Maelstrom.
Accelerator or power for the next fight?
Compare future farm throughput with the objective a BKB or another timing can unlock now.
Minute-9 Midas: is the window long enough?
Early baseline with a minute-38 end and zero Madstone value.
Does Blink create a new action set?
Measure access to initiation, not damage, and the chance of turning the first reveal into an objective.
Utility or another personal component?
Compare personal power with the value of a saved core, position or cooldown in the next fight.
Core: component or second life
18k net worth, 1,200 gold and 90 seconds to a decisive fight.
How does the timing become Aegis, tower or map control?
Name the conversion path before buying. Without it, the advantage remains potential power.
Which fork changed the match trajectory?
Review purchase, objective, death and buyback instead of trying to audit the whole replay at once.
Two decisions that change the match trajectory
Test the greed window first, then liquidity before the objective. The formulas expose the measurable layer without hiding hero judgement behind false precision.
Hand of Midas: real payback
Transmute payout is gross. The model subtracts creep bounty, counts remaining uses and returns the break-even minute.
Other value defaults to zero. Guaranteed gold therefore stays separate from hero-specific utility and Madstone sensitivity.
Buyback: component or second life
The formula is floor(200 + Net Worth / 13). The result separates readiness now from readiness by the objective.