Okay, so not so much a question because I know if I get booted in a practice game, it still counts towards my boot count.

This happens with scenarios as sometimes it takes so long to get players I forget to check back and get booted. The game is practice and the players tend to VTE after I am booted.

I just don't get why this should count on my boot count as it does.

Practice games don't count towards rankings so they shouldn't count towards boot count no?

They should count. It's still just as annoying to have a player disappear in an unranked game after you've invested time to play it.

Not really. I usually get booted on the first turn, it means the game took a hell of a long time to start.