Your rep log indicates that you lost 23 point for the deletion, not 25. The other 2 lost rep are from the downvote. We can tabulate this out by summing the answer's pre-deletion reputation events: +10 upvote +15 accept - 2 downvote ------------ +23 pre-deletion worth When the answer was deleted, you lost the total value of the question's reputational worth to you, which was 23 rep.