Accounts being created with intentionally tanked win rates are a much bigger problem than I thought, and I hope something can be done about it soon

The Buried Lead: I uncovered a HUGE ring of accounts with intentionally lowered win rates, and it goes far deeper than I expected.

I played an aram the other evening where I got smashed. The enemy Riven put in 31 kills and man, they were good. Kudos to them.

After a game like that I like to check out their op.gg so I can see how much higher their rank is than mine (to soothe my bruised ego). To my surprise this Riven god(dess) was a level 30 account. Even more strangely, they had a long loss streak behind them. I opened it up and it wasn't a loss streak, it was nothing BUT losses. Every game, from level 1 to 30. Co-op vs AI? Loss. Normals? Loss. And the losses all seemed to happen at around the same time: 24ish minutes for bot matches, 4 minutes and a few seconds for normals.

Even though they were losses, it's not like they played poorly. Very few deaths, if any. Often with pretty decent CS.

But the moment they hit 30? No losses since. Normal, aram, ranked, doesn't matter, 100% win rate.

Now op.gg has a section called "Recently Played With". I looked at that, and every person on that list also had a 0% win rate. I check it out and that's how they're tanking their win rate. They 5man normals, hit 4 minutes, and immediately FF. Maybe someone disconnects so they get an afk timeout?

I looked into the match history for some of the accounts they've played with, and ALL of them have the same pattern. Zero Percent win rate, 5 man normals up to level30, FF at 4 minutes and change. But it keeps spidering out. I did a brief first level connection and found dozens of accounts involved in this behaviour. I have no doubt that if I took the time to make a few postman queries looking at the api I could find hundreds of accounts doing this.