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Originally posted by jimmy_o

Well yes, exactly, that's the question I'm asking... does the Riot API consider 1st place only a victory, or first and second like in game.

In the Riot Games API, retrieving a player's league returns a number of wins and losses. In league-v4, wins are games where you finished first. Losses are if you finished in any other place. This should be documented on the reference page.
https://developer.riotgames.com/api-methods/#league-v4

NOTE: Specifically calling out league-v4 because this might not be the case for all APIs, but it is in the case of league-v4.