That's actually a gross misrepresentation to begin with, as this statistic that was posted way back when did not exclude smurfs, remade accounts, or otherwise. This was the total amount of "active accounts". This also does not filter between countries, and countries have varying player-bases east Asia having the largest community of all (naturally, why wouldn't they with a third of the world's population?). If I recall correctly, I think the US was even second to Europe, but I don't quite recall all the minute details.
What I do know is that our player-base is not only dwarfed by the east Asian community, but that the US player-base is also held to entirely different standards than the Asian player-base. I believe the European is held to similar but still different standards, but I'd need some kind of confirmation on that. The reason I know the Asian player-base is held to an entirely different standard is because Imp from Samsung White was hailed as quite possibly one of the premiere most toxic players to come out of Korea, often times putting in death threats and insults to people on his team for even giving first blood. He never received bans or repercussions, and was hardly even reprimanded for the majority of incidents with him save a couple.
So if the standards on the Asian circuit are far more lax than on the NA circuit and we are practically dwarfed while also having a consistent flow of false new players - smurfs and remade accounts - we can drop that 67 million count to probably around 10 million maybe? Probably less? I'm sure there's a site here, hang on.
Unfortunately I can only find a sample percentage out of about 10,000,000 (and that being all that was released in earlier years even), and our player-base in NA is currently 6,700,000 approximately this year.
So if we assume different standards in most other places, especially vastly different cultures, we're looking at about a .004 to .005 amount being NA based.
And if we're going off of that... well, the % is 4-5% of our players have been banned. While still an A, fairly certain these statistics are from year to year. We'd need a Riot quote on that. If this is the case, it would mean 4-5% of NA players are banned yearly. Can't say if they're unique or not.
This is also all permanent bans, and doesn't take into account at all chat bans, 14 day suspensions, leaver locks, or otherwise.
In other words, I dunno if this is so much a "good job" as it is a "throw a dart at a board and hack away"... we still also have video evidence of trolls being trolls and getting completely away with it, various instances of people having their accounts compromised and getting banned that way, and otherwise egregious instances of outright questionable behavior from Riot. There's a lot here that's unseen that's difficult to calculate precisely.
What I do know is I still get assholes way too often. Like, the hell...
