Why do I never go first?
I have been asking for months and months.
Why do I never play first? In any game, in any format... Played thousands of games, I go first in no more than 5% of games.
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Rezzahan#77802 commented
It's a biased view, since you are paying more attention to the games where you start on the back foot by going second. Whereas the games where go first leave less of an impression. There is also variance to consider, and in a small sample size of only a few dozen games a larger discrepancy can very well occur and is not that improbable. So a day where you do go second like 90% of the time is also well within expected variance. If you really want to check, note down in ALL your games for about a week or two, wether you went first or second. Though even a few hundred games is still a quite small sample size. I did that myself some time ago for some weeks, and in the roughly 750 games, I only saw a slight discrepance of +-20 from the 50:50 split, which is negligable.