Red vs Blue

A simple monetary showdown. Market capitalization is used otherwise noted.
Victory percentage is calculated as abs(V₁ - V₂) / (V₁ + V₂)

Totals:
Red:	330
Blue:	401

The most interensting thing here is the graphical similarities between competitors in the same field.

Red	Winner	Blue	Notes
	36%		Google's numbers include at least 40 million users coerced or tricked into creating a Google plus account via youtube.
	37%		63% of European Jews and 100% of Hitlers killed. You can't win until the last lap.
	???		Senate: 45 vs 53, House: 231 vs 200 Plus god knows how many state and local positions. See Alien vs Predator tagline.
	42%		Earth invasions of mars have met with limited success, but there has been no meaningful counter-attack.
	8%		Whoever wins... we lose. Scored by kill counts in this video
	11%		Google search results (with top images used for icons).
	23%		Bing search results (with top images used for icons).
	100%		The blu-ray logo looks like somebody stepped on it.

Totals:
Red:	31
Blue:	226

The russian word for "red" can also mean wonderful/amazing². America likes to call themselves the blue team, friendly fire is known as blue on blue, and we have idioms like "true blue". In Japan, "love" and "blue" are homonyms³. Perhaps this is why we get along great with Japan but still have the occasional dust-up with Russia?

Hypotheses

• Red is team 0. Players that load the game first will be assigned to team zero first. Skilled players are more likely to invest in a high end computer that will load faster and thus are more likely to be assigned to the red team.
• Skilled players are more likely to click wildly on the first thing available to get the game started - the first team option.
• Skilled players, looking for every edge they can get, read a bunch of articles on the internet about how wearing red makes you better at things. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy when all players concerned about doing well join the red team.
• Skilled players like red for whatever reason.
• Wearing red makes you better at games, even though you can only see your own body when you die.

Bullshit
There's like a million bullshit articles on the internet about what wearing red or seeing red does to you. They all cite other bullshit articles and there's no bottom.

NFL, MLB, NBA
I would like to create a scatter plot of win loss records vs uniform or logo hue. This is somewhat complicated.

Uniforms have changed over the years, and while life time win/loss statistics are available for teams, sorting out what years they had what uniforms involves historical research. Uniforms have multiple colors, sometimes more than five on a single uniform. There are separate home, away, and alternate uniforms. Black, white, and gray are common colors for the whole uniform, with just a colored logo or stripe. Does a yellow stripe count as 'red'? What about an orange logo on a black field? Are strong logo colors more important than uniform colors? Hyperdimensional analysis is required.

UFC
In addition to different colored trunks for each fighter, UFC matches have a red corner and a blue corner and each fighters gloves are taped with their respective corner color. The favorite fighter (or champion) is introduced second and is assigned to the red corner, which will probably heavily skew the results - but there seems to be no resource for corner color victories.

One study concludes that trunk color has no effect. Although looking at the graph with my limited understanding, blue seems to come out ahead.

Joining team red mid way through the fight is always an option.

Surely there are many incidents of armies meeting with red and blue flags or uniforms. Wikipedia has a pretty good list of wars, but flags are complicated and there is often more than one party on each side. A script could be written to collect all the flag and casualty data from the wiki, then generate a color histogram of all the flags involved on each side (this can be done with imagemagick), choose the dominant color of each side, then graph hue delta vs casualty percentage delta.

The Red vs Blue machinima series sees many characters die and come back to life, but who wins?

Relevant wikis do not seem to conveniently list all deaths in the series. The only way forward seems to be to carefully watch all 250+ episodes.

At one point it is revealed that red and blue are the same team (just like pasta!), or at least have the same tech support guy. I can't find the clip :(

Tickets
According to snopes, red cars do not get more speeding tickets.

Accidents
There seems to be a lot of anectodal evidence about gray cars getting hit more because people don't see them. Actual facts are hard to come by.

Theft
Again, there is a dearth of facts and a glut of bullshit clickbait tabloid articles.

Color Preference
Here we have some numbers, because you gotta sell paint.

Pokemon games are released in pairs. The idea being to encourage players to buy the same dumb game twice trade unique pokemon with friends who have a different version of the game.

Red and blue have squared off three times:

	?		Originally released in Japan as Red and Green, but then a Blue version was also released in Japan. It's confusing.
	?		...
	?		Ruby and Sapphire remade for the 3DS game system.

Sales numbers seem to only be released for the combined pairs, not individual games. There may be some proxy numbers such as used game sales available somewhere.

In the original gameboy games, your character's default name is "Red" and your rival's default name is "Blue" - was the rival's name "Green" in Japan? Japanese for blue, "Ai", is a girl's name. If you bought Pokemon Blue was your name still "Red"? I should mention at this point that I've never actually played pokemon.