Mahjong Life and Living

Lent had ended this year.  My pledge to abstain from online mahjong has ended yesterday with the celebration of Easter.  Despite the coronavirus , my church took religious services online; and it was a pleasure to be in observance of it. Looking at my online record, I have not played online mahjong since Feb 24 - the day my cat died .  Did I quit mahjong?  In fact, I played with some real tiles within two days after that day.  That session was my first with Northwestern University's AOTOMO automatic table.  It was a good day, and I needed it.  The laughs were good and contributing to my coping that week.  My last game session due to coronavirus was a month ago on March 14.  That was a good session to send ourselves off to comply with the "stay-at-home" orders. How enthusiastic am I in going back to online play?   Not all that much, but I will play.  After all, I signed up for the USMA  CV Riichi Online Tournament 2020 .  It is amazing how this tournament produced 1

On my main account in Tenhou.net, I have been taking screenshots of my stats from my main account: KyuuAA .  I tried my best to capture my numbers every 100 games, but I have forgotten to do so after each cycle.  Instead, extra games were played before I realize the next 100 was reached.  However, that is acceptable, as it is unreasonable for me to expect every 100 games to be noted . As I waved up and down along the Tenhou ladder scale, my statistics in general pretty much stayed even throughout.  The interesting note falls to my riichi rate which steadily increased.   Four statistical trains point to play style.  In the article " Tina's Tactics #3 ", she cited the late Kojima-sensei pointing to these numbers tied to play style: 放銃率 (Houjuu ritsu) – Deal in rate % 和了率 (Houra ritsu) – Hand win rate % 副露率 (Fuuro ritsu) – Call rate % 立直率 (Riichi ritsu) – Riichi rate % What do my numbers show? My deal in rate has been hovering above 14%.  I briefly dropped belo