Kitty, these are pulled from my last 20 games:
http://pantheon.demigodthegame.com/game/1241390/player/18875/
http://pantheon.demigodthegame.com/game/1241564/player/18875/
<- insert a 3v3 game against GM that Invalidated ->
http://pantheon.demigodthegame.com/game/1242914/player/18875/ <- newb on our team against good players
http://pantheon.demigodthegame.com/game/1239583/player/18875/ <- other team on vent "in house" game
http://pantheon.demigodthegame.com/game/1239481/player/18875/ <- game against you, you had Mith + Heros two players wtih well over 500 games. I have nagle who just barely has 50 games today and a < 50% win
http://pantheon.demigodthegame.com/game/1238395/player/18875/ <- premade v premade
As a general rule, I try to take the weakest player on my team unless everyone has well over 100 games and so it doesn't really matter that much though you will find some utter newb stomps if you go through enough games I'm sure. Sometimes I just want to play a game and don't really care.
Yes, I do play with friends. Sometimes it's good players, like Thunder. Sometimes its newbs like nagle88 or mandalar who I invited to play with me and Thunder (who does TB. You complain when people on your team play TB -.- ) after he had a decent first game with him.
Typically my nights work like this:
Log on, log onto Vent. I idle in a channel by myself because my Clan knows that I'm antisocial and hate when people bother me in a game. Sometimes they drop in and play, and sometimes I play with them. Sometimes they don't or I don't play with them.
I HOST a game (you are correct in that I very rarely join games), a few good players join. I tell whoever has the worst stats when ~4 people are in the lobby to come up onto my team. We play. Sometimes I win, sometimes I don't. I rehost, people REjoin. We chit-chat and socialize. Pretty soon we get along pretty well and we have good synergy (me and Thunder). After several days of this we start looking for each others game and start playing with and against eachother (Zwanamir).
I play with the in-house Pacov games from time to time and I'm almost never on Pacov's team. In fact, I play against CP more than I play with them and Pacov and I are virtually never on the same team unless it is a Premade v Premade game.
I've played against Cow a few times, only once with him. RAWR is part of CP and I've played against him a few times but mostly only with him. Omni and I have played a few times, same with Morpheus.