LinkedList : Collections.max() throwing NoSuchElementException

I am not iterating the LinkedList by any means like scanner or other methods, I am using Collections.max() to get maximum number from the LinkedList.

I have read on Stack Overflow that this exception is thrown due to iterator or scanner or tokenizer, but I am using none of them.

import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;

class TLG {
    public static void main(String[] args)throws IOException {
        BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));

        LinkedList<Integer> first = new LinkedList<Integer>();
        LinkedList<Integer> second = new LinkedList<Integer>();

        int cases = Integer.parseInt(br.readLine());

        for(int i=1;i<=cases;i++) {
            String score = br.readLine();
            int number1 = Integer.parseInt(score.split(" ")[0]); 
            int number2 = Integer.parseInt(score.split(" ")[1]); 
            int diff = number1 - number2;

            if(diff > 0){
                first.add(diff);    
            }
            else {
                second.add(java.lang.Math.abs(diff));    
            }
        }

        Integer max1 = Collections.max(first);  // Getting Exception here
        Integer max2 = Collections.max(second); // Getting Exception here

        if(max1 > max2) {
            System.out.println(1+" "+max1);
        }
        else {
            System.out.println(2+" "+max2);
        }
    }
}

You must be calling Collections.max() on an empty List.

As the Javadoc states, this results in NoSuchElementException:

<T extends Object & Comparable<? super T>> T java.util.Collections.max(Collection<? extends T> coll)

...

Throws:

ClassCastException - if the collection contains elements that are not mutually comparable (for example, strings and integers).

NoSuchElementException - if the collection is empty.