Don't like the idea of releasing stats into the round. Say you are going to fort then you want the race with the ships that offers best ability to fort. Say you are going to attack with friend(s) all round then you want to pick the races that compliment eachother in attacks. And as a alliance imagine telling your entire alliance to go with one race then the statmaker unintentionally give that race garbage ships.
Nah release stats early so people can analyze, after all that's the most fun part of planetarion anyway