I suspect that within communities the stats probably change over time. In those diplomacy podcasts the commentators talked about how in competion that Russia used to be the best, but now everyone tries to stop Russia early on and thus Russia's win stats were not as good as they used to be.

I think Italy is usually the most disadvantaged, statistically. Regardless, Italy has it's advantages. A strong late game Italy is my favorite power.

Ages ago someone complied some stats on this site and if I recall correctly Turkey had the best stats. Recently a forum member (Tru Ninja?) said he had complied some stats but I haven't seen his report. It would interesting to see.

Here is one post about the tournaments:
http://webdiplomacy.net/forum.php?threadID=760600

As awkward as it is to answer my own question (at least partially), I found this link (courtesy of a Stephen Ager) that summarizes Richard Sharp's analysis of opening moves in The Numbers Game series: http://www.diplom.org/~diparch/resources/postal/openings.htm

It can offer a relatively modern breakdown of openings, at least from the UK.

I have a small statistics report based on each country and including various miscellaneous statistics. If anyone's interested, you can email me at [email protected]

If you want specifically statistics, there are some that have done them. If you are looking at openings and strategies, I'd suggest diplom.org... for openings, specifically, http://www.diplom.org/Online/Openings/ (it is my fav site for openings)

fortknox - I may love you for informing me about that site

+1
I've read most of the Richard Sharp book and enjoyed it. That online openings site is pretty sweet, thanks for passing it along.

Can we port the Vdip stats page here?

+1 Gobble

that would be amaaaaaaazing

i have to assume that the vdip stats page would be a huge drain on sever resoures.
(though if only updated once per day/month - with the results cached, it would be pretty easy to maintain.


that said, ask Kestas. He knows better.