I do not see the relationship between stats and the merit system being matured. Such posts are created to highlight key areas which may be useful or interesting to know, although I feel we can do without some of the stats which is posted here, some others are quite helpful.

Meta board is for discussions about the forum, if a topic falls within that range, it technically belongs here. Statistics is not particularly a topic for discussion, so making a child board would be ambiguous and not necessary in my opinion.