If by “follow the most interesting order statistics” you mean:

among all SERI MATS people playing repeated Stellaris matches, whose placement distribution would have the most interesting shape, tails, variance, upset profile, and extreme outcomes,

then my picks are:

Most interesting order statistics:

1. Marcus Williams
2. David Abecassis
3. Joseph Bloom
4. Jiaxin Wen
5. Johannes Treutlein

Not necessarily “best on average.” More like: whose rank distribution would be weirdest, most fat-tailed, or most informative to watch across many runs. Because average skill is boring. The tails are where the pathology lives.

What “interesting order statistics” means here

In repeated Stellaris games, you can imagine each person having a distribution over finishes:

• sometimes 1st
• sometimes middle
• sometimes dies horribly in year 47 because they overfit to one diplomatic read

The most interesting players are not just strong. They have one or more of: