Best stats fastest way: 32 Tier 3 level 1, then all Tier 4 level 1, then all Tier 5 level 1, that is the least expensive, not the fastest way
1) Taking the stats at the top of your screen near the ATM and dividing by 50 will give you the stats on your profile. The OP was trying to say something along these lines. However, knowing this doesn't tell you which order to tell you to upgrade. 2) The cheapest way to upgrade doesn't tell you anything. If you want the cheapest upgrade, do not buy any tier 1 crew. Buy dorms and then immediately go for T5 first (which is hard to do considering you would have to gather over 10b before having any crew). I posted the most stat efficient way to upgrade a whole ago. It's not necessarily the fastest because the plunder in this game isn't proportional to your stats but not directly. For example, a T5 gains stats increasingly as you upgrade yet the plunder is gained decreasingly increasing. Which means plunder goes up each time but goes up by less than the previous time even though the stat gain you are getting is higher than the previous stat gain from upgrading.