I've been back and poking around for a couple of months. I seem to remember seeing some way to look at a player and see their finish history. Country stats, ranking, all time combined land and NW, a number of things.

I don't know how I accidentally got there, and haven't been able to recreate it. Where do I look?

http://forums.earthempires.com/...ature-public-old-statuses

just need to know player's id (obtained from user list).

The little white boxes next to most forum names and next to some country names are probably the easiest way to get there. Most of the text on those pages is a link so click away.