[jdmarble]

The first paragraph mentions this: "In Mario Kart 8, ..."

If this was more than a tool for teaching multi-objective optimization, I'd like to see how the Pareto front changes over Mario Kart releases!

[crtasm]

Yes, but there have been many versions (updates/patches) of the game. I don't know how many changed character stats:

https://www.mariowiki.com/Mario_Kart_8_Deluxe_update_history