Lol. It's easy to miss stuff like that, when it's right under your nose.
The stats page that OP linked to was the only one I used for like the first year of the merit system, when I actually cared about receiving them--and how generous I was being with my sMerits (and that was before I was made a merit source). Then I kind of stopped caring and looking at those pages.
For the lower-ranked members, however, BPIP is probably the best source of merit info and probably the best source overall for statistics about members. Despite that, it might not be a bad idea to have some kind of consolidated thread with all the info you could ever want about merits. Maybe there's someone motivated enough to create such a thing?