Now I know I've done this long ago and I've seen older mods about tweaking the stat ranges of your new soldiers. But I cannot figure it out in the latest iterations of openxcom/extended.
The prior thread I found said to find the ruleset file and find the 'soldiers' entry where you can than edit the 'minStats', 'maxStats' and 'statCaps'. I cannot for the life of me find this file that pertains to the core UFO defender rules.
Admittedly its not even a major tweak, I just want to change the Bravery range to 30 to 60, given I tended to just sack soldiers under that number anyway.