Disclaimer: I never used a HUD. I played on Bovada, where a HUD would be next to pointless to bother with. Plenty of other people here use a HUD and would be better suited to give you firsthand advice.
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Something like this:
VPIP / PFR / 3-bet
C-bet / fold to C-bet
First row is PRE, 2nd row is OTT. Nothing after that is worthy of keeping on screen. Click into the HUD to open up the bigger stat sheet when you need to make a close call OTR.
All of those stats should have the number of opportunities next to it. Any stat with less than ~100 opportunities is really a broad guideline - nothing more than what your gut told you already. Really, less than ~1,000 opportunities still has surprisingly broad error bars.
I'm talking about the error bars on stats and the fact that they represent a broad +/- spread of values. Even with the stated value as the most probable value, but if it's +/- 10%, then it's really not telling you anything much. Even if it's +/- 5%, that represents a lot of combos in a range and makes it unwise to simply trust the stat as though it's a perfect guide.
Again, stats that don't have many opportunities are going to take forever to converge, and it's the convergence that I'm talking about when I talk about error bars. For stats that are nowhere near convergence, your own sensibilities and observations as a poker player will mean more than the stats do.
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I think you should include stats that you use regularly, and those stats should be the ones that converge most quickly.
I think you should not include stats that make you a lazy player who is tempted to just click buttons 'cause of numbers.
I think you should not include stats that don't reflect specific decisions (like AF or Agg).
In that article you linked, someone said they use Agg for assigning player-types to their opponents. I think if you need this number to make that kind of broad generalized statement, then you're not paying enough attention to the action on the table, and would probably be better off not using a HUD at all for a while until you just always notice stuff like that.
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