Quantifying the profitability of the short-stack strategy

[gergery]

Lots of recent talk about the shortstackers...Does anyone have any hard data from either their own play or others/datamining etc on exactly how profitable the short stack strategy is?

And how it compares to the profitability of good big stack play?

Intuitively, it would seem like a good semi-loose player playing say 30/12 (VPIP/PFR) with decent postflop skills should have a higher winrate albeit with higher variance than the shortstack player, but that the shortstacker with good discipline playing something like 16/10 should also be clearly profitable. but thats just a guess -- anyone with any data/experience on this?

-g