PACK is for generating statistics and masks for given plaintext passwords not hashes vs potfile as op intended
for your statistics you have to combine a hashlist with a potfile, you could use option --show and/or --left to get the desired data or just run a simple cracking task with your hashlist, as hashcat searches for already known hashes in potfile you will get simple statistics as seen in attached picture
i know no project for statistiks for tracking cracking times, for myself i use a simple batch/python script which is called at start and end of a cracking task which tracks my settings (given from batch) resulting in such log entries, i track each hashmode/target in a separate file, on the other hand this helps keep track of what have i done last
DICT:pwnd-passes-100k-99871.dict:RULE:best64.rule:loopback
START:2022-03-10 18:15:28.050030+01:00
STOP :2022-03-10 18:26:40.604950+01:00
so this entry tells me, i used dictionary attack, with 100k dict, plus rules best64 + loopback and this attack took 9 minutes
for generating a prestatistics (how long would this take on my machine), i think this is mostly impossible to achieve, of course you could use benchmark and do some math on your own or options like --speed-only or --progress-only, but these options also give you just a more or less good guess on the real speed, also i dunno but i think they dont or dont work well on incrementing masks
EDIT:
harr thats funny, i also do some statistics like this:
logfile for hahstarget
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42275:46310:+04035:(58.263 %):DICT:snpys-in-work.dict:RULE:dive.rule:loopback
46310:46577:+00267:(58.599 %):BF:masks-digits-5-10.hcmask
46577:46826:+00249:(58.912 %):DICT:merge.txt:RULE:dive.rule:loopback
46826:47142:+00316:(59.031 %):DICT:merge.txt:RULE:dive.rule:loopback
the first line is count of input hashes, next line is count start:end after the given : attack, i do this also with an simple python script, invoked from batch after the hashcat cracksession finished
