Do note the difference between entering the game for the first time and making changes to your existing entry:
If you don't want to make any changes, you don't need to make any post here!
* New entries submit an entry with 100 shares as described below
* Existing players may only shift position for at most 20 of their shares each round, as described below.
Deadline for both edits and new entries is the start of first free practice.
Initial thread (including scoring rules)
Malaysia changes
China changes
Bahrain changes
Spain changes (including Bahrain entries)
Monaco changes
Canada changes
Britain changes (including Canada entries)
Germany changes
Hungary changes
Submitting an initial entry
The first time you play this game, you shall submit an entry where you place 100 shares among the drivers, fulfilling these conditions:
* You may only hold 100 shares (or less, which doesn't help you) in total at a time.
* You can not own fractions of a share, just integer shares.
* You can place no more than 40 shares on any one driver.
* You must own shares in at least three drivers.
* You may not own shares in more than ten drivers.
* You may edit your first entry as much as you like until the edit deadline (first free practice) for the coming race.
Note that there is no limit to the number of shares available for each driver.
Also note that your initial entry is the basis for the following rounds too! You'll be allowed to change no more than 20 shares before each race, so make sure your initial entry looks at least 80% respectable...
Entry Example A:
Massa 37
Hamilton 22
Kovalainen 16
Webber 12
Coulthard 10
Button 3
Editing your entry after the first round it takes part in
* After the first race your entry took part in, you may only change 20 of your shares at a time (for the next race).
* You do not have to edit your entry at all! If you so wish, you can leave your entry as it is from race one and not make a single change throughout the season.
* If a driver is replaced -temporarily or permanently- during the season, the shares placed on him will automatically be transferred to the replacing driver. So you could say that the shares actually are attached to the car number.
* You may edit your changes as much as you like until the edit deadline for the coming race.
* Edit deadline for changes is the beginning of first free practice for each race.
Example B:
After the first race, the shareholder who submitted the entry in Example A realizes that Red Bull stink infinitely, and submits an edit to her entry as follows:
Sell:
Webber -10
Coulthard -10
Buy:
Alonso +10
Hamilton +5
Kovalainen +5
Her new "portfolio" will after the entry look like this:
Massa 37
Hamilton 27
Kovalainen 21
Alonso 10
Button 3
Webber 2
This might be a good format to post changes:
Example B again:
Massa 37
Hamilton 27 (+5)
Kovalainen 21 (+5)
Alonso 10 (+10)
Button 3
Webber 2 (-10)
Coulthard 0 (-10)
Posting changes in this way may make it easier for you to keep track of what your portfolio looks like, if you look back into these change threads.
Just look at the initial thread, and it's a bit of a drag to backtrack some players' changes!
An edit doesn't have to look just like above, any way is fine as long as it's easy to understand which driver shares are to be sold and which to be bought.
NOTE: I won't automatically be posting updates on what each player's portfolio looks like, so remember to keep track of what you own!
Vettel 449 13.74 261.10 72 25
Alonso 394 12.06 229.12 83 25
Hamilton 370 11.32 215.16 88 26
Räikkönen 347 10.62 201.79 94 26
Webber 272 8.32 158.17 120 22
Rosberg 236 7.22 137.24 138 21
Massa 197 6.03 114.56 166 16
Grosjean 195 5.97 113.40 167 17
di Resta 153 4.68 88.97 213 16
Button 148 4.53 86.06 221 14
Sutil 123 3.76 71.53 266 11
Hülkenberg 113 3.46 65.71 289 10
Perez 107 3.27 62.22 305 11
Maldonado 60 1.84 34.89 545 4
Ricciardo 50 1.53 29.08 654 6
Vergne 44 1.35 25.59 744 9
Bottas 27 0.83 15.70 1212 3
Gutierrez 10 0.31 5.82 3273 2
Backpack 5 0.15 2.91 6547 2
The table above shows how the shares are distributed and the race points scores corresponding to these share distributions.
A driver's share provides above average return when the driver scores more points than the value listed for him in the "Race" column.
WDC points value for one share as a function of number of players:
# points/share
33 0.030606
34 0.029706
35 0.028857
36 0.028056
With 33 players, if ten shares are moved to a driver his rating will rise by about 0.306 points/race.
DRIVER Win P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 P7 P8 P9 P10
Vettel 1800 1296 1080 864 720 576 432 288 144 72
Alonso 2075 1494 1245 996 830 664 498 332 166 83
Hamilton 2200 1584 1320 1056 880 704 528 352 176 88
Räikkönen 2350 1692 1410 1128 940 752 564 376 188 94
Webber 3000 2160 1800 1440 1200 960 720 480 240 120
Rosberg 3450 2484 2070 1656 1380 1104 828 552 276 138
Massa 4150 2988 2490 1992 1660 1328 996 664 332 166
Grosjean 4175 3006 2505 2004 1670 1336 1002 668 334 167
di Resta 5325 3834 3195 2556 2130 1704 1278 852 426 213
Button 5525 3978 3315 2652 2210 1768 1326 884 442 221
Sutil 6650 4788 3990 3192 2660 2128 1596 1064 532 266
Hülkenberg 7225 5202 4335 3468 2890 2312 1734 1156 578 289
Perez 7625 5490 4575 3660 3050 2440 1830 1220 610 305
Maldonado 13625 9810 8175 6540 5450 4360 3270 2180 1090 545
Ricciardo 16350 11772 9810 7848 6540 5232 3924 2616 1308 654
Vergne 18600 13392 11160 8928 7440 5952 4464 2976 1488 744
Bottas 30300 21816 18180 14544 12120 9696 7272 4848 2424 1212
Gutierrez 81825 58914 49095 39276 32730 26184 19638 13092 6546 3273
Backpack 163675 117846 98205 78564 65470 52376 39282 26188 13094 6547
The above table illustrates the return each share gives for each finishing position given the current share distribution.
VPP samples
Players Shares/driver
5 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 200 300 400
33 6547 3273 1636 1091 818 654 545 467 409 363 327 163 109 81
34 6745 3372 1686 1124 843 674 562 481 421 374 337 168 112 84
35 6944 3472 1736 1157 868 694 578 496 434 385 347 173 115 86
36 7142 3571 1785 1190 892 714 595 510 446 396 357 178 119 89
VPP as a function of number of players and number of shares placed on a driver.
Return per share season history
DRIVER TOT OZ MAL CHN BAH ESP MON CAN GB GER HUN BEL ITA SIN KOR JAP IND ABU USA BRA
Vergne 15895 0 935 0 0 0 6232 8728 0 0 0
Vettel 13634 1455 2200 948 2000 876 1350 1875 0 1850 1080
Räikkönen 13570 3150 570 1818 1656 1638 88 174 930 1854 1692
Hamilton 13204 1230 1875 1785 1010 0 1284 1620 1320 880 2200
Webber 12183 1008 2214 0 678 1110 1635 1404 1998 696 1440
Ricciardo 11600 0 0 7854 0 962 0 0 2784 0 0
Rosberg 11322 0 1620 0 260 1216 3325 1250 3425 226 0
Alonso 11274 2034 0 2300 332 1875 462 1368 1065 1008 830
di Resta 10996 1676 0 1108 4128 1830 464 1380 410 0 0
Massa 9705 2112 1400 1168 0 2445 0 636 1280 0 664
Grosjean 8016 128 1008 264 2295 0 0 0 0 2985 1336
Button 7926 250 0 1890 176 764 1752 0 0 1768 1326
Sutil 7455 2802 0 0 0 0 2940 237 1476 0 0
Perez 5158 0 396 0 2336 536 0 0 0 1280 610
Hülkenberg 1846 0 1004 264 0 0 0 0 289 289 0
Maldonado 545 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 545
Backpack 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bottas 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Gutierrez 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Scoring over 1000 points per share in a round means that the share did above average.