New entries are always welcome!
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
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 from 1975:
E Fittipaldi 37
Reutemann 22
Depailler 16
Peterson 12
Ickx 10
Donohue 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 from 1975 realizes that the Lotus is a dud, and submits an edit to her entry as follows:
Sell:
Peterson -10
Ickx -10
Buy:
Pace +10
Reutemann +5
Depailler +5
Her new "portfolio" will after the entry look like this:
E Fittipaldi 37
Reutemann 27
Depailler 21
Pace 10
Donohue 3
Peterson 2
The above change of shares can perhaps best be written like this:
E Fittipaldi 37
Reutemann 27 (+5)
Depailler 21 (+5)
Pace 10 (+10)
Donohue 3
Peterson 2 (-10)
Ickx 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!
*** Share distribution and value *** DRIVER DShares Race Season VPP Owners Hamilton 376 13.10 248.81 76 22 Rosberg 371 12.92 245.50 77 21 Bottas 262 9.12 173.37 109 21 Button 255 8.88 168.74 112 19 Massa 249 8.67 164.77 115 19 Magnussen 231 8.05 152.86 124 17 Alonso 229 7.98 151.53 125 18 Räikkönen 200 6.97 132.34 143 15 Hülkenberg 170 5.92 112.49 169 14 Vettel 168 5.85 111.17 171 15 Ricciardo 137 4.77 90.66 209 11 Perez 95 3.31 62.86 302 7 Backpack 43 1.50 28.45 669 6 Kvyat 32 1.11 21.18 899 3 Vergne 28 0.98 18.53 1027 5 Maldonado 20 0.70 13.23 1438 3 Sutil 17 0.59 11.25 1692 4 Grosjean 12 0.42 7.94 2397 2 Gutierrez 5 0.17 3.31 5753 1 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 29 0.034828 30 0.033667 31 0.032581 32 0.031563 With 29 players, if ten shares are moved to a driver his rating will rise by about 0.348 points/race. *** Return per share as a function of finishing position *** DRIVER Win P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 P7 P8 P9 P10 Hamilton 1900 1368 1140 912 760 608 456 304 152 76 Rosberg 1925 1386 1155 924 770 616 462 308 154 77 Bottas 2725 1962 1635 1308 1090 872 654 436 218 109 Button 2800 2016 1680 1344 1120 896 672 448 224 112 Massa 2875 2070 1725 1380 1150 920 690 460 230 115 Magnussen 3100 2232 1860 1488 1240 992 744 496 248 124 Alonso 3125 2250 1875 1500 1250 1000 750 500 250 125 Räikkönen 3575 2574 2145 1716 1430 1144 858 572 286 143 Hülkenberg 4225 3042 2535 2028 1690 1352 1014 676 338 169 Vettel 4275 3078 2565 2052 1710 1368 1026 684 342 171 Ricciardo 5225 3762 3135 2508 2090 1672 1254 836 418 209 Perez 7550 5436 4530 3624 3020 2416 1812 1208 604 302 Backpack 16725 12042 10035 8028 6690 5352 4014 2676 1338 669 Kvyat 22475 16182 13485 10788 8990 7192 5394 3596 1798 899 Vergne 25675 18486 15405 12324 10270 8216 6162 4108 2054 1027 Maldonado 35950 25884 21570 17256 14380 11504 8628 5752 2876 1438 Sutil 42300 30456 25380 20304 16920 13536 10152 6768 3384 1692 Grosjean 59925 43146 35955 28764 23970 19176 14382 9588 4794 2397 Gutierrez 143825 103554 86295 69036 57530 46024 34518 23012 11506 5753 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 29 5753 2876 1438 958 719 575 479 410 359 319 287 143 95 71 30 5952 2976 1488 992 744 595 496 425 372 330 297 148 99 74 31 6150 3075 1537 1025 768 615 512 439 384 341 307 153 102 76 32 6348 3174 1587 1058 793 634 529 453 396 352 317 158 105 79 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 BAH CHN ESP MON CAN AUT GB GER HUN BEL ITA SIN JAP RUS USA BRA ABU Vergne 5952 5952 0 Kvyat 5363 4464 899 Rosberg 3311 1925 1386 Magnussen 3092 2844 248 Alonso 2904 1404 1500 Hülkenberg 2810 1120 1690 Vettel 2565 0 2565 Button 2501 1605 896 Hamilton 1900 0 1900 Bottas 1476 1040 436 Räikkönen 774 774 0 Massa 690 0 690 Perez 177 177 0 Backpack 0 0 0 Grosjean 0 0 0 Gutierrez 0 0 0 Maldonado 0 0 0 Ricciardo 0 0 0 Sutil 0 0 0 Scoring over 1000 points per share in a round means that the share did above average.
