Notification: If the total number of Backpack shares remains 13 or higher after this round's edits, a split up of the Backpack share will be initiated after the Chinese GP. If there are 12 or fewer backpack shares remaining after this round, no such split will take place, but any non-Backpack driver with three or fewer shares remaining after the next changes (Spain) will be merged into the Backpack.
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
Bahrain 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 431 15.01 285.20 66 24 Rosberg 401 13.97 265.35 71 23 Vettel 289 10.07 191.24 99 18 Button 228 7.94 150.87 126 17 Bottas 227 7.91 150.21 126 18 Alonso 224 7.80 148.23 128 19 Massa 204 7.10 134.99 141 19 Magnussen 194 6.76 128.37 148 17 Räikkönen 186 6.48 123.08 154 15 Ricciardo 171 5.96 113.15 168 15 Hülkenberg 170 5.92 112.49 169 14 Perez 45 1.57 29.78 639 3 Backpack 32 1.11 21.18 899 4 Vergne 28 0.98 18.53 1027 5 Kvyat 25 0.87 16.54 1150 2 Grosjean 15 0.52 9.93 1917 3 Maldonado 13 0.45 8.60 2212 2 Sutil 12 0.42 7.94 2397 3 Gutierrez 5 0.17 3.31 5753 4 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 1650 1188 990 792 660 528 396 264 132 66 Rosberg 1775 1278 1065 852 710 568 426 284 142 71 Vettel 2475 1782 1485 1188 990 792 594 396 198 99 Button 3150 2268 1890 1512 1260 1008 756 504 252 126 Bottas 3150 2268 1890 1512 1260 1008 756 504 252 126 Alonso 3200 2304 1920 1536 1280 1024 768 512 256 128 Massa 3525 2538 2115 1692 1410 1128 846 564 282 141 Magnussen 3700 2664 2220 1776 1480 1184 888 592 296 148 Räikkönen 3850 2772 2310 1848 1540 1232 924 616 308 154 Ricciardo 4200 3024 2520 2016 1680 1344 1008 672 336 168 Hülkenberg 4225 3042 2535 2028 1690 1352 1014 676 338 169 Perez 15975 11502 9585 7668 6390 5112 3834 2556 1278 639 Backpack 22475 16182 13485 10788 8990 7192 5394 3596 1798 899 Vergne 25675 18486 15405 12324 10270 8216 6162 4108 2054 1027 Kvyat 28750 20700 17250 13800 11500 9200 6900 4600 2300 1150 Grosjean 47925 34506 28755 23004 19170 15336 11502 7668 3834 1917 Maldonado 55300 39816 33180 26544 22120 17696 13272 8848 4424 2212 Sutil 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 Perez 9762 177 0 9585 Vergne 5952 5952 0 0 Kvyat 5363 4464 899 0 Rosberg 4589 1925 1386 1278 Hülkenberg 4500 1120 1690 1690 Hamilton 3550 0 1900 1650 Vettel 3357 0 2565 792 Alonso 3160 1404 1500 256 Magnussen 3092 2844 248 0 Button 2501 1605 896 0 Ricciardo 2016 0 0 2016 Bottas 1980 1040 436 504 Massa 1536 0 690 846 Räikkönen 928 774 0 154 Backpack 0 0 0 0 Grosjean 0 0 0 0 Gutierrez 0 0 0 0 Maldonado 0 0 0 0 Sutil 0 0 0 0 Scoring over 1000 points per share in a round means that the share did above average.
