More important might be to consider that the Renault team apparently is banned for Valencia!
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 edits
China edits
Bahrain edits
Spain edits (including entries as of Bahrain)
Monaco edits
Turkey edits
Britain edits
Germany edits (including entries as of Britain)
Hungary edits
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 50 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!
DRIVER DShares Race Season VPP Owners
Button 570 5.85 99.45 171 31
Vettel 496 5.09 86.53 196 28
Webber 447 4.59 77.98 218 27
Barrichello 352 3.61 61.41 277 25
Schumacher 263 2.70 45.88 371 22
Trulli 261 2.68 45.53 374 24
Räikkönen 250 2.57 43.61 390 22
Rosberg 233 2.39 40.65 419 20
Hamilton 194 1.99 33.84 503 17
Alonso 159 1.63 27.74 614 15
Glock 153 1.57 26.69 638 17
Kubica 105 1.08 18.31 930 9
Heidfeld 89 0.91 15.52 1097 8
Kovalainen 80 0.82 13.95 1220 6
Nakajima 38 0.39 6.63 2570 8
Buemi 33 0.34 5.75 2959 4
Bourdais 24 0.25 4.18 4069 6
Piquet 24 0.25 4.18 4069 3
Sutil 17 0.17 2.96 5744 5
Fisichella 12 0.12 2.09 8138 6
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.
NOTE: share distribution as it was for Britain! Changes for the German GP have been made but haven't been accounted for here.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - SHARE CHANGE + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
DRIVER -50 -20 -10 -5 -1 VPP 1 5 10 20 50
Button 187 177 174 172 171 171 171 169 168 165 157
Vettel 218 205 200 198 197 196 196 194 193 189 178
Webber 245 228 223 220 218 218 217 216 213 209 196
Barrichello 323 294 285 281 278 277 276 273 269 262 242
Schumacher 458 401 386 378 372 371 369 364 357 345 312
Trulli 462 405 389 381 375 374 372 367 360 347 314
Räikkönen 488 424 406 398 392 390 389 382 375 361 325
Rosberg 533 458 437 428 420 419 417 410 401 386 345
Hamilton 678 561 530 516 506 503 500 490 478 456 400
Alonso 895 702 655 634 618 614 610 595 577 545 467
Glock 948 734 682 659 642 638 634 618 599 564 481
Kubica 1775 1148 1028 976 939 930 921 887 849 781 630
Heidfeld 2504 1415 1236 1162 1109 1097 1085 1038 986 895 702
Kovalainen 3255 1627 1395 1302 1236 1220 1205 1148 1085 976 751
Nakajima N/A 5425 3487 2959 2639 2570 2504 2271 2034 1683 1109
Buemi N/A 7512 4246 3487 3051 2959 2872 2570 2271 1842 1176
Bourdais N/A 24415 6975 5140 4246 4069 3906 3367 2872 2219 1319
Piquet N/A 24415 6975 5140 4246 4069 3906 3367 2872 2219 1319
Sutil N/A N/A 13951 8138 6103 5744 5425 4439 3617 2639 1457
Fisichella N/A N/A 48830 13951 8878 8138 7512 5744 4439 3051 1575
The above table illustrates the VPP changes if existing players move shares around.
NOTE! based on the shares distribution as it was for Britain! Changes for the German GP have been made but haven't been accounted for here.
VPP samples
Players Shares/driver
100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 500 550 600 700 800 900
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38 976 651 488 390 325 279 244 217 195 177 162 139 122 108
39 1002 668 501 400 334 286 250 222 200 182 167 143 125 111
40 1028 685 514 411 342 293 257 228 205 186 171 146 128 114
41 1053 702 526 421 351 301 263 234 210 191 175 150 131 117
VPP as a function of number of players and number of shares placed on a driver.
Return per share season history
TOT AUS MAL CHN BAH ESP MON TUR GB GER HUN EUR BEL ITA SIN JPN BRA ABU
Webber 16993 0 1965 4272 0 2076 1096 2136 1880 2260 1308
Buemi 15325 8986 0 6339 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Button 14709 2740 2210 1188 1900 1740 1760 1700 477 652 342
Rosberg 13092 2121 531 0 0 483 1566 2044 1992 2260 2095
Barrichello 11982 2320 940 1150 1000 2088 2120 0 1566 798 0
Vettel 11768 0 0 3570 2072 1110 0 1284 2180 1552 0
Hamilton 10610 0 1056 1914 2610 0 0 0 0 0 5030
Kovalainen 10468 0 0 4368 0 0 0 0 0 1220 4880
Trulli 8775 2064 1740 0 1926 0 0 1935 736 0 374
Glock 8760 2220 2628 742 740 0 0 516 0 0 1914
Massa 8260 0 0 0 0 1386 2095 903 1710 2166 0
Räikkönen 7305 0 0 0 1314 0 2514 0 357 0 3120
Alonso 6273 1364 0 0 531 2144 1006 0 0 1228 0
Alguersuari* 5707 2090 0 0 0 0 3617 0 0 0 0
Heidfeld 4982 0 3208 0 0 1774 0 0 0 0 0
Kubica 1536 0 0 0 0 0 0 1536 0 0 0
Fisichella 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nakajima 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Piquet Jr 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sutil 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
*Was Bourdais until Germany
Scoring over 1000 points per share in a round means that the share did above average.
