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)
Australia edits
Malaysia edits
China 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
Vettel 523 13.54 257.34 73 29
Alonso 467 12.09 229.79 82 25
Hamilton 399 10.33 196.33 96 24
Massa 346 8.96 170.25 111 23
Webber 326 8.44 160.41 118 21
Button 298 7.72 146.63 129 20
Rosberg 280 7.25 137.77 138 18
Kubica 252 6.53 124.00 153 21
Schumacher 221 5.72 108.74 175 17
Sutil 190 4.92 93.49 203 16
Barrichello 160 4.14 78.73 241 12
Liuzzi 82 2.12 40.35 471 10
Hülkenberg 68 1.76 33.46 568 9
Kobayashi 67 1.74 32.97 577 6
De la Rosa 50 1.29 24.60 773 4
Kovalainen 48 1.24 23.62 806 3
Buemi 36 0.93 17.71 1074 5
Alguersuari 30 0.78 14.76 1289 5
Trulli 18 0.47 8.86 2149 4
Petrov 17 0.44 8.36 2275 3
Glock 10 0.26 4.92 3868 1
Di Grassi 8 0.21 3.94 4836 3
Chandhok 2 0.05 0.98 19344 2
Senna 2 0.05 0.98 19344 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.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - SHARE CHANGE + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
DRIVER -50 -20 -10 -5 -1 VPP 1 5 10 20 50
Vettel 81 76 75 74 74 73 73 73 72 71 67
Alonso 92 86 84 83 83 82 82 81 81 79 74
Hamilton 110 102 99 98 97 96 96 95 94 92 86
Massa 130 118 115 113 112 111 111 110 108 105 97
Webber 140 126 122 120 119 118 118 116 115 111 102
Button 156 139 134 132 130 129 129 127 125 121 111
Rosberg 168 148 143 140 138 138 137 135 133 128 117
Kubica 191 166 159 156 154 153 152 150 147 142 128
Schumacher 226 192 183 179 175 175 174 171 167 160 142
Sutil 276 227 214 209 204 203 202 198 193 184 161
Barrichello 351 276 257 249 243 241 240 234 227 214 184
Liuzzi 1209 624 537 502 477 471 466 444 420 379 293
Hülkenberg 2149 806 667 614 577 568 560 529 496 439 327
Kobayashi 2275 823 678 624 586 577 568 537 502 444 330
De la Rosa N/A 1289 967 859 789 773 758 703 644 552 386
Kovalainen N/A 1381 1018 899 823 806 789 729 667 568 394
Buemi N/A 2418 1488 1248 1105 1074 1045 943 841 690 449
Alguersuari N/A 3868 1934 1547 1334 1289 1248 1105 967 773 483
Trulli N/A N/A 4836 2976 2275 2149 2036 1682 1381 1018 568
Petrov N/A N/A 5526 3224 2418 2275 2149 1758 1432 1045 577
Glock N/A N/A N/A 7737 4298 3868 3517 2579 1934 1289 644
Di Grassi N/A N/A N/A 12896 5526 4836 4298 2976 2149 1381 667
Chandhok N/A N/A N/A N/A 38688 19344 12896 5526 3224 1758 744
Senna N/A N/A N/A N/A 38688 19344 12896 5526 3224 1758 744
The above table illustrates the VPP changes if existing players move shares around.
VPP samples
Players Shares/driver
100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 500 550 600 700 800 900
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39 386 257 193 154 128 110 96 85 77 70 64 55 48 42
40 396 264 198 158 132 113 99 88 79 72 66 56 49 44
41 406 271 203 162 135 116 101 90 81 73 67 58 50 45
42 416 277 208 166 138 119 104 92 83 75 69 59 52 46
VPP as a function of number of players and number of shares placed on a driver.
Return per share season history
DRIVER TOT BAH OZ MAL CHN ESP MON TUR CAN EUR GB GER HUN BEL ITA SIN JAP KOR BRA ABU
Petrov 13650 0 0 0 13650
Button 8607 858 4000 524 3225
Rosberg 7470 1700 1480 2220 2070
Kubica 7314 0 3600 2184 1530
Massa 5214 2430 1860 702 222
Hamilton 4459 1275 720 736 1728
Alonso 4256 2300 972 0 984
Liuzzi 4202 1190 3012 0 0
Vettel 3938 1404 0 1950 584
Alguersuari 3868 0 0 3868 0
Webber 3630 544 256 2358 472
Sutil 2210 0 0 2210 0
Schumacher 1285 968 142 0 175
Barrichello 1094 210 884 0 0
Hülkenberg 522 0 0 522 0
Buemi 0 0 0 0 0
Chandhok 0 0 0 0 0
De la Rosa 0 0 0 0 0
Di Grassi 0 0 0 0 0
Glock 0 0 0 0 0
Kobayashi 0 0 0 0 0
Kovalainen 0 0 0 0 0
Senna 0 0 0 0 0
Trulli 0 0 0 0 0
Scoring over 1000 points per share in a round means that the share did above average.