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
Monaco changes (including Spain entries)
Canada changes
Europe changes (including Canada entries)
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!
Data below as they looked after the Canadian GP:
DRIVER DShares Race Season VPP Owners
Hamilton 297 12.00 239.98 83 17
Button 276 11.15 223.01 89 16
Vettel 257 10.38 207.66 96 18
Räikkönen 226 9.13 182.61 109 16
Rosberg 209 8.44 168.87 118 15
Alonso 194 7.84 156.75 127 14
Webber 182 7.35 147.06 136 13
Grosjean 172 6.95 138.98 144 13
Schumacher 170 6.87 137.36 145 16
Maldonado 107 4.32 86.46 231 8
Perez 83 3.35 67.06 298 8
Senna 75 3.03 60.60 330 6
Kobayashi 63 2.55 50.90 393 7
Hülkenberg 45 1.82 36.36 551 2
di Resta 44 1.78 35.55 563 4
Massa 34 1.37 27.47 729 4
Ricciardo 34 1.37 27.47 729 3
Vergne 22 0.89 17.78 1127 4
Kovalainen 6 0.24 4.85 4133 2
Bundle 2 0.08 1.62 12400 2
Petrov 2 0.08 1.62 12400 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
25 0.040400
26 0.038846
27 0.037407
28 0.036071
29 0.034828
With 25 players, if ten shares are moved to a driver his rating will rise by about 0.404 points/race.
DRIVER Win P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 P7 P8 P9 P10
Hamilton 2075 1494 1245 996 830 664 498 332 166 83
Button 2225 1602 1335 1068 890 712 534 356 178 89
Vettel 2400 1728 1440 1152 960 768 576 384 192 96
Räikkönen 2725 1962 1635 1308 1090 872 654 436 218 109
Rosberg 2950 2124 1770 1416 1180 944 708 472 236 118
Alonso 3175 2286 1905 1524 1270 1016 762 508 254 127
Webber 3400 2448 2040 1632 1360 1088 816 544 272 136
Grosjean 3600 2592 2160 1728 1440 1152 864 576 288 144
Schumacher 3625 2610 2175 1740 1450 1160 870 580 290 145
Maldonado 5775 4158 3465 2772 2310 1848 1386 924 462 231
Perez 7450 5364 4470 3576 2980 2384 1788 1192 596 298
Senna 8250 5940 4950 3960 3300 2640 1980 1320 660 330
Kobayashi 9825 7074 5895 4716 3930 3144 2358 1572 786 393
Hülkenberg 13775 9918 8265 6612 5510 4408 3306 2204 1102 551
di Resta 14075 10134 8445 6756 5630 4504 3378 2252 1126 563
Massa 18225 13122 10935 8748 7290 5832 4374 2916 1458 729
Ricciardo 18225 13122 10935 8748 7290 5832 4374 2916 1458 729
Vergne 28175 20286 16905 13524 11270 9016 6762 4508 2254 1127
Kovalainen 103325 74394 61995 49596 41330 33064 24798 16532 8266 4133
Bundle 310000 223200 186000 148800 124000 99200 74400 49600 24800 12400
Petrov 310000 223200 186000 148800 124000 99200 74400 49600 24800 12400
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
25 4960 2480 1240 826 620 496 413 354 310 275 248 124 82 62
26 5158 2579 1289 859 644 515 429 368 322 286 257 128 85 64
27 5356 2678 1339 892 669 535 446 382 334 297 267 133 89 66
28 5555 2777 1388 925 694 555 462 396 347 308 277 138 92 69
29 5753 2876 1438 958 719 575 479 410 359 319 287 143 95 71
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 EUR GB GER HUN BEL ITA SIN JAP KOR IND ABU USA BRA
Perez 13932 2028 7434 0 0 0 0 4470
Kobayashi 13692 6080 0 476 0 6350 0 786
Alonso 13539 1420 4125 316 1134 3024 2250 1270
Massa 12301 0 0 0 1652 0 9920 729
Maldonado 11374 0 0 1224 0 10150 0 0
di Resta 10709 325 2286 0 4720 0 3378 0
Rosberg 10388 0 0 4750 1190 804 2700 944
Senna 10104 0 6840 2976 0 0 288 0
Webber 9916 1320 1476 1416 1488 0 3400 816
Grosjean 9173 0 0 1520 3165 1896 0 2592
Vettel 7036 1152 0 730 2250 624 1128 1152
Hamilton 6836 1185 1095 1155 280 296 750 2075
Räikkönen 6557 834 1230 0 2196 1665 196 436
Vergne 4312 0 4312 0 0 0 0 0
Hülkenberg 3595 0 840 0 0 551 2204 0
Button 3156 1850 0 1170 0 136 0 0
Ricciardo 1690 1690 0 0 0 0 0 0
Schumacher 294 0 156 0 138 0 0 0
Bundle 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kovalainen 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Petrov 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Scoring over 1000 points per share in a round means that the share did above average.
