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
China changes
Spain changes (including China 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 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 494 17.20 326.89 58 24 Rosberg 441 15.36 291.82 65 24 Vettel 287 10.00 189.91 100 20 Ricciardo 277 9.65 183.30 103 21 Alonso 241 8.39 159.48 119 19 Hülkenberg 218 7.59 144.26 131 18 Bottas 181 6.30 119.77 158 15 Button 139 4.84 91.98 206 10 Massa 133 4.63 88.01 216 13 Räikkönen 133 4.63 88.01 216 9 Magnussen 108 3.76 71.47 266 11 Perez 92 3.20 60.88 312 11 Grosjean 50 1.74 33.09 575 8 Kvyat 35 1.22 23.16 821 4 Vergne 28 0.98 18.53 1027 5 Maldonado 24 0.84 15.88 1198 3 Sutil 12 0.42 7.94 2397 3 Gutierrez 5 0.17 3.31 5753 4 Backpack 2 0.07 1.32 14384 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 1450 1044 870 696 580 464 348 232 116 58 Rosberg 1625 1170 975 780 650 520 390 260 130 65 Vettel 2500 1800 1500 1200 1000 800 600 400 200 100 Ricciardo 2575 1854 1545 1236 1030 824 618 412 206 103 Alonso 2975 2142 1785 1428 1190 952 714 476 238 119 Hülkenberg 3275 2358 1965 1572 1310 1048 786 524 262 131 Bottas 3950 2844 2370 1896 1580 1264 948 632 316 158 Button 5150 3708 3090 2472 2060 1648 1236 824 412 206 Massa 5400 3888 3240 2592 2160 1728 1296 864 432 216 Räikkönen 5400 3888 3240 2592 2160 1728 1296 864 432 216 Magnussen 6650 4788 3990 3192 2660 2128 1596 1064 532 266 Perez 7800 5616 4680 3744 3120 2496 1872 1248 624 312 Grosjean 14375 10350 8625 6900 5750 4600 3450 2300 1150 575 Kvyat 20525 14778 12315 9852 8210 6568 4926 3284 1642 821 Vergne 25675 18486 15405 12324 10270 8216 6162 4108 2054 1027 Maldonado 29950 21564 17970 14376 11980 9584 7188 4792 2396 1198 Sutil 59925 43146 35955 28764 23970 19176 14382 9588 4794 2397 Gutierrez 143825 103554 86295 69036 57530 46024 34518 23012 11506 5753 Backpack 359600 258912 215760 172608 143840 115072 86304 57536 28768 14384 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 11010 177 0 9585 624 624 Rosberg 6947 1925 1386 1278 1188 1170 Hamilton 6500 0 1900 1650 1500 1450 Alonso 6482 1404 1500 256 2370 952 Kvyat 6321 4464 899 0 958 0 Vergne 5952 5952 0 0 0 0 Hülkenberg 5775 1120 1690 1690 1144 131 Vettel 5637 0 2565 792 1080 1200 Ricciardo 5109 0 0 2016 1548 1545 Bottas 4406 1040 436 504 846 1580 Räikkönen 3108 774 0 154 884 1296 Magnussen 3092 2844 248 0 0 0 Button 2501 1605 896 0 0 0 Grosjean 2300 0 0 0 0 2300 Massa 1536 0 690 846 0 0 Backpack 0 0 0 0 0 0 Gutierrez 0 0 0 0 0 0 Maldonado 0 0 0 0 0 0 Sutil 0 0 0 0 0 0 Scoring over 1000 points per share in a round means that the share did above average.