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)
Monaco changes
Canada changes
Austria changes
Britain changes (including Austria 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 501 17.45 331.52 57 24 Rosberg 467 16.26 309.03 61 24 Ricciardo 306 10.66 202.49 94 22 Vettel 242 8.43 160.14 118 17 Alonso 230 8.01 152.20 125 19 Bottas 217 7.56 143.59 132 17 Hülkenberg 173 6.03 114.48 166 17 Massa 170 5.92 112.49 169 16 Button 133 4.63 88.01 216 11 Räikkönen 121 4.21 80.07 237 8 Magnussen 95 3.31 62.86 302 8 Perez 93 3.24 61.54 309 10 Grosjean 50 1.74 33.09 575 7 Kvyat 35 1.22 23.16 821 4 Maldonado 26 0.91 17.20 1106 5 Vergne 22 0.77 14.56 1307 3 Sutil 10 0.35 6.62 2876 2 Gutierrez 5 0.17 3.31 5753 4 Backpack 4 0.14 2.65 7192 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 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 1425 1026 855 684 570 456 342 228 114 57 Rosberg 1525 1098 915 732 610 488 366 244 122 61 Ricciardo 2350 1692 1410 1128 940 752 564 376 188 94 Vettel 2950 2124 1770 1416 1180 944 708 472 236 118 Alonso 3125 2250 1875 1500 1250 1000 750 500 250 125 Bottas 3300 2376 1980 1584 1320 1056 792 528 264 132 Hülkenberg 4150 2988 2490 1992 1660 1328 996 664 332 166 Massa 4225 3042 2535 2028 1690 1352 1014 676 338 169 Button 5400 3888 3240 2592 2160 1728 1296 864 432 216 Räikkönen 5925 4266 3555 2844 2370 1896 1422 948 474 237 Magnussen 7550 5436 4530 3624 3020 2416 1812 1208 604 302 Perez 7725 5562 4635 3708 3090 2472 1854 1236 618 309 Grosjean 14375 10350 8625 6900 5750 4600 3450 2300 1150 575 Kvyat 20525 14778 12315 9852 8210 6568 4926 3284 1642 821 Maldonado 27650 19908 16590 13272 11060 8848 6636 4424 2212 1106 Vergne 32675 23526 19605 15684 13070 10456 7842 5228 2614 1307 Sutil 71900 51768 43140 34512 28760 23008 17256 11504 5752 2876 Gutierrez 143825 103554 86295 69036 57530 46024 34518 23012 11506 5753 Backpack 179800 129456 107880 86304 71920 57536 43152 28768 14384 7192 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 Backpack 28768 0 0 0 0 0 28768 0 0 0 Perez 13954 177 0 9585 624 624 0 0 2944 0 Alonso 11278 1404 1500 256 2370 952 1524 992 1280 1000 Rosberg 11163 1925 1386 1278 1188 1170 1550 1116 1550 0 Ricciardo 10814 0 0 2016 1548 1545 1485 2450 360 1410 Vergne 10543 5952 0 0 0 0 0 3284 0 1307 Bottas 10241 1040 436 504 846 1580 0 1044 2415 2376 Hülkenberg 10185 1120 1690 1690 1144 131 1900 1530 316 664 Hamilton 9941 0 1900 1650 1500 1450 990 0 1026 1425 Button 9733 1605 896 0 0 0 1856 2784 0 2592 Vettel 8287 0 2565 792 1080 1200 0 1470 0 1180 Kvyat 7963 4464 899 0 958 0 0 0 0 1642 Magnussen 7670 2844 248 0 0 0 302 592 1872 1812 Massa 5706 0 690 846 0 0 1458 0 2712 0 Räikkönen 3510 774 0 154 884 1296 0 174 228 0 Grosjean 3280 0 0 0 0 2300 980 0 0 0 Gutierrez 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Maldonado 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Sutil 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Scoring over 1000 points per share in a round means that the share did above average.