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)
Germany changes
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 495 17.24 327.55 58 24 Rosberg 464 16.16 307.04 62 24 Ricciardo 303 10.55 200.50 94 22 Vettel 233 8.11 154.18 123 17 Bottas 228 7.94 150.87 126 18 Alonso 222 7.73 146.90 129 19 Hülkenberg 162 5.64 107.20 177 17 Button 156 5.43 103.23 184 12 Massa 155 5.40 102.57 185 15 Räikkönen 116 4.04 76.76 248 7 Magnussen 115 4.01 76.10 250 11 Perez 98 3.41 64.85 293 10 Grosjean 47 1.64 31.10 612 7 Kvyat 35 1.22 23.16 821 4 Maldonado 29 1.01 19.19 992 5 Vergne 23 0.80 15.22 1250 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 1450 1044 870 696 580 464 348 232 116 58 Rosberg 1550 1116 930 744 620 496 372 248 124 62 Ricciardo 2350 1692 1410 1128 940 752 564 376 188 94 Vettel 3075 2214 1845 1476 1230 984 738 492 246 123 Bottas 3150 2268 1890 1512 1260 1008 756 504 252 126 Alonso 3225 2322 1935 1548 1290 1032 774 516 258 129 Hülkenberg 4425 3186 2655 2124 1770 1416 1062 708 354 177 Button 4600 3312 2760 2208 1840 1472 1104 736 368 184 Massa 4625 3330 2775 2220 1850 1480 1110 740 370 185 Räikkönen 6200 4464 3720 2976 2480 1984 1488 992 496 248 Magnussen 6250 4500 3750 3000 2500 2000 1500 1000 500 250 Perez 7325 5274 4395 3516 2930 2344 1758 1172 586 293 Grosjean 15300 11016 9180 7344 6120 4896 3672 2448 1224 612 Kvyat 20525 14778 12315 9852 8210 6568 4926 3284 1642 821 Maldonado 24800 17856 14880 11904 9920 7936 5952 3968 1984 992 Vergne 31250 22500 18750 15000 12500 10000 7500 5000 2500 1250 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 0 Perez 14247 177 0 9585 624 624 0 0 2944 0 293 Rosberg 12713 1925 1386 1278 1188 1170 1550 1116 1550 0 1550 Alonso 12568 1404 1500 256 2370 952 1524 992 1280 1000 1290 Bottas 12509 1040 436 504 846 1580 0 1044 2415 2376 2268 Ricciardo 11566 0 0 2016 1548 1545 1485 2450 360 1410 752 Hülkenberg 11247 1120 1690 1690 1144 131 1900 1530 316 664 1062 Hamilton 10811 0 1900 1650 1500 1450 990 0 1026 1425 870 Vergne 10543 5952 0 0 0 0 0 3284 0 1307 0 Button 10469 1605 896 0 0 0 1856 2784 0 2592 736 Vettel 9763 0 2565 792 1080 1200 0 1470 0 1180 1476 Magnussen 8170 2844 248 0 0 0 302 592 1872 1812 500 Kvyat 7963 4464 899 0 958 0 0 0 0 1642 0 Massa 5706 0 690 846 0 0 1458 0 2712 0 0 Räikkönen 3510 774 0 154 884 1296 0 174 228 0 0 Grosjean 3280 0 0 0 0 2300 980 0 0 0 0 Gutierrez 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Maldonado 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Sutil 0 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.
