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
Hungary 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 487 16.96 322.26 59 24 Rosberg 455 15.85 301.08 63 24 Ricciardo 302 10.52 199.84 95 21 Vettel 252 8.78 166.75 114 19 Bottas 249 8.67 164.77 115 19 Alonso 222 7.73 146.90 129 19 Massa 160 5.57 105.88 179 15 Button 152 5.29 100.58 189 12 Hülkenberg 146 5.08 96.61 197 16 Magnussen 133 4.63 88.01 216 12 Räikkönen 108 3.76 71.47 266 7 Perez 75 2.61 49.63 383 8 Kvyat 45 1.57 29.78 639 5 Grosjean 43 1.50 28.45 669 6 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 1475 1062 885 708 590 472 354 236 118 59 Rosberg 1575 1134 945 756 630 504 378 252 126 63 Ricciardo 2375 1710 1425 1140 950 760 570 380 190 95 Vettel 2850 2052 1710 1368 1140 912 684 456 228 114 Bottas 2875 2070 1725 1380 1150 920 690 460 230 115 Alonso 3225 2322 1935 1548 1290 1032 774 516 258 129 Massa 4475 3222 2685 2148 1790 1432 1074 716 358 179 Button 4725 3402 2835 2268 1890 1512 1134 756 378 189 Hülkenberg 4925 3546 2955 2364 1970 1576 1182 788 394 197 Magnussen 5400 3888 3240 2592 2160 1728 1296 864 432 216 Räikkönen 6650 4788 3990 3192 2660 2128 1596 1064 532 266 Perez 9575 6894 5745 4596 3830 3064 2298 1532 766 383 Kvyat 15975 11502 9585 7668 6390 5112 3834 2556 1278 639 Grosjean 16725 12042 10035 8028 6690 5352 4014 2676 1338 669 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 0 Alonso 14890 1404 1500 256 2370 952 1524 992 1280 1000 1290 2322 Perez 14247 177 0 9585 624 624 0 0 2944 0 293 0 Ricciardo 13941 0 0 2016 1548 1545 1485 2450 360 1410 752 2375 Rosberg 13469 1925 1386 1278 1188 1170 1550 1116 1550 0 1550 756 Vergne 13043 5952 0 0 0 0 0 3284 0 1307 0 2500 Bottas 12969 1040 436 504 846 1580 0 1044 2415 2376 2268 460 Hamilton 11696 0 1900 1650 1500 1450 990 0 1026 1425 870 885 Hülkenberg 11247 1120 1690 1690 1144 131 1900 1530 316 664 1062 0 Button 10658 1605 896 0 0 0 1856 2784 0 2592 736 189 Vettel 10447 0 2565 792 1080 1200 0 1470 0 1180 1476 684 Magnussen 8170 2844 248 0 0 0 302 592 1872 1812 500 0 Kvyat 7963 4464 899 0 958 0 0 0 0 1642 0 0 Massa 7496 0 690 846 0 0 1458 0 2712 0 0 1790 Räikkönen 5638 774 0 154 884 1296 0 174 228 0 0 2128 Grosjean 3280 0 0 0 0 2300 980 0 0 0 0 0 Gutierrez 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Maldonado 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Sutil 0 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.
