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
China changes
Bahrain changes
Spain changes (including Bahrain entries)
Monaco changes
Canada changes
Austria 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 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 444 20.38 387.29 49 20 Rosberg 364 16.71 317.51 59 18 Vettel 295 13.54 257.32 73 19 Bottas 229 10.51 199.75 95 17 Räikkönen 210 9.64 183.18 103 18 Massa 158 7.25 137.82 138 13 Grosjean 92 4.22 80.25 237 10 Ricciardo 80 3.67 69.78 272 9 Verstappen 51 2.34 44.49 427 7 Sainz 47 2.16 41.00 464 4 Maldonado 41 1.88 35.76 532 8 Hülkenberg 38 1.74 33.15 574 4 Kvyat 34 1.56 29.66 641 5 Perez 34 1.56 29.66 641 6 Ericsson 31 1.42 27.04 704 3 Nasr 23 1.06 20.06 948 4 Alonso 21 0.96 18.32 1039 3 Button 8 0.37 6.98 2728 2 Backpack 0 0.00 0.00 N/A 0 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 22 0.045909 23 0.043913 24 0.042083 With 22 players, if ten shares are moved to a driver his rating will rise by about 0.459 points/race. *** Return per share as a function of finishing position *** DRIVER Win P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 P7 P8 P9 P10 Hamilton 1225 882 735 588 490 392 294 196 98 49 Rosberg 1475 1062 885 708 590 472 354 236 118 59 Vettel 1825 1314 1095 876 730 584 438 292 146 73 Bottas 2375 1710 1425 1140 950 760 570 380 190 95 Räikkönen 2575 1854 1545 1236 1030 824 618 412 206 103 Massa 3450 2484 2070 1656 1380 1104 828 552 276 138 Grosjean 5925 4266 3555 2844 2370 1896 1422 948 474 237 Ricciardo 6800 4896 4080 3264 2720 2176 1632 1088 544 272 Verstappen 10675 7686 6405 5124 4270 3416 2562 1708 854 427 Sainz 11600 8352 6960 5568 4640 3712 2784 1856 928 464 Maldonado 13300 9576 7980 6384 5320 4256 3192 2128 1064 532 Hülkenberg 14350 10332 8610 6888 5740 4592 3444 2296 1148 574 Kvyat 16025 11538 9615 7692 6410 5128 3846 2564 1282 641 Perez 16025 11538 9615 7692 6410 5128 3846 2564 1282 641 Ericsson 17600 12672 10560 8448 7040 5632 4224 2816 1408 704 Nasr 23700 17064 14220 11376 9480 7584 5688 3792 1896 948 Alonso 25975 18702 15585 12468 10390 8312 6234 4156 2078 1039 Button 68200 49104 40920 32736 27280 21824 16368 10912 5456 2728 Backpack 173600 124992 104160 83328 69440 55552 41664 27776 13888 6944 The above table illustrates the return each share gives for each finishing position given the current share distribution. Exception: Backpack, listing the return for a single share. *** VPP samples *** Players Shares/driver 5 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 200 300 400 22 4364 2182 1091 727 545 436 363 311 272 242 218 109 72 54 23 4563 2281 1140 760 570 456 380 325 285 253 228 114 76 57 24 4761 2380 1190 793 595 476 396 340 297 264 238 119 79 59 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 AUT GB HUN BEL ITA SIN JAP RUS USA MEX BRA ABU Nasr 23708 20940 0 1800 0 0 968 0 0 Perez 11562 856 0 0 4960 0 4464 0 1282 Rosberg 10470 1224 1080 1278 990 1725 1600 1098 1475 Kvyat 10398 0 720 0 1044 520 6936 1178 0 Vettel 9676 1440 2250 1215 710 1125 1350 710 876 Hülkenberg 9298 2214 0 0 0 0 0 2492 4592 Hamilton 8825 1375 1026 1400 1275 882 735 1250 882 Massa 7841 1224 840 1170 129 1168 0 1240 2070 Bottas 7716 0 1150 864 1620 1572 0 1560 950 Maldonado 7038 0 0 0 0 0 0 3846 3192 Räikkönen 6932 0 1248 1212 1800 840 728 1104 0 Ricciardo 6818 968 198 528 2200 1122 1530 0 272 Button 5952 0 0 0 0 0 5952 0 0 Grosjean 3918 0 0 1434 1332 832 0 320 0 Verstappen 3832 0 2124 0 0 0 0 0 1708 Ericsson 3473 3012 0 461 0 0 0 0 0 Sainz 3442 724 1416 0 0 924 378 0 0 Alonso 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Backpack 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.
