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)
Britain changes
Hungary changes
Belgium changes
Italy changes (including Belgium entries)
Singapore changes
Japan 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 461 19.40 368.61 51 20 Rosberg 369 15.53 295.05 64 19 Vettel 330 13.89 263.86 72 19 Räikkönen 194 8.16 155.12 122 17 Bottas 172 7.24 137.53 138 13 Massa 165 6.94 131.93 144 14 Ricciardo 122 5.13 97.55 195 14 Hülkenberg 90 3.79 71.96 264 8 Perez 86 3.62 68.76 276 8 Verstappen 81 3.41 64.77 293 8 Kvyat 78 3.28 62.37 305 10 Grosjean 62 2.61 49.57 384 9 Sainz 57 2.40 45.58 417 5 Maldonado 40 1.68 31.98 595 5 Nasr 32 1.35 25.59 744 4 Ericsson 31 1.30 24.79 768 3 Alonso 21 0.88 16.79 1133 3 Button 8 0.34 6.40 2976 2 Backpack 1 0.04 0.80 23808 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 24 0.042083 25 0.040400 26 0.038846 With 24 players, if ten shares are moved to a driver his rating will rise by about 0.421 points/race. *** Return per share as a function of finishing position *** DRIVER Win P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 P7 P8 P9 P10 Hamilton 1275 918 765 612 510 408 306 204 102 51 Rosberg 1600 1152 960 768 640 512 384 256 128 64 Vettel 1800 1296 1080 864 720 576 432 288 144 72 Räikkönen 3050 2196 1830 1464 1220 976 732 488 244 122 Bottas 3450 2484 2070 1656 1380 1104 828 552 276 138 Massa 3600 2592 2160 1728 1440 1152 864 576 288 144 Ricciardo 4875 3510 2925 2340 1950 1560 1170 780 390 195 Hülkenberg 6600 4752 3960 3168 2640 2112 1584 1056 528 264 Perez 6900 4968 4140 3312 2760 2208 1656 1104 552 276 Verstappen 7325 5274 4395 3516 2930 2344 1758 1172 586 293 Kvyat 7625 5490 4575 3660 3050 2440 1830 1220 610 305 Grosjean 9600 6912 5760 4608 3840 3072 2304 1536 768 384 Sainz 10425 7506 6255 5004 4170 3336 2502 1668 834 417 Maldonado 14875 10710 8925 7140 5950 4760 3570 2380 1190 595 Nasr 18600 13392 11160 8928 7440 5952 4464 2976 1488 744 Ericsson 19200 13824 11520 9216 7680 6144 4608 3072 1536 768 Alonso 28325 20394 16995 13596 11330 9064 6798 4532 2266 1133 Button 74400 53568 44640 35712 29760 23808 17856 11904 5952 2976 Backpack 595200 428544 357120 285696 238080 190464 142848 95232 47616 23808 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 24 4761 2380 1190 793 595 476 396 340 297 264 238 119 79 59 25 4960 2480 1240 826 620 496 413 354 310 275 248 124 82 62 26 5158 2579 1289 859 644 515 429 368 322 286 257 128 85 64 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 Kvyat 25576 0 720 0 1044 520 6936 1178 0 3968 4410 4464 432 1904 0 Nasr 24452 20940 0 1800 0 0 968 0 0 0 0 0 0 744 0 Perez 19720 856 0 0 4960 0 4464 0 1282 860 0 3900 1640 1758 0 Vettel 17006 1440 2250 1215 710 1125 1350 710 876 1125 1900 0 1350 1875 1080 Grosjean 15651 0 0 1434 1332 832 0 320 0 0 2694 6735 0 0 2304 Ricciardo 15575 968 198 528 2200 1122 1530 0 272 0 3795 0 1488 3474 0 Rosberg 14902 1224 1080 1278 990 1725 1600 1098 1475 1098 256 1170 0 756 1152 Hamilton 14383 1375 1026 1400 1275 882 735 1250 882 1275 408 1300 1300 0 1275 Hülkenberg 14086 2214 0 0 0 0 0 2492 4592 1392 0 0 1284 0 2112 Bottas 13160 0 1150 864 1620 1572 0 1560 950 1020 0 244 1380 1420 1380 Räikkönen 13046 0 1248 1212 1800 840 728 1104 0 536 0 624 1480 2010 1464 Verstappen 12406 0 2124 0 0 0 0 0 1708 0 5100 1700 0 1188 586 Massa 12179 1224 840 1170 129 1168 0 1240 2070 1596 0 1032 1710 0 0 Maldonado 9418 0 0 0 0 0 0 3846 3192 0 0 0 0 0 2380 Alonso 8766 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1086 7680 0 0 0 0 Button 7440 0 0 0 0 0 5952 0 0 0 1488 0 0 0 0 Ericsson 6545 3012 0 461 0 0 0 0 0 0 768 768 1536 0 0 Sainz 4445 724 1416 0 0 924 378 0 0 0 0 0 0 586 417 Backpack 0 0 0 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.
