New entries are always welcome! Catching up is still perfectly doable! Join! Join!
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)
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 359 16.48 346.11 60 19 Rosberg 310 14.23 298.87 70 16 Vettel 290 13.31 279.59 75 16 Räikkönen 180 8.26 173.54 121 12 Bottas 148 6.79 142.69 147 12 Verstappen 125 5.74 120.51 174 11 Ricciardo 117 5.37 112.80 186 10 Massa 97 4.45 93.52 224 6 Hülkenberg 93 4.27 89.66 234 10 Kvyat 87 3.99 83.88 250 7 Perez 85 3.90 81.95 256 6 Sainz 73 3.35 70.38 298 8 Grosjean 45 2.07 43.38 484 4 Alonso 42 1.93 40.49 519 7 Magnussen 36 1.65 34.71 606 5 Button 27 1.24 26.03 808 4 Ericsson 25 1.15 24.10 872 3 Nasr 22 1.01 21.21 992 3 Backpack 20 0.92 19.28 1091 4 Palmer 13 0.60 12.53 1678 4 Gutierrez 6 0.28 5.78 3637 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 22 0.045909 23 0.043913 24 0.042083 25 0.040400 26 0.038846 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 1500 1080 900 720 600 480 360 240 120 60 Rosberg 1750 1260 1050 840 700 560 420 280 140 70 Vettel 1875 1350 1125 900 750 600 450 300 150 75 Räikkönen 3025 2178 1815 1452 1210 968 726 484 242 121 Bottas 3675 2646 2205 1764 1470 1176 882 588 294 147 Verstappen 4350 3132 2610 2088 1740 1392 1044 696 348 174 Ricciardo 4650 3348 2790 2232 1860 1488 1116 744 372 186 Massa 5600 4032 3360 2688 2240 1792 1344 896 448 224 Hülkenberg 5850 4212 3510 2808 2340 1872 1404 936 468 234 Kvyat 6250 4500 3750 3000 2500 2000 1500 1000 500 250 Perez 6400 4608 3840 3072 2560 2048 1536 1024 512 256 Sainz 7450 5364 4470 3576 2980 2384 1788 1192 596 298 Grosjean 12100 8712 7260 5808 4840 3872 2904 1936 968 484 Alonso 12975 9342 7785 6228 5190 4152 3114 2076 1038 519 Magnussen 15150 10908 9090 7272 6060 4848 3636 2424 1212 606 Button 20200 14544 12120 9696 8080 6464 4848 3232 1616 808 Ericsson 21800 15696 13080 10464 8720 6976 5232 3488 1744 872 Nasr 24800 17856 14880 11904 9920 7936 5952 3968 1984 992 Backpack 27275 19638 16365 13092 10910 8728 6546 4364 2182 1091 Palmer 41950 30204 25170 20136 16780 13424 10068 6712 3356 1678 Gutierrez 90925 65466 54555 43644 36370 29096 21822 14548 7274 3637 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 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 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 BAH CHN RUS ESP MON CAN EUR AUT GB HUN GER BEL ITA SIN MAL JAP USA MEX BRA ABU Grosjean 3872 3872 Massa 2240 2240 Ricciardo 2232 2232 Rosberg 1750 1750 Hülkenberg 1404 1404 Vettel 1125 1125 Hamilton 1080 1080 Sainz 596 596 Bottas 588 588 Verstappen 174 174 Alonso 0 0 Backpack 0 0 Button 0 0 Ericsson 0 0 Gutierrez 0 0 Kvyat 0 0 Magnussen 0 0 Nasr 0 0 Palmer 0 0 Perez 0 0 Räikkönen 0 0 Scoring over 1000 points per share in a round means that the share did above average.
