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)
Bahrain changes
China 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 Rosberg 342 15.70 329.72 63 17 Hamilton 333 15.29 321.04 65 20 Vettel 303 13.91 292.12 72 17 Räikkönen 235 10.79 226.56 92 15 Ricciardo 156 7.16 150.40 139 13 Verstappen 140 6.43 134.97 155 14 Bottas 109 5.00 105.09 200 10 Massa 90 4.13 86.77 242 8 Grosjean 87 3.99 83.88 250 11 Kvyat 84 3.86 80.98 259 10 Hülkenberg 58 2.66 55.92 376 6 Sainz 46 2.11 44.35 474 7 Button 37 1.70 35.67 589 6 Gutierrez 36 1.65 34.71 606 5 Alonso 34 1.56 32.78 641 5 Magnussen 30 1.38 28.92 727 3 Perez 25 1.15 24.10 872 2 Ericsson 23 1.06 22.17 948 3 Backpack 13 0.60 12.53 1678 2 Palmer 13 0.60 12.53 1678 2 Nasr 6 0.28 5.78 3637 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 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 Rosberg 1575 1134 945 756 630 504 378 252 126 63 Hamilton 1625 1170 975 780 650 520 390 260 130 65 Vettel 1800 1296 1080 864 720 576 432 288 144 72 Räikkönen 2300 1656 1380 1104 920 736 552 368 184 92 Ricciardo 3475 2502 2085 1668 1390 1112 834 556 278 139 Verstappen 3875 2790 2325 1860 1550 1240 930 620 310 155 Bottas 5000 3600 3000 2400 2000 1600 1200 800 400 200 Massa 6050 4356 3630 2904 2420 1936 1452 968 484 242 Grosjean 6250 4500 3750 3000 2500 2000 1500 1000 500 250 Kvyat 6475 4662 3885 3108 2590 2072 1554 1036 518 259 Hülkenberg 9400 6768 5640 4512 3760 3008 2256 1504 752 376 Sainz 11850 8532 7110 5688 4740 3792 2844 1896 948 474 Button 14725 10602 8835 7068 5890 4712 3534 2356 1178 589 Gutierrez 15150 10908 9090 7272 6060 4848 3636 2424 1212 606 Alonso 16025 11538 9615 7692 6410 5128 3846 2564 1282 641 Magnussen 18175 13086 10905 8724 7270 5816 4362 2908 1454 727 Perez 21800 15696 13080 10464 8720 6976 5232 3488 1744 872 Ericsson 23700 17064 14220 11376 9480 7584 5688 3792 1896 948 Backpack 41950 30204 25170 20136 16780 13424 10068 6712 3356 1678 Palmer 41950 30204 25170 20136 16780 13424 10068 6712 3356 1678 Nasr 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 8512 3872 4640 0 Ricciardo 6108 2232 2208 1668 Kvyat 5457 0 1572 3885 Rosberg 5000 1750 1675 1575 Massa 4952 2240 776 1936 Räikkönen 2738 0 1818 920 Vettel 2421 1125 0 1296 Hamilton 2340 1080 870 390 Verstappen 2186 174 1392 620 Sainz 1544 596 0 948 Hülkenberg 1404 1404 0 0 Bottas 1160 588 372 200 Alonso 727 0 727 0 Backpack 0 0 0 0 Button 0 0 0 0 Ericsson 0 0 0 0 Gutierrez 0 0 0 0 Magnussen 0 0 0 0 Nasr 0 0 0 0 Palmer 0 0 0 0 Perez 0 0 0 0 Scoring over 1000 points per share in a round means that the share did above average.
