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
Russia 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 361 16.57 348.04 60 20 Rosberg 355 16.30 342.25 61 19 Vettel 306 14.05 295.01 71 18 Räikkönen 230 10.56 221.74 94 15 Ricciardo 195 8.95 188.00 111 15 Verstappen 135 6.20 130.15 161 14 Kvyat 116 5.33 111.83 188 12 Bottas 106 4.87 102.19 205 10 Massa 89 4.09 85.80 245 7 Grosjean 76 3.49 73.27 287 10 Sainz 39 1.79 37.60 559 6 Hülkenberg 30 1.38 28.92 727 3 Perez 26 1.19 25.07 839 2 Gutierrez 24 1.10 23.14 909 3 Alonso 22 1.01 21.21 992 4 Button 20 0.92 19.28 1091 3 Magnussen 20 0.92 19.28 1091 2 Ericsson 18 0.83 17.35 1212 3 Backpack 13 0.60 12.53 1678 3 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 Hamilton 1500 1080 900 720 600 480 360 240 120 60 Rosberg 1525 1098 915 732 610 488 366 244 122 61 Vettel 1775 1278 1065 852 710 568 426 284 142 71 Räikkönen 2350 1692 1410 1128 940 752 564 376 188 94 Ricciardo 2775 1998 1665 1332 1110 888 666 444 222 111 Verstappen 4025 2898 2415 1932 1610 1288 966 644 322 161 Kvyat 4700 3384 2820 2256 1880 1504 1128 752 376 188 Bottas 5125 3690 3075 2460 2050 1640 1230 820 410 205 Massa 6125 4410 3675 2940 2450 1960 1470 980 490 245 Grosjean 7175 5166 4305 3444 2870 2296 1722 1148 574 287 Sainz 13975 10062 8385 6708 5590 4472 3354 2236 1118 559 Hülkenberg 18175 13086 10905 8724 7270 5816 4362 2908 1454 727 Perez 20975 15102 12585 10068 8390 6712 5034 3356 1678 839 Gutierrez 22725 16362 13635 10908 9090 7272 5454 3636 1818 909 Alonso 24800 17856 14880 11904 9920 7936 5952 3968 1984 992 Button 27275 19638 16365 13092 10910 8728 6546 4364 2182 1091 Magnussen 27275 19638 16365 13092 10910 8728 6546 4364 2182 1091 Ericsson 30300 21816 18180 14544 12120 9696 7272 4848 2424 1212 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 9660 3872 4640 0 1148 Alonso 8663 0 727 0 7936 Massa 7402 2240 776 1936 2450 Magnussen 6546 0 0 0 6546 Rosberg 6525 1750 1675 1575 1525 Ricciardo 6108 2232 2208 1668 0 Kvyat 5457 0 1572 3885 0 Räikkönen 4148 0 1818 920 1410 Bottas 3620 588 372 200 2460 Hamilton 3420 1080 870 390 1080 Vettel 2421 1125 0 1296 0 Verstappen 2186 174 1392 620 0 Perez 1678 0 0 0 1678 Sainz 1544 596 0 948 0 Hülkenberg 1404 1404 0 0 0 Button 1091 0 0 0 1091 Backpack 0 0 0 0 0 Ericsson 0 0 0 0 0 Gutierrez 0 0 0 0 0 Nasr 0 0 0 0 0 Palmer 0 0 0 0 0 Scoring over 1000 points per share in a round means that the share did above average.
