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
Spain changes (including Russia entries)
Monaco changes
Canada changes
Europe changes
Austria changes (including Europe entries)
Britain changes
Hungary changes
Germany changes
Belgium changes (including Germany entries)
Italy changes
Singapore changes
Malaysia changes
Japan changes
USA changes (including Japan entries)
Mexico changes
Brazil 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 383 16.82 353.19 59 18 Rosberg 345 15.15 318.15 66 18 Verstappen 233 10.23 214.87 97 17 Ricciardo 228 10.01 210.26 100 17 Vettel 213 9.35 196.42 107 16 Räikkönen 188 8.26 173.37 121 14 Perez 91 4.00 83.92 250 9 Button 89 3.91 82.07 256 8 Hülkenberg 87 3.82 80.23 262 9 Bottas 84 3.69 77.46 271 6 Alonso 82 3.60 75.62 278 8 Massa 66 2.90 60.86 345 8 Sainz 52 2.28 47.95 438 6 Grosjean 48 2.11 44.26 475 6 Kvyat 45 1.98 41.50 507 6 Magnussen 20 0.88 18.44 1140 2 Ericsson 18 0.79 16.60 1267 3 Gutierrez 12 0.53 11.07 1901 2 Palmer 8 0.35 7.38 2852 2 Nasr 5 0.22 4.61 4563 1 Wehrlein 2 0.09 1.84 11408 2 Ocon 1 0.04 0.92 22816 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 23 0.043913 24 0.042083 25 0.040400 26 0.038846 With 23 players, if ten shares are moved to a driver his rating will rise by about 0.439 points/race. *** Return per share as a function of finishing position *** DRIVER Win P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 P7 P8 P9 P10 Hamilton 1475 1062 885 708 590 472 354 236 118 59 Rosberg 1650 1188 990 792 660 528 396 264 132 66 Verstappen 2425 1746 1455 1164 970 776 582 388 194 97 Ricciardo 2500 1800 1500 1200 1000 800 600 400 200 100 Vettel 2675 1926 1605 1284 1070 856 642 428 214 107 Räikkönen 3025 2178 1815 1452 1210 968 726 484 242 121 Perez 6250 4500 3750 3000 2500 2000 1500 1000 500 250 Button 6400 4608 3840 3072 2560 2048 1536 1024 512 256 Hülkenberg 6550 4716 3930 3144 2620 2096 1572 1048 524 262 Bottas 6775 4878 4065 3252 2710 2168 1626 1084 542 271 Alonso 6950 5004 4170 3336 2780 2224 1668 1112 556 278 Massa 8625 6210 5175 4140 3450 2760 2070 1380 690 345 Sainz 10950 7884 6570 5256 4380 3504 2628 1752 876 438 Grosjean 11875 8550 7125 5700 4750 3800 2850 1900 950 475 Kvyat 12675 9126 7605 6084 5070 4056 3042 2028 1014 507 Magnussen 28500 20520 17100 13680 11400 9120 6840 4560 2280 1140 Ericsson 31675 22806 19005 15204 12670 10136 7602 5068 2534 1267 Gutierrez 47525 34218 28515 22812 19010 15208 11406 7604 3802 1901 Palmer 71300 51336 42780 34224 28520 22816 17112 11408 5704 2852 Nasr 114075 82134 68445 54756 45630 36504 27378 18252 9126 4563 Wehrlein 285200 205344 171120 136896 114080 91264 68448 45632 22816 11408 Ocon 570400 410688 342240 273792 228160 182528 136896 91264 45632 22816 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 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 Perez 33298 0 0 0 1678 5034 8610 283 4740 0 1672 0 216 2340 704 852 1784 1380 792 213 3000 Ricciardo 26494 2232 2208 1668 0 1248 1746 588 636 1190 1296 1380 1836 1728 1010 1584 2250 704 1380 1410 400 Rosberg 25040 1750 1675 1575 1525 0 378 670 1800 852 1065 1260 840 1525 1850 1900 1050 1725 1206 1206 1188 Verstappen 24539 0 1572 3885 0 3700 0 1212 388 2088 1890 860 1455 0 642 760 1746 1710 0 1176 1455 Alonso 23531 0 727 0 7936 0 3250 0 0 0 0 1920 0 2010 0 1668 2532 0 3210 0 278 Hülkenberg 23407 1404 0 0 0 0 5816 1816 714 0 1920 389 1866 3312 250 0 1168 1284 0 1896 1572 Hamilton 22305 1080 870 390 1080 0 1550 1550 610 1550 1575 1575 1575 1185 1170 960 0 960 1600 1550 1475 Sainz 20710 596 0 948 0 4712 1528 1090 0 1780 1856 1192 0 0 0 0 0 0 3504 0 3504 Räikkönen 19560 0 1818 920 1410 1728 0 920 1488 1800 1170 928 792 208 1272 1464 1428 1270 0 944 0 Vettel 17781 1125 0 1296 0 1050 948 1566 1512 0 190 1236 910 760 1530 950 0 1320 1308 1010 1070 Bottas 17423 588 372 200 2460 1690 0 2790 1392 300 0 512 422 1048 1880 0 2530 271 0 968 0 Massa 14163 2240 776 1936 2450 980 357 0 253 0 0 0 0 389 642 0 0 828 2484 828 0 Grosjean 12760 3872 4640 0 1148 0 0 0 0 2670 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 430 0 0 Button 10811 0 0 0 1091 1364 632 0 0 4712 0 0 1984 0 0 0 480 0 548 0 0 Nasr 9126 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9126 Magnussen 7686 0 0 0 6546 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1140 0 0 0 0 0 Palmer 4563 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4563 0 0 0 0 Kvyat 3868 174 1392 620 0 272 0 0 0 0 396 0 0 0 0 1014 0 0 0 0 0 Wehrlein 1818 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1818 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Ericsson 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Gutierrez 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Ocon 0 0 0 0 0 0 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.