Hah! I totally forgot to post this one!
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)
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 314 15.86 333.00 63 15 Vettel 287 14.49 304.36 69 15 Räikkönen 226 11.41 239.67 87 14 Bottas 217 10.96 230.13 91 13 Ricciardo 210 10.61 222.71 94 15 Verstappen 207 10.45 219.52 95 15 Massa 100 5.05 106.05 198 10 Sainz 85 4.29 90.14 233 6 Perez 75 3.79 79.54 264 7 Ocon 66 3.33 69.99 300 7 Hülkenberg 55 2.78 58.33 360 7 Stroll 36 1.82 38.18 551 10 Kvyat 28 1.41 29.69 708 3 Magnussen 25 1.26 26.51 793 2 Grosjean 24 1.21 25.45 826 4 Palmer 20 1.01 21.21 992 3 Alonso 12 0.61 12.73 1653 2 Ericsson 6 0.30 6.36 3306 2 Wehrlein 6 0.30 6.36 3306 2 Vandoorne 1 0.05 1.06 19840 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 1575 1134 945 756 630 504 378 252 126 63 Vettel 1725 1242 1035 828 690 552 414 276 138 69 Räikkönen 2175 1566 1305 1044 870 696 522 348 174 87 Bottas 2275 1638 1365 1092 910 728 546 364 182 91 Ricciardo 2350 1692 1410 1128 940 752 564 376 188 94 Verstappen 2375 1710 1425 1140 950 760 570 380 190 95 Massa 4950 3564 2970 2376 1980 1584 1188 792 396 198 Sainz 5825 4194 3495 2796 2330 1864 1398 932 466 233 Perez 6600 4752 3960 3168 2640 2112 1584 1056 528 264 Ocon 7500 5400 4500 3600 3000 2400 1800 1200 600 300 Hülkenberg 9000 6480 5400 4320 3600 2880 2160 1440 720 360 Stroll 13775 9918 8265 6612 5510 4408 3306 2204 1102 551 Kvyat 17700 12744 10620 8496 7080 5664 4248 2832 1416 708 Magnussen 19825 14274 11895 9516 7930 6344 4758 3172 1586 793 Grosjean 20650 14868 12390 9912 8260 6608 4956 3304 1652 826 Palmer 24800 17856 14880 11904 9920 7936 5952 3968 1984 992 Alonso 41325 29754 24795 19836 16530 13224 9918 6612 3306 1653 Ericsson 82650 59508 49590 39672 33060 26448 19836 13224 6612 3306 Wehrlein 82650 59508 49590 39672 33060 26448 19836 13224 6612 3306 Vandoorne 496000 357120 297600 238080 198400 158720 119040 79360 39680 19840 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 CHN BAH RUS ESP MON CAN EUR AUT GB HUN BEL ITA SIN MAL JAP USA MEX BRA ABU Vettel 1725 1725 Massa 1584 1584 Perez 1584 1584 Kvyat 1416 1416 Bottas 1365 1365 Hamilton 1134 1134 Räikkönen 1044 1044 Verstappen 950 950 Sainz 932 932 Ocon 300 300 Alonso 0 0 Ericsson 0 0 Grosjean 0 0 Hülkenberg 0 0 Magnussen 0 0 Palmer 0 0 Ricciardo 0 0 Stroll 0 0 Vandoorne 0 0 Wehrlein 0 0 Scoring over 1000 points per share in a round means that the share did above average.
