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)
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 Vettel 339 17.12 342.39 58 17 Hamilton 317 16.01 320.17 62 16 Bottas 234 11.82 236.34 84 14 Räikkönen 197 9.95 198.97 100 14 Verstappen 187 9.44 188.87 106 14 Ricciardo 186 9.39 187.86 106 15 Massa 109 5.50 110.09 182 11 Perez 80 4.04 80.80 248 8 Sainz 75 3.79 75.75 264 6 Grosjean 66 3.33 66.66 300 8 Ocon 56 2.83 56.56 354 7 Hülkenberg 45 2.27 45.45 440 6 Kvyat 34 1.72 34.34 583 4 Stroll 22 1.11 22.22 901 5 Palmer 15 0.76 15.15 1322 2 Alonso 12 0.61 12.12 1653 2 Magnussen 10 0.51 10.10 1984 1 Wehrlein 8 0.40 8.08 2480 3 Ericsson 6 0.30 6.06 3306 2 Vandoorne 2 0.10 2.02 9920 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 20 0.050500 21 0.048095 22 0.045909 23 0.043913 With 20 players, if ten shares are moved to a driver his rating will rise by about 0.505 points/race. *** Return per share as a function of finishing position *** DRIVER Win P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 P7 P8 P9 P10 Vettel 1450 1044 870 696 580 464 348 232 116 58 Hamilton 1550 1116 930 744 620 496 372 248 124 62 Bottas 2100 1512 1260 1008 840 672 504 336 168 84 Räikkönen 2500 1800 1500 1200 1000 800 600 400 200 100 Verstappen 2650 1908 1590 1272 1060 848 636 424 212 106 Ricciardo 2650 1908 1590 1272 1060 848 636 424 212 106 Massa 4550 3276 2730 2184 1820 1456 1092 728 364 182 Perez 6200 4464 3720 2976 2480 1984 1488 992 496 248 Sainz 6600 4752 3960 3168 2640 2112 1584 1056 528 264 Grosjean 7500 5400 4500 3600 3000 2400 1800 1200 600 300 Ocon 8850 6372 5310 4248 3540 2832 2124 1416 708 354 Hülkenberg 11000 7920 6600 5280 4400 3520 2640 1760 880 440 Kvyat 14575 10494 8745 6996 5830 4664 3498 2332 1166 583 Stroll 22525 16218 13515 10812 9010 7208 5406 3604 1802 901 Palmer 33050 23796 19830 15864 13220 10576 7932 5288 2644 1322 Alonso 41325 29754 24795 19836 16530 13224 9918 6612 3306 1653 Magnussen 49600 35712 29760 23808 19840 15872 11904 7936 3968 1984 Wehrlein 62000 44640 37200 29760 24800 19840 14880 9920 4960 2480 Ericsson 82650 59508 49590 39672 33060 26448 19836 13224 6612 3306 Vandoorne 248000 178560 148800 119040 99200 79360 59520 39680 19840 9920 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 20 3968 1984 992 661 496 396 330 283 248 220 198 99 66 49 21 4166 2083 1041 694 520 416 347 297 260 231 208 104 69 52 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 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 Magnussen 7936 0 7936 Vettel 2719 1675 1044 Hamilton 2684 1134 1550 Verstappen 2540 950 1590 Sainz 2516 932 1584 Perez 2080 1584 496 Räikkönen 2044 1044 1000 Bottas 2037 1365 672 Massa 1584 1584 0 Kvyat 1416 1416 0 Ricciardo 1272 0 1272 Ocon 654 300 354 Alonso 0 0 0 Ericsson 0 0 0 Grosjean 0 0 0 Hülkenberg 0 0 0 Palmer 0 0 0 Stroll 0 0 0 Vandoorne 0 0 0 Wehrlein 0 0 0 Scoring over 1000 points per share in a round means that the share did above average.
