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
Bahrain changes
Russia changes
Spain 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 385 19.44 388.85 51 18 Hamilton 372 18.79 375.72 53 18 Bottas 261 13.18 263.61 76 14 Räikkönen 208 10.50 210.08 95 15 Verstappen 190 9.60 191.90 104 17 Ricciardo 144 7.27 145.44 137 15 Massa 89 4.49 89.89 222 10 Perez 79 3.99 79.79 251 8 Sainz 60 3.03 60.60 330 7 Hülkenberg 50 2.53 50.50 396 6 Ocon 31 1.57 31.31 640 4 Stroll 29 1.46 29.29 684 6 Grosjean 22 1.11 22.22 901 4 Magnussen 20 1.01 20.20 992 2 Alonso 16 0.81 16.16 1240 4 Kvyat 16 0.81 16.16 1240 3 Palmer 15 0.76 15.15 1322 2 Ericsson 5 0.25 5.05 3968 1 Wehrlein 5 0.25 5.05 3968 1 Vandoorne 3 0.15 3.03 6613 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 1275 918 765 612 510 408 306 204 102 51 Hamilton 1325 954 795 636 530 424 318 212 106 53 Bottas 1900 1368 1140 912 760 608 456 304 152 76 Räikkönen 2375 1710 1425 1140 950 760 570 380 190 95 Verstappen 2600 1872 1560 1248 1040 832 624 416 208 104 Ricciardo 3425 2466 2055 1644 1370 1096 822 548 274 137 Massa 5550 3996 3330 2664 2220 1776 1332 888 444 222 Perez 6275 4518 3765 3012 2510 2008 1506 1004 502 251 Sainz 8250 5940 4950 3960 3300 2640 1980 1320 660 330 Hülkenberg 9900 7128 5940 4752 3960 3168 2376 1584 792 396 Ocon 16000 11520 9600 7680 6400 5120 3840 2560 1280 640 Stroll 17100 12312 10260 8208 6840 5472 4104 2736 1368 684 Grosjean 22525 16218 13515 10812 9010 7208 5406 3604 1802 901 Magnussen 24800 17856 14880 11904 9920 7936 5952 3968 1984 992 Alonso 31000 22320 18600 14880 12400 9920 7440 4960 2480 1240 Kvyat 31000 22320 18600 14880 12400 9920 7440 4960 2480 1240 Palmer 33050 23796 19830 15864 13220 10576 7932 5288 2644 1322 Ericsson 99200 71424 59520 47616 39680 31744 23808 15872 7936 3968 Wehrlein 99200 71424 59520 47616 39680 31744 23808 15872 7936 3968 Vandoorne 165325 119034 99195 79356 66130 52904 39678 26452 13226 6613 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 Wehrlein 15872 0 0 0 0 15872 Ocon 11481 300 354 461 3966 6400 Perez 8690 1584 496 1542 2056 3012 Magnussen 7936 0 7936 0 0 0 Vettel 6120 1675 1044 1475 1008 918 Hamilton 5635 1134 1550 990 636 1325 Hülkenberg 5600 0 0 992 1440 3168 Bottas 5342 1365 672 1305 2000 0 Sainz 4885 932 1584 0 389 1980 Räikkönen 4612 1044 1000 1008 1560 0 Ricciardo 4537 0 1272 1210 0 2055 Kvyat 3896 1416 0 0 0 2480 Verstappen 3660 950 1590 0 1120 0 Massa 3638 1584 0 1632 422 0 Grosjean 2221 0 0 1320 0 901 Alonso 0 0 0 0 0 0 Ericsson 0 0 0 0 0 0 Palmer 0 0 0 0 0 0 Stroll 0 0 0 0 0 0 Vandoorne 0 0 0 0 0 0 Scoring over 1000 points per share in a round means that the share did above average.
