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
Monaco changes (including Spain entries)
Canada changes
Azerbaijan changes
Austria 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 368 18.58 371.68 53 18 Vettel 354 17.88 357.54 56 18 Bottas 252 12.73 254.52 78 14 Räikkönen 197 9.95 198.97 100 15 Verstappen 191 9.65 192.91 103 16 Ricciardo 154 7.78 155.54 128 15 Perez 100 5.05 101.00 198 11 Ocon 89 4.49 89.89 222 9 Massa 69 3.48 69.69 287 8 Hülkenberg 60 3.03 60.60 330 8 Sainz 31 1.57 31.31 640 5 Alonso 26 1.31 26.26 763 5 Magnussen 25 1.26 25.25 793 3 Stroll 25 1.26 25.25 793 5 Kvyat 23 1.16 23.23 862 3 Palmer 15 0.76 15.15 1322 2 Grosjean 9 0.45 9.09 2204 2 Ericsson 5 0.25 5.05 3968 1 Wehrlein 5 0.25 5.05 3968 1 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 Hamilton 1325 954 795 636 530 424 318 212 106 53 Vettel 1400 1008 840 672 560 448 336 224 112 56 Bottas 1950 1404 1170 936 780 624 468 312 156 78 Räikkönen 2500 1800 1500 1200 1000 800 600 400 200 100 Verstappen 2575 1854 1545 1236 1030 824 618 412 206 103 Ricciardo 3200 2304 1920 1536 1280 1024 768 512 256 128 Perez 4950 3564 2970 2376 1980 1584 1188 792 396 198 Ocon 5550 3996 3330 2664 2220 1776 1332 888 444 222 Massa 7175 5166 4305 3444 2870 2296 1722 1148 574 287 Hülkenberg 8250 5940 4950 3960 3300 2640 1980 1320 660 330 Sainz 16000 11520 9600 7680 6400 5120 3840 2560 1280 640 Alonso 19075 13734 11445 9156 7630 6104 4578 3052 1526 763 Magnussen 19825 14274 11895 9516 7930 6344 4758 3172 1586 793 Stroll 19825 14274 11895 9516 7930 6344 4758 3172 1586 793 Kvyat 21550 15516 12930 10344 8620 6896 5172 3448 1724 862 Palmer 33050 23796 19830 15864 13220 10576 7932 5288 2644 1322 Grosjean 55100 39672 33060 26448 22040 17632 13224 8816 4408 2204 Ericsson 99200 71424 59520 47616 39680 31744 23808 15872 7936 3968 Wehrlein 99200 71424 59520 47616 39680 31744 23808 15872 7936 3968 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 AZE AUT GB HUN BEL ITA SIN MAL JAP USA MEX BRA ABU Grosjean 40737 0 0 1320 0 901 19840 1044 0 17632 Wehrlein 19840 0 0 0 0 15872 0 0 3968 0 Ocon 19145 300 354 461 3966 6400 0 4176 2600 888 Stroll 16605 0 0 0 0 0 0 1652 14160 793 Ricciardo 13302 0 1272 1210 0 2055 1710 1860 3275 1920 Magnussen 13176 0 7936 0 0 0 992 0 4248 0 Perez 11758 1584 496 1542 2056 3012 0 1880 0 1188 Bottas 10934 1365 672 1305 2000 0 960 1332 1350 1950 Vettel 9762 1675 1044 1475 1008 918 1350 636 648 1008 Sainz 9661 932 1584 0 389 1980 2688 0 2088 0 Hamilton 8520 1134 1550 990 636 1325 324 1375 550 636 Räikkönen 7976 1044 1000 1008 1560 0 1818 546 0 1000 Hülkenberg 6856 0 0 992 1440 3168 0 1256 0 0 Massa 4896 1584 0 1632 422 0 684 0 0 574 Verstappen 4700 950 1590 0 1120 0 1040 0 0 0 Kvyat 3896 1416 0 0 0 2480 0 0 0 0 Alonso 2480 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2480 0 Ericsson 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Palmer 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Vandoorne 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.
