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 319 15.34 322.19 65 17 Bottas 284 13.66 286.84 73 16 Verstappen 243 11.69 245.43 85 15 Vettel 211 10.15 213.11 98 14 Ricciardo 208 10.00 210.08 100 14 Räikkönen 165 7.94 166.65 126 14 Grosjean 98 4.71 98.98 212 10 Magnussen 98 4.71 98.98 212 6 Alonso 85 4.09 85.85 245 9 Vandoorne 75 3.61 75.75 277 7 Ocon 65 3.13 65.65 320 8 Hülkenberg 64 3.08 64.64 325 6 Sainz 64 3.08 64.64 325 8 Perez 34 1.64 34.34 612 6 Gasly 23 1.11 23.23 905 5 Hartley 20 0.96 20.20 1041 1 Sirotkin 17 0.82 17.17 1225 2 Stroll 13 0.63 13.13 1602 2 Leclerc 8 0.38 8.08 2604 1 Ericsson 6 0.29 6.06 3472 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 21 0.048095 22 0.045909 23 0.043913 24 0.042083 With 21 players, if ten shares are moved to a driver his rating will rise by about 0.481 points/race. *** Return per share as a function of finishing position *** DRIVER Win P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 P7 P8 P9 P10 Hamilton 1625 1170 975 780 650 520 390 260 130 65 Bottas 1825 1314 1095 876 730 584 438 292 146 73 Verstappen 2125 1530 1275 1020 850 680 510 340 170 85 Vettel 2450 1764 1470 1176 980 784 588 392 196 98 Ricciardo 2500 1800 1500 1200 1000 800 600 400 200 100 Räikkönen 3150 2268 1890 1512 1260 1008 756 504 252 126 Grosjean 5300 3816 3180 2544 2120 1696 1272 848 424 212 Magnussen 5300 3816 3180 2544 2120 1696 1272 848 424 212 Alonso 6125 4410 3675 2940 2450 1960 1470 980 490 245 Vandoorne 6925 4986 4155 3324 2770 2216 1662 1108 554 277 Ocon 8000 5760 4800 3840 3200 2560 1920 1280 640 320 Hülkenberg 8125 5850 4875 3900 3250 2600 1950 1300 650 325 Sainz 8125 5850 4875 3900 3250 2600 1950 1300 650 325 Perez 15300 11016 9180 7344 6120 4896 3672 2448 1224 612 Gasly 22625 16290 13575 10860 9050 7240 5430 3620 1810 905 Hartley 26025 18738 15615 12492 10410 8328 6246 4164 2082 1041 Sirotkin 30625 22050 18375 14700 12250 9800 7350 4900 2450 1225 Stroll 40050 28836 24030 19224 16020 12816 9612 6408 3204 1602 Leclerc 65100 46872 39060 31248 26040 20832 15624 10416 5208 2604 Ericsson 86800 62496 52080 41664 34720 27776 20832 13888 6944 3472 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 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 24 4761 2380 1190 793 595 476 396 340 297 264 238 119 79 59 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 AZE ESP MON CAN FRA AUT GB GER HUN BEL ITA SIN RUS JAP USA MEX BRA Alonso 2450 2450 Vettel 2450 2450 Hülkenberg 1950 1950 Räikkönen 1890 1890 Ricciardo 1200 1200 Hamilton 1170 1170 Verstappen 680 680 Vandoorne 554 554 Sainz 325 325 Bottas 292 292 Ericsson 0 0 Gasly 0 0 Grosjean 0 0 Hartley 0 0 Leclerc 0 0 Magnussen 0 0 Ocon 0 0 Perez 0 0 Sirotkin 0 0 Stroll 0 0 Scoring over 1000 points per share in a round means that the share did above average.
