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)
Bahrain changes
China changes
Azerbaijan changes
Spain changes (including Azerbaijan entries)
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 322 14.78 310.44 67 17 Vettel 302 13.86 291.16 72 16 Bottas 248 11.39 239.09 88 17 Ricciardo 221 10.15 213.06 98 18 Räikkönen 212 9.73 204.39 102 15 Verstappen 194 8.91 187.03 112 14 Hülkenberg 112 5.14 107.98 194 11 Alonso 108 4.96 104.12 202 10 Magnussen 94 4.32 90.62 232 7 Vandoorne 74 3.40 71.34 294 7 Sainz 64 2.94 61.70 341 8 Grosjean 60 2.75 57.85 363 7 Perez 42 1.93 40.49 519 6 Ocon 40 1.84 38.56 545 5 Gasly 35 1.61 33.74 623 6 Stroll 23 1.06 22.17 948 2 Sirotkin 18 0.83 17.35 1212 2 Leclerc 15 0.69 14.46 1454 2 Ericsson 11 0.51 10.61 1984 3 Hartley 5 0.23 4.82 4364 3 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 22 0.045909 23 0.043913 24 0.042083 With 22 players, if ten shares are moved to a driver his rating will rise by about 0.459 points/race. *** Return per share as a function of finishing position *** DRIVER Win P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 P7 P8 P9 P10 Hamilton 1675 1206 1005 804 670 536 402 268 134 67 Vettel 1800 1296 1080 864 720 576 432 288 144 72 Bottas 2200 1584 1320 1056 880 704 528 352 176 88 Ricciardo 2450 1764 1470 1176 980 784 588 392 196 98 Räikkönen 2550 1836 1530 1224 1020 816 612 408 204 102 Verstappen 2800 2016 1680 1344 1120 896 672 448 224 112 Hülkenberg 4850 3492 2910 2328 1940 1552 1164 776 388 194 Alonso 5050 3636 3030 2424 2020 1616 1212 808 404 202 Magnussen 5800 4176 3480 2784 2320 1856 1392 928 464 232 Vandoorne 7350 5292 4410 3528 2940 2352 1764 1176 588 294 Sainz 8525 6138 5115 4092 3410 2728 2046 1364 682 341 Grosjean 9075 6534 5445 4356 3630 2904 2178 1452 726 363 Perez 12975 9342 7785 6228 5190 4152 3114 2076 1038 519 Ocon 13625 9810 8175 6540 5450 4360 3270 2180 1090 545 Gasly 15575 11214 9345 7476 6230 4984 3738 2492 1246 623 Stroll 23700 17064 14220 11376 9480 7584 5688 3792 1896 948 Sirotkin 30300 21816 18180 14544 12120 9696 7272 4848 2424 1212 Leclerc 36350 26172 21810 17448 14540 11632 8724 5816 2908 1454 Ericsson 49600 35712 29760 23808 19840 15872 11904 7936 3968 1984 Hartley 109100 78552 65460 52368 43640 34912 26184 17456 8728 4364 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 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 Leclerc 36366 0 0 0 34912 1454 Gasly 20832 0 20832 0 0 0 Perez 11943 0 0 0 10905 1038 Alonso 7782 2450 1452 1500 1572 808 Sainz 7385 325 0 744 4270 2046 Hülkenberg 7150 1950 2600 2600 0 0 Ericsson 6944 0 6944 0 0 0 Vettel 6380 2450 1950 288 828 864 Hamilton 6167 1170 915 732 1675 1675 Hartley 5456 0 0 0 5456 0 Räikkönen 5367 1890 0 1605 1872 0 Bottas 4936 292 1512 1548 0 1584 Ricciardo 4580 1200 0 2400 0 980 Magnussen 4132 0 2080 196 0 1856 Stroll 3792 0 0 0 3792 0 Verstappen 3340 680 0 980 0 1680 Vandoorne 2506 554 1188 0 764 0 Ocon 563 0 563 0 0 0 Grosjean 0 0 0 0 0 0 Sirotkin 0 0 0 0 0 0 Scoring over 1000 points per share in a round means that the share did above average.
