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
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 365 16.03 336.59 62 19 Vettel 297 13.04 273.89 76 17 Bottas 288 12.65 265.59 79 17 Leclerc 287 12.60 264.66 79 17 Verstappen 279 12.25 257.29 81 17 Gasly 120 5.27 110.66 190 10 Räikkönen 89 3.91 82.07 256 12 Ricciardo 79 3.47 72.85 288 10 Hülkenberg 76 3.34 70.09 300 8 Magnussen 66 2.90 60.86 345 7 Perez 65 2.85 59.94 351 9 Sainz 65 2.85 59.94 351 5 Grosjean 58 2.55 53.49 393 6 Albon 43 1.89 39.65 530 4 Norris 39 1.71 35.96 585 4 Kvyat 33 1.45 30.43 691 6 Stroll 33 1.45 30.43 691 5 Giovinazzi 12 0.53 11.07 1901 3 Russell 4 0.18 3.69 5704 2 Kubica 2 0.09 1.84 11408 1 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 23 0.043913 24 0.042083 25 0.040400 With 23 players, if ten shares are moved to/from a driver his rating will rise/fall by about 0.44 points/race. *** Return per share as a function of finishing position *** DRIVER Win P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 P7 P8 P9 P10 Hamilton 1550 1116 930 744 620 496 372 248 124 62 Vettel 1900 1368 1140 912 760 608 456 304 152 76 Bottas 1975 1422 1185 948 790 632 474 316 158 79 Leclerc 1975 1422 1185 948 790 632 474 316 158 79 Verstappen 2025 1458 1215 972 810 648 486 324 162 81 Gasly 4750 3420 2850 2280 1900 1520 1140 760 380 190 Räikkönen 6400 4608 3840 3072 2560 2048 1536 1024 512 256 Ricciardo 7200 5184 4320 3456 2880 2304 1728 1152 576 288 Hülkenberg 7500 5400 4500 3600 3000 2400 1800 1200 600 300 Magnussen 8625 6210 5175 4140 3450 2760 2070 1380 690 345 Perez 8775 6318 5265 4212 3510 2808 2106 1404 702 351 Sainz 8775 6318 5265 4212 3510 2808 2106 1404 702 351 Grosjean 9825 7074 5895 4716 3930 3144 2358 1572 786 393 Albon 13250 9540 7950 6360 5300 4240 3180 2120 1060 530 Norris 14625 10530 8775 7020 5850 4680 3510 2340 1170 585 Kvyat 17275 12438 10365 8292 6910 5528 4146 2764 1382 691 Stroll 17275 12438 10365 8292 6910 5528 4146 2764 1382 691 Giovinazzi 47525 34218 28515 22812 19010 15208 11406 7604 3802 1901 Russell 142600 102672 85560 68448 57040 45632 34224 22816 11408 5704 Kubica 285200 205344 171120 136896 114080 91264 68448 45632 22816 11408 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 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 25 4960 2480 1240 826 620 496 413 354 310 275 248 124 82 62 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 MEX USA BRA ABU Bottas 7847 2650 1584 1638 1975 Norris 6812 0 4472 0 2340 Perez 5923 0 623 2492 2808 Hamilton 5612 1296 1600 1600 1116 Verstappen 4428 1320 1068 1068 972 Leclerc 3775 790 1395 800 790 Vettel 3695 780 710 1065 1140 Stroll 3270 1888 0 0 1382 Räikkönen 3116 1028 1374 458 256 Sainz 2106 0 0 0 2106 Magnussen 1984 1984 0 0 0 Gasly 1920 0 584 1336 0 Ricciardo 1842 0 0 1842 0 Albon 1521 0 1014 507 0 Hülkenberg 1464 1464 0 0 0 Kvyat 793 793 0 0 0 Giovinazzi 0 0 0 0 0 Grosjean 0 0 0 0 0 Kubica 0 0 0 0 0 Russell 0 0 0 0 0 Scoring over 1000 points per share in a round means that the share did above average.
