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)
Monaco changes
Canada changes
France changes
Austria changes (including France entries)
Britain 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 409 17.96 377.17 55 20 Bottas 295 12.95 272.04 77 17 Vettel 284 12.47 261.90 80 18 Leclerc 250 10.98 230.54 91 16 Verstappen 247 10.85 227.78 92 17 Gasly 130 5.71 119.88 175 11 Norris 104 4.57 95.91 219 11 Sainz 100 4.39 92.22 228 9 Hülkenberg 71 3.12 65.47 321 8 Ricciardo 66 2.90 60.86 345 8 Magnussen 63 2.77 58.10 362 7 Räikkönen 55 2.42 50.72 414 7 Grosjean 52 2.28 47.95 438 5 Perez 45 1.98 41.50 507 6 Kvyat 40 1.76 36.89 570 5 Albon 38 1.67 35.04 600 3 Stroll 31 1.36 28.59 736 4 Giovinazzi 16 0.70 14.75 1426 3 Kubica 2 0.09 1.84 11408 1 Russell 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 1375 990 825 660 550 440 330 220 110 55 Bottas 1925 1386 1155 924 770 616 462 308 154 77 Vettel 2000 1440 1200 960 800 640 480 320 160 80 Leclerc 2275 1638 1365 1092 910 728 546 364 182 91 Verstappen 2300 1656 1380 1104 920 736 552 368 184 92 Gasly 4375 3150 2625 2100 1750 1400 1050 700 350 175 Norris 5475 3942 3285 2628 2190 1752 1314 876 438 219 Sainz 5700 4104 3420 2736 2280 1824 1368 912 456 228 Hülkenberg 8025 5778 4815 3852 3210 2568 1926 1284 642 321 Ricciardo 8625 6210 5175 4140 3450 2760 2070 1380 690 345 Magnussen 9050 6516 5430 4344 3620 2896 2172 1448 724 362 Räikkönen 10350 7452 6210 4968 4140 3312 2484 1656 828 414 Grosjean 10950 7884 6570 5256 4380 3504 2628 1752 876 438 Perez 12675 9126 7605 6084 5070 4056 3042 2028 1014 507 Kvyat 14250 10260 8550 6840 5700 4560 3420 2280 1140 570 Albon 15000 10800 9000 7200 6000 4800 3600 2400 1200 600 Stroll 18400 13248 11040 8832 7360 5888 4416 2944 1472 736 Giovinazzi 35650 25668 21390 17112 14260 11408 8556 5704 2852 1426 Kubica 285200 205344 171120 136896 114080 91264 68448 45632 22816 11408 Russell 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 15233 2650 1584 1638 1975 1386 1170 900 1404 1140 1386 Hamilton 13297 1296 1600 1600 1116 1500 1450 1400 1400 560 1375 Verstappen 11573 1320 1068 1068 972 1230 864 810 996 2325 920 Sainz 10514 0 0 0 2106 1404 2144 0 2096 940 1824 Leclerc 10439 790 1395 800 790 790 0 1410 1425 1674 1365 Norris 9624 0 4472 0 2340 0 0 0 828 1984 0 Vettel 9223 780 710 1065 1140 936 1458 1440 770 924 0 Gasly 8706 0 584 1336 0 1336 1470 668 162 1050 2100 Räikkönen 8084 1028 1374 458 256 0 0 0 2484 828 1656 Kvyat 7747 793 0 0 0 1824 3420 570 0 0 1140 Ricciardo 7046 0 0 1842 0 0 670 2464 0 0 2070 Perez 5923 0 623 2492 2808 0 0 0 0 0 0 Hülkenberg 5915 1464 0 0 0 0 0 2682 1448 0 321 Stroll 5254 1888 0 0 1382 0 0 1984 0 0 0 Magnussen 3856 1984 0 0 0 1872 0 0 0 0 0 Albon 3641 0 1014 507 0 0 2120 0 0 0 0 Giovinazzi 2074 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2074 0 Grosjean 754 0 0 0 0 316 438 0 0 0 0 Kubica 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Russell 0 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.
