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 Verstappen 212 14.27 328.32 70 11 Hamilton 196 13.20 303.54 75 11 Sainz 175 11.78 271.02 85 13 Leclerc 163 10.98 252.43 91 11 Russell 130 8.75 201.33 114 10 Norris 128 8.62 198.23 116 10 Perez 112 7.54 173.45 132 9 Gasly 68 4.58 105.31 218 7 Ricciardo 56 3.77 86.73 265 7 Ocon 52 3.50 80.53 286 7 Alonso 49 3.30 75.88 303 7 Magnussen 49 3.30 75.88 303 4 Schumacher 30 2.02 46.46 496 3 Stroll 23 1.55 35.62 646 3 Tsunoda 17 1.14 26.33 875 3 Bottas 16 1.08 24.78 930 3 Vettel 15 1.01 23.23 992 2 Zhou 4 0.27 6.19 3720 4 Albon 3 0.20 4.65 4960 3 Latifi 2 0.13 3.10 7440 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 15 0.067333 16 0.063125 17 0.059411 With 14 players, if ten shares are moved to/from a driver his rating will rise/fall by about 0.72 points/race. *** Return per share as a function of finishing position *** DRIVER Win P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 P7 P8 P9 P10 Verstappen 1750 1260 1050 840 700 560 420 280 140 70 Hamilton 1875 1350 1125 900 750 600 450 300 150 75 Sainz 2125 1530 1275 1020 850 680 510 340 170 85 Leclerc 2275 1638 1365 1092 910 728 546 364 182 91 Russell 2850 2052 1710 1368 1140 912 684 456 228 114 Norris 2900 2088 1740 1392 1160 928 696 464 232 116 Perez 3300 2376 1980 1584 1320 1056 792 528 264 132 Gasly 5450 3924 3270 2616 2180 1744 1308 872 436 218 Ricciardo 6625 4770 3975 3180 2650 2120 1590 1060 530 265 Ocon 7150 5148 4290 3432 2860 2288 1716 1144 572 286 Alonso 7575 5454 4545 3636 3030 2424 1818 1212 606 303 Magnussen 7575 5454 4545 3636 3030 2424 1818 1212 606 303 Schumacher 12400 8928 7440 5952 4960 3968 2976 1984 992 496 Stroll 16150 11628 9690 7752 6460 5168 3876 2584 1292 646 Tsunoda 21875 15750 13125 10500 8750 7000 5250 3500 1750 875 Bottas 23250 16740 13950 11160 9300 7440 5580 3720 1860 930 Vettel 24800 17856 14880 11904 9920 7936 5952 3968 1984 992 Zhou 93000 66960 55800 44640 37200 29760 22320 14880 7440 3720 Albon 124000 89280 74400 59520 49600 39680 29760 19840 9920 4960 Latifi 186000 133920 111600 89280 74400 59520 44640 29760 14880 7440 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 15 2976 1488 744 496 372 297 248 212 186 165 148 74 49 37 16 3174 1587 793 529 396 317 264 226 198 176 158 79 52 39 17 3372 1686 843 562 421 337 281 240 210 187 168 84 56 42 VPP as a function of number of players and number of shares placed on a driver. *** Return per share season history *** DRIVER TOT BAH SAU OZ EMI MIA ESP MON AZE CAN GB AUT FRA HUN BEL NED ITA SIN JPN ÚSA MEX BRA ABU Bottas 7440 7440 Zhou 3720 3720 Tsunoda 3500 3500 Magnussen 3030 3030 Leclerc 2275 2275 Ocon 1716 1716 Sainz 1530 1530 Russell 1368 1368 Hamilton 1125 1125 Alonso 606 606 Albon 0 0 Gasly 0 0 Latifi 0 0 Norris 0 0 Perez 0 0 Ricciardo 0 0 Schumacher 0 0 Stroll 0 0 Verstappen 0 0 Vettel 0 0 Scoring over 1000 points per share in a round means that the share did above average.