It's time for the the 24th season of PTPC and YOU have a chance to win it, but only if you make an entry!
With 23 races expected this season, there's 2323 points to distribute. Only top ten race finish points count, not points gained from FLs or quali races.
Points scaling still applies nowadays, so if a race is cancelled or surprisingly added all entries will be adjusted in such an amazing way that people will pass out and cattle will inherit the earth. About time!
I still hope that entrants at least attempt to make a correct entry, to make direct comparisons easier and to reduce my workload a little.
This is what you do:
***Post a reply here with your guess on how the WDC final standings of this year will look. There are 2323 (23*101) points to be distributed. Bonus points for fastest laps are ignored.
*Points are assigned to specific drivers, not "the second Ferrari seat" or anything like that (meaning that points placed on one driver aren't transferred to his replacement in case of a driver change).
*You can edit your entry as much as you like until the deadline, which is at the start of the first free practice of the first GP of this season.
*Using a spreadsheet to get the points sum right is really helpful, your initial points allocation is likely to add up to much more due to the widespread preseason optimism syndrome.
This is how points are scored:
* If your entry doesn't add up to the points target of 2323, your entry will be scaled to make it so. After a rounding off process, scaled entries too will contain only integer values.
* If scheduled races are cancelled, all entries will be scaled down accordingly.
*** You gain one point in the competition for each F1-championship point that you've placed right, which means:
-If a driver has a higher final WDC score than the amount of points you've placed on him, you'll get as many points from this driver as you've placed on him.
-If the driver scores less than you've trusted him to do, you'll only get as many points as he has managed to score.
An example: if players A and B have placed 130 and 150 points respectively on Ricciardo and Ricciardo scores 134 points in the WDC, the players will score 130 and 134 points respectively for Ricciardo. Player A would then on the other hand have placed twenty more points than player B on other drivers, where they may have come to better use.
The competition is open for entries and changes to these until first free practice starts at Melbourne.
This is my preliminary prediction, which should change before the season start because right now I have no clue:
Driver Points Verstappen 393 Leclerc 295 Perez 286 Hamilton 279 Russell 274 Sainz 253 Norris 121 Ocon 85 Piastri 65 Alonso 58 Gasly 56 de Vries 41 Bottas 27 Stroll 22 Magnussen 16 Zhou 15 Tsunoda 13 Hülkenberg 12 Albon 10 Sargeant 2If you think a driver will score zero points, you don't have to put him in your list.
If you think some driver will come in as a replacement during the season and score points, feel free to place points on that driver too. Again: points guesses are not transferred to replacement drivers from the one being replaced!
Good luck!
