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.
wewantourdarbyback may also add three more shares to his/her entry, as it currently only has 97 shares!
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 50 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:
Massa 37
Hamilton 22
Kovalainen 16
Webber 12
Coulthard 10
Button 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 realizes that Red Bull stink infinitely, and submits an edit to her entry as follows:
Sell:
Webber -10
Coulthard -10
Buy:
Alonso +10
Hamilton +5
Kovalainen +5
Her new "portfolio" will after the entry look like this:
Massa 37
Hamilton 27
Kovalainen 21
Alonso 10
Button 3
Webber 2
This might be a good format to post changes:
Example B again:
Massa 37
Hamilton 27 (+5)
Kovalainen 21 (+5)
Alonso 10 (+10)
Button 3
Webber 2 (-10)
Coulthard 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!
[b] DRIVER DShares Race Season VPP Owners[/b] Button 328 3.66 62.18 274 23 Massa 323 3.60 61.23 278 25 Barrichello 309 3.45 58.58 290 22 Kubica 306 3.41 58.01 293 25 Heidfeld 295 3.29 55.92 304 23 Räikkönen 294 3.28 55.73 305 22 Alonso 263 2.93 49.86 341 20 Trulli 261 2.91 49.48 344 21 Glock 202 2.25 38.29 444 17 Hamilton 190 2.12 36.02 473 15 Kovalainen 141 1.57 26.73 637 11 Vettel 138 1.54 26.16 651 13 Rosberg 127 1.42 24.07 707 12 Webber 89 0.99 16.87 1009 9 Piquet 68 0.76 12.89 1321 8 Nakajima 61 0.68 11.56 1473 8 Bourdais 45 0.50 8.53 1997 9 Fisichella 22 0.25 4.17 4085 5 Buemi 20 0.22 3.79 4493 4 Sutil 15 0.17 2.84 5991 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. [b] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - SHARE CHANGE + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + DRIVER -50 -20 -10 -5 -1 [b]VPP[/b] 1 5 10 20 50[/b] Button 323 291 282 278 274 [b]274[/b] 273 269 265 258 237 Massa 329 296 287 282 279 [b]278[/b] 277 274 269 262 240 Barrichello 346 310 300 295 291 [b]290[/b] 289 286 281 273 250 Kubica 351 314 303 298 294 [b]293[/b] 292 288 284 275 252 Heidfeld 366 326 315 309 305 [b]304[/b] 303 299 294 285 260 Räikkönen 368 328 316 310 306 [b]305[/b] 304 300 295 286 261 Alonso 421 369 355 348 343 [b]341[/b] 340 335 329 317 287 Trulli 425 372 358 351 345 [b]344[/b] 343 337 331 319 288 Glock 591 493 468 456 447 [b]444[/b] 442 434 423 404 356 Hamilton 641 528 499 485 475 [b]473[/b] 470 460 449 427 374 Kovalainen 987 742 686 660 641 [b]637[/b] 632 615 595 558 470 Vettel 1021 761 702 675 656 [b]651[/b] 646 628 607 568 478 Rosberg 1167 839 768 736 713 [b]707[/b] 702 680 656 611 507 Webber 2304 1302 1137 1069 1021 [b]1009[/b] 998 956 907 824 646 Piquet 4992 1872 1549 1426 1341 [b]1321[/b] 1302 1231 1152 1021 761 Nakajima 8170 2192 1762 1604 1497 [b]1473[/b] 1449 1361 1265 1109 809 Bourdais N/A 3594 2567 2246 2042 [b]1997[/b] 1953 1797 1634 1382 946 Fisichella N/A 44936 7489 5286 4279 [b]4085[/b] 3907 3328 2808 2139 1248 Buemi N/A N/A 8987 5991 4730 [b]4493[/b] 4279 3594 2995 2246 1283 Sutil N/A N/A 17974 8987 6419 [b]5991[/b] 5617 4493 3594 2567 1382 The above table illustrates the VPP changes if existing players move shares around. [b]VPP samples[/b] Players Shares/driver [b] 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 500 550 600 700 800 900 [/b] 35 899 599 449 359 299 257 224 199 179 163 149 128 112 99 36 925 616 462 370 308 264 231 205 185 168 154 132 115 102 37 950 633 475 380 316 271 237 211 190 172 158 135 118 105 38 976 651 488 390 325 279 244 217 195 177 162 139 122 108 VPP as a function of number of players and number of shares placed on a driver. [b]Return per share season history[/b] [b]TOT[/b] AUS MAL CHN BAH ESP MON TUR GB GER HUN EUR BEL ITA SIN JPN BRA ABU Buemi 8986 8986 Hamilton 2838 2838 Button 2740 2740 Barrichello 2320 2320 Glock 2220 2220 Rosberg 2121 2121 Bourdais 1997 1997 Alonso 1364 1364 Fisichella 0 0 Heidfeld 0 0 Kovalainen 0 0 Kubica 0 0 Massa 0 0 Nakajima 0 0 Piquet Jr 0 0 Räikkönen 0 0 Sutil 0 0 Trulli 0 0 Webber 0 0 Vettel 0 0 Scoring over 1000 points per share in a round means that the share did above average.
