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)
Malaysia edits
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 429 4.52 76.87 221 30 Barrichello 403 4.25 72.21 235 30 Kubica 328 3.46 58.77 289 25 Trulli 273 2.88 48.91 348 23 Räikkönen 268 2.82 48.02 354 21 Massa 257 2.71 46.05 370 23 Heidfeld 237 2.50 42.46 401 19 Alonso 227 2.39 40.67 418 19 Glock 217 2.29 38.88 438 20 Vettel 217 2.29 38.88 438 20 Hamilton 180 1.90 32.25 528 15 Rosberg 179 1.89 32.07 531 17 Webber 145 1.53 25.98 655 14 Nakajima 96 1.01 17.20 990 11 Kovalainen 94 0.99 16.84 1011 7 Piquet 59 0.62 10.57 1611 6 Fisichella 26 0.27 4.65 3657 6 Bourdais 25 0.26 4.47 3803 4 Sutil 21 0.22 3.76 4528 6 Buemi 19 0.20 3.40 5004 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 250 232 226 224 222 [b]221[/b] 221 219 216 211 198 Barrichello 269 248 241 238 236 [b]235[/b] 235 233 230 224 209 Kubica 342 308 299 294 290 [b]289[/b] 289 285 281 273 251 Trulli 426 375 361 354 349 [b]348[/b] 347 342 336 324 294 Räikkönen 436 383 368 361 356 [b]354[/b] 353 348 342 330 299 Massa 459 401 384 377 371 [b]370[/b] 368 362 356 343 309 Heidfeld 508 438 418 409 402 [b]401[/b] 399 392 384 370 331 Alonso 537 459 438 428 420 [b]418[/b] 417 409 401 384 343 Glock 569 482 459 448 440 [b]438[/b] 436 428 418 401 356 Vettel 569 482 459 448 440 [b]438[/b] 436 428 418 401 356 Hamilton 731 594 559 543 531 [b]528[/b] 525 514 500 475 413 Rosberg 737 598 562 546 534 [b]531[/b] 528 516 503 477 415 Webber 1000 760 704 679 660 [b]655[/b] 651 633 613 576 487 Nakajima 2067 1251 1105 1044 1000 [b]990[/b] 980 941 897 819 651 Kovalainen 2161 1285 1132 1068 1022 [b]1011[/b] 1000 960 914 834 660 Piquet 10565 2438 1940 1760 1639 [b]1611[/b] 1584 1485 1378 1203 872 Fisichella N/A 15848 5943 4528 3803 [b]3657[/b] 3521 3067 2641 2067 1251 Bourdais N/A 19018 6339 4754 3962 [b]3803[/b] 3657 3169 2716 2113 1267 Sutil N/A 95090 8644 5943 4754 [b]4528[/b] 4322 3657 3067 2319 1339 Buemi N/A N/A 10565 6792 5282 [b]5004[/b] 4754 3962 3278 2438 1378 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] 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 39 1002 668 501 400 334 286 250 222 200 182 167 143 125 111 40 1028 685 514 411 342 293 257 228 205 186 171 146 128 114 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 0 Button 4950 2740 2210 Glock 4848 2220 2628 Trulli 3804 2064 1740 Barrichello 3260 2320 940 Heidfeld 3208 0 3208 Rosberg 2652 2121 531 Bourdais 2090 2090 0 Webber 1965 0 1965 Alonso 1364 1364 0 Hamilton 1056 0 1056 Fisichella 0 0 0 Kovalainen 0 0 0 Kubica 0 0 0 Massa 0 0 0 Nakajima 0 0 0 Piquet Jr 0 0 0 Räikkönen 0 0 0 Sutil 0 0 0 Vettel 0 0 0 Scoring over 1000 points per share in a round means that the share did above average.
