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
China 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 478 5.04 85.65 198 31 Barrichello 413 4.35 74.00 230 31 Kubica 310 3.27 55.54 306 25 Trulli 303 3.19 54.29 313 25 Vettel 266 2.80 47.66 357 23 Glock 256 2.70 45.87 371 22 Rosberg 242 2.55 43.36 392 20 Räikkönen 227 2.39 40.67 418 19 Heidfeld 217 2.29 38.88 438 19 Massa 213 2.25 38.16 446 20 Webber 178 1.88 31.89 534 16 Alonso 174 1.83 31.17 546 15 Hamilton 149 1.57 26.69 638 14 Kovalainen 87 0.92 15.58 1092 7 Nakajima 80 0.84 14.33 1188 10 Piquet 46 0.48 8.24 2067 5 Bourdais 22 0.23 3.94 4322 4 Fisichella 17 0.18 3.04 5593 3 Buemi 15 0.16 2.68 6339 2 Sutil 7 0.07 1.25 13584 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. [b] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - SHARE CHANGE + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + DRIVER -50 -20 -10 -5 -1 [b]VPP[/b] 1 5 10 20 50[/b] Button 222 207 203 201 199 [b]198[/b] 198 196 194 190 180 Barrichello 261 241 235 233 230 [b]230[/b] 229 227 224 219 205 Kubica 365 327 316 311 307 [b]306[/b] 305 301 297 288 264 Trulli 375 336 324 319 314 [b]313[/b] 312 308 303 294 269 Vettel 440 386 371 364 358 [b]357[/b] 356 350 344 332 300 Glock 461 402 386 378 372 [b]371[/b] 370 364 357 344 310 Rosberg 495 428 409 401 394 [b]392[/b] 391 384 377 362 325 Räikkönen 537 459 438 428 420 [b]418[/b] 417 409 401 384 343 Heidfeld 569 482 459 448 440 [b]438[/b] 436 428 418 401 356 Massa 583 492 468 457 448 [b]446[/b] 444 436 426 408 361 Webber 742 601 566 549 537 [b]534[/b] 531 519 505 480 417 Alonso 766 617 579 562 549 [b]546[/b] 543 531 516 490 424 Hamilton 960 737 684 660 642 [b]638[/b] 633 617 598 562 477 Kovalainen 2570 1419 1234 1159 1105 [b]1092[/b] 1080 1033 980 888 694 Nakajima 3169 1584 1358 1267 1203 [b]1188[/b] 1173 1118 1056 950 731 Piquet N/A 3657 2641 2319 2113 [b]2067[/b] 2023 1864 1698 1440 990 Bourdais N/A 47545 7924 5593 4528 [b]4322[/b] 4134 3521 2971 2264 1320 Fisichella N/A N/A 13584 7924 5943 [b]5593[/b] 5282 4322 3521 2570 1419 Buemi N/A N/A 19018 9509 6792 [b]6339[/b] 5943 4754 3803 2716 1462 Sutil N/A N/A N/A 47545 15848 [b]13584[/b] 11886 7924 5593 3521 1668 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 15325 8986 0 6339 Webber 6237 0 1965 4272 Button 6138 2740 2210 1188 Glock 5590 2220 2628 742 Barrichello 4410 2320 940 1150 Kovalainen 4368 0 0 4368 Trulli 3804 2064 1740 0 Vettel 3570 0 0 3570 Heidfeld 3208 0 3208 0 Hamilton 2970 0 1056 1914 Rosberg 2652 2121 531 0 Bourdais 2090 2090 0 0 Alonso 1364 1364 0 0 Fisichella 0 0 0 0 Kubica 0 0 0 0 Massa 0 0 0 0 Nakajima 0 0 0 0 Piquet Jr 0 0 0 0 Räikkönen 0 0 0 0 Sutil 0 0 0 0 Scoring over 1000 points per share in a round means that the share did above average.
