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
Bahrain 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 499 5.26 89.41 190 31 Barrichello 379 3.99 67.91 250 26 Vettel 367 3.87 65.76 259 25 Trulli 296 3.12 53.04 321 24 Webber 271 2.86 48.56 350 20 Glock 257 2.71 46.05 370 21 Kubica 242 2.55 43.36 392 20 Rosberg 237 2.50 42.46 401 19 Räikkönen 217 2.29 38.88 438 18 Massa 201 2.12 36.01 473 18 Hamilton 182 1.92 32.61 522 16 Alonso 179 1.89 32.07 531 16 Heidfeld 126 1.33 22.57 754 9 Kovalainen 83 0.87 14.87 1145 6 Nakajima 60 0.63 10.75 1584 7 Buemi 34 0.36 6.09 2796 7 Piquet 33 0.35 5.91 2881 3 Bourdais 17 0.18 3.04 5593 4 Fisichella 11 0.12 1.97 8644 2 Sutil 9 0.09 1.61 10565 4 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 211 198 194 192 190 [b]190[/b] 190 188 186 183 173 Barrichello 289 264 257 254 251 [b]250[/b] 250 247 244 238 221 Vettel 299 274 266 262 259 [b]259[/b] 258 255 252 245 228 Trulli 386 344 332 326 322 [b]321[/b] 320 315 310 300 274 Webber 430 378 364 357 352 [b]350[/b] 349 344 338 326 296 Glock 459 401 384 377 371 [b]370[/b] 368 362 356 343 309 Kubica 495 428 409 401 394 [b]392[/b] 391 384 377 362 325 Rosberg 508 438 418 409 402 [b]401[/b] 399 392 384 370 331 Räikkönen 569 482 459 448 440 [b]438[/b] 436 428 418 401 356 Massa 629 525 497 485 475 [b]473[/b] 470 461 450 430 378 Hamilton 720 586 552 537 525 [b]522[/b] 519 508 495 470 409 Alonso 737 598 562 546 534 [b]531[/b] 528 516 503 477 415 Heidfeld 1251 897 819 785 760 [b]754[/b] 748 725 699 651 540 Kovalainen 2881 1509 1302 1219 1159 [b]1145[/b] 1132 1080 1022 923 714 Nakajima 9509 2377 1901 1728 1611 [b]1584[/b] 1558 1462 1358 1188 864 Buemi N/A 6792 3962 3278 2881 [b]2796[/b] 2716 2438 2161 1760 1132 Piquet N/A 7314 4134 3396 2971 [b]2881[/b] 2796 2502 2211 1794 1145 Bourdais N/A N/A 13584 7924 5943 [b]5593[/b] 5282 4322 3521 2570 1419 Fisichella N/A N/A 95090 15848 9509 [b]8644[/b] 7924 5943 4528 3067 1558 Sutil N/A N/A N/A 23772 11886 [b]10565[/b] 9509 6792 5004 3278 1611 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 0 Button 8038 2740 2210 1188 1900 Glock 6330 2220 2628 742 740 Webber 6237 0 1965 4272 0 Trulli 5730 2064 1740 0 1926 Vettel 5642 0 0 3570 2072 Hamilton 5580 0 1056 1914 2610 Barrichello 5410 2320 940 1150 1000 Kovalainen 4368 0 0 4368 0 Heidfeld 3208 0 3208 0 0 Rosberg 2652 2121 531 0 0 Bourdais 2090 2090 0 0 0 Alonso 1895 1364 0 0 531 Räikkönen 1314 0 0 0 1314 Fisichella 0 0 0 0 0 Kubica 0 0 0 0 0 Massa 0 0 0 0 0 Nakajima 0 0 0 0 0 Piquet Jr 0 0 0 0 0 Sutil 0 0 0 0 0 Scoring over 1000 points per share in a round means that the share did above average.