NEW AND THIS TIME CONFIRMED POINTS SYSTEM
25-18-15-12-10-8-6-4-2-1 for the top ten drivers equals a massive 101 points/race, and a whopping 19 races scheduled means that we get to hand out a massive whopping 1919 points!
I'm not 100% sure what last year's WDC woulda looked like with this system, but a couple suggestions can be found here:
http://forums.autosp...w...0256&st=440
See especially posts #461 and #468, the accuracies of which I have no intention of vouching for. Note that 2009 only was 17 races!
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 1919 (19*101) points to be distributed.
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 should a driver change happen).
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. Or at least that's the way it used to be; this new points system makes the points total so huge that the opposite may apply this year.
This is how points are scored:
For each point over 1919 that you distribute, you'll be penalized one point. 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 Button and Button scores 134 points in the WDC, the players will score 130 and 134 points respectively for Button. 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 until first free practice starts at Bahrain.
This is my preliminary rather clueless prediction, likely to change before the season start:
Driver Points
Alonso 276
Hamilton 264
Massa 221
Vettel 198
Button 196
Schumacher 182
Webber 166
Rosberg 138
de la Rosa 44
Barrichello 37
Hülkenberg 33
Kobayashi 32
Buemi 31
Kubica 29
Sutil 25
Liuzzi 18
Alguersuari 14
Petrov 8
Glock 2
Kovalainen 2
Trulli 2
di Grassi 1
Alonso 276
Hamilton 264
Massa 221
Vettel 198
Button 196
Schumacher 182
Webber 166
Rosberg 138
de la Rosa 44
Barrichello 37
Hülkenberg 33
Kobayashi 32
Buemi 31
Kubica 29
Sutil 25
Liuzzi 18
Alguersuari 14
Petrov 8
Glock 2
Kovalainen 2
Trulli 2
di Grassi 1
If 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.
Good luck!
