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)
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!
DRIVER DShares Race Season VPP Owners
Hamilton 418 11.73 222.82 85 21
Alonso 386 10.83 205.76 92 20
Vettel 305 8.56 162.58 117 19
Schumacher 293 8.22 156.19 121 19
Massa 264 7.41 140.73 135 18
Webber 261 7.32 139.13 136 16
Button 249 6.99 132.73 143 15
Rosberg 210 5.89 111.94 170 13
Kobayashi 180 5.05 95.95 198 13
Kubica 173 4.85 92.22 206 14
Barrichello 170 4.77 90.62 210 13
De la Rosa 149 4.18 79.43 239 13
Sutil 148 4.15 78.89 241 13
Hülkenberg 83 2.33 44.24 430 8
Liuzzi 60 1.68 31.98 595 7
Buemi 58 1.63 30.92 615 6
Kovalainen 48 1.35 25.59 744 3
Alguersuari 46 1.29 24.52 776 7
Petrov 30 0.84 15.99 1190 5
Trulli 30 0.84 15.99 1190 5
Glock 25 0.70 13.33 1428 4
Di Grassi 8 0.22 4.26 4464 3
Chandhok 3 0.08 1.60 11904 3
Senna 3 0.08 1.60 11904 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.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - SHARE CHANGE + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
DRIVER -50 -20 -10 -5 -1 VPP 1 5 10 20 50
Hamilton 97 89 87 86 85 85 85 84 83 81 76
Alonso 106 97 94 93 92 92 92 91 90 87 81
Vettel 140 125 121 119 117 117 116 115 113 109 100
Schumacher 146 130 126 124 122 121 121 119 117 114 104
Massa 166 146 140 137 135 135 134 132 130 125 113
Webber 169 148 142 139 137 136 136 134 131 127 114
Button 179 155 149 146 144 143 142 140 137 132 119
Rosberg 223 187 178 174 170 170 169 166 162 155 137
Kobayashi 274 223 210 204 199 198 197 193 187 178 155
Kubica 290 233 219 212 207 206 205 200 195 185 160
Barrichello 297 238 223 216 211 210 208 204 198 187 162
De la Rosa 360 276 256 248 241 239 238 231 224 211 179
Sutil 364 279 258 249 242 241 239 233 226 212 180
Hülkenberg 1082 566 489 457 435 430 425 405 384 346 268
Liuzzi 3571 892 714 649 605 595 585 549 510 446 324
Buemi 4464 939 744 673 626 615 605 566 525 457 330
Kovalainen N/A 1275 939 830 759 744 728 673 615 525 364
Alguersuari N/A 1373 992 871 793 776 759 700 637 541 372
Petrov N/A 3571 1785 1428 1231 1190 1152 1020 892 714 446
Trulli N/A 3571 1785 1428 1231 1190 1152 1020 892 714 446
Glock N/A 7142 2380 1785 1488 1428 1373 1190 1020 793 476
Di Grassi N/A N/A N/A 11904 5101 4464 3968 2747 1984 1275 615
Chandhok N/A N/A N/A N/A 17856 11904 8928 4464 2747 1552 673
Senna N/A N/A N/A N/A 17856 11904 8928 4464 2747 1552 673
The above table illustrates the VPP changes if existing players move shares around.
VPP samples
Players Shares/driver
100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 500 550 600 700 800 900
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36 357 238 178 142 119 102 89 79 71 64 59 51 44 39
37 367 244 183 146 122 104 91 81 73 66 61 52 45 40
38 376 251 188 150 125 107 94 83 75 68 62 53 47 41
39 386 257 193 154 128 110 96 85 77 70 64 55 48 42
VPP as a function of number of players and number of shares placed on a driver.
Return per share season history
DRIVER TOT BAH OZ MAL CHN ESP MON TUR CAN EUR GB GER HUN BEL ITA SIN JAP KOR BRA ABU
Massa 2430 2430
Alonso 2300 2300
Rosberg 1700 1700
Vettel 1404 1404
Hamilton 1275 1275
Liuzzi 1190 1190
Schumacher 968 968
Button 858 858
Webber 544 544
Barrichello 210 210
Alguersuari 0 0
Buemi 0 0
Chandhok 0 0
De la Rosa 0 0
Di Grassi 0 0
Glock 0 0
Hülkenberg 0 0
Kobayashi 0 0
Kovalainen 0 0
Kubica 0 0
Petrov 0 0
Senna 0 0
Sutil 0 0
Trulli 0 0
Scoring over 1000 points per share in a round means that the share did above average.