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 40 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
Vettel 352 15.46 309.15 64 17
Button 306 13.44 268.75 74 15
Hamilton 287 12.60 252.06 79 17
Webber 207 9.09 181.80 110 13
Räikkönen 164 7.20 144.03 139 12
Alonso 160 7.03 140.52 142 11
Rosberg 151 6.63 132.62 151 10
Schumacher 115 5.05 101.00 198 7
Grosjean 114 5.01 100.12 200 8
Hülkenberg 84 3.69 73.77 271 5
Massa 80 3.51 70.26 285 5
di Resta 70 3.07 61.48 325 5
Perez 45 1.98 39.52 507 4
Maldonado 35 1.54 30.74 651 3
Kobayashi 30 1.32 26.35 760 4
Ricciardo 27 1.19 23.71 845 2
Vergne 23 1.01 20.20 992 3
Senna 20 0.88 17.57 1140 2
Kovalainen 16 0.70 14.05 1426 4
Petrov 11 0.48 9.66 2074 2
Bundle 3 0.13 2.63 7605 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.
WDC points value for one share as a function of number of players:
# points/share
23 0.043913
24 0.042083
25 0.040400
26 0.038846
27 0.037407
28 0.036071
29 0.034828
With 23 players, if ten shares are moved to a driver his rating will rise by about 0.44 points/race.
DRIVER Win P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 P7 P8 P9 P10
Vettel 1600 1152 960 768 640 512 384 256 128 64
Button 1850 1332 1110 888 740 592 444 296 148 74
Hamilton 1975 1422 1185 948 790 632 474 316 158 79
Webber 2750 1980 1650 1320 1100 880 660 440 220 110
Räikkönen 3475 2502 2085 1668 1390 1112 834 556 278 139
Alonso 3550 2556 2130 1704 1420 1136 852 568 284 142
Rosberg 3775 2718 2265 1812 1510 1208 906 604 302 151
Schumacher 4950 3564 2970 2376 1980 1584 1188 792 396 198
Grosjean 5000 3600 3000 2400 2000 1600 1200 800 400 200
Hülkenberg 6775 4878 4065 3252 2710 2168 1626 1084 542 271
Massa 7125 5130 4275 3420 2850 2280 1710 1140 570 285
di Resta 8125 5850 4875 3900 3250 2600 1950 1300 650 325
Perez 12675 9126 7605 6084 5070 4056 3042 2028 1014 507
Maldonado 16275 11718 9765 7812 6510 5208 3906 2604 1302 651
Kobayashi 19000 13680 11400 9120 7600 6080 4560 3040 1520 760
Ricciardo 21125 15210 12675 10140 8450 6760 5070 3380 1690 845
Vergne 24800 17856 14880 11904 9920 7936 5952 3968 1984 992
Senna 28500 20520 17100 13680 11400 9120 6840 4560 2280 1140
Kovalainen 35650 25668 21390 17112 14260 11408 8556 5704 2852 1426
Petrov 51850 37332 31110 24888 20740 16592 12444 8296 4148 2074
Bundle 190125 136890 114075 91260 76050 60840 45630 30420 15210 7605
The above table illustrates the return each share gives for each finishing position given the current share distribution.
VPP samples
Players Shares/driver
5 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 200 300 400
23 4563 2281 1140 760 570 456 380 325 285 253 228 114 76 57
24 4761 2380 1190 793 595 476 396 340 297 264 238 119 79 59
25 4960 2480 1240 826 620 496 413 354 310 275 248 124 82 62
26 5158 2579 1289 859 644 515 429 368 322 286 257 128 85 64
27 5356 2678 1339 892 669 535 446 382 334 297 267 133 89 66
28 5555 2777 1388 925 694 555 462 396 347 308 277 138 92 69
29 5753 2876 1438 958 719 575 479 410 359 319 287 143 95 71
VPP as a function of number of players and number of shares placed on a driver.
Return per share season history
DRIVER TOT OZ MAL CHN BAH ESP MON CAN EUR GB GER HUN BEL ITA SIN JAP KOR IND ABU USA BRA
Kobayashi 6080 6080
Perez 2028 2028
Button 1850 1850
Ricciardo 1690 1690
Alonso 1420 1420
Webber 1320 1320
Hamilton 1185 1185
Vettel 1152 1152
Räikkönen 834 834
di Resta 325 325
Bundle 0 0
Grosjean 0 0
Hülkenberg 0 0
Kovalainen 0 0
Maldonado 0 0
Massa 0 0
Petrov 0 0
Rosberg 0 0
Schumacher 0 0
Senna 0 0
Vergne 0 0
Scoring over 1000 points per share in a round means that the share did above average.
