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 changes
China changes
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
Button 376 15.19 303.81 65 19
Vettel 336 13.57 271.49 73 18
Hamilton 319 12.89 257.75 77 17
Webber 210 8.48 169.68 118 13
Räikkönen 205 8.28 165.64 120 13
Alonso 156 6.30 126.05 158 11
Schumacher 144 5.82 116.35 172 13
Grosjean 130 5.25 105.04 190 10
Rosberg 130 5.25 105.04 190 11
Perez 83 3.35 67.06 298 8
Maldonado 81 3.27 65.45 306 6
di Resta 67 2.71 54.14 370 4
Kobayashi 52 2.10 42.02 476 6
Senna 50 2.02 40.40 496 5
Hülkenberg 45 1.82 36.36 551 2
Ricciardo 41 1.66 33.13 604 3
Vergne 34 1.37 27.47 729 4
Massa 30 1.21 24.24 826 3
Kovalainen 6 0.24 4.85 4133 2
Petrov 3 0.12 2.42 8266 3
Bundle 2 0.08 1.62 12400 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.
WDC points value for one share as a function of number of players:
# points/share
25 0.040400
26 0.038846
27 0.037407
28 0.036071
29 0.034828
With 25 players, if ten shares are moved to a driver his rating will rise by about 0.404 points/race.
DRIVER Win P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 P7 P8 P9 P10
Button 1625 1170 975 780 650 520 390 260 130 65
Vettel 1825 1314 1095 876 730 584 438 292 146 73
Hamilton 1925 1386 1155 924 770 616 462 308 154 77
Webber 2950 2124 1770 1416 1180 944 708 472 236 118
Räikkönen 3000 2160 1800 1440 1200 960 720 480 240 120
Alonso 3950 2844 2370 1896 1580 1264 948 632 316 158
Schumacher 4300 3096 2580 2064 1720 1376 1032 688 344 172
Grosjean 4750 3420 2850 2280 1900 1520 1140 760 380 190
Rosberg 4750 3420 2850 2280 1900 1520 1140 760 380 190
Perez 7450 5364 4470 3576 2980 2384 1788 1192 596 298
Maldonado 7650 5508 4590 3672 3060 2448 1836 1224 612 306
di Resta 9250 6660 5550 4440 3700 2960 2220 1480 740 370
Kobayashi 11900 8568 7140 5712 4760 3808 2856 1904 952 476
Senna 12400 8928 7440 5952 4960 3968 2976 1984 992 496
Hülkenberg 13775 9918 8265 6612 5510 4408 3306 2204 1102 551
Ricciardo 15100 10872 9060 7248 6040 4832 3624 2416 1208 604
Vergne 18225 13122 10935 8748 7290 5832 4374 2916 1458 729
Massa 20650 14868 12390 9912 8260 6608 4956 3304 1652 826
Kovalainen 103325 74394 61995 49596 41330 33064 24798 16532 8266 4133
Petrov 206650 148788 123990 99192 82660 66128 49596 33064 16532 8266
Bundle 310000 223200 186000 148800 124000 99200 74400 49600 24800 12400
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
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
Senna 9816 0 6840 2976
Perez 9462 2028 7434 0
Kobayashi 6556 6080 0 476
Alonso 5861 1420 4125 316
Rosberg 4750 0 0 4750
Vergne 4312 0 4312 0
Webber 4212 1320 1476 1416
Hamilton 3435 1185 1095 1155
Button 3020 1850 0 1170
di Resta 2611 325 2286 0
Räikkönen 2064 834 1230 0
Vettel 1882 1152 0 730
Ricciardo 1690 1690 0 0
Grosjean 1520 0 0 1520
Maldonado 1224 0 0 1224
Hülkenberg 840 0 840 0
Schumacher 156 0 156 0
Bundle 0 0 0 0
Kovalainen 0 0 0 0
Massa 0 0 0 0
Petrov 0 0 0 0
Scoring over 1000 points per share in a round means that the share did above average.
