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
Bahrain 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 384 15.51 310.27 64 19
Hamilton 352 14.22 284.42 70 18
Vettel 275 11.11 222.20 90 17
Rosberg 207 8.36 167.26 119 14
Räikkönen 203 8.20 164.02 122 13
Webber 199 8.04 160.79 124 13
Schumacher 179 7.23 144.63 138 14
Alonso 131 5.29 105.85 189 11
Grosjean 117 4.73 94.54 211 8
Perez 83 3.35 67.06 298 8
Maldonado 71 2.87 57.37 349 6
Senna 70 2.83 56.56 354 6
Kobayashi 54 2.18 43.63 459 6
Hülkenberg 45 1.82 36.36 551 2
di Resta 42 1.70 33.94 590 4
Ricciardo 36 1.45 29.09 688 3
Massa 30 1.21 24.24 826 3
Vergne 11 0.44 8.89 2254 1
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 1600 1152 960 768 640 512 384 256 128 64
Hamilton 1750 1260 1050 840 700 560 420 280 140 70
Vettel 2250 1620 1350 1080 900 720 540 360 180 90
Rosberg 2975 2142 1785 1428 1190 952 714 476 238 119
Räikkönen 3050 2196 1830 1464 1220 976 732 488 244 122
Webber 3100 2232 1860 1488 1240 992 744 496 248 124
Schumacher 3450 2484 2070 1656 1380 1104 828 552 276 138
Alonso 4725 3402 2835 2268 1890 1512 1134 756 378 189
Grosjean 5275 3798 3165 2532 2110 1688 1266 844 422 211
Perez 7450 5364 4470 3576 2980 2384 1788 1192 596 298
Maldonado 8725 6282 5235 4188 3490 2792 2094 1396 698 349
Senna 8850 6372 5310 4248 3540 2832 2124 1416 708 354
Kobayashi 11475 8262 6885 5508 4590 3672 2754 1836 918 459
Hülkenberg 13775 9918 8265 6612 5510 4408 3306 2204 1102 551
di Resta 14750 10620 8850 7080 5900 4720 3540 2360 1180 590
Ricciardo 17200 12384 10320 8256 6880 5504 4128 2752 1376 688
Massa 20650 14868 12390 9912 8260 6608 4956 3304 1652 826
Vergne 56350 40572 33810 27048 22540 18032 13524 9016 4508 2254
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 0
Perez 9462 2028 7434 0 0
di Resta 7331 325 2286 0 4720
Alonso 6995 1420 4125 316 1134
Kobayashi 6556 6080 0 476 0
Rosberg 5940 0 0 4750 1190
Webber 5700 1320 1476 1416 1488
Grosjean 4685 0 0 1520 3165
Vergne 4312 0 4312 0 0
Räikkönen 4260 834 1230 0 2196
Vettel 4132 1152 0 730 2250
Hamilton 3715 1185 1095 1155 280
Button 3020 1850 0 1170 0
Ricciardo 1690 1690 0 0 0
Massa 1652 0 0 0 1652
Maldonado 1224 0 0 1224 0
Hülkenberg 840 0 840 0 0
Schumacher 294 0 156 0 138
Bundle 0 0 0 0 0
Kovalainen 0 0 0 0 0
Petrov 0 0 0 0 0
Scoring over 1000 points per share in a round means that the share did above average.
