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
Spain 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 360 14.54 290.88 68 17
Hamilton 333 13.45 269.06 74 18
Vettel 317 12.81 256.14 78 19
Räikkönen 223 9.01 180.18 111 15
Webber 194 7.84 156.75 127 13
Rosberg 185 7.47 149.48 134 14
Grosjean 156 6.30 126.05 158 10
Alonso 147 5.94 118.78 168 12
Schumacher 146 5.90 117.97 169 13
Perez 83 3.35 67.06 298 8
Senna 70 2.83 56.56 354 6
Maldonado 61 2.46 49.29 406 5
Hülkenberg 45 1.82 36.36 551 2
di Resta 41 1.66 33.13 604 4
Kobayashi 39 1.58 31.51 635 5
Massa 38 1.54 30.70 652 5
Ricciardo 36 1.45 29.09 688 3
Vergne 16 0.65 12.93 1550 4
Kovalainen 6 0.24 4.85 4133 2
Bundle 2 0.08 1.62 12400 2
Petrov 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 1700 1224 1020 816 680 544 408 272 136 68
Hamilton 1850 1332 1110 888 740 592 444 296 148 74
Vettel 1950 1404 1170 936 780 624 468 312 156 78
Räikkönen 2775 1998 1665 1332 1110 888 666 444 222 111
Webber 3175 2286 1905 1524 1270 1016 762 508 254 127
Rosberg 3350 2412 2010 1608 1340 1072 804 536 268 134
Grosjean 3950 2844 2370 1896 1580 1264 948 632 316 158
Alonso 4200 3024 2520 2016 1680 1344 1008 672 336 168
Schumacher 4225 3042 2535 2028 1690 1352 1014 676 338 169
Perez 7450 5364 4470 3576 2980 2384 1788 1192 596 298
Senna 8850 6372 5310 4248 3540 2832 2124 1416 708 354
Maldonado 10150 7308 6090 4872 4060 3248 2436 1624 812 406
Hülkenberg 13775 9918 8265 6612 5510 4408 3306 2204 1102 551
di Resta 15100 10872 9060 7248 6040 4832 3624 2416 1208 604
Kobayashi 15875 11430 9525 7620 6350 5080 3810 2540 1270 635
Massa 16300 11736 9780 7824 6520 5216 3912 2608 1304 652
Ricciardo 17200 12384 10320 8256 6880 5504 4128 2752 1376 688
Vergne 38750 27900 23250 18600 15500 12400 9300 6200 3100 1550
Kovalainen 103325 74394 61995 49596 41330 33064 24798 16532 8266 4133
Bundle 310000 223200 186000 148800 124000 99200 74400 49600 24800 12400
Petrov 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
Kobayashi 12906 6080 0 476 0 6350
Maldonado 11374 0 0 1224 0 10150
Alonso 10019 1420 4125 316 1134 3024
Senna 9816 0 6840 2976 0 0
Perez 9462 2028 7434 0 0 0
di Resta 7331 325 2286 0 4720 0
Rosberg 6744 0 0 4750 1190 804
Grosjean 6581 0 0 1520 3165 1896
Räikkönen 5925 834 1230 0 2196 1665
Webber 5700 1320 1476 1416 1488 0
Vettel 4756 1152 0 730 2250 624
Vergne 4312 0 4312 0 0 0
Hamilton 4011 1185 1095 1155 280 296
Button 3156 1850 0 1170 0 136
Ricciardo 1690 1690 0 0 0 0
Massa 1652 0 0 0 1652 0
Hülkenberg 1391 0 840 0 0 551
Schumacher 294 0 156 0 138 0
Bundle 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kovalainen 0 0 0 0 0 0
Petrov 0 0 0 0 0 0
Scoring over 1000 points per share in a round means that the share did above average.
