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
Monaco changes (including Spain entries)
Canada changes
Europe changes (including Canada entries)
Britain changes
Germany changes
Hungary 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
Vettel 311 12.56 251.29 79 19
Hamilton 271 10.95 218.97 91 17
Alonso 261 10.54 210.89 95 17
Grosjean 227 9.17 183.42 109 17
Webber 226 9.13 182.61 109 15
Räikkönen 212 8.56 171.30 116 15
Button 197 7.96 159.18 125 11
Rosberg 149 6.02 120.39 166 12
Schumacher 145 5.86 117.16 171 14
Perez 105 4.24 84.84 236 9
Maldonado 97 3.92 78.38 255 8
Massa 69 2.79 55.75 359 7
Hülkenberg 55 2.22 44.44 450 3
Kobayashi 55 2.22 44.44 450 6
di Resta 51 2.06 41.21 486 5
Senna 27 1.09 21.82 918 2
Ricciardo 20 0.81 16.16 1240 1
Vergne 13 0.53 10.50 1907 3
Kovalainen 5 0.20 4.04 4960 1
Petrov 3 0.12 2.42 8266 3
Bundle 1 0.04 0.81 24800 1
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
Vettel 1975 1422 1185 948 790 632 474 316 158 79
Hamilton 2275 1638 1365 1092 910 728 546 364 182 91
Alonso 2375 1710 1425 1140 950 760 570 380 190 95
Grosjean 2725 1962 1635 1308 1090 872 654 436 218 109
Webber 2725 1962 1635 1308 1090 872 654 436 218 109
Räikkönen 2900 2088 1740 1392 1160 928 696 464 232 116
Button 3125 2250 1875 1500 1250 1000 750 500 250 125
Rosberg 4150 2988 2490 1992 1660 1328 996 664 332 166
Schumacher 4275 3078 2565 2052 1710 1368 1026 684 342 171
Perez 5900 4248 3540 2832 2360 1888 1416 944 472 236
Maldonado 6375 4590 3825 3060 2550 2040 1530 1020 510 255
Massa 8975 6462 5385 4308 3590 2872 2154 1436 718 359
Hülkenberg 11250 8100 6750 5400 4500 3600 2700 1800 900 450
Kobayashi 11250 8100 6750 5400 4500 3600 2700 1800 900 450
di Resta 12150 8748 7290 5832 4860 3888 2916 1944 972 486
Senna 22950 16524 13770 11016 9180 7344 5508 3672 1836 918
Ricciardo 31000 22320 18600 14880 12400 9920 7440 4960 2480 1240
Vergne 47675 34326 28605 22884 19070 15256 11442 7628 3814 1907
Kovalainen 124000 89280 74400 59520 49600 39680 29760 19840 9920 4960
Petrov 206650 148788 123990 99192 82660 66128 49596 33064 16532 8266
Bundle 620000 446400 372000 297600 248000 198400 148800 99200 49600 24800
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
Alonso 21357 1420 4125 316 1134 3024 2250 1270 2575 1818 2475 950
Kobayashi 19884 6080 0 476 0 6350 0 786 0 0 6192 0
Senna 18090 0 6840 2976 0 0 288 0 826 1652 0 5508
Massa 17459 0 0 0 1652 0 9920 729 0 4440 0 718
Perez 16478 2028 7434 0 0 0 0 4470 562 0 1984 0
Webber 15548 1320 1476 1416 1488 0 3400 816 1548 3200 448 436
di Resta 14087 325 2286 0 4720 0 3378 0 3378 0 0 0
Räikkönen 13568 834 1230 0 2196 1665 196 436 1998 1140 1785 2088
Grosjean 11784 0 0 1520 3165 1896 0 2592 0 976 0 1635
Rosberg 11718 0 0 4750 1190 804 2700 944 1016 0 148 166
Maldonado 11374 0 0 1224 0 10150 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hülkenberg 10005 0 840 0 0 551 2204 0 5510 0 900 0
Vettel 9934 1152 0 730 2250 624 1128 1152 0 1170 780 948
Hamilton 9475 1185 1095 1155 280 296 750 2075 0 364 0 2275
Button 7136 1850 0 1170 0 136 0 0 408 124 2448 1000
Schumacher 4491 0 156 0 138 0 0 0 2325 936 936 0
Vergne 4312 0 4312 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ricciardo 1690 1690 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bundle 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kovalainen 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Petrov 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Scoring over 1000 points per share in a round means that the share did above average.