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 337 10.31 195.97 97 23
Alonso 288 8.81 167.48 113 19
Hamilton 266 8.14 154.68 123 19
Button 260 7.96 151.19 125 19
Räikkönen 259 7.93 150.61 126 20
Webber 258 7.90 150.03 126 19
Grosjean 255 7.80 148.29 128 20
Perez 255 7.80 148.29 128 19
Rosberg 240 7.35 139.56 136 18
Massa 186 5.69 108.16 176 15
Maldonado 164 5.02 95.37 199 14
Hülkenberg 143 4.38 83.16 228 12
Bottas 111 3.40 64.55 294 12
di Resta 78 2.39 45.36 419 9
Sutil 70 2.14 40.71 467 8
Gutierrez 55 1.68 31.98 595 5
Ricciardo 35 1.07 20.35 935 3
Vergne 32 0.98 18.61 1023 6
Backpack 8 0.24 4.65 4092 4
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
33 0.030606
34 0.029706
35 0.028857
36 0.028056
With 33 players, if ten shares are moved to a driver his rating will rise by about 0.306 points/race.
DRIVER Win P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 P7 P8 P9 P10
Vettel 2425 1746 1455 1164 970 776 582 388 194 97
Alonso 2825 2034 1695 1356 1130 904 678 452 226 113
Hamilton 3075 2214 1845 1476 1230 984 738 492 246 123
Button 3125 2250 1875 1500 1250 1000 750 500 250 125
Räikkönen 3150 2268 1890 1512 1260 1008 756 504 252 126
Webber 3150 2268 1890 1512 1260 1008 756 504 252 126
Grosjean 3200 2304 1920 1536 1280 1024 768 512 256 128
Perez 3200 2304 1920 1536 1280 1024 768 512 256 128
Rosberg 3400 2448 2040 1632 1360 1088 816 544 272 136
Massa 4400 3168 2640 2112 1760 1408 1056 704 352 176
Maldonado 4975 3582 2985 2388 1990 1592 1194 796 398 199
Hülkenberg 5700 4104 3420 2736 2280 1824 1368 912 456 228
Bottas 7350 5292 4410 3528 2940 2352 1764 1176 588 294
di Resta 10475 7542 6285 5028 4190 3352 2514 1676 838 419
Sutil 11675 8406 7005 5604 4670 3736 2802 1868 934 467
Gutierrez 14875 10710 8925 7140 5950 4760 3570 2380 1190 595
Ricciardo 23375 16830 14025 11220 9350 7480 5610 3740 1870 935
Vergne 25575 18414 15345 12276 10230 8184 6138 4092 2046 1023
Backpack 102300 73656 61380 49104 40920 32736 24552 16368 8184 4092
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
34 6745 3372 1686 1124 843 674 562 481 421 374 337 168 112 84
35 6944 3472 1736 1157 868 694 578 496 434 385 347 173 115 86
36 7142 3571 1785 1190 892 714 595 510 446 396 357 178 119 89
37 7340 3670 1835 1223 917 734 611 524 458 407 367 183 122 91
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 GB GER HUN BEL ITA SIN KOR JAP IND ABU USA BRA
Räikkönen 3150 3150
Sutil 2802 2802
Massa 2112 2112
Alonso 2034 2034
di Resta 1676 1676
Vettel 1455 1455
Hamilton 1230 1230
Webber 1008 1008
Button 250 250
Grosjean 128 128
Backpack 0 0
Bottas 0 0
Gutierrez 0 0
Hülkenberg 0 0
Maldonado 0 0
Perez 0 0
Ricciardo 0 0
Rosberg 0 0
Vergne 0 0
Scoring over 1000 points per share in a round means that the share did above average.
Edited by Makarias, 21 March 2013 - 19:00.
