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
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 372 11.39 216.32 88 24
Alonso 349 10.68 202.95 93 22
Räikkönen 343 10.50 199.46 95 23
Webber 266 8.14 154.68 123 20
Hamilton 261 7.99 151.78 125 19
Grosjean 259 7.93 150.61 126 21
Rosberg 241 7.38 140.15 135 19
Massa 233 7.13 135.49 140 19
Perez 165 5.05 95.95 198 15
Button 152 4.65 88.39 215 15
Sutil 136 4.16 79.09 240 13
Hülkenberg 130 3.98 75.60 251 11
di Resta 112 3.43 65.13 292 14
Maldonado 80 2.45 46.52 409 7
Bottas 75 2.30 43.61 436 8
Gutierrez 50 1.53 29.08 654 4
Ricciardo 35 1.07 20.35 935 3
Vergne 35 1.07 20.35 935 7
Backpack 6 0.18 3.49 5456 3
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 2200 1584 1320 1056 880 704 528 352 176 88
Alonso 2325 1674 1395 1116 930 744 558 372 186 93
Räikkönen 2375 1710 1425 1140 950 760 570 380 190 95
Webber 3075 2214 1845 1476 1230 984 738 492 246 123
Hamilton 3125 2250 1875 1500 1250 1000 750 500 250 125
Grosjean 3150 2268 1890 1512 1260 1008 756 504 252 126
Rosberg 3375 2430 2025 1620 1350 1080 810 540 270 135
Massa 3500 2520 2100 1680 1400 1120 840 560 280 140
Perez 4950 3564 2970 2376 1980 1584 1188 792 396 198
Button 5375 3870 3225 2580 2150 1720 1290 860 430 215
Sutil 6000 4320 3600 2880 2400 1920 1440 960 480 240
Hülkenberg 6275 4518 3765 3012 2510 2008 1506 1004 502 251
di Resta 7300 5256 4380 3504 2920 2336 1752 1168 584 292
Maldonado 10225 7362 6135 4908 4090 3272 2454 1636 818 409
Bottas 10900 7848 6540 5232 4360 3488 2616 1744 872 436
Gutierrez 16350 11772 9810 7848 6540 5232 3924 2616 1308 654
Ricciardo 23375 16830 14025 11220 9350 7480 5610 3740 1870 935
Vergne 23375 16830 14025 11220 9350 7480 5610 3740 1870 935
Backpack 136400 98208 81840 65472 54560 43648 32736 21824 10912 5456
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 3720 3150 570
Vettel 3655 1455 2200
Massa 3512 2112 1400
Webber 3222 1008 2214
Hamilton 3105 1230 1875
Sutil 2802 2802 0
Alonso 2034 2034 0
di Resta 1676 1676 0
Rosberg 1620 0 1620
Grosjean 1136 128 1008
Hülkenberg 1004 0 1004
Vergne 935 0 935
Perez 396 0 396
Button 250 250 0
Backpack 0 0 0
Bottas 0 0 0
Gutierrez 0 0 0
Maldonado 0 0 0
Ricciardo 0 0 0
Scoring over 1000 points per share in a round means that the share did above average.