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
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 410 12.55 238.42 79 24
Alonso 354 10.83 205.86 92 23
Räikkönen 323 9.89 187.83 101 24
Webber 288 8.81 167.48 113 22
Hamilton 274 8.39 159.34 119 21
Rosberg 257 7.87 149.45 127 20
Grosjean 247 7.56 143.63 132 18
Massa 223 6.83 129.68 146 20
Button 173 5.29 100.60 189 17
Sutil 145 4.44 84.32 225 15
Perez 142 4.35 82.58 230 14
Hülkenberg 124 3.80 72.11 264 12
di Resta 118 3.61 68.62 277 14
Maldonado 70 2.14 40.71 467 6
Gutierrez 50 1.53 29.08 654 4
Bottas 49 1.50 28.49 668 5
Ricciardo 25 0.77 14.54 1309 2
Vergne 22 0.67 12.79 1488 4
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 1975 1422 1185 948 790 632 474 316 158 79
Alonso 2300 1656 1380 1104 920 736 552 368 184 92
Räikkönen 2525 1818 1515 1212 1010 808 606 404 202 101
Webber 2825 2034 1695 1356 1130 904 678 452 226 113
Hamilton 2975 2142 1785 1428 1190 952 714 476 238 119
Rosberg 3175 2286 1905 1524 1270 1016 762 508 254 127
Grosjean 3300 2376 1980 1584 1320 1056 792 528 264 132
Massa 3650 2628 2190 1752 1460 1168 876 584 292 146
Button 4725 3402 2835 2268 1890 1512 1134 756 378 189
Sutil 5625 4050 3375 2700 2250 1800 1350 900 450 225
Perez 5750 4140 3450 2760 2300 1840 1380 920 460 230
Hülkenberg 6600 4752 3960 3168 2640 2112 1584 1056 528 264
di Resta 6925 4986 4155 3324 2770 2216 1662 1108 554 277
Maldonado 11675 8406 7005 5604 4670 3736 2802 1868 934 467
Gutierrez 16350 11772 9810 7848 6540 5232 3924 2616 1308 654
Bottas 16700 12024 10020 8016 6680 5344 4008 2672 1336 668
Ricciardo 32725 23562 19635 15708 13090 10472 7854 5236 2618 1309
Vergne 37200 26784 22320 17856 14880 11904 8928 5952 2976 1488
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
33 6547 3273 1636 1091 818 654 545 467 409 363 327 163 109 81
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
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
Ricciardo 7854 0 0 7854
Räikkönen 5538 3150 570 1818
Hamilton 4890 1230 1875 1785
Massa 4680 2112 1400 1168
Vettel 4603 1455 2200 948
Alonso 4334 2034 0 2300
Webber 3222 1008 2214 0
Sutil 2802 2802 0 0
di Resta 2784 1676 0 1108
Button 2140 250 0 1890
Rosberg 1620 0 1620 0
Grosjean 1400 128 1008 264
Hülkenberg 1268 0 1004 264
Vergne 935 0 935 0
Perez 396 0 396 0
Backpack 0 0 0 0
Bottas 0 0 0 0
Gutierrez 0 0 0 0
Maldonado 0 0 0 0
Scoring over 1000 points per share in a round means that the share did above average.
