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
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 414 12.67 240.75 79 24
Alonso 392 12.00 227.95 83 23
Räikkönen 354 10.83 205.86 92 25
Hamilton 324 9.92 188.41 101 23
Webber 283 8.66 164.57 115 22
Rosberg 251 7.68 145.96 130 20
Massa 226 6.92 131.42 144 21
Grosjean 213 6.52 123.86 153 17
Button 186 5.69 108.16 176 19
Sutil 121 3.70 70.36 270 13
Perez 112 3.43 65.13 292 12
Hülkenberg 111 3.40 64.55 294 11
di Resta 95 2.91 55.24 344 12
Maldonado 60 1.84 34.89 545 4
Ricciardo 46 1.41 26.75 711 6
Bottas 44 1.35 25.59 744 4
Gutierrez 40 1.22 23.26 818 3
Vergne 22 0.67 12.79 1488 5
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 2075 1494 1245 996 830 664 498 332 166 83
Räikkönen 2300 1656 1380 1104 920 736 552 368 184 92
Hamilton 2525 1818 1515 1212 1010 808 606 404 202 101
Webber 2875 2070 1725 1380 1150 920 690 460 230 115
Rosberg 3250 2340 1950 1560 1300 1040 780 520 260 130
Massa 3600 2592 2160 1728 1440 1152 864 576 288 144
Grosjean 3825 2754 2295 1836 1530 1224 918 612 306 153
Button 4400 3168 2640 2112 1760 1408 1056 704 352 176
Sutil 6750 4860 4050 3240 2700 2160 1620 1080 540 270
Perez 7300 5256 4380 3504 2920 2336 1752 1168 584 292
Hülkenberg 7350 5292 4410 3528 2940 2352 1764 1176 588 294
di Resta 8600 6192 5160 4128 3440 2752 2064 1376 688 344
Maldonado 13625 9810 8175 6540 5450 4360 3270 2180 1090 545
Ricciardo 17775 12798 10665 8532 7110 5688 4266 2844 1422 711
Bottas 18600 13392 11160 8928 7440 5952 4464 2976 1488 744
Gutierrez 20450 14724 12270 9816 8180 6544 4908 3272 1636 818
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 0
Räikkönen 7194 3150 570 1818 1656
di Resta 6912 1676 0 1108 4128
Vettel 6578 1455 2200 948 1975
Hamilton 5900 1230 1875 1785 1010
Massa 4680 2112 1400 1168 0
Alonso 4666 2034 0 2300 332
Webber 3912 1008 2214 0 690
Grosjean 3695 128 1008 264 2295
Sutil 2802 2802 0 0 0
Perez 2732 0 396 0 2336
Button 2316 250 0 1890 176
Rosberg 1880 0 1620 0 260
Hülkenberg 1268 0 1004 264 0
Vergne 935 0 935 0 0
Backpack 0 0 0 0 0
Bottas 0 0 0 0 0
Gutierrez 0 0 0 0 0
Maldonado 0 0 0 0 0
Scoring over 1000 points per share in a round means that the share did above average.
