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 (including Bahrain entries)
Monaco 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 434 13.28 252.38 75 25
Alonso 421 12.89 244.82 77 24
Räikkönen 369 11.29 214.58 88 26
Hamilton 305 9.33 177.36 107 23
Webber 298 9.12 173.29 109 23
Rosberg 246 7.53 143.05 133 21
Massa 216 6.61 125.61 151 19
Grosjean 189 5.78 109.91 173 15
Button 149 4.56 86.65 219 13
di Resta 141 4.32 81.99 232 16
Perez 122 3.73 70.94 268 12
Hülkenberg 113 3.46 65.71 289 10
Sutil 111 3.40 64.55 294 11
Maldonado 60 1.84 34.89 545 4
Ricciardo 42 1.29 24.42 779 5
Bottas 29 0.89 16.86 1128 3
Gutierrez 28 0.86 16.28 1169 3
Vergne 21 0.64 12.21 1558 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 1875 1350 1125 900 750 600 450 300 150 75
Alonso 1925 1386 1155 924 770 616 462 308 154 77
Räikkönen 2200 1584 1320 1056 880 704 528 352 176 88
Hamilton 2675 1926 1605 1284 1070 856 642 428 214 107
Webber 2725 1962 1635 1308 1090 872 654 436 218 109
Rosberg 3325 2394 1995 1596 1330 1064 798 532 266 133
Massa 3775 2718 2265 1812 1510 1208 906 604 302 151
Grosjean 4325 3114 2595 2076 1730 1384 1038 692 346 173
Button 5475 3942 3285 2628 2190 1752 1314 876 438 219
di Resta 5800 4176 3480 2784 2320 1856 1392 928 464 232
Perez 6700 4824 4020 3216 2680 2144 1608 1072 536 268
Hülkenberg 7225 5202 4335 3468 2890 2312 1734 1156 578 289
Sutil 7350 5292 4410 3528 2940 2352 1764 1176 588 294
Maldonado 13625 9810 8175 6540 5450 4360 3270 2180 1090 545
Ricciardo 19475 14022 11685 9348 7790 6232 4674 3116 1558 779
Bottas 28200 20304 16920 13536 11280 9024 6768 4512 2256 1128
Gutierrez 29225 21042 17535 14028 11690 9352 7014 4676 2338 1169
Vergne 38950 28044 23370 18696 15580 12464 9348 6232 3116 1558
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
di Resta 9206 1676 0 1108 4128 1830 464
Räikkönen 8920 3150 570 1818 1656 1638 88
Vettel 8829 1455 2200 948 2000 876 1350
Ricciardo 8816 0 0 7854 0 962 0
Hamilton 7184 1230 1875 1785 1010 0 1284
Vergne 7167 0 935 0 0 0 6232
Massa 7125 2112 1400 1168 0 2445 0
Alonso 7003 2034 0 2300 332 1875 462
Webber 6645 1008 2214 0 678 1110 1635
Rosberg 6421 0 1620 0 260 1216 3325
Sutil 5742 2802 0 0 0 0 2940
Button 4832 250 0 1890 176 764 1752
Grosjean 3695 128 1008 264 2295 0 0
Perez 3268 0 396 0 2336 536 0
Hülkenberg 1268 0 1004 264 0 0 0
Backpack 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bottas 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Gutierrez 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Maldonado 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Scoring over 1000 points per share in a round means that the share did above average.
