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
Canada changes
Britain changes (including Canada entries)
Germany changes
Hungary changes
Belgium changes
Italy changes (Including Belgium entries)
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!
*** Share distribution and value ***
DRIVER DShares Race Season VPP Owners
Vettel 448 13.71 260.52 73 25
Hamilton 428 13.10 248.89 76 27
Alonso 376 11.51 218.65 87 25
Räikkönen 345 10.56 200.62 94 26
Rosberg 268 8.20 155.85 122 21
Webber 262 8.02 152.36 124 21
Massa 195 5.97 113.40 167 16
Grosjean 182 5.57 105.84 179 16
Button 148 4.53 86.06 221 14
di Resta 122 3.73 70.94 268 14
Perez 115 3.52 66.87 284 12
Hülkenberg 113 3.46 65.71 289 10
Sutil 108 3.31 62.80 303 11
Maldonado 65 1.99 37.80 503 5
Ricciardo 54 1.65 31.40 606 7
Bottas 33 1.01 19.19 992 4
Vergne 31 0.95 18.03 1056 6
Gutierrez 5 0.15 2.91 6547 1
Backpack 2 0.06 1.16 16368 1
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.
*** Return per share as a function of finishing position ***
DRIVER Win P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 P7 P8 P9 P10
Vettel 1825 1314 1095 876 730 584 438 292 146 73
Hamilton 1900 1368 1140 912 760 608 456 304 152 76
Alonso 2175 1566 1305 1044 870 696 522 348 174 87
Räikkönen 2350 1692 1410 1128 940 752 564 376 188 94
Rosberg 3050 2196 1830 1464 1220 976 732 488 244 122
Webber 3100 2232 1860 1488 1240 992 744 496 248 124
Massa 4175 3006 2505 2004 1670 1336 1002 668 334 167
Grosjean 4475 3222 2685 2148 1790 1432 1074 716 358 179
Button 5525 3978 3315 2652 2210 1768 1326 884 442 221
di Resta 6700 4824 4020 3216 2680 2144 1608 1072 536 268
Perez 7100 5112 4260 3408 2840 2272 1704 1136 568 284
Hülkenberg 7225 5202 4335 3468 2890 2312 1734 1156 578 289
Sutil 7575 5454 4545 3636 3030 2424 1818 1212 606 303
Maldonado 12575 9054 7545 6036 5030 4024 3018 2012 1006 503
Ricciardo 15150 10908 9090 7272 6060 4848 3636 2424 1212 606
Bottas 24800 17856 14880 11904 9920 7936 5952 3968 1984 992
Vergne 26400 19008 15840 12672 10560 8448 6336 4224 2112 1056
Gutierrez 163675 117846 98205 78564 65470 52376 39282 26188 13094 6547
Backpack 409200 294624 245520 196416 163680 130944 98208 65472 32736 16368
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
Vettel 17259 1455 2200 948 2000 876 1350 1875 0 1850 1080 1800 1825
Vergne 15895 0 935 0 0 0 6232 8728 0 0 0 0 0
Ricciardo 15842 0 0 7854 0 962 0 0 2784 0 0 606 3636
Webber 15283 1008 2214 0 678 1110 1635 1404 1998 696 1440 1240 1860
Hamilton 14541 1230 1875 1785 1010 0 1284 1620 1320 880 2200 1185 152
Alonso 14442 2034 0 2300 332 1875 462 1368 1065 1008 830 1602 1566
Rosberg 13930 0 1620 0 260 1216 3325 1250 3425 226 0 1632 976
Räikkönen 13570 3150 570 1818 1656 1638 88 174 930 1854 1692 0 0
Massa 12711 2112 1400 1168 0 2445 0 636 1280 0 664 1002 2004
di Resta 10996 1676 0 1108 4128 1830 464 1380 410 0 0 0 0
Button 9915 250 0 1890 176 764 1752 0 0 1768 1326 1768 221
Grosjean 9364 128 1008 264 2295 0 0 0 0 2985 1336 632 716
Sutil 8061 2802 0 0 0 0 2940 237 1476 0 0 606 0
Perez 5158 0 396 0 2336 536 0 0 0 1280 610 0 0
Hülkenberg 4736 0 1004 264 0 0 0 0 289 289 0 0 2890
Maldonado 545 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 545 0 0
Backpack 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bottas 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Gutierrez 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Scoring over 1000 points per share in a round means that the share did above average.
