New entries are always welcome!
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)
Singapore 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!
*** Share distribution and value *** DRIVER DShares Race Season VPP Owners Vettel 461 14.11 268.08 71 25 Hamilton 418 12.79 243.07 78 27 Alonso 366 11.20 212.83 89 25 Räikkönen 338 10.34 196.55 96 25 Webber 291 8.91 169.22 112 23 Rosberg 251 7.68 145.96 130 21 Massa 195 5.97 113.40 167 16 Grosjean 177 5.42 102.93 184 15 Button 149 4.56 86.65 219 14 di Resta 117 3.58 68.04 279 13 Hülkenberg 113 3.46 65.71 289 10 Perez 110 3.37 63.97 297 11 Sutil 108 3.31 62.80 303 11 Ricciardo 68 2.08 39.54 481 9 Maldonado 65 1.99 37.80 503 5 Vergne 31 0.95 18.03 1056 6 Bottas 27 0.83 15.70 1212 3 Gutierrez 13 0.40 7.56 2518 3 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 1775 1278 1065 852 710 568 426 284 142 71 Hamilton 1950 1404 1170 936 780 624 468 312 156 78 Alonso 2225 1602 1335 1068 890 712 534 356 178 89 Räikkönen 2400 1728 1440 1152 960 768 576 384 192 96 Webber 2800 2016 1680 1344 1120 896 672 448 224 112 Rosberg 3250 2340 1950 1560 1300 1040 780 520 260 130 Massa 4175 3006 2505 2004 1670 1336 1002 668 334 167 Grosjean 4600 3312 2760 2208 1840 1472 1104 736 368 184 Button 5475 3942 3285 2628 2190 1752 1314 876 438 219 di Resta 6975 5022 4185 3348 2790 2232 1674 1116 558 279 Hülkenberg 7225 5202 4335 3468 2890 2312 1734 1156 578 289 Perez 7425 5346 4455 3564 2970 2376 1782 1188 594 297 Sutil 7575 5454 4545 3636 3030 2424 1818 1212 606 303 Ricciardo 12025 8658 7215 5772 4810 3848 2886 1924 962 481 Maldonado 12575 9054 7545 6036 5030 4024 3018 2012 1006 503 Vergne 26400 19008 15840 12672 10560 8448 6336 4224 2112 1056 Bottas 30300 21816 18180 14544 12120 9696 7272 4848 2424 1212 Gutierrez 62950 45324 37770 30216 25180 20144 15108 10072 5036 2518 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 19034 1455 2200 948 2000 876 1350 1875 0 1850 1080 1800 1825 1775 Alonso 16044 2034 0 2300 332 1875 462 1368 1065 1008 830 1602 1566 1602 Vergne 15895 0 935 0 0 0 6232 8728 0 0 0 0 0 0 Ricciardo 15842 0 0 7854 0 962 0 0 2784 0 0 606 3636 0 Rosberg 15490 0 1620 0 260 1216 3325 1250 3425 226 0 1632 976 1560 Hamilton 15321 1230 1875 1785 1010 0 1284 1620 1320 880 2200 1185 152 780 Webber 15283 1008 2214 0 678 1110 1635 1404 1998 696 1440 1240 1860 0 Räikkönen 15010 3150 570 1818 1656 1638 88 174 930 1854 1692 0 0 1440 Massa 14047 2112 1400 1168 0 2445 0 636 1280 0 664 1002 2004 1336 Button 11229 250 0 1890 176 764 1752 0 0 1768 1326 1768 221 1314 di Resta 10996 1676 0 1108 4128 1830 464 1380 410 0 0 0 0 0 Grosjean 9364 128 1008 264 2295 0 0 0 0 2985 1336 632 716 0 Sutil 8364 2802 0 0 0 0 2940 237 1476 0 0 606 0 303 Perez 6346 0 396 0 2336 536 0 0 0 1280 610 0 0 1188 Hülkenberg 5314 0 1004 264 0 0 0 0 289 289 0 0 2890 578 Maldonado 545 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 545 0 0 0 Backpack 0 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 0 Gutierrez 0 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.