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)
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 from 1975:
E Fittipaldi 37
Reutemann 22
Depailler 16
Peterson 12
Ickx 10
Donohue 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 from 1975 realizes that the Lotus is a dud, and submits an edit to her entry as follows:
Sell:
Peterson -10
Ickx -10
Buy:
Pace +10
Reutemann +5
Depailler +5
Her new "portfolio" will after the entry look like this:
E Fittipaldi 37
Reutemann 27
Depailler 21
Pace 10
Donohue 3
Peterson 2
The above change of shares can perhaps best be written like this:
E Fittipaldi 37
Reutemann 27 (+5)
Depailler 21 (+5)
Pace 10 (+10)
Donohue 3
Peterson 2 (-10)
Ickx 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 Hamilton 355 13.28 252.31 75 19 Rosberg 345 12.91 245.21 77 20 Massa 258 9.65 183.37 103 18 Bottas 257 9.61 182.66 104 18 Button 250 9.35 177.69 107 17 Alonso 228 8.53 162.05 117 17 Räikkönen 207 7.74 147.12 129 14 Hülkenberg 190 7.11 135.04 140 15 Magnussen 169 6.32 120.12 158 14 Perez 151 5.65 107.32 177 9 Vettel 78 2.92 55.44 343 9 Backpack 59 2.21 41.93 453 10 Sutil 31 1.16 22.03 864 5 Ricciardo 30 1.12 21.32 892 6 Grosjean 22 0.82 15.64 1217 4 Gutierrez 20 0.75 14.21 1339 3 Maldonado 20 0.75 14.21 1339 3 Vergne 18 0.67 12.79 1488 4 Kvyat 12 0.45 8.53 2232 2 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 27 0.037407 28 0.036071 29 0.034828 30 0.033667 With 27 players, if ten shares are moved to a driver his rating will rise by about 0.374 points/race. *** Return per share as a function of finishing position *** DRIVER Win P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 P7 P8 P9 P10 Hamilton 1875 1350 1125 900 750 600 450 300 150 75 Rosberg 1925 1386 1155 924 770 616 462 308 154 77 Massa 2575 1854 1545 1236 1030 824 618 412 206 103 Bottas 2600 1872 1560 1248 1040 832 624 416 208 104 Button 2675 1926 1605 1284 1070 856 642 428 214 107 Alonso 2925 2106 1755 1404 1170 936 702 468 234 117 Räikkönen 3225 2322 1935 1548 1290 1032 774 516 258 129 Hülkenberg 3500 2520 2100 1680 1400 1120 840 560 280 140 Magnussen 3950 2844 2370 1896 1580 1264 948 632 316 158 Perez 4425 3186 2655 2124 1770 1416 1062 708 354 177 Vettel 8575 6174 5145 4116 3430 2744 2058 1372 686 343 Backpack 11325 8154 6795 5436 4530 3624 2718 1812 906 453 Sutil 21600 15552 12960 10368 8640 6912 5184 3456 1728 864 Ricciardo 22300 16056 13380 10704 8920 7136 5352 3568 1784 892 Grosjean 30425 21906 18255 14604 12170 9736 7302 4868 2434 1217 Gutierrez 33475 24102 20085 16068 13390 10712 8034 5356 2678 1339 Maldonado 33475 24102 20085 16068 13390 10712 8034 5356 2678 1339 Vergne 37200 26784 22320 17856 14880 11904 8928 5952 2976 1488 Kvyat 55800 40176 33480 26784 22320 17856 13392 8928 4464 2232 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 27 5356 2678 1339 892 669 535 446 382 334 297 267 133 89 66 28 5555 2777 1388 925 694 555 462 396 347 308 277 138 92 69 29 5753 2876 1438 958 719 575 479 410 359 319 287 143 95 71 30 5952 2976 1488 992 744 595 496 425 372 330 297 148 99 74 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 BAH CHN ESP MON CAN AUT GB GER HUN BEL ITA SIN JAP RUS USA BRA ABU Ricciardo 16056 16056 Vergne 2976 2976 Magnussen 2370 2370 Kvyat 2232 2232 Rosberg 1925 1925 Button 1284 1284 Alonso 1170 1170 Hülkenberg 840 840 Bottas 832 832 Räikkönen 516 516 Backpack 0 0 Grosjean 0 0 Gutierrez 0 0 Hamilton 0 0 Maldonado 0 0 Massa 0 0 Perez 0 0 Sutil 0 0 Vettel 0 0 Scoring over 1000 points per share in a round means that the share did above average.
