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
Bahrain changes
China changes
Spain changes (including China 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 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 515 17.94 340.79 55 24 Rosberg 461 16.06 305.05 62 24 Vettel 300 10.45 198.52 95 21 Ricciardo 290 10.10 191.90 99 22 Alonso 226 7.87 149.55 127 19 Bottas 173 6.03 114.48 166 14 Hülkenberg 151 5.26 99.92 190 14 Räikkönen 139 4.84 91.98 206 10 Button 124 4.32 82.05 232 9 Massa 118 4.11 78.08 243 12 Grosjean 117 4.07 77.42 245 14 Magnussen 95 3.31 62.86 302 8 Perez 72 2.51 47.64 399 9 Maldonado 44 1.53 29.12 653 6 Kvyat 30 1.04 19.85 958 3 Vergne 27 0.94 17.87 1065 4 Sutil 10 0.35 6.62 2876 2 Gutierrez 6 0.21 3.97 4794 4 Backpack 2 0.07 1.32 14384 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 29 0.034828 30 0.033667 31 0.032581 32 0.031563 With 29 players, if ten shares are moved to a driver his rating will rise by about 0.348 points/race. *** Return per share as a function of finishing position *** DRIVER Win P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 P7 P8 P9 P10 Hamilton 1375 990 825 660 550 440 330 220 110 55 Rosberg 1550 1116 930 744 620 496 372 248 124 62 Vettel 2375 1710 1425 1140 950 760 570 380 190 95 Ricciardo 2475 1782 1485 1188 990 792 594 396 198 99 Alonso 3175 2286 1905 1524 1270 1016 762 508 254 127 Bottas 4150 2988 2490 1992 1660 1328 996 664 332 166 Hülkenberg 4750 3420 2850 2280 1900 1520 1140 760 380 190 Räikkönen 5150 3708 3090 2472 2060 1648 1236 824 412 206 Button 5800 4176 3480 2784 2320 1856 1392 928 464 232 Massa 6075 4374 3645 2916 2430 1944 1458 972 486 243 Grosjean 6125 4410 3675 2940 2450 1960 1470 980 490 245 Magnussen 7550 5436 4530 3624 3020 2416 1812 1208 604 302 Perez 9975 7182 5985 4788 3990 3192 2394 1596 798 399 Maldonado 16325 11754 9795 7836 6530 5224 3918 2612 1306 653 Kvyat 23950 17244 14370 11496 9580 7664 5748 3832 1916 958 Vergne 26625 19170 15975 12780 10650 8520 6390 4260 2130 1065 Sutil 71900 51768 43140 34512 28760 23008 17256 11504 5752 2876 Gutierrez 119850 86292 71910 57528 47940 38352 28764 19176 9588 4794 Backpack 359600 258912 215760 172608 143840 115072 86304 57536 28768 14384 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 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 31 6150 3075 1537 1025 768 615 512 439 384 341 307 153 102 76 32 6348 3174 1587 1058 793 634 529 453 396 352 317 158 105 79 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 Backpack 28768 0 0 0 0 0 28768 Perez 11010 177 0 9585 624 624 0 Rosberg 8497 1925 1386 1278 1188 1170 1550 Alonso 8006 1404 1500 256 2370 952 1524 Hülkenberg 7675 1120 1690 1690 1144 131 1900 Hamilton 7490 0 1900 1650 1500 1450 990 Ricciardo 6594 0 0 2016 1548 1545 1485 Kvyat 6321 4464 899 0 958 0 0 Vergne 5952 5952 0 0 0 0 0 Vettel 5637 0 2565 792 1080 1200 0 Bottas 4406 1040 436 504 846 1580 0 Button 4357 1605 896 0 0 0 1856 Magnussen 3394 2844 248 0 0 0 302 Grosjean 3280 0 0 0 0 2300 980 Räikkönen 3108 774 0 154 884 1296 0 Massa 2994 0 690 846 0 0 1458 Gutierrez 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Maldonado 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Sutil 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Scoring over 1000 points per share in a round means that the share did above average.
