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
Canada changes
Austria 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 501 17.45 331.52 57 24 Rosberg 457 15.92 302.41 62 24 Ricciardo 318 11.08 210.43 90 22 Vettel 302 10.52 199.84 95 21 Alonso 224 7.80 148.23 128 19 Hülkenberg 182 6.34 120.43 158 18 Bottas 178 6.20 117.79 161 15 Button 138 4.81 91.32 208 11 Massa 127 4.42 84.04 226 13 Räikkönen 126 4.39 83.38 228 9 Magnussen 92 3.20 60.88 312 8 Perez 78 2.72 51.61 368 9 Grosjean 65 2.26 43.01 442 9 Vergne 39 1.36 25.81 737 6 Kvyat 30 1.04 19.85 958 3 Maldonado 24 0.84 15.88 1198 4 Sutil 10 0.35 6.62 2876 2 Gutierrez 5 0.17 3.31 5753 4 Backpack 4 0.14 2.65 7192 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 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 1425 1026 855 684 570 456 342 228 114 57 Rosberg 1550 1116 930 744 620 496 372 248 124 62 Ricciardo 2250 1620 1350 1080 900 720 540 360 180 90 Vettel 2375 1710 1425 1140 950 760 570 380 190 95 Alonso 3200 2304 1920 1536 1280 1024 768 512 256 128 Hülkenberg 3950 2844 2370 1896 1580 1264 948 632 316 158 Bottas 4025 2898 2415 1932 1610 1288 966 644 322 161 Button 5200 3744 3120 2496 2080 1664 1248 832 416 208 Massa 5650 4068 3390 2712 2260 1808 1356 904 452 226 Räikkönen 5700 4104 3420 2736 2280 1824 1368 912 456 228 Magnussen 7800 5616 4680 3744 3120 2496 1872 1248 624 312 Perez 9200 6624 5520 4416 3680 2944 2208 1472 736 368 Grosjean 11050 7956 6630 5304 4420 3536 2652 1768 884 442 Vergne 18425 13266 11055 8844 7370 5896 4422 2948 1474 737 Kvyat 23950 17244 14370 11496 9580 7664 5748 3832 1916 958 Maldonado 29950 21564 17970 14376 11980 9584 7188 4792 2396 1198 Sutil 71900 51768 43140 34512 28760 23008 17256 11504 5752 2876 Gutierrez 143825 103554 86295 69036 57530 46024 34518 23012 11506 5753 Backpack 179800 129456 107880 86304 71920 57536 43152 28768 14384 7192 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 0 0 Perez 13954 177 0 9585 624 624 0 0 2944 Rosberg 11163 1925 1386 1278 1188 1170 1550 1116 1550 Alonso 10278 1404 1500 256 2370 952 1524 992 1280 Hülkenberg 9521 1120 1690 1690 1144 131 1900 1530 316 Ricciardo 9404 0 0 2016 1548 1545 1485 2450 360 Vergne 9236 5952 0 0 0 0 0 3284 0 Hamilton 8516 0 1900 1650 1500 1450 990 0 1026 Bottas 7865 1040 436 504 846 1580 0 1044 2415 Button 7141 1605 896 0 0 0 1856 2784 0 Vettel 7107 0 2565 792 1080 1200 0 1470 0 Kvyat 6321 4464 899 0 958 0 0 0 0 Magnussen 5858 2844 248 0 0 0 302 592 1872 Massa 5706 0 690 846 0 0 1458 0 2712 Räikkönen 3510 774 0 154 884 1296 0 174 228 Grosjean 3280 0 0 0 0 2300 980 0 0 Gutierrez 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Maldonado 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Sutil 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.
