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
Britain changes (including Austria entries)
Germany changes
Hungary changes
Belgium changes
Italy changes (including Belgium entries)
Singapore changes
Japan 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 444 15.46 293.81 64 24 Rosberg 414 14.42 273.95 69 22 Ricciardo 313 10.90 207.12 91 21 Bottas 295 10.27 195.21 97 20 Vettel 255 8.88 168.74 112 19 Alonso 241 8.39 159.48 119 19 Massa 178 6.20 117.79 161 17 Button 153 5.33 101.24 188 12 Räikkönen 152 5.29 100.58 189 11 Hülkenberg 122 4.25 80.73 235 12 Magnussen 102 3.55 67.50 282 9 Perez 84 2.93 55.58 342 10 Grosjean 38 1.32 25.15 757 5 Kvyat 35 1.22 23.16 821 4 Vergne 28 0.98 18.53 1027 4 Maldonado 22 0.77 14.56 1307 3 Gutierrez 10 0.35 6.62 2876 5 Sutil 10 0.35 6.62 2876 2 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 1600 1152 960 768 640 512 384 256 128 64 Rosberg 1725 1242 1035 828 690 552 414 276 138 69 Ricciardo 2275 1638 1365 1092 910 728 546 364 182 91 Bottas 2425 1746 1455 1164 970 776 582 388 194 97 Vettel 2800 2016 1680 1344 1120 896 672 448 224 112 Alonso 2975 2142 1785 1428 1190 952 714 476 238 119 Massa 4025 2898 2415 1932 1610 1288 966 644 322 161 Button 4700 3384 2820 2256 1880 1504 1128 752 376 188 Räikkönen 4725 3402 2835 2268 1890 1512 1134 756 378 189 Hülkenberg 5875 4230 3525 2820 2350 1880 1410 940 470 235 Magnussen 7050 5076 4230 3384 2820 2256 1692 1128 564 282 Perez 8550 6156 5130 4104 3420 2736 2052 1368 684 342 Grosjean 18925 13626 11355 9084 7570 6056 4542 3028 1514 757 Kvyat 20525 14778 12315 9852 8210 6568 4926 3284 1642 821 Vergne 25675 18486 15405 12324 10270 8216 6162 4108 2054 1027 Maldonado 32675 23526 19605 15684 13070 10456 7842 5228 2614 1307 Gutierrez 71900 51768 43140 34512 28760 23008 17256 11504 5752 2876 Sutil 71900 51768 43140 34512 28760 23008 17256 11504 5752 2876 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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Vergne 25097 5952 0 0 0 0 0 3284 0 1307 0 2500 0 0 10000 2054 Perez 20319 177 0 9585 624 624 0 0 2944 0 293 0 1368 2154 2208 342 Ricciardo 19888 0 0 2016 1548 1545 1485 2450 360 1410 752 2375 2475 1000 1380 1092 Alonso 17122 1404 1500 256 2370 952 1524 992 1280 1000 1290 2322 768 0 1464 0 Rosberg 17033 1925 1386 1278 1188 1170 1550 1116 1550 0 1550 756 1152 1170 0 1242 Vettel 16393 0 2565 792 1080 1200 0 1470 0 1180 1476 684 1210 968 2088 1680 Bottas 16349 1040 436 504 846 1580 0 1044 2415 2376 2268 460 1560 1044 0 776 Hamilton 16296 0 1900 1650 1500 1450 990 0 1026 1425 870 885 0 1500 1500 1600 Button 14734 1605 896 0 0 0 1856 2784 0 2592 736 189 1456 740 0 1880 Hülkenberg 12859 1120 1690 1690 1144 131 1900 1530 316 664 1062 0 202 0 470 940 Massa 12567 0 690 846 0 0 1458 0 2712 0 0 1790 0 2445 1660 966 Räikkönen 10238 774 0 154 884 1296 0 174 228 0 0 2128 3108 456 1036 0 Kvyat 9605 4464 899 0 958 0 0 0 0 1642 0 0 1642 0 0 0 Magnussen 8644 2844 248 0 0 0 302 592 1872 1812 500 0 0 233 241 0 Grosjean 3280 0 0 0 0 2300 980 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Gutierrez 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Maldonado 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Sutil 0 0 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.
