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[Makarias]

Welcome to join season eight of Shareholders!

2015: Backpack
The 2015 Backpack share will represent all drivers entering races for Marussia and, if hell freezes over, Caterham.

Previous Seasons' champions:
2008: an1res
2009: swiniodzik
2010: Grayson
2011: Grayson
2012: Grayson
2013: Costaz
2014: brunopascal

Rules are the same as last year:

How to play the game
The players will be owning shares (100 each) of the drivers participating in the F1 WDC! When a driver scores points in an F1 race, each share owned in that driver will score points to the shareholders in question. The more shares there are owned in a driver, the lesser the return will be for each share. This means that it can be more profitable to own shares in a midfielder who scores just a few points but has proportionally few shares held on him than a frontrunner finishing on the podium.

Drivers are valued according to how much shares are invested in them:
-Frontrunning drivers get many shares and are expected to score often and highly, providing a steady points source but with little potential for real jackpots.
-Backmarkers get proportionally fewer shares and give a return less frequently, but when they do it they may be very rewarding as the dividends are shared by fewer shares.

Good "value for money" is investing in drivers that are undervalued, ie have disproportionally few shares invested in them compared to their actual points scoring potential.

Your entry will carry over from one race to the next, unless you decide to move a limited amount of the shares to a different driver. While this makes the game easy to play even for the laziest humanoids, it also makes it useful to know what shares you have at any given moment. If you don't pay attention, a previously good investment in a driver may become a bad deal if too many shares are added on him or if his form plummets.

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...

Since nobody initially knows what the playing field looks like before the first race, I will give several updates on what the total share distribution looks like among the entries submitted so far.

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. This is however a lazy option that won't make you ultimately competitive.
 * 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:

She decides to Sell:
Peterson -10
Ickx -10

She decides to 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)

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 will only sporadically be posting updates on what each player's portfolio looks like, so remember to keep track of what you own!
The reason you're only allowed to change just 20 shares each round is that it adds some stability to the whole system: I hopefully won't get a nervous breakdown before every round, and the values for each driver won't move around all over the place from one round to the other. It will also force the players to think more long term with their investments.
Keep in mind that when there are shares removed from a driver, the potential return from the shares that remain will increase and vice versa. Holding many shares in a backmarker is an inefficient investment, as for each extra share you get your ownership percentage won't increase by much.

Points Scoring

*The score a player receives from a driver is calculated like this:

[DScore] = 9.92*[TShares]*[DRace]*[PDShares]/[DShares]

where
[TShares] = The total number of shares in the entire game at the moment
[DRace] = The number of points the driver in question scored in the race
[PDShares] = The number of shares the player owns in the driver
[DShares] = The total number of shares owned in the driver in question by ALL players.

In order to only mess around with integer scores, the 9.92*[TShares]/[DShares] factor will be rounded off DOWN to the nearest integer. This factor equals the amount of game points one share will give per WDC point scored by the driver in question.

*The player's total score of the round is simply the sum of the [DScore] values from all drivers.

Thanks to the 9.92 factor, and the [TShares] factor scaling scores up with the amount of players, an average total score for a round will always be around 100,000 points or 1000 points per share, regardless of the number of players. At least if there are shares owned in all points scoring drivers.

Example C:
Emerson Fittipaldi finishes 2nd in a race;
there are 30 players in the game all with 100 shares each;
400 of all shares are placed on Emmo.

The entry in example B will then score approximately
9.92*3000*18*37/400 points,
which with the rounding off will amount to exactly 49284 points.

A good result from 37 shares. 400/3000 shares would mean a driver is valued at 13.4666... points per race, and second place obviously is better than that.
The 1975 drivers magically score points according to the current F1 points system which makes perfect sense because this is just a hypothetical example and why didn't the player invest in Lauda anyway? Probably because he was overvalued, that's why!

[Makarias]

An initial portfolio for me just to get things started:

 

Hamilton 36

Vettel 22

Grosjean 16

Massa 10

Verstappen 8

Sainz 6

Ericsson 1

Nasr 1

 

I'll post a value update once there's at least five entries in, so adjustments can be made.

[KWSN - DSM]

Need a re-do.

Edited by KWSN - DSM, 03 March 2015 - 01:39.

[Makarias]

Hamilton - 20

Rosberg - 20

Raikkonen - 15

Vettel - 15

Bottas - 30

Massa - 30

 

130 shares

[KWSN - DSM]

130 shares

 

Worth a try, I hide behind Freudian slip.

 

[KWSN - DSM]

Hamilton - 20

Rosberg - 20

Raikkonen - 15

Vettel - 15

Bottas - 15

Massa - 15

 

[Wander]

Ricciardo 30
Bottas 30
Hamilton 30
Grosjean 10

Edited by Wander, 03 March 2015 - 11:25.

[Costaz]

Hamilton 40

Rosberg 40

Bottas 20

[DutchQuicksilver]

Hamilton 30

Rosberg 20

Ricciardo 20

Vettel 20

Massa 10

Edited by DutchQuicksilver, 12 March 2015 - 22:54.

[HeidfeldsBeard]

Rosberg 35

Hamilton 30

Ricciardo 15

Massa 10

Maldonado 5

Verstappen 4

Nasr 1

[Makarias]

Early indications point towards winning not being enough for Hamilton

DRIVER      DShares   Race Season    VPP Owners
Hamilton        186  31.31 594.89     32      6
Rosberg         115  19.36 367.81     51      4
Bottas           75  12.63 239.88     79      4
Vettel           57   9.60 182.31    104      3
Ricciardo        45   7.58 143.93    132      2
Massa            35   5.89 111.94    170      3
Räikkönen        35   5.89 111.94    170      2
Grosjean         26   4.38  83.16    228      2
Verstappen       12   2.02  38.38    496      2
Sainz             6   1.01  19.19    992      1
Maldonado         5   0.84  15.99   1190      1
Nasr              2   0.34   6.40   2976      2
Ericsson          1   0.17   3.20   5952      1
Alonso            0   0.00   0.00    N/A      0
Backpack          0   0.00   0.00    N/A      0
Button            0   0.00   0.00    N/A      0
Hülkenberg        0   0.00   0.00    N/A      0
Kvyat             0   0.00   0.00    N/A      0
Perez             0   0.00   0.00    N/A      0

DRIVER           Win      P2      P3      P4      P5      P6      P7      P8      P9     P10
Hamilton         800     576     480     384     320     256     192     128      64      32
Rosberg         1275     918     765     612     510     408     306     204     102      51
Bottas          1975    1422    1185     948     790     632     474     316     158      79
Vettel          2600    1872    1560    1248    1040     832     624     416     208     104
Ricciardo       3300    2376    1980    1584    1320    1056     792     528     264     132
Massa           4250    3060    2550    2040    1700    1360    1020     680     340     170
Räikkönen       4250    3060    2550    2040    1700    1360    1020     680     340     170
Grosjean        5700    4104    3420    2736    2280    1824    1368     912     456     228
Verstappen     12400    8928    7440    5952    4960    3968    2976    1984     992     496
Sainz          24800   17856   14880   11904    9920    7936    5952    3968    1984     992
Maldonado      29750   21420   17850   14280   11900    9520    7140    4760    2380    1190
Nasr           74400   53568   44640   35712   29760   23808   17856   11904    5952    2976
Ericsson      148800  107136   89280   71424   59520   47616   35712   23808   11904    5952
Alonso             0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0
Backpack           0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0
Button             0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0
Hülkenberg         0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0
Kvyat              0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0
Perez              0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0

[KWSN - DSM]

Harummpphhh...

 

Hamilton - 5

Rosberg - 20

Raikkonen - 15

Vettel - 15

Bottas - 15

Massa - 15

Ericsson - 15

 

[mark f1]

Hamilton 25

Rosberg 20

Vettel 15

Ricciardo 10

Bottas 10

Raikkonen 10

Kvyat 5

Grosjean 3

Verstappen 1

Maldonado 1

[brunopascal]

Hamilton 15

Rosberg 15

Massa 10

Bottas 10

Vettel 10

Raikkonen 10

Ricciardo 10

Kvyat 7

Button 7

Grosjean 6

Edited by brunopascal, 07 March 2015 - 10:04.

[jjcale]

LH  15 

NR  20

DR  15

SV  10

KR  10

FM  10

DK  10

VB  10

Edited by jjcale, 07 March 2015 - 12:38.

[chadwick8505]

Hamilton 25

Rosberg 25

Ricciardo 20

Bottas 15

Raikknonen 15

[Makarias]

Total makeover for my entry:

Massa 29

Vettel 19

Kvyat 13

Grosjean 12

Verstappen 11

Sainz 7

Nasr 4

Hülkenberg 2

Perez 2

Alonso 1

 

Magnussen will stand in for the Alonso share this race.If van der Garde takes one Sauber seat he'll represent whichever driver name he replaces.

[Makarias]

Just ten entries, stuff will change a lot still:

DRIVER      DShares   Race Season    VPP Owners
Hamilton        215  21.72 412.59     46      9
Rosberg         195  19.70 374.21     50      8
Bottas          120  12.12 230.28     82      8
Ricciardo       100  10.10 191.90     99      6
Vettel           89   8.99 170.79    111      6
Räikkönen        80   8.08 153.52    124      6
Massa            74   7.47 142.01    134      5
Kvyat            35   3.54  67.17    283      4
Grosjean         31   3.13  59.49    320      4
Verstappen       16   1.62  30.70    620      3
Ericsson         15   1.52  28.79    661      1
Button            7   0.71  13.43   1417      1
Sainz             7   0.71  13.43   1417      1
Maldonado         6   0.61  11.51   1653      2
Nasr              5   0.51   9.60   1984      2
Hülkenberg        2   0.20   3.84   4960      1
Perez             2   0.20   3.84   4960      1
Alonso            1   0.10   1.92   9920      1
Backpack          0   0.00   0.00    N/A      0

DRIVER           Win      P2      P3      P4      P5      P6      P7      P8      P9     P10
Hamilton        1150     828     690     552     460     368     276     184      92      46
Rosberg         1250     900     750     600     500     400     300     200     100      50
Bottas          2050    1476    1230     984     820     656     492     328     164      82
Ricciardo       2475    1782    1485    1188     990     792     594     396     198      99
Vettel          2775    1998    1665    1332    1110     888     666     444     222     111
Räikkönen       3100    2232    1860    1488    1240     992     744     496     248     124
Massa           3350    2412    2010    1608    1340    1072     804     536     268     134
Kvyat           7075    5094    4245    3396    2830    2264    1698    1132     566     283
Grosjean        8000    5760    4800    3840    3200    2560    1920    1280     640     320
Verstappen     15500   11160    9300    7440    6200    4960    3720    2480    1240     620
Ericsson       16525   11898    9915    7932    6610    5288    3966    2644    1322     661
Button         35425   25506   21255   17004   14170   11336    8502    5668    2834    1417
Sainz          35425   25506   21255   17004   14170   11336    8502    5668    2834    1417
Maldonado      41325   29754   24795   19836   16530   13224    9918    6612    3306    1653
Nasr           49600   35712   29760   23808   19840   15872   11904    7936    3968    1984
Hülkenberg    124000   89280   74400   59520   49600   39680   29760   19840    9920    4960
Perez         124000   89280   74400   59520   49600   39680   29760   19840    9920    4960
Alonso        248000  178560  148800  119040   99200   79360   59520   39680   19840    9920
Backpack           0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0

[KWSN - DSM]

I am still waiting for the lawsuit and Manor GP drives to be filled to assign points to all.

 

[Apex]

Perez 10

Hülkenberg 10

Maldonado 10

Button 15

Massa 15

Vettel 15

Sainz 10

Bottas 15

[fisichella_2001]

Hamilton 15

Bottas 15

Rosberg 10

Grosjean 10

Verstappen 10

Vettel 10

Hulkenberg 10

Ricciardo 10

Maldonado 5

Sainz 5

[HeidfeldsBeard]

Time for an Edit.

 

Rosberg 30

Hamilton 27

Ricciardo 15

Massa 12

Kvyat 7

Maldonado 5

Perez 4

 

 

Sauber drivers look like a poor investment right now!

Edited by HeidfeldsBeard, 12 March 2015 - 11:04.

[Wander]

EDIT TIME

Ricciardo 30
Bottas 25
Hamilton 25
Grosjean 10
Maldonado 5
Hulkenberg 5

Edited by Wander, 12 March 2015 - 11:17.

[AndersTallinder]

Rosberg 5

Massa 5

Verstappen 20

Vettel 5

Kimi 10

Sainz 30

Hulkenberg 20

[Barty]

Rosberg 25

Hamilton 20

Bottas 20

Räikkönen 15

Ericsson 10

Nasr 5

Verstappen 3

Button 2

[Grayson]

17 Hamilton

17 Massa

17 Bottas

12 Kvyat

12 Vettel

6 Maldonado

6 Perez

6 Hulkenberg

6  Button 

1 Alonso

[M2000-5]

Hamilton 25

Bottas 30

Massa 20

Raikkonen 15

Vettel 10

[Makarias]

A final adjustment to my entry:

Hülkenberg 0 (-2)

Backpack 1 (+1)

Kvyat 14 (+1)

[Makarias]

Just 17 players so far!

AndersTallinder's entry is just 95 shares, which is not optimal but still a valid entry.

DRIVER      DShares   Race Season    VPP Owners
Hamilton        294  17.52 332.85     57     14
Rosberg         240  14.30 271.72     70     12
Bottas          217  12.93 245.68     77     14
Vettel          171  10.19 193.60     98     12
Räikkönen       135   8.04 152.84    124     10
Massa           133   7.93 150.58    126      9
Ricciardo       110   6.55 124.54    152      7
Verstappen       65   3.87  73.59    258      6
Kvyat            55   3.28  62.27    305      6
Sainz            52   3.10  58.87    323      4
Grosjean         51   3.04  57.74    329      6
Hülkenberg       51   3.04  57.74    329      5
Maldonado        32   1.91  36.23    525      6
Button           30   1.79  33.96    560      4
Ericsson         25   1.49  28.30    672      2
Perez            22   1.31  24.91    764      4
Nasr              9   0.54  10.19   1868      2
Alonso            2   0.12   2.26   8407      2
Backpack          1   0.06   1.13  16814      1

DRIVER           Win      P2      P3      P4      P5      P6      P7      P8      P9     P10
Hamilton        1425    1026     855     684     570     456     342     228     114      57
Rosberg         1750    1260    1050     840     700     560     420     280     140      70
Bottas          1925    1386    1155     924     770     616     462     308     154      77
Vettel          2450    1764    1470    1176     980     784     588     392     196      98
Räikkönen       3100    2232    1860    1488    1240     992     744     496     248     124
Massa           3150    2268    1890    1512    1260    1008     756     504     252     126
Ricciardo       3800    2736    2280    1824    1520    1216     912     608     304     152
Verstappen      6450    4644    3870    3096    2580    2064    1548    1032     516     258
Kvyat           7625    5490    4575    3660    3050    2440    1830    1220     610     305
Sainz           8075    5814    4845    3876    3230    2584    1938    1292     646     323
Grosjean        8225    5922    4935    3948    3290    2632    1974    1316     658     329
Hülkenberg      8225    5922    4935    3948    3290    2632    1974    1316     658     329
Maldonado      13125    9450    7875    6300    5250    4200    3150    2100    1050     525
Button         14000   10080    8400    6720    5600    4480    3360    2240    1120     560
Ericsson       16800   12096   10080    8064    6720    5376    4032    2688    1344     672
Perez          19100   13752   11460    9168    7640    6112    4584    3056    1528     764
Nasr           46700   33624   28020   22416   18680   14944   11208    7472    3736    1868
Alonso        210175  151326  126105  100884   84070   67256   50442   33628   16814    8407
Backpack      420350  302652  252210  201768  168140  134512  100884   67256   33628   16814

[Brawn BGP 001]

Felipe Massa 25
Lewis Hamilton 20
Nico Rosberg 15
Sebastian Vettel 15
Danill Kvyat 10
Jenson Button 10
Fernando Alonso 5

[wattoroos]

Hamilton 25

Rosberg 20

Massa 15

Ricciardo 15

Vettel 15

Bottas 10

[AndersTallinder]

FINAL EDIT:

 

Rosberg 5

Massa 5

Verstappen 20

Vettel 5

Kimi 10

Sainz 30

Hulkenberg 20

Button 5 (+5)

 

Thanks for pointing out my miscalculation, Makarias!

[Makarias]

THE EXCITEMENT

DRIVER      DShares   Race Season    VPP Owners
Hamilton        339  18.02 342.39     55     16
Rosberg         275  14.62 277.75     68     14
Bottas          227  12.07 229.27     83     15
Vettel          201  10.68 203.01     93     14
Massa           173   9.20 174.73    108     11
Räikkönen       135   7.18 136.35    139     10
Ricciardo       125   6.64 126.25    150      8
Kvyat            65   3.46  65.65    289      7
Verstappen       65   3.46  65.65    289      6
Sainz            52   2.76  52.52    362      4
Grosjean         51   2.71  51.51    369      6
Hülkenberg       51   2.71  51.51    369      5
Button           45   2.39  45.45    418      6
Maldonado        32   1.70  32.32    589      6
Ericsson         25   1.33  25.25    753      2
Perez            22   1.17  22.22    856      4
Nasr              9   0.48   9.09   2094      2
Alonso            7   0.37   7.07   2692      3
Backpack          1   0.05   1.01  18848      1

DRIVER           Win      P2      P3      P4      P5      P6      P7      P8      P9     P10
Hamilton        1375     990     825     660     550     440     330     220     110      55
Rosberg         1700    1224    1020     816     680     544     408     272     136      68
Bottas          2075    1494    1245     996     830     664     498     332     166      83
Vettel          2325    1674    1395    1116     930     744     558     372     186      93
Massa           2700    1944    1620    1296    1080     864     648     432     216     108
Räikkönen       3475    2502    2085    1668    1390    1112     834     556     278     139
Ricciardo       3750    2700    2250    1800    1500    1200     900     600     300     150
Kvyat           7225    5202    4335    3468    2890    2312    1734    1156     578     289
Verstappen      7225    5202    4335    3468    2890    2312    1734    1156     578     289
Sainz           9050    6516    5430    4344    3620    2896    2172    1448     724     362
Grosjean        9225    6642    5535    4428    3690    2952    2214    1476     738     369
Hülkenberg      9225    6642    5535    4428    3690    2952    2214    1476     738     369
Button         10450    7524    6270    5016    4180    3344    2508    1672     836     418
Maldonado      14725   10602    8835    7068    5890    4712    3534    2356    1178     589
Ericsson       18825   13554   11295    9036    7530    6024    4518    3012    1506     753
Perez          21400   15408   12840   10272    8560    6848    5136    3424    1712     856
Nasr           52350   37692   31410   25128   20940   16752   12564    8376    4188    2094
Alonso         67300   48456   40380   32304   26920   21536   16152   10768    5384    2692
Backpack      471200  339264  282720  226176  188480  150784  113088   75392   37696   18848

[scheivlak]

changed mine: 

 

Vettel 25

Verstappen 20

Raikkonen 15

Grosjean 10

Rosberg 10

Hamilton 10

Ricciardo 10