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
China changes
Bahrain 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 386 19.49 370.37 51 18 Rosberg 299 15.10 286.89 66 16 Vettel 276 13.94 264.82 71 17 Räikkönen 197 9.95 189.02 100 14 Massa 153 7.73 146.80 129 12 Bottas 146 7.37 140.09 135 12 Grosjean 89 4.49 85.40 222 8 Ricciardo 72 3.64 69.08 275 10 Sainz 55 2.78 52.77 360 5 Verstappen 52 2.63 49.89 381 6 Nasr 51 2.58 48.93 389 6 Maldonado 47 2.37 45.10 422 8 Hülkenberg 40 2.02 38.38 496 3 Ericsson 38 1.92 36.46 522 5 Kvyat 38 1.92 36.46 522 5 Button 25 1.26 23.99 793 4 Alonso 20 1.01 19.19 992 5 Perez 16 0.81 15.35 1240 2 Backpack 0 0.00 0.00 N/A 0 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 20 0.050500 21 0.048095 22 0.045909 23 0.043913 With 20 players, if ten shares are moved to a driver his rating will rise by about 0.505 points/race. *** Return per share as a function of finishing position *** DRIVER Win P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 P7 P8 P9 P10 Hamilton 1275 918 765 612 510 408 306 204 102 51 Rosberg 1650 1188 990 792 660 528 396 264 132 66 Vettel 1775 1278 1065 852 710 568 426 284 142 71 Räikkönen 2500 1800 1500 1200 1000 800 600 400 200 100 Massa 3225 2322 1935 1548 1290 1032 774 516 258 129 Bottas 3375 2430 2025 1620 1350 1080 810 540 270 135 Grosjean 5550 3996 3330 2664 2220 1776 1332 888 444 222 Ricciardo 6875 4950 4125 3300 2750 2200 1650 1100 550 275 Sainz 9000 6480 5400 4320 3600 2880 2160 1440 720 360 Verstappen 9525 6858 5715 4572 3810 3048 2286 1524 762 381 Nasr 9725 7002 5835 4668 3890 3112 2334 1556 778 389 Maldonado 10550 7596 6330 5064 4220 3376 2532 1688 844 422 Hülkenberg 12400 8928 7440 5952 4960 3968 2976 1984 992 496 Ericsson 13050 9396 7830 6264 5220 4176 3132 2088 1044 522 Kvyat 13050 9396 7830 6264 5220 4176 3132 2088 1044 522 Button 19825 14274 11895 9516 7930 6344 4758 3172 1586 793 Alonso 24800 17856 14880 11904 9920 7936 5952 3968 1984 992 Perez 31000 22320 18600 14880 12400 9920 7440 4960 2480 1240 Backpack 496000 357120 297600 238080 198400 158720 119040 79360 39680 19840 The above table illustrates the return each share gives for each finishing position given the current share distribution. Exception: Backpack, listing the return for a single share. *** VPP samples *** Players Shares/driver 5 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 200 300 400 20 3968 1984 992 661 496 396 330 283 248 220 198 99 66 49 21 4166 2083 1041 694 520 416 347 297 260 231 208 104 69 52 22 4364 2182 1091 727 545 436 363 311 272 242 218 109 72 54 23 4563 2281 1140 760 570 456 380 325 285 253 228 114 76 57 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 CHN BAH ESP MON CAN AUT GB HUN BEL ITA SIN JAP RUS USA MEX BRA ABU Nasr 22740 20940 0 1800 0 Perez 5816 856 0 0 4960 Vettel 5615 1440 2250 1215 710 Hamilton 5076 1375 1026 1400 1275 Rosberg 4572 1224 1080 1278 990 Räikkönen 4260 0 1248 1212 1800 Ricciardo 3894 968 198 528 2200 Bottas 3634 0 1150 864 1620 Ericsson 3473 3012 0 461 0 Massa 3363 1224 840 1170 129 Grosjean 2766 0 0 1434 1332 Hülkenberg 2214 2214 0 0 0 Sainz 2140 724 1416 0 0 Verstappen 2124 0 2124 0 0 Kvyat 1764 0 720 0 1044 Alonso 0 0 0 0 0 Backpack 0 0 0 0 0 Button 0 0 0 0 0 Maldonado 0 0 0 0 0 Scoring over 1000 points per share in a round means that the share did above average.
