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
Spain changes (including Bahrain 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 417 20.06 381.06 49 19 Rosberg 324 15.58 296.07 64 17 Vettel 275 13.23 251.30 75 18 Räikkönen 227 10.92 207.43 91 17 Bottas 176 8.46 160.83 118 14 Ricciardo 136 6.54 124.28 153 15 Massa 131 6.30 119.71 159 10 Sainz 55 2.65 50.26 378 5 Verstappen 54 2.60 49.35 385 7 Grosjean 51 2.45 46.60 408 6 Nasr 43 2.07 39.29 484 6 Kvyat 36 1.73 32.90 578 5 Hülkenberg 35 1.68 31.98 595 3 Maldonado 35 1.68 31.98 595 7 Ericsson 31 1.49 28.33 672 3 Alonso 29 1.39 26.50 718 6 Perez 28 1.35 25.59 744 4 Button 14 0.67 12.79 1488 4 Backpack 3 0.14 2.74 6944 3 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 21 0.048095 22 0.045909 23 0.043913 24 0.042083 With 21 players, if ten shares are moved to a driver his rating will rise by about 0.481 points/race. *** Return per share as a function of finishing position *** DRIVER Win P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 P7 P8 P9 P10 Hamilton 1225 882 735 588 490 392 294 196 98 49 Rosberg 1600 1152 960 768 640 512 384 256 128 64 Vettel 1875 1350 1125 900 750 600 450 300 150 75 Räikkönen 2275 1638 1365 1092 910 728 546 364 182 91 Bottas 2950 2124 1770 1416 1180 944 708 472 236 118 Ricciardo 3825 2754 2295 1836 1530 1224 918 612 306 153 Massa 3975 2862 2385 1908 1590 1272 954 636 318 159 Sainz 9450 6804 5670 4536 3780 3024 2268 1512 756 378 Verstappen 9625 6930 5775 4620 3850 3080 2310 1540 770 385 Grosjean 10200 7344 6120 4896 4080 3264 2448 1632 816 408 Nasr 12100 8712 7260 5808 4840 3872 2904 1936 968 484 Kvyat 14450 10404 8670 6936 5780 4624 3468 2312 1156 578 Hülkenberg 14875 10710 8925 7140 5950 4760 3570 2380 1190 595 Maldonado 14875 10710 8925 7140 5950 4760 3570 2380 1190 595 Ericsson 16800 12096 10080 8064 6720 5376 4032 2688 1344 672 Alonso 17950 12924 10770 8616 7180 5744 4308 2872 1436 718 Perez 18600 13392 11160 8928 7440 5952 4464 2976 1488 744 Button 37200 26784 22320 17856 14880 11904 8928 5952 2976 1488 Backpack 173600 124992 104160 83328 69440 55552 41664 27776 13888 6944 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 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 24 4761 2380 1190 793 595 476 396 340 297 264 238 119 79 59 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 23708 20940 0 1800 0 0 968 Perez 10280 856 0 0 4960 0 4464 Kvyat 9220 0 720 0 1044 520 6936 Vettel 8090 1440 2250 1215 710 1125 1350 Rosberg 7897 1224 1080 1278 990 1725 1600 Hamilton 6693 1375 1026 1400 1275 882 735 Ricciardo 6546 968 198 528 2200 1122 1530 Button 5952 0 0 0 0 0 5952 Räikkönen 5828 0 1248 1212 1800 840 728 Bottas 5206 0 1150 864 1620 1572 0 Massa 4531 1224 840 1170 129 1168 0 Grosjean 3598 0 0 1434 1332 832 0 Ericsson 3473 3012 0 461 0 0 0 Sainz 3442 724 1416 0 0 924 378 Hülkenberg 2214 2214 0 0 0 0 0 Verstappen 2124 0 2124 0 0 0 0 Alonso 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Backpack 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Maldonado 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Scoring over 1000 points per share in a round means that the share did above average.
