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
Canada 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 436 20.02 380.31 50 20 Rosberg 353 16.21 307.91 61 19 Vettel 307 14.09 267.79 71 19 Räikkönen 236 10.83 205.86 92 18 Bottas 208 9.55 181.43 104 16 Massa 140 6.43 122.12 155 12 Ricciardo 124 5.69 108.16 176 14 Grosjean 68 3.12 59.31 320 8 Verstappen 49 2.25 42.74 445 6 Sainz 47 2.16 41.00 464 4 Kvyat 37 1.70 32.27 589 5 Hülkenberg 35 1.61 30.53 623 3 Maldonado 34 1.56 29.66 641 6 Nasr 34 1.56 29.66 641 5 Ericsson 31 1.42 27.04 704 3 Alonso 24 1.10 20.93 909 4 Perez 24 1.10 20.93 909 4 Button 13 0.60 11.34 1678 3 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 22 0.045909 23 0.043913 24 0.042083 With 22 players, if ten shares are moved to a driver his rating will rise by about 0.459 points/race. *** Return per share as a function of finishing position *** DRIVER Win P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 P7 P8 P9 P10 Hamilton 1250 900 750 600 500 400 300 200 100 50 Rosberg 1525 1098 915 732 610 488 366 244 122 61 Vettel 1775 1278 1065 852 710 568 426 284 142 71 Räikkönen 2300 1656 1380 1104 920 736 552 368 184 92 Bottas 2600 1872 1560 1248 1040 832 624 416 208 104 Massa 3875 2790 2325 1860 1550 1240 930 620 310 155 Ricciardo 4400 3168 2640 2112 1760 1408 1056 704 352 176 Grosjean 8000 5760 4800 3840 3200 2560 1920 1280 640 320 Verstappen 11125 8010 6675 5340 4450 3560 2670 1780 890 445 Sainz 11600 8352 6960 5568 4640 3712 2784 1856 928 464 Kvyat 14725 10602 8835 7068 5890 4712 3534 2356 1178 589 Hülkenberg 15575 11214 9345 7476 6230 4984 3738 2492 1246 623 Maldonado 16025 11538 9615 7692 6410 5128 3846 2564 1282 641 Nasr 16025 11538 9615 7692 6410 5128 3846 2564 1282 641 Ericsson 17600 12672 10560 8448 7040 5632 4224 2816 1408 704 Alonso 22725 16362 13635 10908 9090 7272 5454 3636 1818 909 Perez 22725 16362 13635 10908 9090 7272 5454 3636 1818 909 Button 41950 30204 25170 20136 16780 13424 10068 6712 3356 1678 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 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 0 Kvyat 10398 0 720 0 1044 520 6936 1178 Perez 10280 856 0 0 4960 0 4464 0 Rosberg 8995 1224 1080 1278 990 1725 1600 1098 Vettel 8800 1440 2250 1215 710 1125 1350 710 Hamilton 7943 1375 1026 1400 1275 882 735 1250 Räikkönen 6932 0 1248 1212 1800 840 728 1104 Bottas 6766 0 1150 864 1620 1572 0 1560 Ricciardo 6546 968 198 528 2200 1122 1530 0 Button 5952 0 0 0 0 0 5952 0 Massa 5771 1224 840 1170 129 1168 0 1240 Hülkenberg 4706 2214 0 0 0 0 0 2492 Grosjean 3918 0 0 1434 1332 832 0 320 Maldonado 3846 0 0 0 0 0 0 3846 Ericsson 3473 3012 0 461 0 0 0 0 Sainz 3442 724 1416 0 0 924 378 0 Verstappen 2124 0 2124 0 0 0 0 0 Alonso 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Backpack 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Scoring over 1000 points per share in a round means that the share did above average.
