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
Austria changes (including Canada entries)
Britain changes
Hungary 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 458 19.27 366.21 51 20 Rosberg 370 15.57 295.85 64 18 Vettel 310 13.05 247.87 76 19 Räikkönen 194 8.16 155.12 122 17 Bottas 187 7.87 149.52 127 15 Massa 158 6.65 126.33 150 12 Hülkenberg 99 4.17 79.16 240 9 Kvyat 97 4.08 77.56 245 10 Ricciardo 94 3.96 75.16 253 10 Sainz 72 3.03 57.57 330 6 Perez 68 2.86 54.37 350 8 Maldonado 57 2.40 45.58 417 9 Verstappen 56 2.36 44.78 425 6 Grosjean 53 2.23 42.38 449 6 Button 32 1.35 25.59 744 6 Nasr 32 1.35 25.59 744 4 Alonso 31 1.30 24.79 768 4 Ericsson 31 1.30 24.79 768 3 Backpack 1 0.04 0.80 23808 1 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 24 0.042083 25 0.040400 26 0.038846 With 24 players, if ten shares are moved to a driver his rating will rise by about 0.421 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 1600 1152 960 768 640 512 384 256 128 64 Vettel 1900 1368 1140 912 760 608 456 304 152 76 Räikkönen 3050 2196 1830 1464 1220 976 732 488 244 122 Bottas 3175 2286 1905 1524 1270 1016 762 508 254 127 Massa 3750 2700 2250 1800 1500 1200 900 600 300 150 Hülkenberg 6000 4320 3600 2880 2400 1920 1440 960 480 240 Kvyat 6125 4410 3675 2940 2450 1960 1470 980 490 245 Ricciardo 6325 4554 3795 3036 2530 2024 1518 1012 506 253 Sainz 8250 5940 4950 3960 3300 2640 1980 1320 660 330 Perez 8750 6300 5250 4200 3500 2800 2100 1400 700 350 Maldonado 10425 7506 6255 5004 4170 3336 2502 1668 834 417 Verstappen 10625 7650 6375 5100 4250 3400 2550 1700 850 425 Grosjean 11225 8082 6735 5388 4490 3592 2694 1796 898 449 Button 18600 13392 11160 8928 7440 5952 4464 2976 1488 744 Nasr 18600 13392 11160 8928 7440 5952 4464 2976 1488 744 Alonso 19200 13824 11520 9216 7680 6144 4608 3072 1536 768 Ericsson 19200 13824 11520 9216 7680 6144 4608 3072 1536 768 Backpack 595200 428544 357120 285696 238080 190464 142848 95232 47616 23808 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 24 4761 2380 1190 793 595 476 396 340 297 264 238 119 79 59 25 4960 2480 1240 826 620 496 413 354 310 275 248 124 82 62 26 5158 2579 1289 859 644 515 429 368 322 286 257 128 85 64 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 0 0 0 Kvyat 18776 0 720 0 1044 520 6936 1178 0 3968 4410 Vettel 12701 1440 2250 1215 710 1125 1350 710 876 1125 1900 Perez 12422 856 0 0 4960 0 4464 0 1282 860 0 Rosberg 11824 1224 1080 1278 990 1725 1600 1098 1475 1098 256 Hülkenberg 10690 2214 0 0 0 0 0 2492 4592 1392 0 Ricciardo 10613 968 198 528 2200 1122 1530 0 272 0 3795 Hamilton 10508 1375 1026 1400 1275 882 735 1250 882 1275 408 Massa 9437 1224 840 1170 129 1168 0 1240 2070 1596 0 Verstappen 8932 0 2124 0 0 0 0 0 1708 0 5100 Alonso 8766 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1086 7680 Bottas 8736 0 1150 864 1620 1572 0 1560 950 1020 0 Räikkönen 7468 0 1248 1212 1800 840 728 1104 0 536 0 Button 7440 0 0 0 0 0 5952 0 0 0 1488 Maldonado 7038 0 0 0 0 0 0 3846 3192 0 0 Grosjean 6612 0 0 1434 1332 832 0 320 0 0 2694 Ericsson 4241 3012 0 461 0 0 0 0 0 0 768 Sainz 3442 724 1416 0 0 924 378 0 0 0 0 Backpack 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.