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
Belgium 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 453 19.06 362.21 52 20 Rosberg 362 15.23 289.45 65 18 Vettel 332 13.97 265.46 71 20 Räikkönen 228 9.60 182.31 104 17 Bottas 194 8.16 155.12 122 16 Massa 184 7.74 147.12 129 13 Hülkenberg 112 4.71 89.55 212 11 Ricciardo 91 3.83 72.76 261 11 Sainz 73 3.07 58.37 326 7 Kvyat 64 2.69 51.17 372 8 Perez 61 2.57 48.77 390 7 Verstappen 56 2.36 44.78 425 6 Grosjean 53 2.23 42.38 449 6 Maldonado 44 1.85 35.18 541 6 Nasr 32 1.35 25.59 744 4 Ericsson 31 1.30 24.79 768 3 Alonso 21 0.88 16.79 1133 3 Button 8 0.34 6.40 2976 2 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 1300 936 780 624 520 416 312 208 104 52 Rosberg 1625 1170 975 780 650 520 390 260 130 65 Vettel 1775 1278 1065 852 710 568 426 284 142 71 Räikkönen 2600 1872 1560 1248 1040 832 624 416 208 104 Bottas 3050 2196 1830 1464 1220 976 732 488 244 122 Massa 3225 2322 1935 1548 1290 1032 774 516 258 129 Hülkenberg 5300 3816 3180 2544 2120 1696 1272 848 424 212 Ricciardo 6525 4698 3915 3132 2610 2088 1566 1044 522 261 Sainz 8150 5868 4890 3912 3260 2608 1956 1304 652 326 Kvyat 9300 6696 5580 4464 3720 2976 2232 1488 744 372 Perez 9750 7020 5850 4680 3900 3120 2340 1560 780 390 Verstappen 10625 7650 6375 5100 4250 3400 2550 1700 850 425 Grosjean 11225 8082 6735 5388 4490 3592 2694 1796 898 449 Maldonado 13525 9738 8115 6492 5410 4328 3246 2164 1082 541 Nasr 18600 13392 11160 8928 7440 5952 4464 2976 1488 744 Ericsson 19200 13824 11520 9216 7680 6144 4608 3072 1536 768 Alonso 28325 20394 16995 13596 11330 9064 6798 4532 2266 1133 Button 74400 53568 44640 35712 29760 23808 17856 11904 5952 2976 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 0 Kvyat 23240 0 720 0 1044 520 6936 1178 0 3968 4410 4464 Perez 16322 856 0 0 4960 0 4464 0 1282 860 0 3900 Grosjean 13347 0 0 1434 1332 832 0 320 0 0 2694 6735 Rosberg 12994 1224 1080 1278 990 1725 1600 1098 1475 1098 256 1170 Vettel 12701 1440 2250 1215 710 1125 1350 710 876 1125 1900 0 Hamilton 11808 1375 1026 1400 1275 882 735 1250 882 1275 408 1300 Hülkenberg 10690 2214 0 0 0 0 0 2492 4592 1392 0 0 Verstappen 10632 0 2124 0 0 0 0 0 1708 0 5100 1700 Ricciardo 10613 968 198 528 2200 1122 1530 0 272 0 3795 0 Massa 10469 1224 840 1170 129 1168 0 1240 2070 1596 0 1032 Bottas 8980 0 1150 864 1620 1572 0 1560 950 1020 0 244 Alonso 8766 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1086 7680 0 Räikkönen 8092 0 1248 1212 1800 840 728 1104 0 536 0 624 Button 7440 0 0 0 0 0 5952 0 0 0 1488 0 Maldonado 7038 0 0 0 0 0 0 3846 3192 0 0 0 Ericsson 5009 3012 0 461 0 0 0 0 0 0 768 768 Sainz 3442 724 1416 0 0 924 378 0 0 0 0 0 Backpack 0 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.
