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
Italy changes (including Belgium entries)
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 451 18.98 360.61 52 20 Rosberg 378 15.91 302.24 62 19 Vettel 314 13.21 251.07 75 19 Massa 208 8.75 166.31 114 15 Bottas 206 8.67 164.71 115 17 Räikkönen 160 6.73 127.93 148 15 Perez 116 4.88 92.75 205 12 Hülkenberg 111 4.67 88.75 214 11 Sainz 71 2.99 56.77 335 6 Grosjean 70 2.95 55.97 340 8 Ricciardo 64 2.69 51.17 372 7 Kvyat 55 2.31 43.98 432 7 Verstappen 54 2.27 43.18 440 7 Maldonado 49 2.06 39.18 485 7 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 1550 1116 930 744 620 496 372 248 124 62 Vettel 1875 1350 1125 900 750 600 450 300 150 75 Massa 2850 2052 1710 1368 1140 912 684 456 228 114 Bottas 2875 2070 1725 1380 1150 920 690 460 230 115 Räikkönen 3700 2664 2220 1776 1480 1184 888 592 296 148 Perez 5125 3690 3075 2460 2050 1640 1230 820 410 205 Hülkenberg 5350 3852 3210 2568 2140 1712 1284 856 428 214 Sainz 8375 6030 5025 4020 3350 2680 2010 1340 670 335 Grosjean 8500 6120 5100 4080 3400 2720 2040 1360 680 340 Ricciardo 9300 6696 5580 4464 3720 2976 2232 1488 744 372 Kvyat 10800 7776 6480 5184 4320 3456 2592 1728 864 432 Verstappen 11000 7920 6600 5280 4400 3520 2640 1760 880 440 Maldonado 12125 8730 7275 5820 4850 3880 2910 1940 970 485 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 0 Kvyat 23672 0 720 0 1044 520 6936 1178 0 3968 4410 4464 432 Perez 17962 856 0 0 4960 0 4464 0 1282 860 0 3900 1640 Vettel 14051 1440 2250 1215 710 1125 1350 710 876 1125 1900 0 1350 Grosjean 13347 0 0 1434 1332 832 0 320 0 0 2694 6735 0 Hamilton 13108 1375 1026 1400 1275 882 735 1250 882 1275 408 1300 1300 Rosberg 12994 1224 1080 1278 990 1725 1600 1098 1475 1098 256 1170 0 Massa 12179 1224 840 1170 129 1168 0 1240 2070 1596 0 1032 1710 Ricciardo 12101 968 198 528 2200 1122 1530 0 272 0 3795 0 1488 Hülkenberg 11974 2214 0 0 0 0 0 2492 4592 1392 0 0 1284 Verstappen 10632 0 2124 0 0 0 0 0 1708 0 5100 1700 0 Bottas 10360 0 1150 864 1620 1572 0 1560 950 1020 0 244 1380 Räikkönen 9572 0 1248 1212 1800 840 728 1104 0 536 0 624 1480 Alonso 8766 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1086 7680 0 0 Button 7440 0 0 0 0 0 5952 0 0 0 1488 0 0 Maldonado 7038 0 0 0 0 0 0 3846 3192 0 0 0 0 Ericsson 6545 3012 0 461 0 0 0 0 0 0 768 768 1536 Sainz 3442 724 1416 0 0 924 378 0 0 0 0 0 0 Backpack 0 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.
