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)
Singapore changes
Japan changes
Russia changes
USA changes (including Russia entries)
Mexico 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 446 18.77 356.61 53 20 Rosberg 334 14.06 267.06 71 18 Vettel 290 12.20 231.88 82 19 Bottas 208 8.75 166.31 114 16 Massa 173 7.28 138.33 137 13 Räikkönen 172 7.24 137.53 138 16 Perez 130 5.47 103.95 183 11 Hülkenberg 116 4.88 92.75 205 11 Ricciardo 103 4.33 82.36 231 11 Verstappen 90 3.79 71.96 264 10 Kvyat 82 3.45 65.57 290 8 Sainz 57 2.40 45.58 417 5 Grosjean 55 2.31 43.98 432 6 Maldonado 50 2.10 39.98 476 7 Nasr 32 1.35 25.59 744 4 Ericsson 31 1.30 24.79 768 3 Alonso 22 0.93 17.59 1082 4 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 1325 954 795 636 530 424 318 212 106 53 Rosberg 1775 1278 1065 852 710 568 426 284 142 71 Vettel 2050 1476 1230 984 820 656 492 328 164 82 Bottas 2850 2052 1710 1368 1140 912 684 456 228 114 Massa 3425 2466 2055 1644 1370 1096 822 548 274 137 Räikkönen 3450 2484 2070 1656 1380 1104 828 552 276 138 Perez 4575 3294 2745 2196 1830 1464 1098 732 366 183 Hülkenberg 5125 3690 3075 2460 2050 1640 1230 820 410 205 Ricciardo 5775 4158 3465 2772 2310 1848 1386 924 462 231 Verstappen 6600 4752 3960 3168 2640 2112 1584 1056 528 264 Kvyat 7250 5220 4350 3480 2900 2320 1740 1160 580 290 Sainz 10425 7506 6255 5004 4170 3336 2502 1668 834 417 Grosjean 10800 7776 6480 5184 4320 3456 2592 1728 864 432 Maldonado 11900 8568 7140 5712 4760 3808 2856 1904 952 476 Nasr 18600 13392 11160 8928 7440 5952 4464 2976 1488 744 Ericsson 19200 13824 11520 9216 7680 6144 4608 3072 1536 768 Alonso 27050 19476 16230 12984 10820 8656 6492 4328 2164 1082 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 Kvyat 32106 0 720 0 1044 520 6936 1178 0 3968 4410 4464 432 1904 0 3050 0 3480 Nasr 31892 20940 0 1800 0 0 968 0 0 0 0 0 0 744 0 5952 1488 0 Perez 26637 856 0 0 4960 0 4464 0 1282 860 0 3900 1640 1758 0 4005 2180 732 Vettel 19592 1440 2250 1215 710 1125 1350 710 876 1125 1900 0 1350 1875 1080 1296 1290 0 Button 18992 0 0 0 0 0 5952 0 0 0 1488 0 0 0 0 5952 5600 0 Ricciardo 18058 968 198 528 2200 1122 1530 0 272 0 3795 0 1488 3474 0 0 173 2310 Rosberg 17955 1224 1080 1278 990 1725 1600 1098 1475 1098 256 1170 0 756 1152 0 1278 1775 Hamilton 17937 1375 1026 1400 1275 882 735 1250 882 1275 408 1300 1300 0 1275 1300 1300 954 Verstappen 16675 0 2124 0 0 0 0 0 1708 0 5100 1700 0 1188 586 309 3432 528 Grosjean 16083 0 0 1434 1332 832 0 320 0 0 2694 6735 0 0 2304 0 0 432 Maldonado 15368 0 0 0 0 0 0 3846 3192 0 0 0 0 0 2380 3570 2380 0 Hülkenberg 15316 2214 0 0 0 0 0 2492 4592 1392 0 0 1284 0 2112 0 0 1230 Massa 15063 1224 840 1170 129 1168 0 1240 2070 1596 0 1032 1710 0 0 1788 0 1096 Bottas 14870 0 1150 864 1620 1572 0 1560 950 1020 0 244 1380 1420 1380 0 0 1710 Räikkönen 13498 0 1248 1212 1800 840 728 1104 0 536 0 624 1480 2010 1464 452 0 0 Alonso 8766 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1086 7680 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Sainz 6947 724 1416 0 0 924 378 0 0 0 0 0 0 586 417 0 2502 0 Ericsson 6545 3012 0 461 0 0 0 0 0 0 768 768 1536 0 0 0 0 0 Backpack 0 0 0 0 0 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.
