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)
Bahrain changes
China changes
Azerbaijan changes
Spain changes (including Azerbaijan entries)
Monaco 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 389 17.08 358.73 58 20 Verstappen 316 13.88 291.41 72 18 Bottas 289 12.69 266.51 78 17 Vettel 281 12.34 259.13 81 17 Leclerc 240 10.54 221.32 95 16 Gasly 155 6.81 142.94 147 13 Sainz 85 3.73 78.38 268 7 Magnussen 73 3.21 67.32 312 8 Räikkönen 71 3.12 65.47 321 9 Ricciardo 68 2.99 62.71 335 8 Perez 53 2.33 48.88 430 8 Grosjean 52 2.28 47.95 438 5 Norris 52 2.28 47.95 438 6 Hülkenberg 51 2.24 47.03 447 6 Albon 43 1.89 39.65 530 4 Kvyat 40 1.76 36.89 570 5 Stroll 23 1.01 21.21 992 3 Giovinazzi 15 0.66 13.83 1521 4 Kubica 2 0.09 1.84 11408 1 Russell 2 0.09 1.84 11408 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 23 0.043913 24 0.042083 25 0.040400 With 23 players, if ten shares are moved to/from a driver his rating will rise/fall by about 0.44 points/race. *** Return per share as a function of finishing position *** DRIVER Win P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 P7 P8 P9 P10 Hamilton 1450 1044 870 696 580 464 348 232 116 58 Verstappen 1800 1296 1080 864 720 576 432 288 144 72 Bottas 1950 1404 1170 936 780 624 468 312 156 78 Vettel 2025 1458 1215 972 810 648 486 324 162 81 Leclerc 2375 1710 1425 1140 950 760 570 380 190 95 Gasly 3675 2646 2205 1764 1470 1176 882 588 294 147 Sainz 6700 4824 4020 3216 2680 2144 1608 1072 536 268 Magnussen 7800 5616 4680 3744 3120 2496 1872 1248 624 312 Räikkönen 8025 5778 4815 3852 3210 2568 1926 1284 642 321 Ricciardo 8375 6030 5025 4020 3350 2680 2010 1340 670 335 Perez 10750 7740 6450 5160 4300 3440 2580 1720 860 430 Grosjean 10950 7884 6570 5256 4380 3504 2628 1752 876 438 Norris 10950 7884 6570 5256 4380 3504 2628 1752 876 438 Hülkenberg 11175 8046 6705 5364 4470 3576 2682 1788 894 447 Albon 13250 9540 7950 6360 5300 4240 3180 2120 1060 530 Kvyat 14250 10260 8550 6840 5700 4560 3420 2280 1140 570 Stroll 24800 17856 14880 11904 9920 7936 5952 3968 1984 992 Giovinazzi 38025 27378 22815 18252 15210 12168 9126 6084 3042 1521 Kubica 285200 205344 171120 136896 114080 91264 68448 45632 22816 11408 Russell 285200 205344 171120 136896 114080 91264 68448 45632 22816 11408 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 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 25 4960 2480 1240 826 620 496 413 354 310 275 248 124 82 62 VPP as a function of number of players and number of shares placed on a driver. *** Return per share season history *** DRIVER TOT OZ BAH CHN AZE ESP MON CAN FRA AUT GB GER HUN BEL ITA SIN RUS JAP MEX USA BRA ABU Bottas 10403 2650 1584 1638 1975 1386 1170 Hamilton 8562 1296 1600 1600 1116 1500 1450 Norris 6812 0 4472 0 2340 0 0 Verstappen 6522 1320 1068 1068 972 1230 864 Vettel 6089 780 710 1065 1140 936 1458 Kvyat 6037 793 0 0 0 1824 3420 Perez 5923 0 623 2492 2808 0 0 Sainz 5654 0 0 0 2106 1404 2144 Gasly 4726 0 584 1336 0 1336 1470 Leclerc 4565 790 1395 800 790 790 0 Magnussen 3856 1984 0 0 0 1872 0 Albon 3641 0 1014 507 0 0 2120 Stroll 3270 1888 0 0 1382 0 0 Räikkönen 3116 1028 1374 458 256 0 0 Ricciardo 2512 0 0 1842 0 0 670 Hülkenberg 1464 1464 0 0 0 0 0 Grosjean 754 0 0 0 0 316 438 Giovinazzi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Kubica 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Russell 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Scoring over 1000 points per share in a round means that the share did above average.