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
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 337 15.47 324.90 64 18 Vettel 305 14.00 294.05 71 17 Leclerc 272 12.49 262.23 80 17 Verstappen 244 11.20 235.24 89 15 Bottas 238 10.93 229.45 91 16 Gasly 130 5.97 125.33 167 10 Räikkönen 95 4.36 91.59 229 12 Magnussen 91 4.18 87.73 239 11 Hülkenberg 86 3.95 82.91 253 8 Sainz 80 3.67 77.13 272 7 Grosjean 73 3.35 70.38 298 8 Ricciardo 71 3.26 68.45 307 9 Norris 48 2.20 46.28 454 5 Albon 43 1.97 41.46 507 4 Perez 35 1.61 33.74 623 6 Stroll 23 1.06 22.17 948 4 Kvyat 20 0.92 19.28 1091 4 Giovinazzi 6 0.28 5.78 3637 2 Russell 2 0.09 1.93 10912 1 Kubica 1 0.05 0.96 21824 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 22 0.045909 23 0.043913 24 0.042083 25 0.040400 With 22 players, if ten shares are moved to/from a driver his rating will rise/fall by about 0.46 points/race. *** Return per share as a function of finishing position *** DRIVER Win P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 P7 P8 P9 P10 Hamilton 1600 1152 960 768 640 512 384 256 128 64 Vettel 1775 1278 1065 852 710 568 426 284 142 71 Leclerc 2000 1440 1200 960 800 640 480 320 160 80 Verstappen 2225 1602 1335 1068 890 712 534 356 178 89 Bottas 2275 1638 1365 1092 910 728 546 364 182 91 Gasly 4175 3006 2505 2004 1670 1336 1002 668 334 167 Räikkönen 5725 4122 3435 2748 2290 1832 1374 916 458 229 Magnussen 5975 4302 3585 2868 2390 1912 1434 956 478 239 Hülkenberg 6325 4554 3795 3036 2530 2024 1518 1012 506 253 Sainz 6800 4896 4080 3264 2720 2176 1632 1088 544 272 Grosjean 7450 5364 4470 3576 2980 2384 1788 1192 596 298 Ricciardo 7675 5526 4605 3684 3070 2456 1842 1228 614 307 Norris 11350 8172 6810 5448 4540 3632 2724 1816 908 454 Albon 12675 9126 7605 6084 5070 4056 3042 2028 1014 507 Perez 15575 11214 9345 7476 6230 4984 3738 2492 1246 623 Stroll 23700 17064 14220 11376 9480 7584 5688 3792 1896 948 Kvyat 27275 19638 16365 13092 10910 8728 6546 4364 2182 1091 Giovinazzi 90925 65466 54555 43644 36370 29096 21822 14548 7274 3637 Russell 272800 196416 163680 130944 109120 87296 65472 43648 21824 10912 Kubica 545600 392832 327360 261888 218240 174592 130944 87296 43648 21824 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 22 4364 2182 1091 727 545 436 363 311 272 242 218 109 72 54 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 5872 2650 1584 1638 Hamilton 4496 1296 1600 1600 Norris 4472 0 4472 0 Verstappen 3456 1320 1068 1068 Perez 3115 0 623 2492 Leclerc 2985 790 1395 800 Räikkönen 2860 1028 1374 458 Vettel 2555 780 710 1065 Magnussen 1984 1984 0 0 Gasly 1920 0 584 1336 Stroll 1888 1888 0 0 Ricciardo 1842 0 0 1842 Albon 1521 0 1014 507 Hülkenberg 1464 1464 0 0 Kvyat 793 793 0 0 Giovinazzi 0 0 0 0 Grosjean 0 0 0 0 Kubica 0 0 0 0 Russell 0 0 0 0 Sainz 0 0 0 0 Scoring over 1000 points per share in a round means that the share did above average.