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
Canada changes
France changes
Austria changes
Britain changes (including Austria entries)
Germany 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 345 15.84 332.61 63 19 Vettel 329 15.10 317.19 66 16 Verstappen 240 11.02 231.38 90 17 Räikkönen 215 9.87 207.28 101 16 Bottas 208 9.55 200.53 104 16 Ricciardo 205 9.41 197.64 106 17 Hülkenberg 97 4.45 93.52 224 10 Magnussen 90 4.13 86.77 242 10 Grosjean 77 3.54 74.24 283 11 Alonso 76 3.49 73.27 287 6 Sainz 74 3.40 71.34 294 8 Ocon 50 2.30 48.20 436 6 Leclerc 43 1.97 41.46 507 6 Perez 38 1.74 36.64 574 5 Vandoorne 31 1.42 29.89 704 4 Gasly 30 1.38 28.92 727 6 Ericsson 19 0.87 18.32 1148 4 Stroll 15 0.69 14.46 1454 2 Sirotkin 10 0.46 9.64 2182 1 Hartley 8 0.37 7.71 2728 3 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 With 22 players, if ten shares are moved to a driver his rating will rise by about 0.459 points/race. *** Return per share as a function of finishing position *** DRIVER Win P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 P7 P8 P9 P10 Hamilton 1575 1134 945 756 630 504 378 252 126 63 Vettel 1650 1188 990 792 660 528 396 264 132 66 Verstappen 2250 1620 1350 1080 900 720 540 360 180 90 Räikkönen 2525 1818 1515 1212 1010 808 606 404 202 101 Bottas 2600 1872 1560 1248 1040 832 624 416 208 104 Ricciardo 2650 1908 1590 1272 1060 848 636 424 212 106 Hülkenberg 5600 4032 3360 2688 2240 1792 1344 896 448 224 Magnussen 6050 4356 3630 2904 2420 1936 1452 968 484 242 Grosjean 7075 5094 4245 3396 2830 2264 1698 1132 566 283 Alonso 7175 5166 4305 3444 2870 2296 1722 1148 574 287 Sainz 7350 5292 4410 3528 2940 2352 1764 1176 588 294 Ocon 10900 7848 6540 5232 4360 3488 2616 1744 872 436 Leclerc 12675 9126 7605 6084 5070 4056 3042 2028 1014 507 Perez 14350 10332 8610 6888 5740 4592 3444 2296 1148 574 Vandoorne 17600 12672 10560 8448 7040 5632 4224 2816 1408 704 Gasly 18175 13086 10905 8724 7270 5816 4362 2908 1454 727 Ericsson 28700 20664 17220 13776 11480 9184 6888 4592 2296 1148 Stroll 36350 26172 21810 17448 14540 11632 8724 5816 2908 1454 Sirotkin 54550 39276 32730 26184 21820 17456 13092 8728 4364 2182 Hartley 68200 49104 40920 32736 27280 21824 16368 10912 5456 2728 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 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 USA MEX BRA Gasly 39606 0 20832 0 0 0 5688 0 0 0 0 0 11632 1454 Leclerc 39066 0 0 0 34912 1454 0 727 727 1246 0 0 0 0 Perez 23950 0 0 0 10905 1038 0 0 0 2844 519 2904 0 5740 Ocon 17303 0 563 0 0 0 4984 872 0 3232 2844 1320 0 3488 Räikkönen 15857 1890 0 1605 1872 0 1224 848 1665 1998 1665 1560 1530 0 Vettel 15681 2450 1950 288 828 828 1296 1750 690 1020 1725 0 1206 1650 Hamilton 15225 1170 915 732 1675 1700 1095 670 1675 0 1134 1625 1700 1134 Grosjean 14815 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8184 0 4592 341 1698 Hülkenberg 13738 1950 2600 2600 0 0 852 1278 426 0 1792 2240 0 0 Bottas 13134 292 1512 1548 0 1638 990 1638 528 0 1116 1674 950 1248 Magnussen 12738 0 2080 196 0 1856 0 0 2488 2980 574 0 1596 968 Ericsson 12184 0 6944 0 0 0 0 0 0 1364 0 2728 0 1148 Verstappen 11759 680 0 980 0 1635 190 1545 1908 2475 0 996 0 1350 Ricciardo 11587 1200 0 2400 0 980 2125 1284 1308 0 1090 0 1200 0 Alonso 10950 2450 1452 1500 1572 808 0 0 0 956 1064 0 1148 0 Sainz 10682 325 0 744 4270 2046 341 1264 1104 0 0 0 588 0 Hartley 8184 0 0 0 5456 0 0 0 0 0 0 2728 0 0 Stroll 3792 0 0 0 3792 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Vandoorne 2506 554 1188 0 764 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Sirotkin 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.