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)
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 377 16.56 347.66 60 20 Bottas 293 12.87 270.20 77 17 Vettel 292 12.82 269.27 78 17 Leclerc 286 12.56 263.74 79 17 Verstappen 275 12.08 253.60 82 17 Gasly 136 5.97 125.42 167 11 Räikkönen 88 3.86 81.15 259 12 Magnussen 73 3.21 67.32 312 8 Grosjean 72 3.16 66.40 316 8 Sainz 65 2.85 59.94 351 5 Hülkenberg 64 2.81 59.02 356 8 Ricciardo 61 2.68 56.25 374 7 Perez 54 2.37 49.80 422 8 Norris 51 2.24 47.03 447 6 Albon 43 1.89 39.65 530 4 Kvyat 25 1.10 23.05 912 4 Stroll 23 1.01 21.21 992 3 Giovinazzi 18 0.79 16.60 1267 5 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 1500 1080 900 720 600 480 360 240 120 60 Bottas 1925 1386 1155 924 770 616 462 308 154 77 Vettel 1950 1404 1170 936 780 624 468 312 156 78 Leclerc 1975 1422 1185 948 790 632 474 316 158 79 Verstappen 2050 1476 1230 984 820 656 492 328 164 82 Gasly 4175 3006 2505 2004 1670 1336 1002 668 334 167 Räikkönen 6475 4662 3885 3108 2590 2072 1554 1036 518 259 Magnussen 7800 5616 4680 3744 3120 2496 1872 1248 624 312 Grosjean 7900 5688 4740 3792 3160 2528 1896 1264 632 316 Sainz 8775 6318 5265 4212 3510 2808 2106 1404 702 351 Hülkenberg 8900 6408 5340 4272 3560 2848 2136 1424 712 356 Ricciardo 9350 6732 5610 4488 3740 2992 2244 1496 748 374 Perez 10550 7596 6330 5064 4220 3376 2532 1688 844 422 Norris 11175 8046 6705 5364 4470 3576 2682 1788 894 447 Albon 13250 9540 7950 6360 5300 4240 3180 2120 1060 530 Kvyat 22800 16416 13680 10944 9120 7296 5472 3648 1824 912 Stroll 24800 17856 14880 11904 9920 7936 5952 3968 1984 992 Giovinazzi 31675 22806 19005 15204 12670 10136 7602 5068 2534 1267 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 9233 2650 1584 1638 1975 1386 Hamilton 7112 1296 1600 1600 1116 1500 Norris 6812 0 4472 0 2340 0 Perez 5923 0 623 2492 2808 0 Verstappen 5658 1320 1068 1068 972 1230 Vettel 4631 780 710 1065 1140 936 Leclerc 4565 790 1395 800 790 790 Magnussen 3856 1984 0 0 0 1872 Sainz 3510 0 0 0 2106 1404 Stroll 3270 1888 0 0 1382 0 Gasly 3256 0 584 1336 0 1336 Räikkönen 3116 1028 1374 458 256 0 Kvyat 2617 793 0 0 0 1824 Ricciardo 1842 0 0 1842 0 0 Albon 1521 0 1014 507 0 0 Hülkenberg 1464 1464 0 0 0 0 Grosjean 316 0 0 0 0 316 Giovinazzi 0 0 0 0 0 0 Kubica 0 0 0 0 0 0 Russell 0 0 0 0 0 0 Scoring over 1000 points per share in a round means that the share did above average.