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 (including France entries)
Britain changes
Germany changes
Hungary changes
Belgium changes (including Hungary entries)
Italy changes
Singapore changes
Russia 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 354 15.55 326.45 64 19 Leclerc 283 12.43 260.98 80 17 Verstappen 279 12.25 257.29 81 17 Bottas 270 11.86 248.99 84 17 Vettel 265 11.64 244.38 86 17 Albon 166 7.29 153.08 137 13 Sainz 107 4.70 98.67 213 11 Norris 100 4.39 92.22 228 11 Ricciardo 77 3.38 71.01 296 10 Hülkenberg 68 2.99 62.71 335 8 Magnussen 58 2.55 53.49 393 6 Grosjean 52 2.28 47.95 438 5 Perez 48 2.11 44.26 475 6 Räikkönen 45 1.98 41.50 507 6 Kvyat 44 1.93 40.58 518 6 Gasly 33 1.45 30.43 691 2 Giovinazzi 24 1.05 22.13 950 6 Stroll 23 1.01 21.21 992 3 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 1600 1152 960 768 640 512 384 256 128 64 Leclerc 2000 1440 1200 960 800 640 480 320 160 80 Verstappen 2025 1458 1215 972 810 648 486 324 162 81 Bottas 2100 1512 1260 1008 840 672 504 336 168 84 Vettel 2150 1548 1290 1032 860 688 516 344 172 86 Albon 3425 2466 2055 1644 1370 1096 822 548 274 137 Sainz 5325 3834 3195 2556 2130 1704 1278 852 426 213 Norris 5700 4104 3420 2736 2280 1824 1368 912 456 228 Ricciardo 7400 5328 4440 3552 2960 2368 1776 1184 592 296 Hülkenberg 8375 6030 5025 4020 3350 2680 2010 1340 670 335 Magnussen 9825 7074 5895 4716 3930 3144 2358 1572 786 393 Grosjean 10950 7884 6570 5256 4380 3504 2628 1752 876 438 Perez 11875 8550 7125 5700 4750 3800 2850 1900 950 475 Räikkönen 12675 9126 7605 6084 5070 4056 3042 2028 1014 507 Kvyat 12950 9324 7770 6216 5180 4144 3108 2072 1036 518 Gasly 17275 12438 10365 8292 6910 5528 4146 2764 1382 691 Giovinazzi 23750 17100 14250 11400 9500 7600 5700 3800 1900 950 Stroll 24800 17856 14880 11904 9920 7936 5952 3968 1984 992 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 20751 2650 1584 1638 1975 1386 1170 900 1404 1140 1386 0 328 1260 1548 870 1512 Hamilton 19152 1296 1600 1600 1116 1500 1450 1400 1400 560 1375 112 1500 1062 885 696 1600 Kvyat 18625 793 0 0 0 1824 3420 570 0 0 1140 7770 0 3108 0 0 0 Leclerc 18556 790 1395 800 790 790 0 1410 1425 1674 1365 0 1104 2200 1975 1638 1200 Verstappen 17667 1320 1068 1068 972 1230 864 810 996 2325 920 2175 1422 0 400 1125 972 Sainz 16868 0 0 0 2106 1404 2144 0 2096 940 1824 2370 2280 0 0 0 1704 Vettel 15359 780 710 1065 1140 936 1458 1440 770 924 0 1530 1335 996 0 2275 0 Stroll 14931 1888 0 0 1382 0 0 1984 0 0 0 8832 0 845 0 0 0 Albon 14876 0 584 1336 0 1336 1470 668 162 1050 2100 0 1224 1480 1072 1024 1370 Perez 14173 0 623 2492 2808 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3576 1824 0 2850 Gasly 13072 0 1014 507 0 0 2120 0 0 0 0 4800 485 1382 0 2764 0 Norris 12910 0 4472 0 2340 0 0 0 828 1984 0 0 496 0 288 1590 912 Hülkenberg 11650 1464 0 0 0 0 0 2682 1448 0 321 0 0 1380 3350 670 335 Kubica 11408 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11408 0 0 0 0 0 Ricciardo 11006 0 0 1842 0 0 670 2464 0 0 2070 0 0 0 3960 0 0 Räikkönen 10568 1028 1374 458 256 0 0 0 2484 828 1656 0 2484 0 0 0 0 Magnussen 6090 1984 0 0 0 1872 0 0 0 0 0 1448 0 0 0 0 786 Giovinazzi 5816 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2074 0 0 0 0 2400 1342 0 Grosjean 3382 0 0 0 0 316 438 0 0 0 0 2628 0 0 0 0 0 Russell 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.