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)
Styria changes
Hungary changes
Britain changes
70th Anniversary changes (including Britain entries)
Spain 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 288 19.39 407.23 51 14 Bottas 239 16.09 337.95 62 13 Verstappen 228 15.35 322.39 65 13 Albon 101 6.80 142.81 147 8 Sainz 93 6.26 131.50 160 10 Norris 91 6.13 128.67 163 11 Perez 91 6.13 128.67 163 9 Stroll 84 5.66 118.78 177 8 Leclerc 77 5.18 108.88 193 8 Ricciardo 53 3.57 74.94 280 7 Vettel 30 2.02 42.42 496 4 Gasly 27 1.82 38.18 551 3 Ocon 26 1.75 36.76 572 3 Kvyat 15 1.01 21.21 992 2 Russell 14 0.94 19.80 1062 2 Giovinazzi 10 0.67 14.14 1488 1 Magnussen 10 0.67 14.14 1488 1 Räikkönen 10 0.67 14.14 1488 1 Grosjean 7 0.47 9.90 2125 1 Latifi 6 0.40 8.48 2480 2 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 15 0.067333 16 0.063125 17 0.059411 With 15 players, if ten shares are moved to/from a driver his rating will rise/fall by about 0.67 points/race. *** Return per share as a function of finishing position *** DRIVER Win P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 P7 P8 P9 P10 Hamilton 1275 918 765 612 510 408 306 204 102 51 Bottas 1550 1116 930 744 620 496 372 248 124 62 Verstappen 1625 1170 975 780 650 520 390 260 130 65 Albon 3675 2646 2205 1764 1470 1176 882 588 294 147 Sainz 4000 2880 2400 1920 1600 1280 960 640 320 160 Norris 4075 2934 2445 1956 1630 1304 978 652 326 163 Perez 4075 2934 2445 1956 1630 1304 978 652 326 163 Stroll 4425 3186 2655 2124 1770 1416 1062 708 354 177 Leclerc 4825 3474 2895 2316 1930 1544 1158 772 386 193 Ricciardo 7000 5040 4200 3360 2800 2240 1680 1120 560 280 Vettel 12400 8928 7440 5952 4960 3968 2976 1984 992 496 Gasly 13775 9918 8265 6612 5510 4408 3306 2204 1102 551 Ocon 14300 10296 8580 6864 5720 4576 3432 2288 1144 572 Kvyat 24800 17856 14880 11904 9920 7936 5952 3968 1984 992 Russell 26550 19116 15930 12744 10620 8496 6372 4248 2124 1062 Giovinazzi 37200 26784 22320 17856 14880 11904 8928 5952 2976 1488 Magnussen 37200 26784 22320 17856 14880 11904 8928 5952 2976 1488 Räikkönen 37200 26784 22320 17856 14880 11904 8928 5952 2976 1488 Grosjean 53125 38250 31875 25500 21250 17000 12750 8500 4250 2125 Latifi 62000 44640 37200 29760 24800 19840 14880 9920 4960 2480 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 15 2976 1488 744 496 372 297 248 212 186 165 148 74 49 37 16 3174 1587 793 529 396 317 264 226 198 176 158 79 52 39 17 3372 1686 843 562 421 337 281 240 210 187 168 84 56 42 18 3571 1785 892 595 446 357 297 255 223 198 178 89 59 44 VPP as a function of number of players and number of shares placed on a driver. *** Return per share season history *** DRIVER TOT AUT STY HUN GB LXX ESP BEL ITA TUS RUS EIF POR EMI Norris 8689 5190 1560 0 1480 296 163 Leclerc 8058 2322 0 0 3420 2316 0 Gasly 7384 3306 0 0 2976 0 1102 Stroll 7376 0 1218 2436 294 1304 2124 Ocon 7208 1448 0 0 3840 1920 0 Hamilton 7187 744 1475 1425 1350 918 1275 Verstappen 6486 0 1035 1224 1332 1725 1170 Vettel 6226 144 0 2704 402 0 2976 Perez 6122 1208 1208 888 0 1188 1630 Bottas 6099 1875 1314 1035 0 945 930 Ricciardo 5948 0 1292 1164 3492 0 0 Albon 5376 0 1572 1250 496 1470 588 Sainz 4092 2120 376 316 0 0 1280 Kvyat 1984 0 992 0 0 992 0 Giovinazzi 1488 1488 0 0 0 0 0 Magnussen 1144 0 0 1144 0 0 0 Grosjean 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Latifi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Russell 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Räikkönen 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Scoring over 1000 points per share in a round means that the share did above average.