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
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 289 19.46 330.81 51 14 Verstappen 234 15.76 267.85 63 13 Bottas 229 15.42 262.13 64 13 Perez 107 7.20 122.48 139 9 Stroll 99 6.67 113.32 150 8 Sainz 88 5.93 100.73 169 9 Leclerc 82 5.52 93.86 181 9 Norris 78 5.25 89.28 190 9 Albon 76 5.12 86.99 195 7 Ricciardo 48 3.23 54.94 310 7 Vettel 41 2.76 46.93 362 5 Gasly 31 2.09 35.48 480 3 Ocon 26 1.75 29.76 572 3 Kvyat 15 1.01 17.17 992 2 Russell 14 0.94 16.03 1062 2 Giovinazzi 10 0.67 11.45 1488 1 Magnussen 10 0.67 11.45 1488 1 Räikkönen 10 0.67 11.45 1488 1 Grosjean 7 0.47 8.01 2125 1 Latifi 6 0.40 6.87 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 Verstappen 1575 1134 945 756 630 504 378 252 126 63 Bottas 1600 1152 960 768 640 512 384 256 128 64 Perez 3475 2502 2085 1668 1390 1112 834 556 278 139 Stroll 3750 2700 2250 1800 1500 1200 900 600 300 150 Sainz 4225 3042 2535 2028 1690 1352 1014 676 338 169 Leclerc 4525 3258 2715 2172 1810 1448 1086 724 362 181 Norris 4750 3420 2850 2280 1900 1520 1140 760 380 190 Albon 4875 3510 2925 2340 1950 1560 1170 780 390 195 Ricciardo 7750 5580 4650 3720 3100 2480 1860 1240 620 310 Vettel 9050 6516 5430 4344 3620 2896 2172 1448 724 362 Gasly 12000 8640 7200 5760 4800 3840 2880 1920 960 480 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 TUR BAH SKR ABU Ocon 12928 1448 0 0 3840 1920 0 5720 Norris 10019 5190 1560 0 1480 296 163 1330 Ricciardo 9668 0 1292 1164 3492 0 0 3720 Gasly 9304 3306 0 0 2976 0 1102 1920 Hamilton 8462 744 1475 1425 1350 918 1275 1275 Leclerc 8058 2322 0 0 3420 2316 0 0 Stroll 7676 0 1218 2436 294 1304 2124 300 Verstappen 7431 0 1035 1224 1332 1725 1170 945 Bottas 7251 1875 1314 1035 0 945 930 1152 Albon 6936 0 1572 1250 496 1470 588 1560 Perez 6261 1208 1208 888 0 1188 1630 139 Vettel 6226 144 0 2704 402 0 2976 0 Sainz 4092 2120 376 316 0 0 1280 0 Kvyat 1984 0 992 0 0 992 0 0 Giovinazzi 1488 1488 0 0 0 0 0 0 Magnussen 1144 0 0 1144 0 0 0 0 Grosjean 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Latifi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Russell 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Räikkönen 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Scoring over 1000 points per share in a round means that the share did above average.
