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[Makarias]

Welcome to join season fourteen of Shareholders!

Previous Seasons' champions:
2008: an1res
2009: swiniodzik
2010: Grayson
2011: Grayson
2012: Grayson
2013: Costaz
2014: brunopascal
2015: Grayson
2016: Grayson
2017: thegforcemaybewithyou
2018: Apex
2019: jjcale
2020: GTA

Rules are the same as previous years:

How to play the game
The players will be owning shares (100 each) of the drivers participating in the F1 WDC! When a driver scores points in an F1 race, each share owned in that driver will score points to the shareholders in question. The more shares there are owned in a driver, the lesser the return will be for each share. This means that it can be more profitable to own shares in a midfielder who scores just a few points but has proportionally few shares held on him than a frontrunner finishing on the podium.

Drivers are valued according to how much shares are invested in them:
-Frontrunning drivers get many shares and are expected to score often and highly, providing a steady points source but with little potential for real jackpots.
-Backmarkers get proportionally fewer shares and give a return less frequently, but when they do it they may be very rewarding as the dividends are shared by fewer shares.

Good "value for money" is investing in drivers that are undervalued, ie have disproportionally few shares invested in them compared to their actual points scoring potential.

Your entry will carry over from one race to the next, unless you decide to move a limited amount of the shares to a different driver. While this makes the game easy to play even for the laziest humanoids, it also makes it useful to know what shares you have at any given moment. If you don't pay attention, a previously good investment in a driver may become a bad deal if too many shares are added on him or if his form plummets.

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...

Since nobody initially knows what the playing field looks like before the first race, I will give several updates on what the total share distribution looks like among the entries submitted so far.

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. This is however a lazy option that won't make you ultimately competitive.
 * 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:

She decides to Sell:
Peterson -10
Ickx -10

She decides to 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)

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 will only sporadically be posting updates on what each player's portfolio looks like, so remember to keep track of what you own!
The reason you're only allowed to change just 20 shares each round is that it adds some stability to the whole system: I hopefully won't get a nervous breakdown before every round, and the values for each driver won't move around all over the place from one round to the other. It will also force the players to think more long term with their investments.
Keep in mind that when there are shares removed from a driver, the potential return from the shares that remain will increase and vice versa. Holding many shares in a backmarker is an inefficient investment, as for each extra share you get your ownership percentage won't increase by much.

Points Scoring

*The score a player receives from a driver is calculated like this:

[DScore] = 9.92*[TShares]*[DRace]*[PDShares]/[DShares]

where
[TShares] = The total number of shares in the entire game at the moment
[DRace] = The number of points the driver in question scored in the race
[PDShares] = The number of shares the player owns in the driver
[DShares] = The total number of shares owned in the driver in question by ALL players.

In order to only mess around with integer scores, the 9.92*[TShares]/[DShares] factor will be rounded off DOWN to the nearest integer. This factor equals the amount of game points one share will give per WDC point scored by the driver in question.

*The player's total score of the round is simply the sum of the [DScore] values from all drivers.

Thanks to the 9.92 factor, and the [TShares] factor scaling scores up with the amount of players, an average total score for a round will always be around 100,000 points or 1000 points per share, regardless of the number of players. At least if there are shares owned in all points scoring drivers.

Example C:
Emerson Fittipaldi finishes 2nd in a race;
there are 30 players in the game all with 100 shares each;
400 of all shares are placed on Emmo.

The entry in example B will then score approximately
9.92*3000*18*37/400 points,
which with the rounding off will amount to exactly 49284 points.

A good result from 37 shares. 400/3000 shares would mean a driver is valued at 13.4666... points per race, and second place obviously is better than that.
The 1975 drivers magically score points according to the current F1 points system which makes perfect sense because this is just a hypothetical example and why didn't the player invest in Lauda anyway? Probably because he was overvalued, that's why!

[Makarias]

I'll chuck in an initial entry that I'll definitely change before the deadline:

 

Hamilton 17

Alonso 13

Verstappen 12

Ricciardo 11

Norris 11

Perez 9

Leclerc 8

Stroll 8

Sainz 6

Gasly 5

[KWSN - DSM]

Gasly          10
Tsunoda        10
Schumacher     10
Ricciardo      10
Perez          10
Sainz          10
Alonso         10
Ocon           10
Hamilton       10
Verstappen     10

[Anderis]

Verstappen 20

Russell 10

Raikkonen 10

Giovinazzi 10

Ocon 10

Leclerc 10

Gasly 10

Norris 10

Perez 10

[DutchQuicksilver]

Hamilton 15

Verstappen 15

Vettel 15

Gasly 15

Tsunoda 12

Ricciardo 12

Bottas 10

Leclerc 6

[GTA]

I'll put something here in case I forget. Most likely will be edited.

 

Verstappen 10

Hamilton 10

Perez 10

Leclerc 15

Sainz 10

Ocon 5

Gasly 20

Tsunoda 5(-5)

Raikkonen 10 (+5)

Norris 5

Edited by GTA, 25 March 2021 - 23:09.

[mark f1]

Verstappen 20

Hamilton 15

Gasly 15

Bottas 10

Ricciardo 10

Perez 10

Vettel 5

Leclerc 5

Alonso 5

Norris 5

[Makarias]

Adjusting a bit, not for the last time:

Hamilton 17

Alonso 13

Stroll 13 (+5)

Verstappen 12

Ricciardo 11

Norris 11

Perez 9

Leclerc 8

Sainz 6

Gasly 0 (-5)

[Makarias]

Status update:

DRIVER      DShares   Race Season    VPP Owners
Verstappen       87  14.65 336.84     68      6
Gasly            70  11.78 271.02     85      5
Hamilton         67  11.28 259.40     88      5
Perez            49   8.25 189.71    121      5
Leclerc          44   7.41 170.35    135      5
Ricciardo        43   7.24 166.48    138      4
Tsunoda          32   5.39 123.89    186      3
Norris           31   5.22 120.02    192      4
Alonso           28   4.71 108.41    212      3
Sainz            26   4.38 100.66    228      3
Ocon             25   4.21  96.79    238      3
Bottas           20   3.37  77.43    297      2
Vettel           20   3.37  77.43    297      2
Räikkönen        15   2.53  58.08    396      2
Stroll           13   2.19  50.33    457      1
Giovinazzi       10   1.68  38.72    595      1
Russell          10   1.68  38.72    595      1
Schumacher       10   1.68  38.72    595      1
Latifi            0   0.00   0.00    N/A      0
Mazepin           0   0.00   0.00    N/A      0

DRIVER           Win      P2      P3      P4      P5      P6      P7      P8      P9     P10
Verstappen      1700    1224    1020     816     680     544     408     272     136      68
Gasly           2125    1530    1275    1020     850     680     510     340     170      85
Hamilton        2200    1584    1320    1056     880     704     528     352     176      88
Perez           3025    2178    1815    1452    1210     968     726     484     242     121
Leclerc         3375    2430    2025    1620    1350    1080     810     540     270     135
Ricciardo       3450    2484    2070    1656    1380    1104     828     552     276     138
Tsunoda         4650    3348    2790    2232    1860    1488    1116     744     372     186
Norris          4800    3456    2880    2304    1920    1536    1152     768     384     192
Alonso          5300    3816    3180    2544    2120    1696    1272     848     424     212
Sainz           5700    4104    3420    2736    2280    1824    1368     912     456     228
Ocon            5950    4284    3570    2856    2380    1904    1428     952     476     238
Bottas          7425    5346    4455    3564    2970    2376    1782    1188     594     297
Vettel          7425    5346    4455    3564    2970    2376    1782    1188     594     297
Räikkönen       9900    7128    5940    4752    3960    3168    2376    1584     792     396
Stroll         11425    8226    6855    5484    4570    3656    2742    1828     914     457
Giovinazzi     14875   10710    8925    7140    5950    4760    3570    2380    1190     595
Russell        14875   10710    8925    7140    5950    4760    3570    2380    1190     595
Schumacher     14875   10710    8925    7140    5950    4760    3570    2380    1190     595
Latifi             0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0
Mazepin            0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0

If we project three times as many entrants as the current six, ten shares will correspond to about 0.56 points/race on average.

[jjcale]

I will be seriously annoyed if now that it looks like there might be title fights for the two titles, Merc and the Bulls dont **** up as much as they did last year when it was not at all competitive. 

 

LH: 25

VB: 25

MV: 25

SP: 25

Edited by jjcale, 21 March 2021 - 09:20.

[thegforcemaybewithyou]

Leclerc 20

Ricciardo 20

Alonso 20

Vettel 20

Hamilton 10

verstappen 10

[Makarias]

DRIVER      DShares   Race Season    VPP Owners
Verstappen      122  15.40 354.26     65      8
Hamilton        102  12.88 296.18     77      7
Perez            74   9.34 214.88    107      6
Gasly            70   8.84 203.26    113      5
Leclerc          64   8.08 185.84    124      6
Ricciardo        63   7.95 182.94    125      5
Alonso           48   6.06 139.38    165      4
Bottas           45   5.68 130.67    176      3
Vettel           40   5.05 116.15    198      3
Tsunoda          32   4.04  92.92    248      3
Norris           31   3.91  90.02    256      4
Sainz            26   3.28  75.50    305      3
Ocon             25   3.16  72.59    317      3
Räikkönen        15   1.89  43.56    529      2
Stroll           13   1.64  37.75    610      1
Giovinazzi       10   1.26  29.04    793      1
Russell          10   1.26  29.04    793      1
Schumacher       10   1.26  29.04    793      1
Latifi            0   0.00   0.00    N/A      0
Mazepin           0   0.00   0.00    N/A      0

DRIVER           Win      P2      P3      P4      P5      P6      P7      P8      P9     P10
Verstappen      1625    1170     975     780     650     520     390     260     130      65
Hamilton        1925    1386    1155     924     770     616     462     308     154      77
Perez           2675    1926    1605    1284    1070     856     642     428     214     107
Gasly           2825    2034    1695    1356    1130     904     678     452     226     113
Leclerc         3100    2232    1860    1488    1240     992     744     496     248     124
Ricciardo       3125    2250    1875    1500    1250    1000     750     500     250     125
Alonso          4125    2970    2475    1980    1650    1320     990     660     330     165
Bottas          4400    3168    2640    2112    1760    1408    1056     704     352     176
Vettel          4950    3564    2970    2376    1980    1584    1188     792     396     198
Tsunoda         6200    4464    3720    2976    2480    1984    1488     992     496     248
Norris          6400    4608    3840    3072    2560    2048    1536    1024     512     256
Sainz           7625    5490    4575    3660    3050    2440    1830    1220     610     305
Ocon            7925    5706    4755    3804    3170    2536    1902    1268     634     317
Räikkönen      13225    9522    7935    6348    5290    4232    3174    2116    1058     529
Stroll         15250   10980    9150    7320    6100    4880    3660    2440    1220     610
Giovinazzi     19825   14274   11895    9516    7930    6344    4758    3172    1586     793
Russell        19825   14274   11895    9516    7930    6344    4758    3172    1586     793
Schumacher     19825   14274   11895    9516    7930    6344    4758    3172    1586     793
Latifi             0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0
Mazepin            0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0

Exciting

[SpaceHorseParty]

Stroll 30

Hamilton 20

Bottas 20

Norris 20

Ocon 8

Latifi 1

Mazepin 1

[M2000-5]

Hamilton 25

Verstappen 20

Norris 20

Perez 10

Bottas 20

Alonso 5

[Makarias]

Verstappen 18 (+6)

Hamilton 17

Ricciardo 13 (+2)

Perez 11 (+2)

Sainz 11 (+5)

Stroll 11 (-2)

Alonso 9 (-4)

Leclerc 6 (-2)

Norris 3 (-8)

Vettel 1 (+1)

[Makarias]

DRIVER      DShares   Race Season    VPP Owners
Verstappen      148  14.95 343.80     67      9
Hamilton        147  14.85 341.48     67      9
Perez            86   8.69 199.78    115      7
Bottas           85   8.59 197.46    116      5
Gasly            70   7.07 162.61    141      5
Ricciardo        65   6.57 151.00    152      5
Norris           63   6.36 146.35    157      6
Leclerc          62   6.26 144.03    160      6
Alonso           49   4.95 113.83    202      5
Stroll           41   4.14  95.24    241      2
Vettel           41   4.14  95.24    241      4
Ocon             33   3.33  76.66    300      4
Tsunoda          32   3.23  74.34    310      3
Sainz            31   3.13  72.01    320      3
Räikkönen        15   1.52  34.85    661      2
Giovinazzi       10   1.01  23.23    992      1
Russell          10   1.01  23.23    992      1
Schumacher       10   1.01  23.23    992      1
Latifi            1   0.10   2.32   9920      1
Mazepin           1   0.10   2.32   9920      1

DRIVER           Win      P2      P3      P4      P5      P6      P7      P8      P9     P10
Verstappen      1675    1206    1005     804     670     536     402     268     134      67
Hamilton        1675    1206    1005     804     670     536     402     268     134      67
Perez           2875    2070    1725    1380    1150     920     690     460     230     115
Bottas          2900    2088    1740    1392    1160     928     696     464     232     116
Gasly           3525    2538    2115    1692    1410    1128     846     564     282     141
Ricciardo       3800    2736    2280    1824    1520    1216     912     608     304     152
Norris          3925    2826    2355    1884    1570    1256     942     628     314     157
Leclerc         4000    2880    2400    1920    1600    1280     960     640     320     160
Alonso          5050    3636    3030    2424    2020    1616    1212     808     404     202
Stroll          6025    4338    3615    2892    2410    1928    1446     964     482     241
Vettel          6025    4338    3615    2892    2410    1928    1446     964     482     241
Ocon            7500    5400    4500    3600    3000    2400    1800    1200     600     300
Tsunoda         7750    5580    4650    3720    3100    2480    1860    1240     620     310
Sainz           8000    5760    4800    3840    3200    2560    1920    1280     640     320
Räikkönen      16525   11898    9915    7932    6610    5288    3966    2644    1322     661
Giovinazzi     24800   17856   14880   11904    9920    7936    5952    3968    1984     992
Russell        24800   17856   14880   11904    9920    7936    5952    3968    1984     992
Schumacher     24800   17856   14880   11904    9920    7936    5952    3968    1984     992
Latifi        248000  178560  148800  119040   99200   79360   59520   39680   19840    9920
Mazepin       248000  178560  148800  119040   99200   79360   59520   39680   19840    9920

Continuous excitement

[Anderis]

Adjusting:

Hamilton 20

Bottas 20

Raikkonen 10

Giovinazzi 10

Russell 10

Leclerc 10

Alonso 10

Sainz 10

Edited by Anderis, 25 March 2021 - 11:47.

[scheivlak]

Verstappen 20

Perez 20

Tsunoda 20

Ricciardo 10

Hamilton 10

Leclerc 10

Gasly 5

Sainz 5

[Makarias]

DRIVER      DShares   Race Season    VPP Owners
Hamilton        177  16.25 373.79     61     11
Verstappen      148  13.59 312.55     73      9
Bottas          105   9.64 221.74    103      6
Perez            96   8.81 202.73    113      7
Ricciardo        75   6.89 158.39    145      6
Leclerc          72   6.61 152.05    151      7
Gasly            65   5.97 137.27    167      5
Alonso           59   5.42 124.60    184      6
Norris           53   4.87 111.93    205      5
Tsunoda          47   4.32  99.26    232      4
Sainz            46   4.22  97.14    237      5
Stroll           41   3.76  86.58    266      2
Vettel           41   3.76  86.58    266      4
Ocon             23   2.11  48.57    474      3
Räikkönen        20   1.84  42.24    545      2
Giovinazzi       10   0.92  21.12   1091      1
Russell          10   0.92  21.12   1091      1
Schumacher       10   0.92  21.12   1091      1
Latifi            1   0.09   2.11  10912      1
Mazepin           1   0.09   2.11  10912      1

DRIVER           Win      P2      P3      P4      P5      P6      P7      P8      P9     P10
Hamilton        1525    1098     915     732     610     488     366     244     122      61
Verstappen      1825    1314    1095     876     730     584     438     292     146      73
Bottas          2575    1854    1545    1236    1030     824     618     412     206     103
Perez           2825    2034    1695    1356    1130     904     678     452     226     113
Ricciardo       3625    2610    2175    1740    1450    1160     870     580     290     145
Leclerc         3775    2718    2265    1812    1510    1208     906     604     302     151
Gasly           4175    3006    2505    2004    1670    1336    1002     668     334     167
Alonso          4600    3312    2760    2208    1840    1472    1104     736     368     184
Norris          5125    3690    3075    2460    2050    1640    1230     820     410     205
Tsunoda         5800    4176    3480    2784    2320    1856    1392     928     464     232
Sainz           5925    4266    3555    2844    2370    1896    1422     948     474     237
Stroll          6650    4788    3990    3192    2660    2128    1596    1064     532     266
Vettel          6650    4788    3990    3192    2660    2128    1596    1064     532     266
Ocon           11850    8532    7110    5688    4740    3792    2844    1896     948     474
Räikkönen      13625    9810    8175    6540    5450    4360    3270    2180    1090     545
Giovinazzi     27275   19638   16365   13092   10910    8728    6546    4364    2182    1091
Russell        27275   19638   16365   13092   10910    8728    6546    4364    2182    1091
Schumacher     27275   19638   16365   13092   10910    8728    6546    4364    2182    1091
Latifi        272800  196416  163680  130944  109120   87296   65472   43648   21824   10912
Mazepin       272800  196416  163680  130944  109120   87296   65472   43648   21824   10912

11 players, more wanted!

[Brawn BGP 001]

Lando Norris 20

Daniel Ricciardo 15

Max Verstappen 15

Lewis Hamilton 10

Sergio Perez 10

Esteban Ocon 10

Sebastian Vettel 10

Pierre Gasly 5

Valterri Bottas 5

[Marklar]

Verstappen 15
Bottas 12
Vettel 10
Norris 10
Ricciardo 10
Hamilton 10
Alonso 10
Leclerc 10
Ocon 7
Gasly 6

[Grayson]

Hamilton 22

Verstappen 20

Bottas 20

Perez 18

Norris 7

Sainz 7

Ocon 6

[Anderis]

Adjusting once more:

Hamilton 21

Bottas 21

Leclerc 11

Alonso 10

Sainz 10

Raikkonen 9

Giovinazzi 9

Russell 9