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[Makarias]

Welcome to join season sixteen 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
2021: Anderis
2022: LB

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.
*Only top 10 points from (supposed) full length races, no sprint race or Fastest Lap points. Races cut short that don't score full points in the WDC are scored as full races in the game.

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 start off with an entry just so we have something to build upon and edit later when things begin to look insane:

 

Verstappen 20

Hamilton 16

Leclerc 14

Norris 10

Perez 10

de Vries 7

Sainz 7

Alonso 6

Magnussen 5

Piastri 5

[KWSN - DSM]

Verstappen 20
Magnussen  20
Hamilton   10
Russel     10
Leclerc    10
Sainz      10
Perez      10
Stroll     10

[mark f1]

Verstappen 30

Perez 10

Leclerc 10

Ocon 10

Alonso 10

Bottas 20

Hulkenberg 10

[LB]

Well I really should just go 

Perez 20
Hamilton 20
Russell 20
Norris 20 
Ocon 10 
Bottas 5
Alonso 5

Edited by LB, 27 February 2023 - 23:15.

[DutchQuicksilver]

Verstappen 25

Alonso 20

Leclerc 20

Perez 15

Sainz 10

Hamilton 10

[GTA]

Hulkenberg 10

Bottas 10

Gasly 10

Tsunoda 10

Magnussen 10

Gasly 10

Verstappen 20

Leclerc 10

Sainz 10

[Nathan]

Gasly's brother?

[SpaceHorseParty]

Verstappen 20

Alonso 15

Stroll 15

Leclerc 10

Sainz 10

Bottas 10

Gasly 5

Ocon 5

Hamilton 5

Russell 5

 

Bold entries corrected

Edited by SpaceHorseParty, 01 March 2023 - 06:03.

[Makarias]

Plenty revised entry:

 

Ocon 16

Hamilton 14

Russell 14

Perez 13

Sainz 13

Leclerc 11

Zhou 8

Piastri 6

de Vries 4

Albon 1

[Makarias]

First update of the season! Early days, only seven players in so far:

DRIVER      DShares   Race Season    VPP Owners
Verstappen      115  16.83 387.17     59      5
Leclerc          71  10.39 239.03     96      6
Perez            68   9.95 228.93    100      5
Hamilton         54   7.90 181.80    126      4
Sainz            53   7.76 178.43    129      5
Alonso           50   7.32 168.33    136      4
Bottas           45   6.59 151.50    152      4
Russell          44   6.44 148.13    155      3
Ocon             41   6.00 138.03    166      4
Magnussen        30   4.39 101.00    228      2
Gasly            25   3.66  84.17    273      2
Stroll           25   3.66  84.17    273      2
Hülkenberg       20   2.93  67.33    342      2
Norris           20   2.93  67.33    342      1
Tsunoda          10   1.46  33.67    684      1
Zhou              8   1.17  26.93    855      1
Piastri           6   0.88  20.20   1140      1
de Vries          4   0.59  13.47   1711      1
Albon             1   0.15   3.37   6844      1
Sargeant          0   0.00   0.00    N/A      0

DRIVER           Win      P2      P3      P4      P5      P6      P7      P8      P9     P10
Verstappen      1475    1062     885     708     590     472     354     236     118      59
Leclerc         2400    1728    1440    1152     960     768     576     384     192      96
Perez           2500    1800    1500    1200    1000     800     600     400     200     100
Hamilton        3150    2268    1890    1512    1260    1008     756     504     252     126
Sainz           3225    2322    1935    1548    1290    1032     774     516     258     129
Alonso          3400    2448    2040    1632    1360    1088     816     544     272     136
Bottas          3800    2736    2280    1824    1520    1216     912     608     304     152
Russell         3875    2790    2325    1860    1550    1240     930     620     310     155
Ocon            4150    2988    2490    1992    1660    1328     996     664     332     166
Magnussen       5700    4104    3420    2736    2280    1824    1368     912     456     228
Gasly           6825    4914    4095    3276    2730    2184    1638    1092     546     273
Stroll          6825    4914    4095    3276    2730    2184    1638    1092     546     273
Hülkenberg      8550    6156    5130    4104    3420    2736    2052    1368     684     342
Norris          8550    6156    5130    4104    3420    2736    2052    1368     684     342
Tsunoda        17100   12312   10260    8208    6840    5472    4104    2736    1368     684
Zhou           21375   15390   12825   10260    8550    6840    5130    3420    1710     855
Piastri        28500   20520   17100   13680   11400    9120    6840    4560    2280    1140
de Vries       42775   30798   25665   20532   17110   13688   10266    6844    3422    1711
Albon         171100  123192  102660   82128   68440   54752   41064   27376   13688    6844
Sargeant           0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0

Six monopolies, four of which are mine, and no shares yet on Sargeant.

 

Note that SpaceHorseParty has only submitted 90 shares so far!

GTA double posted Gasly 10 shares which have been added together for a total of 20 shares.

[Nathan]

I'll be in, but I'm waiting until the opening bell.

[Anderis]

Sainz 20

Perez 20

Hamilton 20

Russell 20

Gasly 10

Piastri 5

Zhou 5

[Makarias]

Everyone will submit their shares at the very last minute and have no cleu what value they'll get...

DRIVER      DShares   Race Season    VPP Owners
Verstappen      115  14.52 333.93     69      5
Perez            88  11.11 255.53     90      6
Hamilton         79   9.97 229.40    100      6
Sainz            73   9.22 211.97    108      6
Leclerc          71   8.96 206.17    111      6
Russell          69   8.71 200.36    115      5
Alonso           50   6.31 145.19    158      4
Bottas           45   5.68 130.67    176      4
Ocon             41   5.18 119.05    193      4
Gasly            35   4.42 101.63    226      3
Magnussen        30   3.79  87.11    264      2
Stroll           25   3.16  72.59    317      2
Hülkenberg       20   2.53  58.08    396      2
Norris           20   2.53  58.08    396      1
Zhou             13   1.64  37.75    610      2
Piastri          11   1.39  31.94    721      2
Tsunoda          10   1.26  29.04    793      1
de Vries          4   0.51  11.62   1984      1
Albon             1   0.13   2.90   7936      1
Sargeant          0   0.00   0.00    N/A      0

DRIVER           Win      P2      P3      P4      P5      P6      P7      P8      P9     P10
Verstappen      1725    1242    1035     828     690     552     414     276     138      69
Perez           2250    1620    1350    1080     900     720     540     360     180      90
Hamilton        2500    1800    1500    1200    1000     800     600     400     200     100
Sainz           2700    1944    1620    1296    1080     864     648     432     216     108
Leclerc         2775    1998    1665    1332    1110     888     666     444     222     111
Russell         2875    2070    1725    1380    1150     920     690     460     230     115
Alonso          3950    2844    2370    1896    1580    1264     948     632     316     158
Bottas          4400    3168    2640    2112    1760    1408    1056     704     352     176
Ocon            4825    3474    2895    2316    1930    1544    1158     772     386     193
Gasly           5650    4068    3390    2712    2260    1808    1356     904     452     226
Magnussen       6600    4752    3960    3168    2640    2112    1584    1056     528     264
Stroll          7925    5706    4755    3804    3170    2536    1902    1268     634     317
Hülkenberg      9900    7128    5940    4752    3960    3168    2376    1584     792     396
Norris          9900    7128    5940    4752    3960    3168    2376    1584     792     396
Zhou           15250   10980    9150    7320    6100    4880    3660    2440    1220     610
Piastri        18025   12978   10815    8652    7210    5768    4326    2884    1442     721
Tsunoda        19825   14274   11895    9516    7930    6344    4758    3172    1586     793
de Vries       49600   35712   29760   23808   19840   15872   11904    7936    3968    1984
Albon         198400  142848  119040   95232   79360   63488   47616   31744   15872    7936
Sargeant           0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0

[GTA]

Hulkenberg 10

Bottas 10

Gasly 10

Tsunoda 10

Magnussen 10

Gasly 10

Verstappen 20

Leclerc 10

Sainz 10

 

My Bad, I am not THAT bullish on Pierre

 

Hulkenberg 10

Bottas 10

Gasly 10

Tsunoda 10

Magnussen 10

Verstappen 20

Leclerc 10

Sainz 10

 

Russell 10

[LolaB0860]

Verstappen 26

Ocon 22

Alonso 16

Russel 13

Perez 6

Magnussen 6

Hulkenberg 5

Stroll 5

Sargeant 1

 

Bold = revised

Edited by LolaB0860, 02 March 2023 - 17:48.

[brunopascal]

Verstappen 25
Perez 20

Hamilton 15

Leclerc 10
Sainz 10
Alonso 10
Russell 10

[tourister46a]

Leclerc 25

Russell 20

Hamilton 15

Norris 10

Gasly 10

Zhou 10

Hulkenberg 5

de Vries 5

[Brawn BGP 001]

Verstappen 20

Leclerc 20

Hamilton 10

Magnussen 10

Bottas 10

Piastri 10

Ocon 10

Alonso 9

Albon 1

[Makarias]

This is beginning to look a bit better:

DRIVER      DShares   Race Season    VPP Owners
Verstappen      186  15.66 360.07     64      8
Leclerc         126  10.61 243.92     94      9
Russell         122  10.27 236.17     97      9
Hamilton        119  10.02 230.36    100      9
Perez           114   9.60 220.69    104      8
Alonso           85   7.15 164.55    140      7
Sainz            83   6.99 160.67    143      7
Ocon             73   6.14 141.32    163      6
Bottas           55   4.63 106.47    216      5
Magnussen        46   3.87  89.05    258      4
Gasly            35   2.95  67.75    340      4
Hülkenberg       30   2.53  58.08    396      4
Norris           30   2.53  58.08    396      2
Stroll           30   2.53  58.08    396      3
Zhou             23   1.94  44.52    517      3
Piastri          21   1.77  40.65    566      3
Tsunoda          10   0.84  19.36   1190      1
de Vries          9   0.76  17.42   1322      2
Albon             2   0.17   3.87   5952      2
Sargeant          1   0.08   1.94  11904      1

DRIVER           Win      P2      P3      P4      P5      P6      P7      P8      P9     P10
Verstappen      1600    1152     960     768     640     512     384     256     128      64
Leclerc         2350    1692    1410    1128     940     752     564     376     188      94
Russell         2425    1746    1455    1164     970     776     582     388     194      97
Hamilton        2500    1800    1500    1200    1000     800     600     400     200     100
Perez           2600    1872    1560    1248    1040     832     624     416     208     104
Alonso          3500    2520    2100    1680    1400    1120     840     560     280     140
Sainz           3575    2574    2145    1716    1430    1144     858     572     286     143
Ocon            4075    2934    2445    1956    1630    1304     978     652     326     163
Bottas          5400    3888    3240    2592    2160    1728    1296     864     432     216
Magnussen       6450    4644    3870    3096    2580    2064    1548    1032     516     258
Gasly           8500    6120    5100    4080    3400    2720    2040    1360     680     340
Hülkenberg      9900    7128    5940    4752    3960    3168    2376    1584     792     396
Norris          9900    7128    5940    4752    3960    3168    2376    1584     792     396
Stroll          9900    7128    5940    4752    3960    3168    2376    1584     792     396
Zhou           12925    9306    7755    6204    5170    4136    3102    2068    1034     517
Piastri        14150   10188    8490    6792    5660    4528    3396    2264    1132     566
Tsunoda        29750   21420   17850   14280   11900    9520    7140    4760    2380    1190
de Vries       33050   23796   19830   15864   13220   10576    7932    5288    2644    1322
Albon         148800  107136   89280   71424   59520   47616   35712   23808   11904    5952
Sargeant      297600  214272  178560  142848  119040   95232   71424   47616   23808   11904

[Anderis]

Revised entry:

 

Sainz 20
Leclerc 15

Perez 15

Hamilton 15

Russell 15

Gasly 10

Piastri 5

De Vries 3

Albon 2

[Nathan]

Perez 40

Sainz 21

Russell 11

LeClerc 10

Hamilton 7

Gasly 4

Zhou 3

Hulkenberg 2

Albon 1

Sergeant 1

[Makarias]

Only one monopoly left now, Tsunoda being wholly owned by GTA:

DRIVER      DShares   Race Season    VPP Owners
Verstappen      186  14.45 332.37     69      8
Leclerc         151  11.73 269.83     85     11
Perez           149  11.58 266.25     86      9
Russell         128   9.94 228.73    100     10
Hamilton        121   9.40 216.22    106     10
Sainz           104   8.08 185.84    124      8
Alonso           85   6.60 151.89    151      7
Ocon             73   5.67 130.45    176      6
Bottas           55   4.27  98.28    234      5
Magnussen        46   3.57  82.20    280      4
Gasly            39   3.03  69.69    330      5
Hülkenberg       32   2.49  57.18    403      5
Norris           30   2.33  53.61    429      2
Stroll           30   2.33  53.61    429      3
Piastri          21   1.63  37.53    614      3
Zhou             21   1.63  37.53    614      3
de Vries         12   0.93  21.44   1074      3
Tsunoda          10   0.78  17.87   1289      1
Albon             5   0.39   8.93   2579      4
Sargeant          2   0.16   3.57   6448      2

DRIVER           Win      P2      P3      P4      P5      P6      P7      P8      P9     P10
Verstappen      1725    1242    1035     828     690     552     414     276     138      69
Leclerc         2125    1530    1275    1020     850     680     510     340     170      85
Perez           2150    1548    1290    1032     860     688     516     344     172      86
Russell         2500    1800    1500    1200    1000     800     600     400     200     100
Hamilton        2650    1908    1590    1272    1060     848     636     424     212     106
Sainz           3100    2232    1860    1488    1240     992     744     496     248     124
Alonso          3775    2718    2265    1812    1510    1208     906     604     302     151
Ocon            4400    3168    2640    2112    1760    1408    1056     704     352     176
Bottas          5850    4212    3510    2808    2340    1872    1404     936     468     234
Magnussen       7000    5040    4200    3360    2800    2240    1680    1120     560     280
Gasly           8250    5940    4950    3960    3300    2640    1980    1320     660     330
Hülkenberg     10075    7254    6045    4836    4030    3224    2418    1612     806     403
Norris         10725    7722    6435    5148    4290    3432    2574    1716     858     429
Stroll         10725    7722    6435    5148    4290    3432    2574    1716     858     429
Piastri        15350   11052    9210    7368    6140    4912    3684    2456    1228     614
Zhou           15350   11052    9210    7368    6140    4912    3684    2456    1228     614
de Vries       26850   19332   16110   12888   10740    8592    6444    4296    2148    1074
Tsunoda        32225   23202   19335   15468   12890   10312    7734    5156    2578    1289
Albon          64475   46422   38685   30948   25790   20632   15474   10316    5158    2579
Sargeant      161200  116064   96720   77376   64480   51584   38688   25792   12896    6448

[M2000-5]

Verstappen 25

Leclerc 25

Alonso 20

Sainz 30

[scheivlak]

Verstappen 25

Leclerc 20

Hamilton 15

Alonso 10

Sainz 10

Stroll 8

De Vries 5

Bottas 4

Zhou 3

[Grayson]

Hamilton 25

Leclerc 20

Alonso 20

Verstappen 10

Norris 10

Bottas 10

Piastri 5

[jjcale]

LH   15

GR   10

MV    25

SP   10

CL   15

CS   10

FA  15

[Anderis]

I'll take advantage of knowing the other players' moves and revise my entry once more:
Perez 22

Sainz 22

Hamilton 16

Russell 15

Gasly 12

Piastri 7
De Vries 4

Albon 2