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)
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 Verstappen 271 16.10 370.31 62 12 Leclerc 216 12.83 295.16 78 14 Hamilton 177 10.52 241.87 95 13 Perez 166 9.86 226.83 101 10 Sainz 156 9.27 213.17 108 11 Alonso 150 8.91 204.97 112 11 Russell 138 8.20 188.57 122 11 Ocon 73 4.34 99.75 231 6 Bottas 69 4.10 94.29 244 7 Magnussen 46 2.73 62.86 366 4 Gasly 41 2.44 56.03 411 5 Norris 40 2.38 54.66 421 3 Stroll 38 2.26 51.93 443 4 Hülkenberg 32 1.90 43.73 527 5 Piastri 28 1.66 38.26 602 4 Zhou 24 1.43 32.80 702 4 de Vries 18 1.07 24.60 936 4 Tsunoda 10 0.59 13.66 1686 1 Albon 5 0.30 6.83 3372 4 Sargeant 2 0.12 2.73 8432 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 17 0.059411 18 0.056111 19 0.053158 With 17 players, if ten shares are moved to/from a driver his rating will rise/fall by about 0.59 points/race. *** Return per share as a function of finishing position *** DRIVER Win P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 P7 P8 P9 P10 Verstappen 1550 1116 930 744 620 496 372 248 124 62 Leclerc 1950 1404 1170 936 780 624 468 312 156 78 Hamilton 2375 1710 1425 1140 950 760 570 380 190 95 Perez 2525 1818 1515 1212 1010 808 606 404 202 101 Sainz 2700 1944 1620 1296 1080 864 648 432 216 108 Alonso 2800 2016 1680 1344 1120 896 672 448 224 112 Russell 3050 2196 1830 1464 1220 976 732 488 244 122 Ocon 5775 4158 3465 2772 2310 1848 1386 924 462 231 Bottas 6100 4392 3660 2928 2440 1952 1464 976 488 244 Magnussen 9150 6588 5490 4392 3660 2928 2196 1464 732 366 Gasly 10275 7398 6165 4932 4110 3288 2466 1644 822 411 Norris 10525 7578 6315 5052 4210 3368 2526 1684 842 421 Stroll 11075 7974 6645 5316 4430 3544 2658 1772 886 443 Hülkenberg 13175 9486 7905 6324 5270 4216 3162 2108 1054 527 Piastri 15050 10836 9030 7224 6020 4816 3612 2408 1204 602 Zhou 17550 12636 10530 8424 7020 5616 4212 2808 1404 702 de Vries 23400 16848 14040 11232 9360 7488 5616 3744 1872 936 Tsunoda 42150 30348 25290 20232 16860 13488 10116 6744 3372 1686 Albon 84300 60696 50580 40464 33720 26976 20232 13488 6744 3372 Sargeant 210800 151776 126480 101184 84320 67456 50592 33728 16864 8432 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 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 19 3769 1884 942 628 471 376 314 269 235 209 188 94 62 47 VPP as a function of number of players and number of shares placed on a driver. *** Return per share season history *** DRIVER TOT BAH SAU OZ AZE MIA EMI MON ESP CAN AUT GB HUN BEL NED ITA SIN JPN QAT USA MEX BRA LV ABU Stroll 3544 3544 Albon 3372 3372 Perez 1818 1818 Alonso 1680 1680 Verstappen 1550 1550 Sainz 1296 1296 Bottas 976 976 Hamilton 950 950 Gasly 822 822 Russell 732 732 de Vries 0 0 Hülkenberg 0 0 Leclerc 0 0 Magnussen 0 0 Norris 0 0 Ocon 0 0 Piastri 0 0 Sargeant 0 0 Tsunoda 0 0 Zhou 0 0 Scoring over 1000 points per share in a round means that the share did above average.
