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)
Saudi Arabia 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 Verstappen 308 18.30 420.87 54 14 Perez 241 14.32 329.32 69 15 Alonso 162 9.62 221.37 104 12 Hamilton 161 9.57 220.00 104 12 Sainz 154 9.15 210.44 109 11 Leclerc 145 8.61 198.14 116 13 Russell 105 6.24 143.48 160 8 Stroll 99 5.88 135.28 170 8 Bottas 66 3.92 90.19 255 7 Ocon 60 3.56 81.99 281 6 Gasly 45 2.67 61.49 374 6 Norris 40 2.38 54.66 421 3 Hülkenberg 23 1.37 31.43 733 4 Piastri 22 1.31 30.06 766 3 Magnussen 20 1.19 27.33 843 2 Zhou 16 0.95 21.86 1054 3 Tsunoda 15 0.89 20.50 1124 2 Albon 8 0.48 10.93 2108 4 de Vries 8 0.48 10.93 2108 2 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 1350 972 810 648 540 432 324 216 108 54 Perez 1725 1242 1035 828 690 552 414 276 138 69 Alonso 2600 1872 1560 1248 1040 832 624 416 208 104 Hamilton 2600 1872 1560 1248 1040 832 624 416 208 104 Sainz 2725 1962 1635 1308 1090 872 654 436 218 109 Leclerc 2900 2088 1740 1392 1160 928 696 464 232 116 Russell 4000 2880 2400 1920 1600 1280 960 640 320 160 Stroll 4250 3060 2550 2040 1700 1360 1020 680 340 170 Bottas 6375 4590 3825 3060 2550 2040 1530 1020 510 255 Ocon 7025 5058 4215 3372 2810 2248 1686 1124 562 281 Gasly 9350 6732 5610 4488 3740 2992 2244 1496 748 374 Norris 10525 7578 6315 5052 4210 3368 2526 1684 842 421 Hülkenberg 18325 13194 10995 8796 7330 5864 4398 2932 1466 733 Piastri 19150 13788 11490 9192 7660 6128 4596 3064 1532 766 Magnussen 21075 15174 12645 10116 8430 6744 5058 3372 1686 843 Zhou 26350 18972 15810 12648 10540 8432 6324 4216 2108 1054 Tsunoda 28100 20232 16860 13488 11240 8992 6744 4496 2248 1124 Albon 52700 37944 31620 25296 21080 16864 12648 8432 4216 2108 de Vries 52700 37944 31620 25296 21080 16864 12648 8432 4216 2108 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 0 Perez 3543 1818 1725 Albon 3372 3372 0 Alonso 3240 1680 1560 Russell 2652 732 1920 Verstappen 2522 1550 972 Sainz 2168 1296 872 Hamilton 1990 950 1040 Gasly 1570 822 748 Ocon 1124 0 1124 Bottas 976 976 0 Magnussen 843 0 843 Leclerc 696 0 696 de Vries 0 0 0 Hülkenberg 0 0 0 Norris 0 0 0 Piastri 0 0 0 Sargeant 0 0 0 Tsunoda 0 0 0 Zhou 0 0 0 Scoring over 1000 points per share in a round means that the share did above average.