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[Makarias]

Welcome to join season nine of Shareholders! Nine? Jawohl! Nine!

2016: Backpack
The 2016 Backpack share will represent all drivers entering races for Manor.

Previous Seasons' champions:
2008: an1res
2009: swiniodzik
2010: Grayson
2011: Grayson
2012: Grayson
2013: Costaz
2014: brunopascal
2015: Grayson

Rules are the same as last year:

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 post an initial entry that will surely change later:

 

Vettel 19

Hamilton 13

Kvyat 13

Rosberg 13

Ricciardo 12

Massa 11

Sainz 10

Magnussen 4

Nasr 4

Grosjean 1

[M2000-5]

Oh, is it time already? 

[Makarias]

Yeah, just when the weather might be getting nicer bloody F1 is back to ruin a perfectly good off season

[jjcale]

LH  25

NR  25

SV  25

KR  25

[thegforcemaybewithyou]

Hamilton 10

Rosberg 10

Vettel 10

Raikonnen 10

Ricciardo 20

Kvyat 20

Sainz 10

Perez 10

[KWSN - DSM]

Rosberg 10

Magnussen 10

Grosjean 10

Vettel 10

Verstappen 10

Sainz 10

Ricciardo 10

Hamilton 10

Raikkonen 10

Bottas 10

 

[Marklar]

Hamilton 20

Vettel 20

Rosberg 20

Verstappen 10

Ricciardo 10

Kvyat 5

Hulkenberg 5

Bottas 5

Magnussen 5

[mark f1]

Vettel 20

Ricciardo 8

Hamilton 25    

Massa 5

Rosberg 20

Bottas 10

Raikkonen 5

Grosjean 2

Perez 5

Edited by mark f1, 06 March 2016 - 12:04.

[DutchQuicksilver]

Hamilton 30

Rosberg 20

Bottas 15

Raikkonen 15

Hulkenberg 10

Sainz 10

[Makarias]

Some unowned still:

DRIVER      DShares   Race Season    VPP Owners
Hamilton        133  19.19 402.99     52      7
Rosberg         118  17.03 357.54     58      7
Vettel          104  15.01 315.12     66      6
Räikkönen        65   9.38 196.95    106      5
Ricciardo        60   8.66 181.80    115      5
Bottas           40   5.77 121.20    173      4
Sainz            40   5.77 121.20    173      4
Kvyat            38   5.48 115.14    182      3
Verstappen       20   2.89  60.60    347      2
Magnussen        19   2.74  57.57    365      3
Massa            16   2.31  48.48    434      2
Hülkenberg       15   2.16  45.45    462      2
Perez            15   2.16  45.45    462      2
Grosjean         13   1.88  39.39    534      3
Nasr              4   0.58  12.12   1736      1
Alonso            0   0.00   0.00    N/A      0
Backpack          0   0.00   0.00    N/A      0
Button            0   0.00   0.00    N/A      0
Ericsson          0   0.00   0.00    N/A      0
Gutierrez         0   0.00   0.00    N/A      0
Palmer            0   0.00   0.00    N/A      0

DRIVER           Win      P2      P3      P4      P5      P6      P7      P8      P9     P10
Hamilton        1300     936     780     624     520     416     312     208     104      52
Rosberg         1450    1044     870     696     580     464     348     232     116      58
Vettel          1650    1188     990     792     660     528     396     264     132      66
Räikkönen       2650    1908    1590    1272    1060     848     636     424     212     106
Ricciardo       2875    2070    1725    1380    1150     920     690     460     230     115
Bottas          4325    3114    2595    2076    1730    1384    1038     692     346     173
Sainz           4325    3114    2595    2076    1730    1384    1038     692     346     173
Kvyat           4550    3276    2730    2184    1820    1456    1092     728     364     182
Verstappen      8675    6246    5205    4164    3470    2776    2082    1388     694     347
Magnussen       9125    6570    5475    4380    3650    2920    2190    1460     730     365
Massa          10850    7812    6510    5208    4340    3472    2604    1736     868     434
Hülkenberg     11550    8316    6930    5544    4620    3696    2772    1848     924     462
Perez          11550    8316    6930    5544    4620    3696    2772    1848     924     462
Grosjean       13350    9612    8010    6408    5340    4272    3204    2136    1068     534
Nasr           43400   31248   26040   20832   17360   13888   10416    6944    3472    1736
Alonso             0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0
Backpack           0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0
Button             0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0
Ericsson           0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0
Gutierrez          0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0
Palmer             0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0

[Costaz]

Rosberg 40

Hamilton 30

Vettel 30

[HeidfeldsBeard]

Hamilton - 25

Rosberg - 25

Perez - 20

Verstappen - 20

Button - 10

[Makarias]

I'm modifying my entry totally for value:

Massa 37

Kvyat 19

Verstappen 12

Ricciardo 11

Hamilton 7

Sainz 7

Hülkenberg 3

Alonso 2

Magnussen 1

Palmer 1

[Makarias]

New funk new funk

DRIVER      DShares   Race Season    VPP Owners
Hamilton        182  20.42 428.91     49      9
Rosberg         170  19.08 400.63     52      8
Vettel          115  12.91 271.02     77      6
Räikkönen        65   7.29 153.18    137      5
Ricciardo        59   6.62 139.04    151      5
Verstappen       52   5.84 122.55    171      4
Kvyat            44   4.94 103.69    202      3
Massa            42   4.71  98.98    212      2
Bottas           40   4.49  94.27    223      4
Sainz            37   4.15  87.20    241      4
Perez            35   3.93  82.48    255      3
Hülkenberg       18   2.02  42.42    496      3
Magnussen        16   1.80  37.71    558      3
Grosjean         12   1.35  28.28    744      2
Button           10   1.12  23.57    892      1
Alonso            2   0.22   4.71   4464      1
Palmer            1   0.11   2.36   8928      1
Backpack          0   0.00   0.00    N/A      0
Ericsson          0   0.00   0.00    N/A      0
Gutierrez         0   0.00   0.00    N/A      0
Nasr              0   0.00   0.00    N/A      0

DRIVER           Win      P2      P3      P4      P5      P6      P7      P8      P9     P10
Hamilton        1225     882     735     588     490     392     294     196      98      49
Rosberg         1300     936     780     624     520     416     312     208     104      52
Vettel          1925    1386    1155     924     770     616     462     308     154      77
Räikkönen       3425    2466    2055    1644    1370    1096     822     548     274     137
Ricciardo       3775    2718    2265    1812    1510    1208     906     604     302     151
Verstappen      4275    3078    2565    2052    1710    1368    1026     684     342     171
Kvyat           5050    3636    3030    2424    2020    1616    1212     808     404     202
Massa           5300    3816    3180    2544    2120    1696    1272     848     424     212
Bottas          5575    4014    3345    2676    2230    1784    1338     892     446     223
Sainz           6025    4338    3615    2892    2410    1928    1446     964     482     241
Perez           6375    4590    3825    3060    2550    2040    1530    1020     510     255
Hülkenberg     12400    8928    7440    5952    4960    3968    2976    1984     992     496
Magnussen      13950   10044    8370    6696    5580    4464    3348    2232    1116     558
Grosjean       18600   13392   11160    8928    7440    5952    4464    2976    1488     744
Button         22300   16056   13380   10704    8920    7136    5352    3568    1784     892
Alonso        111600   80352   66960   53568   44640   35712   26784   17856    8928    4464
Palmer        223200  160704  133920  107136   89280   71424   53568   35712   17856    8928
Backpack           0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0
Ericsson           0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0
Gutierrez          0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0
Nasr               0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0

[Anderis]

Hamilton 30

Raikkonen 18

Bottas 18

Hulkenberg 10

Alonso 10

Nasr 7

Gutierrez 6

Backpack 1

[M2000-5]

Vettel 20

Raikkonen 20

Hamilton 10

Perez 25

Hulkenberg 15

Palmer 2

Ricciardo 3

Bottas 5

[Cig35]

Vettel 20
Räikkönen 20
Kyvat 10
Sainz 10
Massa 10
Alonso 10
Ericsson 10
Nasr 10

[chadwick8505]

Vettel 25

Hamilton 25

Rosberg 20

Raikkonen 20

Grosjean 5

Verstappen 5

[Apex]

Nasr 5

Ericson 5

Magnussen 10

Alonso 10

Palmer 5

Massa 10

Räikkönen 20

Kvyat 15

Bottas 20

[Anderis]

I'll edit my entry:

 

Hamilton 30

Vettel 18

Bottas 18

Hulkenberg 10

Button 10

Nasr 7

Gutierrez 6

Backpack 1

[Makarias]

14 players, many more are welcome!

DRIVER      DShares   Race Season    VPP Owners
Hamilton        247  17.82 374.21     56     12
Vettel          198  14.28 299.97     70     10
Rosberg         190  13.71 287.85     73      9
Räikkönen       145  10.46 219.68     95      9
Bottas           83   5.99 125.75    167      7
Kvyat            69   4.98 104.54    201      5
Massa            62   4.47  93.93    224      4
Ricciardo        62   4.47  93.93    224      6
Perez            60   4.33  90.90    231      4
Verstappen       57   4.11  86.36    243      5
Sainz            47   3.39  71.21    295      5
Hülkenberg       43   3.10  65.15    322      5
Magnussen        26   1.88  39.39    534      4
Alonso           22   1.59  33.33    631      3
Nasr             22   1.59  33.33    631      3
Button           20   1.44  30.30    694      2
Grosjean         17   1.23  25.76    816      3
Ericsson         15   1.08  22.73    925      2
Palmer            8   0.58  12.12   1736      3
Gutierrez         6   0.43   9.09   2314      1
Backpack          1   0.07   1.52  13888      1

DRIVER           Win      P2      P3      P4      P5      P6      P7      P8      P9     P10
Hamilton        1400    1008     840     672     560     448     336     224     112      56
Vettel          1750    1260    1050     840     700     560     420     280     140      70
Rosberg         1825    1314    1095     876     730     584     438     292     146      73
Räikkönen       2375    1710    1425    1140     950     760     570     380     190      95
Bottas          4175    3006    2505    2004    1670    1336    1002     668     334     167
Kvyat           5025    3618    3015    2412    2010    1608    1206     804     402     201
Massa           5600    4032    3360    2688    2240    1792    1344     896     448     224
Ricciardo       5600    4032    3360    2688    2240    1792    1344     896     448     224
Perez           5775    4158    3465    2772    2310    1848    1386     924     462     231
Verstappen      6075    4374    3645    2916    2430    1944    1458     972     486     243
Sainz           7375    5310    4425    3540    2950    2360    1770    1180     590     295
Hülkenberg      8050    5796    4830    3864    3220    2576    1932    1288     644     322
Magnussen      13350    9612    8010    6408    5340    4272    3204    2136    1068     534
Alonso         15775   11358    9465    7572    6310    5048    3786    2524    1262     631
Nasr           15775   11358    9465    7572    6310    5048    3786    2524    1262     631
Button         17350   12492   10410    8328    6940    5552    4164    2776    1388     694
Grosjean       20400   14688   12240    9792    8160    6528    4896    3264    1632     816
Ericsson       23125   16650   13875   11100    9250    7400    5550    3700    1850     925
Palmer         43400   31248   26040   20832   17360   13888   10416    6944    3472    1736
Gutierrez      57850   41652   34710   27768   23140   18512   13884    9256    4628    2314
Backpack      347200  249984  208320  166656  138880  111104   83328   55552   27776   13888

[Einari]

Verstappen 10

Hulkenberg 15

Ricciardo 15

Räikkönen 20

Bottas 20

Rosberg 20

[fisichella_2001]

Hamilton 15

Vettel 15

Rosberg 10

Verstappen 10

Hulkenberg 10

Ricciardo 10

Magnussen 10

Bottas 10

Sainz 5

Alonso 5

[Grayson]

There's nothing jumping out and screaming "value" at me this year...

 

Rosberg 20

Vettel 17

Hamilton 15

Massa 15

Bottas 10

Hulkenberg 10

Ricciardo 10

Button 2

Backpack 1

[Brawn BGP 001]

L Hamilton 15

N Rosberg 15

S Vettel 15

D Kvyat 15

K Raikkonen 10

M Verstappen 10

C Sainz 9

F Alonso 5

J Button 5

Backpack 1

[Barty]

Rosberg 20

Hamilton 20

Vettel 20

Bottas 15

Ericsson 10

Verstappen 10

Hüllkenberg 5

[scheivlak]

Ricciardo  20

Verstappen  15

Rosberg  15

Vettel  15

Hamilton  10

Perez  10

Alonso  5

Raikkonen  5

Palmer  5

[Makarias]

My final adjustment:

Massa 37

Kvyat 17 (-2)

Hamilton 12 (+5)

Verstappen 12

Ricciardo 11

Sainz 4 (-3)

Hülkenberg 3

Alonso 2

Magnussen 1

Palmer 1

[Makarias]

Just 20 players! GET IN!

DRIVER      DShares   Race Season    VPP Owners
Hamilton        327  16.51 346.78     60     17
Rosberg         290  14.65 307.55     68     15
Vettel          280  14.14 296.94     70     15
Räikkönen       180   9.09 190.89    110     12
Bottas          138   6.97 146.35    143     11
Ricciardo       117   5.91 124.08    169     10
Verstappen      112   5.66 118.78    177     10
Hülkenberg       83   4.19  88.02    239      9
Kvyat            82   4.14  86.96    241      6
Massa            77   3.89  81.66    257      5
Perez            70   3.54  74.24    283      5
Sainz            58   2.93  61.51    342      7
Alonso           37   1.87  39.24    536      6
Magnussen        36   1.82  38.18    551      5
Button           27   1.36  28.63    734      4
Ericsson         25   1.26  26.51    793      3
Nasr             22   1.11  23.33    901      3
Grosjean         17   0.86  18.03   1167      3
Palmer           13   0.66  13.79   1526      4
Gutierrez         6   0.30   6.36   3306      1
Backpack          3   0.15   3.18   6613      3

DRIVER           Win      P2      P3      P4      P5      P6      P7      P8      P9     P10
Hamilton        1500    1080     900     720     600     480     360     240     120      60
Rosberg         1700    1224    1020     816     680     544     408     272     136      68
Vettel          1750    1260    1050     840     700     560     420     280     140      70
Räikkönen       2750    1980    1650    1320    1100     880     660     440     220     110
Bottas          3575    2574    2145    1716    1430    1144     858     572     286     143
Ricciardo       4225    3042    2535    2028    1690    1352    1014     676     338     169
Verstappen      4425    3186    2655    2124    1770    1416    1062     708     354     177
Hülkenberg      5975    4302    3585    2868    2390    1912    1434     956     478     239
Kvyat           6025    4338    3615    2892    2410    1928    1446     964     482     241
Massa           6425    4626    3855    3084    2570    2056    1542    1028     514     257
Perez           7075    5094    4245    3396    2830    2264    1698    1132     566     283
Sainz           8550    6156    5130    4104    3420    2736    2052    1368     684     342
Alonso         13400    9648    8040    6432    5360    4288    3216    2144    1072     536
Magnussen      13775    9918    8265    6612    5510    4408    3306    2204    1102     551
Button         18350   13212   11010    8808    7340    5872    4404    2936    1468     734
Ericsson       19825   14274   11895    9516    7930    6344    4758    3172    1586     793
Nasr           22525   16218   13515   10812    9010    7208    5406    3604    1802     901
Grosjean       29175   21006   17505   14004   11670    9336    7002    4668    2334    1167
Palmer         38150   27468   22890   18312   15260   12208    9156    6104    3052    1526
Gutierrez      82650   59508   49590   39672   33060   26448   19836   13224    6612    3306
Backpack      165325  119034   99195   79356   66130   52904   39678   26452   13226    6613

[Kev00]

Hamilton 20
Massa 20
Sainz 15
Perez 15
Vettel 10
Hulkenberg 10
Kvyat 5
Alonso 5

[Sheepmachine]

Hamilton 12
Rosberg 20
Grosjean 28
Verstappen 13
Backpack 17
Bottas 10