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)
Bahrain changes
China changes
Azerbaijan changes
Spain changes (including Azerbaijan entries)
Monaco changes
Canada changes
France changes
Austria changes
Britain changes (including Austria entries)
Germany changes
Hungary changes
Belgium changes
Italy changes (including Belgium entries)
Singapore changes
Russia changes
Japan changes
USA changes (including Japan entries)
Mexico 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 Hamilton 346 15.88 333.58 63 19 Vettel 302 13.86 291.16 72 16 Verstappen 264 12.12 254.52 82 18 Bottas 242 11.11 233.31 90 19 Räikkönen 228 10.47 219.81 95 15 Ricciardo 167 7.67 161.00 130 14 Hülkenberg 100 4.59 96.41 218 11 Perez 79 3.63 76.16 276 9 Magnussen 73 3.35 70.38 298 7 Sainz 71 3.26 68.45 307 8 Alonso 68 3.12 65.56 320 5 Ocon 68 3.12 65.56 320 8 Grosjean 57 2.62 54.95 382 7 Leclerc 33 1.52 31.82 661 5 Vandoorne 31 1.42 29.89 704 4 Gasly 23 1.06 22.17 948 5 Ericsson 15 0.69 14.46 1454 3 Stroll 15 0.69 14.46 1454 2 Hartley 12 0.55 11.57 1818 4 Sirotkin 6 0.28 5.78 3637 1 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 22 0.045909 23 0.043913 24 0.042083 With 22 players, if ten shares are moved to a driver his rating will rise by about 0.459 points/race. *** Return per share as a function of finishing position *** DRIVER Win P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 P7 P8 P9 P10 Hamilton 1575 1134 945 756 630 504 378 252 126 63 Vettel 1800 1296 1080 864 720 576 432 288 144 72 Verstappen 2050 1476 1230 984 820 656 492 328 164 82 Bottas 2250 1620 1350 1080 900 720 540 360 180 90 Räikkönen 2375 1710 1425 1140 950 760 570 380 190 95 Ricciardo 3250 2340 1950 1560 1300 1040 780 520 260 130 Hülkenberg 5450 3924 3270 2616 2180 1744 1308 872 436 218 Perez 6900 4968 4140 3312 2760 2208 1656 1104 552 276 Magnussen 7450 5364 4470 3576 2980 2384 1788 1192 596 298 Sainz 7675 5526 4605 3684 3070 2456 1842 1228 614 307 Alonso 8000 5760 4800 3840 3200 2560 1920 1280 640 320 Ocon 8000 5760 4800 3840 3200 2560 1920 1280 640 320 Grosjean 9550 6876 5730 4584 3820 3056 2292 1528 764 382 Leclerc 16525 11898 9915 7932 6610 5288 3966 2644 1322 661 Vandoorne 17600 12672 10560 8448 7040 5632 4224 2816 1408 704 Gasly 23700 17064 14220 11376 9480 7584 5688 3792 1896 948 Ericsson 36350 26172 21810 17448 14540 11632 8724 5816 2908 1454 Stroll 36350 26172 21810 17448 14540 11632 8724 5816 2908 1454 Hartley 45450 32724 27270 21816 18180 14544 10908 7272 3636 1818 Sirotkin 90925 65466 54555 43644 36370 29096 21822 14548 7274 3637 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 22 4364 2182 1091 727 545 436 363 311 272 242 218 109 72 54 23 4563 2281 1140 760 570 456 380 325 285 253 228 114 76 57 24 4761 2380 1190 793 595 476 396 340 297 264 238 119 79 59 VPP as a function of number of players and number of shares placed on a driver. *** Return per share season history *** DRIVER TOT OZ BAH CHN AZE ESP MON CAN FRA AUT GB GER HUN BEL ITA SIN RUS JAP USA MEX BRA ABU Leclerc 48488 0 0 0 34912 1454 0 727 727 1246 0 0 0 0 0 1364 4092 0 0 3966 Gasly 40554 0 20832 0 0 0 5688 0 0 0 0 0 11632 1454 0 0 0 0 0 948 Perez 29585 0 0 0 10905 1038 0 0 0 2844 519 2904 0 5740 2214 0 369 1920 1132 0 Räikkönen 24513 1890 0 1605 1872 0 1224 848 1665 1998 1665 1560 1530 0 1710 980 1116 950 2475 1425 Hamilton 23361 1170 915 732 1675 1700 1095 670 1675 0 1134 1625 1700 1134 1625 1700 1575 1550 930 756 Ocon 21549 0 563 0 0 0 4984 872 0 3232 2844 1320 0 3488 3008 0 606 632 0 0 Vettel 20991 2450 1950 288 828 828 1296 1750 690 1020 1725 0 1206 1650 768 960 930 528 828 1296 Bottas 20648 292 1512 1548 0 1638 990 1638 528 0 1116 1674 950 1248 1350 1248 1620 1566 830 900 Verstappen 20395 680 0 980 0 1635 190 1545 1908 2475 0 996 0 1350 970 1512 990 1440 1674 2050 Hülkenberg 17496 1950 2600 2600 0 0 852 1278 426 0 1792 2240 0 0 0 222 0 0 1792 1744 Ericsson 16546 0 6944 0 0 0 0 0 0 1364 0 2728 0 1148 0 0 0 0 1454 2908 Grosjean 16043 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8184 0 4592 341 1698 0 0 0 1228 0 0 Hartley 15458 0 0 0 5456 0 0 0 0 0 0 2728 0 0 0 0 0 0 7274 0 Sainz 15422 325 0 744 4270 2046 341 1264 1104 0 0 0 588 0 1264 1264 0 316 1896 0 Ricciardo 15095 1200 0 2400 0 980 2125 1284 1308 0 1090 0 1200 0 0 856 1104 1548 0 0 Magnussen 13730 0 2080 196 0 1856 0 0 2488 2980 574 0 1596 968 0 0 992 0 0 0 Alonso 12672 2450 1452 1500 1572 808 0 0 0 956 1064 0 1148 0 0 1722 0 0 0 0 Stroll 6700 0 0 0 3792 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2908 0 0 0 0 0 Vandoorne 5322 554 1188 0 764 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2816 Sirotkin 2182 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2182 0 0 0 0 0 Scoring over 1000 points per share in a round means that the share did above average.
