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 (including France entries)
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 403 17.70 371.64 56 20 Bottas 299 13.13 275.73 76 17 Vettel 294 12.91 271.12 77 18 Verstappen 245 10.76 225.93 93 17 Leclerc 244 10.71 225.01 93 16 Gasly 130 5.71 119.88 175 12 Sainz 97 4.26 89.45 235 9 Norris 92 4.04 84.84 248 11 Ricciardo 78 3.43 71.93 292 10 Hülkenberg 73 3.21 67.32 312 8 Magnussen 69 3.03 63.63 330 8 Räikkönen 55 2.42 50.72 414 7 Grosjean 52 2.28 47.95 438 5 Perez 45 1.98 41.50 507 6 Kvyat 40 1.76 36.89 570 5 Albon 38 1.67 35.04 600 3 Stroll 31 1.36 28.59 736 4 Giovinazzi 11 0.48 10.14 2074 2 Kubica 2 0.09 1.84 11408 1 Russell 2 0.09 1.84 11408 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 23 0.043913 24 0.042083 25 0.040400 With 23 players, if ten shares are moved to/from a driver his rating will rise/fall by about 0.44 points/race. *** Return per share as a function of finishing position *** DRIVER Win P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 P7 P8 P9 P10 Hamilton 1400 1008 840 672 560 448 336 224 112 56 Bottas 1900 1368 1140 912 760 608 456 304 152 76 Vettel 1925 1386 1155 924 770 616 462 308 154 77 Verstappen 2325 1674 1395 1116 930 744 558 372 186 93 Leclerc 2325 1674 1395 1116 930 744 558 372 186 93 Gasly 4375 3150 2625 2100 1750 1400 1050 700 350 175 Sainz 5875 4230 3525 2820 2350 1880 1410 940 470 235 Norris 6200 4464 3720 2976 2480 1984 1488 992 496 248 Ricciardo 7300 5256 4380 3504 2920 2336 1752 1168 584 292 Hülkenberg 7800 5616 4680 3744 3120 2496 1872 1248 624 312 Magnussen 8250 5940 4950 3960 3300 2640 1980 1320 660 330 Räikkönen 10350 7452 6210 4968 4140 3312 2484 1656 828 414 Grosjean 10950 7884 6570 5256 4380 3504 2628 1752 876 438 Perez 12675 9126 7605 6084 5070 4056 3042 2028 1014 507 Kvyat 14250 10260 8550 6840 5700 4560 3420 2280 1140 570 Albon 15000 10800 9000 7200 6000 4800 3600 2400 1200 600 Stroll 18400 13248 11040 8832 7360 5888 4416 2944 1472 736 Giovinazzi 51850 37332 31110 24888 20740 16592 12444 8296 4148 2074 Kubica 285200 205344 171120 136896 114080 91264 68448 45632 22816 11408 Russell 285200 205344 171120 136896 114080 91264 68448 45632 22816 11408 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 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 25 4960 2480 1240 826 620 496 413 354 310 275 248 124 82 62 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 MEX USA BRA ABU Bottas 13847 2650 1584 1638 1975 1386 1170 900 1404 1140 Hamilton 11922 1296 1600 1600 1116 1500 1450 1400 1400 560 Verstappen 10653 1320 1068 1068 972 1230 864 810 996 2325 Norris 9624 0 4472 0 2340 0 0 0 828 1984 Vettel 9223 780 710 1065 1140 936 1458 1440 770 924 Leclerc 9074 790 1395 800 790 790 0 1410 1425 1674 Sainz 8690 0 0 0 2106 1404 2144 0 2096 940 Kvyat 6607 793 0 0 0 1824 3420 570 0 0 Gasly 6606 0 584 1336 0 1336 1470 668 162 1050 Räikkönen 6428 1028 1374 458 256 0 0 0 2484 828 Perez 5923 0 623 2492 2808 0 0 0 0 0 Hülkenberg 5594 1464 0 0 0 0 0 2682 1448 0 Stroll 5254 1888 0 0 1382 0 0 1984 0 0 Ricciardo 4976 0 0 1842 0 0 670 2464 0 0 Magnussen 3856 1984 0 0 0 1872 0 0 0 0 Albon 3641 0 1014 507 0 0 2120 0 0 0 Giovinazzi 2074 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2074 Grosjean 754 0 0 0 0 316 438 0 0 0 Kubica 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Russell 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Scoring over 1000 points per share in a round means that the share did above average.